GFP Note: This is a follow up to yesterday's story: Whose Side Are You On? Anti-Austerity Cops Face Off Against Riot Police in Portugal.
Press TV - 11/23/13, MKA/SS
An on-duty police officer grabs an off-duty colleague during an anti-austerity protest near the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon on November 21, 2013.
A senior police chief in Portugal has resigned after thousands of outraged off-duty officers broke through a security cordon near the country’s parliament to protest the government’s new austerity measures.
The Portuguese Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Friday that Superintendent Paulo Gomes, who led one of Portugal’s three main police forces, quit his post following the defiant anti-austerity demonstration in the capital, Lisbon.
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