Capitain who commanded police violence against FTAA protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil gets pied. Hommage to Larry, Curly and Moe.

Friday, October 26th, police capitain Francisco Roher got pied while attempting to present his master's dissertion thesis at PUC University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The capitain was the commander of the troop that violently repressed anti-FTAA protesters on April 20th. As a result of the police operation, 100 people got injured, 69 were arrested, 10 people got tortured at the police station and one protester got shot by conventional gun.

Capitain Roher is also a graduate student at the PUC Catholic University. He wrote a thesis about communitary police in which he tries to understand why is so difficult for police officers formed during the dictatorship to fit the roles of the "modern" communitary police. The thesis is considered a "pro" human rights dissertation.

About 150 protesters blockaded the room in which thesis would be presented. The protest was mainly directed to the university which did not make public the date an local of the presentation. By doing so, university did the same thing police did on A20: prevented protesters to have their voices heard.

After the blockade, protesters surrounded the capitain. A group of students pied him. He had to be locked in a room for three hours waiting situation to calm down.

He left university surrounded by gards and by a crowd of one hundred shouting "Fascist!", "Torturer!", "Hipocrite!" and "Coward!"