Mexicans thought it was Soylent Green day at McArthur Park.

[HooverWasRight]

By PETER PRENGAMAN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police Chief William J. Bratton on Wednesday promised an investigation into the conduct of police who dispersed an immigration rally, after videos captured officers using force with reporters and firing rubber bullets into crowds.

Bratton said officers fired 240 "nonlethal" rounds to clear MacArthur Park late Tuesday. News images showed police hitting a television cameraman to the ground, shoving people who were walking away from officers and injuries from the rubber bullets, including a Hispanic man with welts on his abdomen and back. Lines of officers moved through the park firing the rubber rounds.

"The events of yesterday, with all (the training) that we do, should not have occurred," Bratton said at a tense news conference. "We should not be engaged in attacks on the media."

Rally organizers denounced the police action as brutal.

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With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa away in El Salvador, City Council President Eric Garcetti spoke to viewers of the televised news conference in English and Spanish, stressing the duty to protect the people's right to assemble and for "a free and unencumbered news media."

John Mack - president of the five-member Police Commission, which sets policty for the Police Department - said he was "deeply disturbed and very disappointed" by the images.

"This was not a pretty picture. This incident raises serious concern regarding the use of force by some individual officers," said Mack, who is one of Bratton's bosses. The civilian commission has opened its own investigation.

Bratton said the clash occurred over 45 minutes to an hour as the rally wound down. Police were initially trying to deal with 50 to 100 "agitators," he said.

"The individuals were there to provoke police," Bratton said. "Unfortunately, they got what they came for."........

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070503/D8OSKH4G1.html

I wonder if the ingrants got to watch the movie with the flowers and stuff?

[noncom]

"The events of yesterday, with all (the training) that we do, should not have occurred," Bratton said at a tense news conference. "We should not be engaged in attacks on the media."
Well, maybe. But this guy is the POLICE CHIEF.

There's no way to blame this on a "rogue cop." There were, what, more than a dozen police there? The odds are about a trillion to one that all the worst police in Los Angeles happened to assigned to the same patrol at the same time. So this is nothing remotely like an apology for or an explanation of anything.

Dear Mr. Bratton: YOU are the one in charge; so if something this big went that inexcusably wrong, then YOU must be responsible for it.

I'll be interested in seeing how this pans out. Will the press let this guy off the hook if he throws enough beat cops to the wolves and sticks with his "all us policemen suck" policy?

I'd say it could go either way. But if Bratton somehow figures out a way to blame all this on George Bush, the LA media will give him a medal.

[DeclinetoState]

Hoover, got a link to this? Also, doesn't it have to be trimmed to comply with board policies and copyright protections, etc.?

Here are a few lines from "MacArthur Park (http://www.spiritofsinatra.com/pages/Lyrics/m/MacArthur_Park.htm)":

Spring was never waiting for us, girl, it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance,

Between the parted pages that were pressed,

A love hot fevered like a striped pair of pants,

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down.

Someone left the cake out in the rain,

I don't think I could take it, `cause it took so long to bake it,

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no!

[Gonzo67]

Dear Mr. Bratton: YOU are the one in charge; so if something this big went that inexcusably wrong, then YOU must be responsible for it.


Well, look at the big picture...

Point #1: "Bratton said officers fired 240 "nonlethal" rounds to clear MacArthur Park late Tuesday."

[NON LETHAL! That's what they were DESIGNED for!]

Point #2: "With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa away in El Salvador, "

[Great, ANOTHER "mayor" who's nothing more than a wet-back butt puppet, more concerned about appeasing the illegal spicks than taking care of his AMERICAN VOTERS]

Point #3: "City Council President Eric Garcetti spoke to viewers of the televised news conference in English and Spanish, stressing the duty to protect the people's right to assemble"

[BULLSHIT! This is AMERICA. We should NOT have to announce shit in SPANISH. Go to Mexico... tell me how many mexican news casts are conducted in ENGLISH. Can you say ZERO?]

Point #4: Police were initially trying to deal with 50 to 100 "agitators," he said. "The individuals were there to provoke police," Bratton said. "Unfortunately, they got what they came for."

[Yeah, peaceful protesters my ass. Just a bunch of demanding illegal spicks.]

Point #5: several people threw rocks and bottles at officers, who used batons to push the crowd back to the sidewalk and then cleared the park.

[And where are the apologies for THAT?]

Point #6: "The only logical conclusion I can come to is that somebody wanted it to bleed into the march so that they can do some target practice on some of the immigrants that were marching," Nunez said.

