"So, I mean, this is not directed activity; this is just a Haitian policeman responding as he was trained."

A Haitian policeman clubbed him to death today with a stick of wood just a few feet from heavily armed United States infantrymen who, obeying their orders, did nothing to stop it.

A pickup truck filled with a dozen Haitian policemen, apparently responding to a call for help from the Fraph office, careered toward the line of soldiers.

Several hundred civilians had thronged to each end of the cordoned-off block hurling insults at the hated Haitian policemen and cheering their newly arrived American protectors.

"He isn't really in jail," said a Haitian policeman pulling the barbed wire closed.

He said Mr. Lucas told him he was headed to Ecuador to meet with a small group of former Haitian policemen who had trained there.

To protest that incident, a furious Haitian policeman burned a uniform in front of the main downtown police barracks this morning.

They were greeted by Haitian policemen, whose faces were hidden by masks, and placed in detention.

In front of a cheering crowd, the Haitian policemen were handcuffed and thrown into trucks, some with their mouths taped shut.

It let U.S. troops stand by, doing nothing, while Haitian policemen beat up crowds demonstrating in favor of the occupation, beating one man to death.