Washington, D.C. videographer Brian Long gives eyewitness report of the deliberate gassing of two medics by Quebec City police.

MEDICS DELIBERATELY GASSED BY POLICE

By Cliff Pearson, co-chair
Green Party of Dallas County
Dallas, Texas, USA 75214

(QUEBEC CITY, Quebec) - Police near the Grand Theatre, site of the earlier tearing down of part of the Summit of the Americas security perimeter, reportedly deliberatly tear-gassed two medics in the act of treating a man who had been tear-gassed.

Brian Long, a videographer from the Washington, D.C. Independent Media Center (www.dc.indymedia.org), reports that he was an eyewitness to what appeared to him to be a deliberate gassing of medical personnel.

"The women were treating a guy that had been gassed pretty good," says Mr. Long. "They were outside the area where the fence would have been if it had not been torn down. So they weren't doing anything illegal. But it was very obvious that the police were aiming for them when they launched the cannister. I saw them aim and shoot."

Mr. Long says the exact spot of the tear-gassing was at Rue Renet LeVec, just near the Grand Theatre just outside the 10-foot-high, 2-mile-long steel and concrete security fence. The women were treated for their chemical exposure, but were unavailable for comment.

It was this tear-gassing incident that led to intitial reports that the protesters' Medical Center, an area reserved for low and moderate medical care for activists, had been gassed.

Reporting from the protest at Quebec City, Quebec in Canada, I'm Cliff Pearson, Quebec IMC.