Greece

Story can be found here. 

I found this story interesting for a few reasons.

The first reason is that I have personal ties to this story. My senior year of high school, I traveled to Greece, (Athens and Delphi) as well as Italy with a group from my school. Athens was the last stop on our trip, and the place that I felt most unsafe. While I loved Athens- the city, the culture, the language, the food- I could not help but feel that as Americans, we were not welcomed there. During the first leg of our trip, we watched footage on television of American flag burnings, riots and protests in Athens. We thought for awhile that we were going to have to cancel that part of our trip. Our tour guides told us that if any of the Greek people asked us our nationality, we should lie. We were told to tell people outside of our group that we were Canadian. 

I'm not implying by any means that all Greeks are violent. Riots like the one in the New York Times story have always baffled me. Why would you protest alleged excessive police violence with more violence? It just gives the police force a justifiable reason to get involved and use force. 

I just hope that this ends before more people get hurt or killed.