[Quit calling them "Immigrants. An IMMIGRANT is someone who comes here to this country, learns our language, finds LEGAL employment, and becomes an AMERICAN citizen. These are not "immigrants" we are talking about. They are ILLEGAL ENEMY INVADERS. Let's get it straight.]

Point #7: "The police order to disperse was in English and from a police helicopter, a likely ineffective tactic because of the noise and because many at the protest were Spanish-speakers, Bratton said."

[Hmmm, They don't know our language? Perhaps they should take their beaner asses BACK to Mexico or what ever shit-hole they crawled out of so this kind of thing doesn't happen to them.]

Point #8: "Angela Sanbrano, a rally organizer, said she saw "a few young men with their faces covered" provoking police. But instead of just dealing with them, she said, police began forcing everyone out of the park."

[Not much of a "Rally Organizer" is she? She ever hear of "security"? Did she not have someone who could REMOVE "trouble makers" from the rally so that the peaceful participants do not suffer the consequence of the disruptive few who ALSO represent them? She admits she saw them. She knew they were there, why didn't HER people remove them? I'll tell you why... BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEM THERE! It's press coverage! Let's display our outrage so the rest of the country will notice us. Well, your ass got noticed didn't it? Too bad it wasn't the kind of attention you wanted!]

Point #9: "The Los Angeles march was one of many nationwide demanding a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. "

[Who the fuk are these illegal spicks to come here and DEMAND a damn thing? Screw them beaners!]

You know, I only see ONE thing wrong with the entire event...


officers using force with reporters and firing rubber bullets into crowds.


They screwed up and brought the WRONG ammo!

[DoctorDoom]

Ultimately, the brazen, contemptuous, "F**k you, gringo!" behavior of the wetbacks is going to reach the tipping point. When it happens, the Mexicriminals will wish they had never set foot in this country.

[Wolfcounsel]

"They screwed up and brought the WRONG ammo!" --Gonzo67

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[DeclinetoState]

Point #6: "The only logical conclusion I can come to is that somebody wanted it to bleed into the march so that they can do some target practice on some of the immigrants that were marching," Nunez said.
Sounds like a similar M.O. to the Palestinian punks who throw rocks at Israeli soldiers so that the latter will then turn on "unarmed" civilians with guns and tanks, which then gets shown on worldwide TV.

[Rhino]

Hoover, got a link to this? Also, doesn't it have to be trimmed to comply with board policies and copyright protections, etc.?Link added and article trimmed.

[PaulRevere]

Not Soylent Green. Soylent Beaners.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

a rally organizer, said she saw "a few young men with their faces covered" provoking police.

Sounds like those anarchist douchebags (they generally cover their faces with handkerchiefs so they can't be identified as they know they'll be committing at least a few crimes). I almost got into a fight with them at the "peace" protest I filmed in San Francisco. They kept flipping me off, grabbing my camera, and getting in my face amongst other things.

Thing is you know this rally was full of hispanic gangbangers (some of which require the murder of a police officer as initiation) and various other lowlifes. I'm sure they joined in if not helped instigate this from the beginning.

Personally, I have little sympathy for either the leeching con-artist criminals who got tatooed, or the pinko journalists who got some love via baton. As someone who once worked at a PD, I know how much absolute BS the police have to put up with day in and day out, I'm frankly fed-up with the way these guys are villanized by scumbags in both the streets, the pop culture (just play the game GTA or listen to a rap song), and the media.

Considering we have a foreign army walking through our streets sh*tting all over our country; I'm surprised these guys were able to practice as much self restraint as they did. Personally I'd have every single one of these rallies raided with tens of thousands of these commie a**holes rounded up and deported. They're criminals. Not only do they not have the rights afforded to American citizens, they don't even have the right to be treated as law abiding (because they're criminals).

Harsh? We'd just be following Mexico's immigration policy, in which non-citizens are not allowed to demonstrate period, and by doing so are subject to arrest, imprisonment, deportation, etc.

I really don't give a damn if their kids are left parentless. That's their fault. Not mine. I'll not be made to feel guilty or heartless for a situation into which THEY placed their children. If a woman/man with a child robs a bank (or even worse involves the child in that crime), is that my fault the child is seperated from the parents(s), and the family broken up? These people know we have immigration laws. They know they're committing a crime. Many of them flat out risk their childrens' lives in the commission of that crime (A parent here can be arrested and have their children taken away for little more than leaving them in a car while they run into a store on a summer day. Yet these bastards who haul them across desert in the commission of a crime, desert in which people are routinely found dead from starvation and thirst, get a free pass?)! But we're heartless? We should feel guilty?

