Mayor, Speaker To Join Rally Protesting LAPD Behavior

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Mayor, Speaker To Join Rally Protesting LAPD Behavior - News Story - KNBC | Los Angeles

Police Chief Also Plans To Attend; Deputy Chief To Retire

POSTED: 6:38 am PDT May 17, 2007
UPDATED: 8:21 am PDT May 17, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez are expected to join immigrant-rights protesters Thursday at a rally denouncing police behavior during a May 1 immigration rights rally.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a town hall-style meeting at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, located at Wilshire Boulevard and Berendo Street, followed at 6 p.m. by a 10-block procession to MacArthur Park, where organizers will hold a candlelight vigil and a series of performances.

"The LAPD denied our community both a political and physical space to nonviolently claim our rights to legalization for all undocumented immigrants and a fair immigration reform for the country," said the event's organizer, Mexican American Political Association President Nativo Lopez. "Political leaders and organizations throughout the country stand solidly with us."

Due to street closures related to the events, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will re-route 14 bus lines operating on and around Wilshire Boulevard between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. The affected bus lines are 18, 20, 21, 26, 51, 52, 200, 201, 204, 209, 352, 603, 720 and 754, according to Metro officials. Signs will be posted at affected bus stops to inform riders when and where the buses will be detoured.

Demonstrators, journalists and police officers were injured at the end of an immigration march in MacArthur Park May 1, when police tried to disperse some people who moved off the sidewalk into Alvarado Street.

Some demonstrators responded by throwing plastic bottles and rocks at officers, according to police. Officers clad in riot gear used batons and fired 146 rounds of foam-rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.

A preliminary version of the LAPD's after-action report will be heard by the full City Council on May 30. In a separate investigation, the department is checking into complaints filed by demonstrators and journalists injured during the fracas.

A third LAPD investigation is aimed at searching for those who allegedly started the confrontation by throwing rocks and plastic bottles at officers.

Separately, the Police Commission is investigating the matter, while the FBI launched a preliminary probe to determine whether the LAPD committed civil rights violations.

Police Chief William Bratton has blamed a leadership breakdown at the scene for police measures that he has described as inappropriate.

Bratton To Attend; Deputy Chief To Retire

Bratton, who will be at the LAPD's assembly area at Thursday's rally, according to his office, told KPCC-FM on Wednesday that the ranking officer who was in MacArthur Park during the May 1 melee has decided to retire rather than continue on home duty pending an investigation.

Bratton announced last week that Deputy Chief Cayler "Lee" Carter Jr. Carter was being demoted from deputy chief to commander and reassigned from his job as command officer of Operations Central Bureau to his home.

The chief said Wednesday that Carter has decided to retire effective June. 6.

[las47032]

Villaraigosa and Nunez are catering, gratifying the illegals and the Hispanics. CYA and serving themselves.

During the May Day protest, showing Mexican patriotism, some of the marchers were carrying and waving the Mexican flag. They think Mexico is so great, why are they here?

Anarchists, law breakers, bottle and rock throwers, and other protesters claiming police brutality, gestapo military tactics, calling cops pigs, it's the same ole song and dance from the anti Vietnam War protest days. Same package, different bow.

Pictures from last year, but the message is the same.




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[Old Fart]

As usual, you won't see this in the MSM.