Here’s a photo I shot for a Norwegian newspaper during a violent demonstration in Oslo, Norway. Notice that one of the police officers are holding his shield upwards to protect him and the other officers against the rock that is flying through the air and is about to hit.
As you can see nearly all the windows of the police cars are broken. The demonstration turned out to be very violent and 3 officers were injured. The demonstrators set fire to a caravan while they threw rocks and bottles at the frightened police officers. The police had to use teargas to disperse the demonstrators (which was a crowd of 30-40 people).
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This is an excellent pic. I can get a sense of the turmoil just from looking at the pic. http://aurelientt.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
Thanks Brandon. I’ll guarantee you that it was turmoil! I’ll might post some follow up pictures later.
powerful shot Cardinal!
Thanks Gilly
Great shot for this week themes
Thanks Jake🙂
Yikes! Margie
really great shot – i hope you post more I’d love to see what else went on
Rocks & bottles flying around the place, demonstrators getting a beating from the officers, a caravan was lit up – plenty of action!
http://postadaychallenge2011.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/ wow to be that close up and to see the windows Broken like that. How wonderful.
I don’t know if wonderful is the best word to describe what happened there, but it was definitely interesting!
In Norway? Amazing but maybe not so now, especially after what happened earlier this year. Thank you for the pingback by the way…
There hasn’t been any violent demonstrations lately, but they occur approximately once every 2 years.
I was impresseed by your HDR photos in this weeks photo challenge. Nice job!
Goodness, not how I remember Oslo. Excellent entry
Thanks Nuvofelt.
Luckily this situation doesn’t reflect daily-life in Oslo – this little “village on steroids”.
very emotional and powerful photo. Good work.
Thank you Maggie
I’m loving all these unique window shots. I thought at first this would be a ho hum challenge, but I was wrong. So many great submissions.
Thank you Doris. You have some great shots in your blog🙂
Intense.
Definitely.