Their children should be sent back to Mexico with them. Even without them. Let the Mexican government foot the bill for their citizens' criminal behavior. Hell, if Mexico had a heart at all, any sense of decency or moral responsibility, it would demand no less.



By the way, here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFdNkXJMH9A), in case no one else has posted it.

[Kathy30]

The police did what they should have done. The Police Chief is the same man who said "Los Angeles is a hispanic city and anyone who doesn't like it should leave". Well, this is what you get in a hispanic city!

What really happened? The gang bangers and anarchists were trying to start a full scale riot. The police stopped it. The only question is whether the police were wrong in stopping the riot before it got a full head of steam.

The police were right, even if I am disappointed in the use of non-lethal force. Certainly the hispanics don't use non-lethal force when they fight. Personally, I'd rather the police let the mexicans riot. It's time to show the world what Los Angeles is really like.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

The police were right, even if I am disappointed in the use of non-lethal force. Certainly the hispanics don't use non-lethal force when they fight. Personally, I'd rather the police let the mexicans riot. It's time to show the world what Los Angeles is really like.
Well, that's another thing. The police were being villanized before the day was done. The fact these CRIMINALS were throwing rocks and bottles at them is virtually altogether ignored (or it's just said a group of people were "provoking," as opposed to assaulting, the police).

The police will be ceaselessly villanized (which is standard procedure with Marxism) for assaulting innocent, peace-loving, hard-working, migrants, while the pinko collaborators in the media completely fail to report these "victims" were doing things like this...

http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/IMAGES/MISC/BurnUSFlagLACA_070325.gif
I thought this pic would get your blood boiling. I stood DIRECTLY IN FRONT of this guy as he was attempting to burn the U.S. flag. He was surrounded by news reporters and cameramen, BUT the news reports tonight stated "during the march someone attempted to burn a flag, but they were stopped". There was NO mention which country's flag was being burnt and by who! AND there were no photos or video of this act although the flag burner was surrounded by cameras flashing and taping him doing it.
The media just will NOT tell the truth! (I have already sent this photo to all my local media)
Please pass this picture around. ---Eileen Garcia - [Photo shot 3.25.07 in Downtown Los Angeles]

[Wolfcounsel]

That's an excellent post, CH! I also don't give a rat's ass about the children of the cockroaches. Any bleeding hearts out there want to chime in? I'm of Mexican Indian and Spanish background, born in Texas and 100% American, just for background.

[CountryGent]

If these people are NOT American citizens why should anyone give a rats rectum about the amount of force used against them? :flame:

When the day of reckoning gets here in this Country you can bet the farm that I won't be using rubber bullets......:thumb:

[DoctorDoom]

An enlarged image of CH's graphic: Download (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/PITA/LA20070325.jpg)

[Dowple]

And the Grand Prize goes to anyone who can find a pic in which any mexicana is NOT revealed to be some overweight piece of pudge, with her belly busting out over her pants and her thighs looking like someone is overstuffing the plastic bags at the Jimmy Dean Pure Pork factory.

[Rhino]

Apparently the feds are now investigating for civil rights violations by the cops.

[Dowple]

Apparently the feds are now investigating for civil rights violations by the cops.

Disable the Border Patrol through Federal prosecution. Now, do the same thing with local police departments. It appears that it is now ILLEGAL to enforce the law. Welcome to a borderless, anarchic world where the only crime is to be a citizen of a Western nation-state.

[Rhino]

L.A. Mayor Cuts Mexico Trip Short to Deal With Immigration Rally Fallout; FBI to Investigate Police Conduct

Friday, May 04, 2007

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa planned to cut short a trade mission in Mexico Friday to deal with the fallout from police clashes at an immigrant rally here earlier this week.

"I've decided to go back because I think it is necessary to make sure people know everything is in order and we will conduct a thorough and transparent investigation," Villaraigosa told the Televisa news network late Thursday.

Authorities have launched several investigations into the Los Angeles Police Department's actions at the May 1 rally, where police fired 240 rubber bullets. Video images of the incident were broadcast worldwide.

Villaraigosa arrived in Mexico Thursday to promote investment, trade and tourism with Los Angeles, home to the largest Mexican population outside Mexico. He visited El Salvador earlier in the week.

