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MEXICO CITY ? Mexico City’s police chief says he has launched an investigation into a journalist’s video that allegedly captures a police officer abusing a suspect.

Milenio Television reported Friday that one of its reporters had taken the video recording an officer repeatedly pushing the man’s head into a bucket of water while his T-shirt was pulled up over his head and face.

The alleged abuse took place following a gunfight between police and gunmen in the working-class neighborhood of Tepito. The video’s authenticity could not be independently confirmed, and neither Milenio nor police released the suspect’s identity.

Mexico City Public Safety Director Manuel Mondragon said Friday that he was outraged by the video and that both the police and local prosecutor will look into it.

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A protester is forcibly removed from Jamison Park in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A large group marched from the downtown Occupy Portland camp in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make approximately 30 arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

A protester is forcibly removed from Jamison Park in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A large group marched from the downtown Occupy Portland camp in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make approximately 30 arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

A protester is arrested in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A large group marched from the downtown Occupy Portland camp to Jamison Park in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make approximately 30 arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Protesters react as police move in for arrests in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A large group marched from the downtown Occupy Portland camp to Jamison Park in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make approximately 30 arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

A protester holds a sign as mounted police move in to contain a group of approximately 30 people for arrest in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A larger group marched from the Occupy Portland camp to downtown’s Jamison Park in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make the arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

A protester dressed as a patriotic spiderman stikes a prayerful pose during a march and rally in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? Police arrested about 30 anti-Wall Street protesters in Portland early Sunday, dragging and carrying them to waiting vans, after they refused to leave a park in an affluent district.

The arrests came after protesters from the Occupy Portland movement marched to the Pearl District, with some saying they viewed its residents as part of the wealthy demographic they’re protesting.

Dozens of them gathered in Jamison Square Saturday evening to defy a midnight curfew to vacate.

As police moved in around 2 a.m. most of the protesters backed off but a core group of 27-30 sat in a circle in the park and awaited arrest.

An Associated Press photographer said most of the protesters went limp and police carried or dragged them away. There was no violence during the arrests, which took about 90 minutes.

The protesters ? all appearing to be in their 20s and 30s with many were wearing Halloween-style face paint ? were handcuffed before they were place in police vans and driven off.

“We are the 99 percent,” one arrestee continued to chant.

The crowd of supporters thinned out around 3:30 a.m. as the last arrests were made.

Police said they arrested more than two dozen people on charges that included criminal trespassing, interfering with a police officer, and disorderly conduct.

The showdown came in the shadow of high-rise condos in the middle of the Pearl District, with some residents watching the events from their balconies.

At a meeting earlier in the evening, about 30 Occupy Portland protesters decided they would intentionally violate the curfew and face arrest.

Shortly after midnight police on horseback, on bicycles and on foot who had been at the perimeter of the park began moving closer to the group of protesters.

The demonstrators who had decided to risk arrest were seated on the ground. They were encircled by other protesters who walked around them chanting “Whose Park? Our Park!” and “Make No Arrests.”

Police eventually pushed the supporters of those being arrested to the park perimeter.

Saturday afternoon, dozens of protesters marched through downtown, across the Willamette River and back, some of them carrying sleeping bags, saying they planned to camp out in the Pearl District park.

Some protesters said they want to camp in the Pearl District because they view its residents as part of the wealthy demographic they’re protesting.

Police have allowed the demonstrators to remain in the adjacent Chapman and Lownsdale parks since Oct. 6 despite policies outlawing camping. The parks are surrounded by office buildings, mostly for the government.

But Mayor Sam Adams said last week he would not allow the demonstrators to take over any more parks. In a letter to demonstrators, Commissioner Randy Leonard said it would be inappropriate to expand the demonstration into a neighborhood park.

“We ? the entire city council ? are your friends … at present,” Leonard wrote. “However, our friendship and support are now being unreasonably tested by the decision to occupy Jamison Square.”

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Associated Press Writer Terrence Petty contributed to this report.

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BEIJING (Reuters) ? Angry residents in a southern Chinese city went on the rampage after officials apparently beat to death a disabled fruit vendor, a state media said on Wednesday, in the latest incident of social unrest in the world’s second-largest economy.

The China Daily said that thousands of people gathered on the streets of Anshun in Guizhou province on Tuesday afternoon, throwing stones at police and overturning a government vehicle.

The riot was sparked after urban management officers — a quasi-police force that enforces laws against begging and other petty offences — were suspected of beating the vendor to death, the newspaper said.

“The unidentified vendor died in front of the gate of a market … which led to the gathering of the local people,” it cited a government statement as saying.

“Before the incident occurred, urban management officers were working in the area,” it added, saying the statement gave no other details.

