LA police reassigned over clashes

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A senior policeman in Los Angeles has been demoted and his deputy and about 60 other officers have been reassigned after an inquiry into May Day clashes.

Last week protesters and journalists were injured when police fired some 140 rubber bullets to break up the crowd.

The rally had been peaceful until the clashes, which the police department said were prompted by agitators throwing rocks and bottles at officers.

But TV footage showed a police officer pushing people who were walking away.

Additional link here : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/07/state/n163327D69.DTL



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6633745.stm

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Good I hoped they are also sued

"which the police department said were prompted by agitators throwing rocks and bottles"

Lying fuckers they were just itching to beat up unarmed civilians women and children included

they are the worst kind of fucking thugs....

Police my ass...

[maddezmom]

2. Once again, L.A. pledges to end police brutality

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) - Some 16 years after Rodney King's beating and seven since police brawled with protesters at a political convention, the reaction in Los Angeles to images of cops pummeling pro-immigration marchers has not been "How could this happen?" so much as: "Here we go again."

The Los Angeles Police Department, once considered one of the finest law enforcement agencies in the world, has spent much of the past two decades fighting a reputation for senseless brutality.

Televised images of an elite LAPD squad in riot gear swinging batons and firing rubber bullets as they plowed through a throng of pro-immigration demonstrators at the city's MacArthur Park last week were seen by some critics as proof the department would never reform.

Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote that it was tempting to believe: "The sun will rise in the East every morning, the swallows will come back to Capistrano every March and every few years the LAPD will stage another of these police riots. Hands will be wrung, reports will be issued, yawns will be stifled and nothing of any consequence will change ..."

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07405510.htm

[Sequoia]

5. I find it odd that the mayor and police chief were not even around

that day. Just like the riots, Bill Gates, chief of police, was missing in action. Surely, the both of them must have known something "could" happen.

[jilln]

3. Nice start

Now charge them with assault.

[Donnachaidh]

4. Try a novel approach -- FIRE them

Re-assignment? So they can be brutal assholes in other areas of LA County? Oh yeah -- THAT fixed the problem. Now they can terrorize small groups of people on the QT, and away from video cameras. :sarcasm:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. They should be reassigned to prison.

For assault and battery.