"I was very disturbed by what I saw," Villaraigosa told reporters in Mexico City on Thursday.

The FBI said Thursday it would open a civil rights inquiry into officers' conduct.

The preliminary inquiry seeks to determine "whether the civil rights of protesters taking part in the May 1st immigration rally were violated," according to an FBI news release.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270052,00.html

[DoctorDoom]

Since when do illegal aliens have civil rights? The parasites in DC are becoming dangerous to America.

Perhaps the FBI should send a hundred or so of their field agents to LA to ride with the cops who must deal with that urban shithole 24/7. And then let's see if the lofty bullshit about "civil rights" for subhuman monsters still has merit.

Escape from LA is becoming increasingly credible.

[Rhino]

Presumably at least some of them were citizens. The cameraman probably was.

[Dowple]

Presumably at least some of them were citizens. The cameraman probably was.

As US citizenship has been cheapened to the point of having no more exclusivity than the prize at the bottom of a box of Crackerjacks, you may be right. The only privilege of citizenship that seems to count, is the one where citizens pay taxes to take care of the new ersatz citizens. Come one, come all. Sign up for your free med, education, housing, WIC, and retirement benefits right here!

[Wolfcounsel]

"And the Grand Prize goes to anyone who can find a pic in which any mexicana is NOT revealed to be some overweight piece of pudge, with her belly busting out over her pants and her thighs looking like someone is overstuffing the plastic bags at the Jimmy Dean Pure Pork factory." --Dowple

Define "mexicana" first. Is it a female from Mexico, or an American female of "mexicana" descent, or is it a "mexicana" cockroach?
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[Dowple]

"And the Grand Prize goes to anyone who can find a pic in which any mexicana is NOT revealed to be some overweight piece of pudge, with her belly busting out over her pants and her thighs looking like someone is overstuffing the plastic bags at the Jimmy Dean Pure Pork factory." --Dowple

Define "mexicana" first. Is it a female from Mexico, or an American female of "mexicana" descent, or is it a "mexicana" cockroach?
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mexicana = female mexican national living in the US illegally and planting her fat assed rubbermaid thighs in the middle of American streets, usually with a Che flag a few feet away.

[Wolfcounsel]

"mexicana = female mexican national living in the US illegally and planting her fat assed rubbermaid thighs in the middle of American streets, usually with a Che flag a few feet away." --Dowple

That's what I call a fat female cockroach!:D

[DesertFox]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark,
all the sweet, green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain!

[Kathy30]

The police involved have been removed from the police force. There are rumors going around that the incident was planned and orchestrated to trap the police and they fell for it. The cops were suckered in. Even the cameraman from Telemundo had his little part to play.

People who were there have been trying to give statements to the police and are being told it's not necessary so they are calling local radio talk shows. The only statements being taken are those adverse to the police. I hope an FBI investigation reveals the true facts. I hope that an investigator who does learn the truth isn't fired because he has a truthful report.

[omegatrump]

The police involved have been removed from the police force. There are rumors going around that the incident was planned and orchestrated to trap the police and they fell for it. The cops were suckered in. Even the cameraman from Telemundo had his little part to play.

People who were there have been trying to give statements to the police and are being told it's not necessary so they are calling local radio talk shows. The only statements being taken are those adverse to the police. I hope an FBI investigation reveals the true facts. I hope that an investigator who does learn the truth isn't fired because he has a truthful report.

Maybe those policemen could file a civil rights suit against the establishment, sighting law and order as the victim in this case.

[CountryGent]

The police involved have been removed from the police force. There are rumors going around that the incident was planned and orchestrated to trap the police and they fell for it. The cops were suckered in. Even the cameraman from Telemundo had his little part to play.Considering that the Police Chief is a cockroach loving shitbird this information does not surprise me in the least. Catering to the needs/wants of ILLEGALS is fast becoming the cough,cough,.....norm.:flame::flame:

[Kathy30]

Bratton fired two 35 year veteran supervisors, the closest aides he had. What do you want to bet that the police union, internal affairs, every other group formed to protect the police are going hands off. I'll bet, really it's a sure thing, that this is a repeat of Ramos/Compean/Gilmer cases and before MacArthur Park was cleared the mexican consulate was on the phone giving Bratton his orders.

Like Ramos and Compean, those who turn against their fellow officers will be rewarded, those who tell the truth will be punished. This is coming straight from mexico. It has the mexican government's fingerprints all over it.