Posted on 09/09/2010 5:50:44 PM PDT by traumer
When the Los Angeles Police Department faced hundreds of protesters on the streets of the Westlake District, some were people drawn to the event from other parts of the city for political reasons.
Twenty-two people were arrested Tuesday night after protesters clashed with police near a vigil for Manuel Jamines, a Guatamalan-born day laborer fatally shot Sunday by an officer who said Jamines refused to drop a knife.
Among those arrested was Jubilee Shine, 40, a South Los Angeles activist who heads the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police. Shine said he was arrested on 6th Street near Bonnie Brae Street just before 10 p.m.
He said he arrived in the area about 9:30 p.m. and was walking toward a crowd of demonstrators at the corner of 6th Street and Burlington Avenue when the crowd bolted toward him.
“People just started to split,” Shine said.
He said he turned to run but was ordered to the ground and handcuffed. Police have not released the names of those arrested, but Shine said the protesters with whom he shared a jail cell Tuesday night were all Central American or Mexican immigrants who live in and around Westlake.
“From what I could tell, everyone there was local from that neighborhood,” he said.
Some of the earlier unrest appeared to have been fueled by political activists from other parts of the city. About a dozen people who appeared to be affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party handed out literature about its beliefs and other cases of officer-involved shootings, and chanted messages over bullhorns about a communist revolution.
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the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police... like a Community Organizer?
oh so the media are reporting it now?
“”From what I could tell, everyone there was local from that neighborhood””
I doubt that - he must mean after the got across the border.
“”after the got across the border””
sorry - the = they
We've lost our country. No-one even enforces the law anymore. What are these people doing here causing trouble?
OK, so police should absolutely not respond to any 911 calls, since they don’t legally have to anyway, and, average a response time to all non emergencies of 1.5 hours. Let the “migrants” and “police control” organizations take care of the problems.
“the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police... like a Community Organizer?”
Exactly my thoughts when reading the story.
Funded by Moscow, no doubt. The Russkis love sitting back and watching us go down under our current Moron in Chief.
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