I hope each and every person involved in Tuesday's clash with LAPD

[CatWoman]

get some kind of justice.

I saw videos of the police attacking people for no reason. The Police even attacked reporters from Telemundo.

[RagingInMiami]

1. Well let me use this opportunity to pimp my blog

http://carlosmiller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/lapd-turns-gestapo-on-media-at-immigration-rally/

[CatWoman]

2. !!

at least you missed out on that one.

Thanks for the blog link, and here's hoping everything is ok with you and your's :hi:

[RagingInMiami]

24. I would have loved to have been there

Even if it would have meant another night in jail and another morning in urgent care.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. reminds me of the line from Mulholland Falls...

Guy from CSI: "You can't do this, this is fucking America"
Cop played by Nick Nolte: "This isn't America, This is L.A."

And the cop throws some guy off a cliff on Mulholland Drive to his death,

[Cooley Hurd]

4. I don't think ANYTHING I've seen in the last year has pissed me off...

...more than what I've seen in LA on 5/1...:grr::mad::grr: K&R!!!:grr:

[EFerrari]

25. Remember that Miami PD assaulted RagingInMiami?

When they start beating up the press, we're screwn.

[cboy4]

5. I am so sick and tired of cops over-reacting to lawful protests

From war marches to immigration rallies to using tasers on university students...these officers are out of control.

Who the hell trains them to attack journalists?



Who trains them to do this?



Gotta grab those dangerous Code Pink women, don't you SWAT officer?!

It's insanity.

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[cboy4]

18. Maybe I'm spacing out, but I don't get what point you're

trying to make. :shrug:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. Dept. Of Homeland Scrutiny?

I know they helped train CHicago for the crowd control measures they now have.

[senseandsensibility]

31. Totally agree

And go Sharks! It's not looking too good right now, though.x(

[William769]

6. What happened? I have been traveling.

I missed this completely!

[CatWoman]

10. see post #8

[William769]

13. Thanks!

:hi:

[roody]

28. try

http://la.indymedia.org/

[lonestarnot]

7. Me too! Paid some good big cold hard cash. Thank you.

[lynnertic]

8. democracynow.com has covered this situation extensively yesterday

see http://www.democracynow.org and scroll down to Thursday's show: Amy Goodman interviewed journalists who were there and attacked by the police.

The interview shows how the whole situation is disgusting and indicative of the basic problem that the LAPD has: they think they're better than the people they're ostensibly hired to protect and serve.

If the cops respected the people they served, then the people would respect the cops.


It's that simple. Why doesn't anyone get it?

[kestrel91316]

22. I have lived in LA for 24 years. I can say without hesitation that MOST

LAPD officers I have encountered have little to no respect for anyone who is not also a cop. And I say this as a white, highly educated medical professional and business owner. If they can't treat me with respect, i can only imagine how they treat the poor and minorities.

[Monkeyman]

9. Seeing that father holding and covering his baby just pissed me off more

The LAPD should be held in their own jails

[Cha]

15. Why isn't the mayor of Los Angeles

holding the cops responsible?

http://www.lacity.org/mayor/bio1.htm

[crikkett]

16. he's out of town, traveling in s. america

or at least he was yesterday, according to my TV news.

[Cha]

20. Thanks, I'm guessing Antonio

is going to have his hands full when he returns.

I hope he's not all down on the left winger Prezes in America Del Sur!

[Cha]

30. Have you seen this?..

I'm glad I did!~

"L.A. mayor condemns rally violence"

"LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa condemned the Police Department's use of force against demonstrators and reporters at an immigration rally, saying he was "deeply, personally troubled" by the clash.

The mayor returned home Friday after cutting short a trade mission to El Salvador and Mexico amid criticism for being out of town since Tuesday's melee at MacArthur Park.

"Like every Angeleno I was deeply, personally troubled by the events of May 1st," the mayor said at City Hall. "Those images hit me in the gut.

"... We don't need a long and lengthy investigation to stand up and speak to the truth. What happened on May 1st was wrong, was wrong," he said."

More..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_re_us/immigration_rally_clash

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. And, that a some of black/blue clad perps get new orange uniforms.

[RedCappedBandit]

12. We should have police to police the police.

[bonito]

19. That would be me

I've got 2 sons ones a cop another is in the army and I'm an ACLU member, and I'd kick their ass if they got out of line. funny how things work out :shrug:

[kestrel91316]

23. It's called Internal Affairs, and it used to have SERIOUS teeth.

I doubt that anymore.

[kestrel91316]

21. I heard they attacked and beat the reported from KPCC (local NPR affiliate)

when her back was turned and she was walkiing away.

[LeftCoast]

26. At this point, I'm starting to think they need to fire the entire LAPD

and start fresh. Isn't anyone else tired of hearing about this kind of thing from the LAPD? It's been a constant stream of events for at least the last 20 years. It's obviously a poisoned institutional culture and needs an entire overhaul.

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. A FOX reporter was attacked.

They report. We decide.