A former U.S. police chief – whose
“horrific” crackdown on protesters in Miami in 2003 drew condemnation from the
Amnesty International- is now on the ground in Bahrain to train the
security forces
in the Persian Gulf nation, a human rights activist says.
The Bahraini government which has been repressing anti-regime
protesters since mid-February last year now has one of America's “most notorious
police chiefs” to train its security forces, Mohammed Malik, who is also an
organizer of Occupy Miami, told Press TV's U.S. Desk.
“We continue to see the crackdown and this is an embarrassment to be
an American and see that,” Malik said.
John Timoney was chief of the Miami Police for seven years and his
heavy-handed policing of protests around the Republican National Convention in
Philadelphia in 2000 and the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit meeting in
Miami in 2003 has made him controversial.
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