Riot Police Deployed As Protesters Burn Bus Stops, Demand Free Transportation

(Pictured: An undercover police officer rescues an injured police colonel from the crowd)

As governments around the world step in to maintain control over a global economy on the brink of collapse, taxes continue to rise, and prices leave many with an inability to meet essentials needs, tempers are starting to flare.

This weekend, in Sao Paulo Brazil, citizens rose up against unaffordable bus ticket fares, demanding free transportation. When the government refused to respond they took to the streets, with Molotov Cocktails in hands.

The following events unfolded because of expensive ticket prices – imagine what they’ll do when they can no longer afford food.

Hundreds of protesters have attacked a bus station in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, setting fire to a bus and destroying cash and ticket machines.

Riot police responded with tear gas and at least six people were arrested.

Protesters were demanding free public transport. High transport costs triggered protests in Sao Paulo in June that later spread across Brazil.

The clashes came as President Dilma Rousseff announced a plan to improve public transport in the city.

Friday’s protests began with a march through the city that lasted about three hours.

Violence erupted when a section of the crowd broke off and attacked a bus terminal in the city centre, police said.

Masked protesters, said to include members of the so-called Black Bloc anarchist group, set light to a bus and vandalised cash machines and ticket turnstiles.

Via BBC