Wow! The police in L.A. appear to have crossed a line in their overreaction to a disturbance at a rally at MacArthur Park. This is video of what happened.
Channel 11 reporter Christina Gonzalez and her photographer, along with several other cameras, captured what appears to be an overreaching reaction by the L.A.P.D. This is most unfortunate and certainly another blemish on the police for there in L.A.
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...and cops can't figure out why people don't trust them.
My bf & I were talking about this issue last night. Although I think that SOME of the cops were absolutely wrong by responding the way they did (& should be prosecuted for that matter), it seems that a (small) group of civilians started the whole thing. They started it by throwing rocks & glass bottles towards a group of the officers. Helllllloooooo! You don't do that type of thing towards authorities especially cops. If some of the cops are gonna be prosecuted for excessive force, they also need to find at least some of the civilians that started the whole thing & prosecute them too! I know that it was caught on video so hopefully they'll be able to ID them. I heard this morning on the news that Bratton (chief of police) is gonna review tons of video footage--and all of it--b4 he moves forward w/ this issue. It'll give him the big pix.
Ah SCTrojan, you know all too well that the belligerent civilians will be blameless, even those who were illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, this will be yet another stain on the uniforms of all L.A.P.D. officers, while the hooligans who started this ugliness will get away, scot free.
QUOTE(UCLAfan @ May 3 2007, 02:53 PM) 
Ah SCTrojan, you know all too well that the belligerent civilians will be blameless, even those who were illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, this will be yet another stain on the uniforms of all L.A.P.D. officers, while the hooligans who started this ugliness will get away, scot free.
Yup! I just wish that the media would talk and debate about the "flip side" of this story & not just simply mention it as a 2ndary issue. Sadly, however, this type of behavior does seem to be a continuing prob for the LAPD. I just wish they'd get their act together...
I have relatives & friends who are in some type of force & I worked for several years @ a sheriff's station & know all too well how the media can slant a story, ie just showing footage of the civilians being bludgeoned & not showing the earlier footage of what provoked the incident. Talk about sensationalism. Again, I'm NOT defending the cops that seemed to take it too far especially w/ the news reporters & crew. But come on, be balanced about your reporting.
By what I read on the L.A. stations' websites, they don't have any footage of when the attacks occurred, only when they police responded and got back at the crowd. How convenient is that?
Here's today's LA Times article.
Again, this issue seems to be 2ndary:
Again, this issue seems to be 2ndary:
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Those officers "were the ones getting rocks and bottles thrown at them. They were the ones with the agitators in their face," the chief said.
But he wants several questions answered, including, he said: "Was there a lack of supervision? Was there a lack of leadership? What were they directed to [do]?"
But he wants several questions answered, including, he said: "Was there a lack of supervision? Was there a lack of leadership? What were they directed to [do]?"
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