Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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Timeguessr Daily 8/28
42,640 / 50,000
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FUCKERS yeah make the only sign in a street in france be SICILI (i know sicilian places are fucking everywhere, i considered pegging it to rome but come on, france?) and apparently french cops get those dumb little cloaks carabinieri get too
then West End Florist is this huge sign and there's skyscrapers so its like duh NYC, West end=11th avenue.. nope its fucking baltimore. Baltimore has skyscrapers???
somehow figured the HTP Police box was hyderabad traffic police but then i saw pakistan's hyderabad first and that was very wrong
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40,027 / 50,000
i guessed that one was in france bc one of the cars had an F on the plate but i didn't have any clue where it was in france. the thing that tanked my score was the gibraltar one, figured that pic was taken on victoria peak in HK. looked up "edmundson village" which was on the bus in the bmore pic, otherwise the "coney island lunch" would've had me guessing nyc too
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ah yeah gibraltar probably isn't too clear if you haven't spent days thinking about how napoleon should have captured it lol. and the monkeys are probably the only ones in europe. great finds on the plate & bus route