Catalans ran 500 Spanish national police out of town after widespread brutality reports

Angry over widespread police brutality during Sunday's independence referendum, Catalans drove about 500 police officers working for Spain's central government in Madrid out of their hotel rooms in Barcelona on Monday night. In at least one case, a hotel owner decided he would no longer host the cops because of their conduct. These police are a small fraction of the 16,000 law enforcement officers Madrid sent to Catalonia to forcibly suppress the autonomous region's vote. Their aggressive tactic...