A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters
By Max Fisher, Published: June 13, 2013 at 2:51 pmE-mail the writer
It’s not clear how he let himself stray so far from his fellow riot police, but when he looked up from the protester he was kicking and saw the crowd of Istanbul protesters closing in, the lone policeman appeared to panic. The video, now infamous in Turkey, shows him reach for his pistol and fire into the air three times over the crowd, apparently to scare them off. But by the third shot, his arm had dropped, and one of the protesters collapsed.
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