Here is my first "bang bang."

All I have for the past two days are burning buses and what TV guys call "bang bangs." Lots of work, running all around town on Wednesday and finding nothing. Me and Esteban Felix of the AP where lucky enough to find the students re igniting a bus they had torched earlier. Sometimes the photo gods are nice to us. It worked for a couple of decent pictures. The students then tried to flip over the bus. They tried but they couldn't.

Thursday was a little better. Lots of "bang bangs" and one poor police officer was hit in the face by a rock thrown by students. Once we got tear gassed by the police and once we got attacked by the students. One crazed guy attacked a TV crew and we all came to the rescue. No rain, and the wind was in our favor. No tear gas clouds to contend with.

Here are the pics.



Police fire at students. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




This police officer was hit in the face by a rock thrown by students. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




Shut your eyes and shoot. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




More mortars shot at the police. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




Students try to flip over a bus after they torched it. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




Using gasoline, a student re ignites the bus. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




Another student, in a gas mask defiantly fires at police. His gas mask maded him impervious to teargas and he was able to walk up and down the street with total disrespect for police efforts to stop him. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter




Another student fires aways. Foto LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter - Copyright LA PRENSA/Tomas Stargardter