VIDEO: Violent riot between Zenit fans and police

A. Isaac Senior Editor

Soccer game + angry fans + riot gear = brutally violent YouTube video.

Watch as fans of a team named Zenit in the Russian Premiere League get beaten by police.

Zenit fans riot 309x168 VIDEO: Violent riot between Zenit fans and police

The Moscow News reported that fifteen fans were arrested after the game and one suffered a broken arm. Judging from the police brutality in the video, I’m wondering how a broken arm was the least of the injuries in the melee.

This is the second strange incident with police and the Zenit team in as many weeks. After a match on June 19th, Zenit striker Danko Lazovic was tasered by cops after they assumed him to be a fan.

Here was his response on the team website.

“I just went to give my jersey to the fans after the match when a police officer appeared behind me and tasered me in the back with his electric shocker, I don’t know why that happened. Maybe he thought that I was one of the fans.” Lazovic said.
“Sometimes people do really awful things.”
“It was a strange feeling. It’s just amazing that kind of thing can happen at sporting events, but here, in Russia, apparently everything is possible.”

Note to self, avoid Russian soccer games.

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