I was there. It was not a protest it was a riot.
EYE Witness Report (not me)
5/15/05
I was at the Baldwin Park (California) Protest (on May 14, 2005).
We were outnumbered! Maybe 5 to 1 or more. They were more than several hundred. We were 40.
You know the type of crowd we were up against. The usual profanity was spouted. A man grabbed his crotch. A mob, lawlessness. Hatred. Mexican flags. We were called racists and Nazis. They spewed hatred.
The good news is that our side had brave Hispanic Americans who stood with us. I think our side was probably more than 1/3 or our American Hispanic citizens! They were awesome!
Upon being at the protest for under one hour, a 66 year old American citizen was hit in the forehead with a filled, unmarked water bottle. We were standing behind a line of police when the bottle hit her. The police say there is a video but that you can't see where the bottle came from.
The injured 66 year old woman is in Queen of Valley Hospital.
Her cat scan revealed she has some type of blood leakage from the brain. She has been admitted to ICU. She is alert and talking.
The Baldwin Park Police were notified. They sent an officer to ICU to make out a report.
I would like this to be anonymous should you decide to put it on American patrol.com
The 66 year old is a Minutewoman. She spent nearly one month at the Arizona border and returned home recently safe and sound. Now, when she was on the street peacefully assembled, she has sustained a head injury - in under one hour upon having arrived.
I could not leave when the injured woman went to the hospital because we had been ringed in by several hundred protesters. The police stood guard around us 40 or so American citizens. As the rally drew to its appointed close, the word came in that 200 protesters more were on the way. The police escorted the citizens to the police station. Where we waited until the police could evacuate the Latino protesters.
Then police vans took each of us to our cars. We were parked in a nearby school parking lot guarded by police. The police closed the streets by the school and had us leave by the side street.
Name withheld
Thanks!
thanks for the report, occutegirl ... and thanks to the eyewitness ... our people were brave to be there ... I believe this is now officially a war. We are not the ones who started it, but we must fight it.
We smoked out the other side in their true colors... the colors of the mexican flag they wave, not a U.S. flag among them .. their signs, their behavior ... even liberal media could not disguise what thugs they are ... one guy with a bandana over his face, a la the Chiapas revolutionaries ...
The good news is we can all take further action on this. I am posting a separate related topic and I will ping you all to it.
Hopefully, your eyewitness can update us on the condition of the woman hit with the water bottle.
Disturbing.
Coming soon to a city near us.
Any word about the condition of the woman?