Violent Arrest of an AFP Photographer Covering the Retirement March in Congress

The image is impacted by the violence and reflects the police action that has become usual, as a state policy, every Wednesday during the marches in which retirees protest in the vicinity of the National Congress, in the center of Buenos Aires. In the video he is seen on the floor, while a police officer presses him with his knee, Tomás Cuesta, a photographer who works for the French agency AFP (Agence France-Presse), which collaborates with the…

The union of journalists in Buenos Aires denounces the violent ways of the security forces in the face of the periodic demonstrations of pensioners protesting against the loss of purchasing powerThe Milei government is trying with the retired people to execute their unprecedented cuts The Buenos Aires police arrested on Wednesday four graphic reporters who covered a protest of retirees in the vicinity of Congress. One of them was later released,…

This is Tomás Cuesta, who also collaborates with LA NACION; in addition, there were two other graphic reporters arrested and the LN+ driver and cameraman were injured.

Lula Gonzalez related the moment she was beaten from behind by a PSA cash and then gassed. "It was pretty violent, quite traumatic," she said in 750.

As shown in the viralized image in networks, Federal Police officers — under the orbit of Patricia Bullrich’s Ministry of Security — brutally arrested photographer Tomás Cuesta, pressing his head against the ground with his knee. The scene inevitably refers to the murder of George Floyd... The entry “Rodilla on the Head”: Bullrich police use the same methods with which George Floyd was murdered was first published on INFO135.

A retired man climbing up to the fences, helped by another. Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Photograph: Javier Iglesias. This is Javier Hugo Iglesias, independent press worker and the autogestive medium La Chispa Prensa. He was arrested inside the dry square (Av. Rivadavia and Rodríguez Peña) in front of the Congress of the Nation by the Federal Police when he recorded the police brutality deployed on those, the and the retirees who manifested th…