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Remember back in 2006 when indy media reporter Brad Will was killed at protests down in Oaxaca?

Here is a clip the now famous video:

Well, people have finally been charged in his murder–unfortunatly, it appears that the people charged are probably the wrong people.

From Democracy Now!

As you see in the video, which you’ve shown today, which Brad filmed, and his camera was still running as people carry him away, he falls, and immediately all the people around him rush to help him. They rush to pick him up and carry him to safety. Coming around the corner, many newspaper photographers then took pictures of the witnesses who were trying to resuscitate him and then who rushed him off to the hospital. Those very people who risked their lives to pick him up and to carry him to safety, the Mexican government is now saying those are the ones who shot and killed him, instead of the paramilitary forces down the street who had been shooting at people all day, whose photographs have been published in the national and international press with them pointing their guns straight at the camera.

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