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LA police to review use of force during clash with demonstrators
AP via SFGate ^
| 5/2/7
| PETER PRENGAMAN
Posted on 05/02/2007 8:21:45 AM PDT by SmithL
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Uh-oh!
Now that idiot Bratton will probably take away the LAPD's Nerf flashlights.
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:21:51 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
A day of mostly calm immigration rallies around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles where officers fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. Police promised to review the use of force. I'd like to see the corresponding report from the other side:
A day of mostly calm immigration rallies around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles where demonstrators used violence against police trying to maintain peace. The Azatlan Illegal Alien Demonstration Society promised to review the use of force.
Hah!
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:28:40 AM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Tag to let -- 50 cents.)
To: SmithL
Rubber? Give them a taste of the grape!
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:29:16 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: SmithL
Did someone leave a cake out in the rain?
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:29:33 AM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: SmithL
The only thing they should review and consider is the possible upgrade to real ammunition instead of sponge balls.
To: All
What? Are they going to make examples of the police now like they are doing to the border patrol?
To: SmithL
Did anyone catch it? KCBS-TV in Los Angeles showed a still photo of the melee and credited
FreeRepublic.com for it!
The photo was actually posted (pasted) here from the LATimes website!
CBS TV in Los Angeles is getting its info from Free Republic! We win!
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:38:01 AM PDT
by
Restore
To: Restore
Fox News have been reporting on this all morning. The illegals started it. It was nasty. One Fox Photographer was slammed to the ground.Outside of that, the illegals were pulling up their shirts showing what damage those rubber bullets did to them.
I look for more of this happening as these illegal parasites sucking the life blood from America continues.
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:44:10 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
To: SmithL
ICE & the NG should have been there ARRESTING THE ILLEGALS!!
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:54:16 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: SmithL
This is so much Bull$—t!
1. LAPD operates on Intelligence drawn from groups.
2. There obviously had been reported threats of disturbances
and/or rioting. LAPD suited up.
3. Standard tactic of radicals: Incite authorities, and have strategically placed camera people. Film the resonse, sue the authorities.
CONCLUSION: LAPD only countered force rendered aqginst them.
4.
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posted on
05/02/2007 8:59:10 AM PDT
by
radar101
(Dream Team--Hunter&Thompson)
To: SmithL
I just saw the video on Fox News.
Sooner or later we are gonna have one hellofa race war in this country!
These illegals need to back to their own country and protest.
Their problems are with their own country and government, not ours!
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posted on
05/02/2007 9:11:05 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: SmithL
..”Authorities said several people of the few thousand still at the rally threw rocks and bottles at officers”.
Gee...I wonder what would happen If I went to Mexico City, demanded legal status and threw rocks and bottles at police officers?...
To: SmithL
Several people, including about a dozen officers, were hurt during skirmishes at MacArthur Park...... At least one person was arrested,A dozen officers hurt and one person arrested? What's wrong with that picture....
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posted on
05/02/2007 9:39:15 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: SmithL
You know I have been wondering something.
Maybe the illegal aliens are not voting the way “they should”, and the result has been the quiet crack down we are seeing nationwide.
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posted on
05/02/2007 9:43:03 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: SmithL
You know what they say......
.
If you go looking for trouble you just might find it. The people who were at this location (this includes the cameraman from Ch 52 who got his butt kicked) were there operating outside the political arena to create an outcome that they couldn’t get by political means (eg. calling your elected Representative) and discussing it with them. It’s fine to gather in public “PEACEFULLY” but once the bottles & rocks started flying weather or not you did it you are part of this crowd and therefore part of the problem. The Police have every right to use as much force as they need to avoid any further rioting....remember the L.A. Riots, I remember jogging that night and smelling the burning buildings...NOT GOOD....these Protesters need to be “Smacked Down” and if your dumb enough to be there AND STAY THERE your taking the risk of some injuries.
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posted on
05/02/2007 10:23:11 AM PDT
by
PEACE ENFORCER
(Liberals; People That are So Open minded Their Brains Have Fallen Out !)
To: kellynla
They see Aztlan as their country. It is the Western Intifada as “The Race”/La Raza takes back “their ancestors’ land”.
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posted on
05/02/2007 11:01:27 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
You wouldn’t even be legally permitted to protest in Mexico as you are not a citizen of that country. And don’t count on the US consulate doing much in your defense for willingly breaking Mexican law.
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posted on
05/02/2007 11:02:58 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: SmithL
He's MY review of the LAPD's actions.
1.12 officers hurt.
2.No bottle/rock throwing protesters killed.
conclusion: we'll have to try harder to item #2.
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posted on
05/02/2007 11:30:16 AM PDT
by
glaseatr
(Proud Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep A. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
To: glaseatr
The real question is why LAPD did not deport over 100,000 yesterday with the help of ICE/INS? The real question is why our government does not serve its people and allows our money to be spent on 3rd World felons that only hurt our economy and culture, despite GWB’s pleas for a North American Union.
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posted on
05/02/2007 11:40:32 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Why not enforce the law and the border?)
To: Restore; hole_n_one; Ladycalif; BurbankKarl; I_Publius; spectr17
Did anyone catch it? KCBS-TV in Los Angeles showed a still photo of the melee and credited FreeRepublic.com for it!
The photo was actually posted (pasted) here from the LATimes website!
CBS TV in Los Angeles is getting its info from Free Republic! We win!
Photo thread PING!
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posted on
05/02/2007 2:08:03 PM PDT
by
RonDog
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