Peaceful liberals climb onto Gen. Tommy Franks' SUV

This report describes an incident on April 19 in L.A.'s Echo Park:

A small but militant group of anti-war protesters confronted retired Iraqi war general Tommy Franks this morning as he left a student assembly at Logan Street Elementery School in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. General Franks, attempting to leave the school in an SUV with tinted windows, was totally blocked by protesters who climbed onto the hood and body of the car and blocked his departure with banners, signs and their own bodies. "War criminal! Murderer of the Iraqi People!" and other chants were directed at the car as it remained immobilized in the middle of the street. Parents and community people, outraged by the appearance of the general, joined in the direct confrontation which came as the vehicle was leaving campus.

There was apparently a legal observer from the National Lawyer's Guild on hand, and it appears to have been organized by CISPES, the Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador.

From www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/125382.php

ThePeaceMovement · Mon, 04/25/2005 - 08:41 · · Importance: 1