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the ousting of riot police later on from Exarchia square -besieged by police since the socialist government took power- where 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was gunned down by police in December 2008. Besides multimedia reporting, many citizens simply used Twitter throughout the day to report and protest police brutality and the heavy, indiscriminate use of teargas in Athens; some, directly to the minister of Citizen Protection. Journalist and prolific blogger AnemosNaftilos cautioned,

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Elderly people and little children with respiratory problems. Panic has set in.

while journalist Matthew Tsimitakis sought the reason for the crackdown,

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The rally is unjustifiably kettled and teargassed, @chrisochoidis; why? There are no violent groups anywhere. It's a workers' rally.