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The protester is shown struggling to keep up as a group of heavily-armored Chilean police with riot shields rush him down the street. At one point, someone out of frame complains about how they are "pulling" the old man along, so they knock their prisoner to the ground.
Three officers then grab hold of a limb each and drag the man the rest of the way, the video posted to Twitter by Redfish on Tuesday shows.
Another clip posted in reply appears to show the same man being muscled into a police van.
It's not clear what happened before the man was arrested, but over a million protesters have taken to the streets in Chile to demand economic justice over the last few weeks, and many of them have been subjected to excessive force at the hands of police.
The protests triggered by an increase in subway fares have mushroomed into demonstrations against the neoliberal austerity policies of President Sebastian Piñera. The billionaire leader, who initially declared war on the protesters, later retracted his statement and dangled $1.2 billion in pension spending and a guaranteed minimum income as a peace offering, but the demonstrations continue.
© Reuters / Ivan Alvarado
Over 26 protesters completely lost vision in one eye and 140 received eye injuries in just the first two weeks of protests, sparking an outcry from human rights groups. At least 20 have been killed so far and over 1,600 people have been wounded since the protests began, including some police, according to the UN.
Although opposition and groups like Human Rights Watch have been slamming Piñera for his government's human rights violations, there has been little condemnation from Washington.
This is in stark contrast with nearby Bolivia, where leftist president Evo Morales was forced to resign in what he called a military coup, while the US praised that as a "significant moment for democracy in the Western Hemisphere."
Granted, the current democratically elected President with two years of term left has been inept but it sounds like many on both sides of the political spectrum would prefer less than democratic solutions.
RT seems to stick to "austerity" measures as the cause of everything when in reality this was never the case as Chile is not in debt to the IMF and previously actually would have had the ability to redistribute real wealth which is rapidly disappearing as many ignorant mainly young middle class protesters take a crap in their own bed.