Haiti police fire tear gas at protesters demanding protection from gangs
Residents in a neighborhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, protested on Tuesday to demand protection against gangs.
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Residents in a neighborhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, protested on Tuesday to demand protection against gangs.
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00:00Residents of Port-au-Prince, in Haiti's capital, protested on Tuesday, seeking protection against
00:07gang violence.
00:11Armed with machetes and stones, the protesters attempted to reach the Prime Minister's office,
00:16but were held back by police using tear gas.
00:20We will not accept that the state is colluding with gangs to sell the country.
00:26This is the only Haiti we have.
00:28This flag is our flag.
00:30They will not cast us out.
00:31They have no right to deport us from our country.
00:34We will not accept that.
00:35The protesters claim that they have been hearing threats of a gang invasion in their neighbourhoods
00:40of Canape Verde for days and made several appeals for police protection.
00:45On Wednesday, they took matters into their own hands.
00:49They armed themselves with knives and machetes, blocking roads leading to the Canape Verde
00:54with trees and burning tyres.
00:57We have nowhere to go, young men and women.
01:00We can't run around here all day and night.
01:04We say no, that's enough.
01:06The gang threatening the neighbourhood is part of the Vive Ensemble coalition which
01:10has already taken control of many other areas.
01:13Capital gangs control 85% of the capital and continuously target previously peaceful communities
01:19to try and gain control of even more territories.