The newspaper showed a picture of an urban management vehicle which had been overturned, along with smashed windows and doors that had been torn off.

Xinhua news agency said around 30 protesters and 10 police officers were injured in the unrest.

The elder brother of the dead man has “consented to (an)autopsy and asked police to seek justice”, it added. “Police are questioning six city management staff members involved in the case.”

Footage on China’s popular Youku.com website, the country’s answer to YouTube, showed a large crowed gathered in the street, and what seemed to be a body on the ground shaded by umbrellas.

An overturned vehicle could be seen in the distance, along with many police officers and a black armored car used by China’s riot police.

Reuters could not authenticate the footage, nor when it was taken. Calls to the Anshun government seeking comment went unanswered.

“It was a total mess,” one onlooker surnamed Jiang told the China Daily. “The people threw stones at the police officers and my feet were hit by flying rocks.”

Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper said that the police used water cannons to disperse the protesters, who finally left the scene late in the evening.

In 2008, crowds stormed police and government headquarters in another part of Guizhou after allegations spread that police had covered up the rape and murder of a local teenage girl, seeking to protect the son of a local official.

China’s stability-obsessed rulers get nervous about any sort of protest or unrest.

Earlier this month, a court in the southern export hub of Guangdong province jailed 11 people for their roles in riots that hit a city there in June.

In 2007, China had more than 80,000 “mass incidents”, up from more than 60,000 in 2006, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Many involved no more than dozens protesting against local officials over complaints about corruption, abuse of power, pollution or poor wages.

No authoritative estimates of the number of protests, riots and mass petitions since then have been released.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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KABUL (AFP) ? A team of attackers murdered a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a raid on his Kabul home on Sunday along with a visiting lawmaker, government and police officials told AFP.

Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of southern Uruzgan province and a key ally of the embattled president, was killed in the attack along with an MP for Uruzgan, Mohammad Hashem Watanwal, said a police spokesman.

The assassination comes less than a week after the president’s half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was shot dead by a close friend at his home in the southern province of Kandahar in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Just hours before Sunday’s attack, a ceremony was held in central Bamyan province marking the start of the transition of security duties from NATO forces to Afghans, a process aimed at leaving the country free of foreign troops by 2014.

Sunday was also the last day in Afghanistan for top US commander General David Petraeus.

Police were still searching for one of the attackers at the residence near the parliament building early Monday, but the area was quiet according to witnesses, after sporadic gun battles lasting more than four hours.

Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said at least one of the gunmen in Sunday’s raid was dead and it was not clear whether the rest of Khan’s family had escaped or were stuck inside the besieged residence.

“JMK (Jan Mohammad Khan) and Watanwal have been martyred and also one of the attackers has been killed,” he told AFP, adding that the attack began at 8:00 pm (1530 GMT) and that at least one attacker was still at large.

Interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqi said one police officer had been injured in the siege.

“They were not suicide bombers, they were carrying weapons,” said Siddiqi, adding that no foreign forces were taking part in the operation.

A senior intelligence official speaking anonymously said it was believed that three people attacked Khan’s residence.

A government official speaking on condition of anonymity said: “He (Khan) was very close to Karzai. He was as important as AWK (Ahmed Wali Karzai).”

Like Karzai, Khan hailed from a powerful family from the Popalzai tribe in Afghanistan’s restive south and had been given the role of senior adviser for tribal issues after being sacked from his governorship over corruption claims.

Experts say Khan had a reputation for brutality and double-dealing with tribal rivals, falsely accusing some of being Taliban, and Dutch forces taking over Uruzgan operations in 2006 insisted on his removal as governor.

According to the independent website afghan-bios.info, Khan’s nephew runs a 3,000-strong militia in Uruzgan that he had inherited from his uncle.

Khan escaped a previous assassination attempt on August 4 when a motorcycle bomb exploded by his convoy in the southern province.

His death could further inflame the volatile politics of southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban are battling US-led troops for control of the area.

Analysts have already warned that the killing of Wali Karzai may trigger a turf war for control of the critical southern heartland that could embolden the Taliban and reverse NATO gains.

The deaths come at a critical juncture, just days after 3,000 Canadian troops ended their combat mission in Kandahar and in the same week that Washington began troop drawdowns, a gradual process due to end in late 2014.

A ceremony was held on Sunday to mark the first of seven areas to pass control from foreign to local forces this week, and the killings are likely to fuel doubts about the readiness of Afghans to take care of the country.

Last month the Taliban mounted a brazen attack on the Intercontinental hotel in the heart of Kabul, leaving 21 people dead.

With Western allies tiring of the long war, all foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and partial drawdowns are starting this summer, with the 33,000 US “surge” troops leaving by the end of 2012.

There are around 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, nearly 100,000 of whom are from the United States, fighting the nearly 10-year war.

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