Officer feels something bounce off his chest and observes marijuana cigarette, tossed from window of vehicle stuck in traffic.
The police originally confronted Mr. Flecha early Tuesday in Windsor Terrace after spotting him peering into the windows of parked vehicles, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman.
From the windows of successive vehicles, the brothers got an education in Mexican geography: the busy streets of Tuxtla Gutiérrez; the turquoise expanse of the Veracruz coastline, flanked by sugarcane fields; the bleak cityscape of Reynosa.
"They smashed doors and windows of our vehicles and started beating Tibetans gathered in the area and dispersed the Tibetans and started shooting at the crowd," one local resident told Radio Free Asia.
But under the program, called Operation Safe Cab, drivers affix decals in the rear and side windows of their vehicles to alert patrol officers that they have authorized the police to check on them, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
Ever since Chicago reporters followed the up-and-coming Obama and saw him flicking his ashes and butts out the windows of moving vehicles, the senator has had a testy relationship with the press about his addictions to cigarettes and littering.
"They smashed doors and windows of our vehicles and started beating Tibetans gathered in the area and dispersed the Tibetans and started shooting at the crowd," an unidentified local resident was quoted as saying by Radio Free Asia.
I looked back and saw the telltale flashes of gunfire from men hanging out the windows of their vehicles.
After leaving the church, the suspect headed to the nearby Flintridge Preparatory School parking lot, where he smashed open the windows of two vehicles with a rock.
