by Cuahtli
Monday, Mar. 27, 2006 at 3:42 AM
Police Claim only 500,000
gran_marcha_1.jpg, image/jpeg, 500x332
The initial estimates from mainstream media indicated that between 1 and 2 milion people marched for migrant's lives and rights in Los Angeles Saturday, and organizers of La Gran Marcha put the figure at 1.5 million.
Police then countered these figures with a lowball estimate of only half a million. This then was picked up and parroted by the mainstream press. Police, of course, as representativesof the State, always consciously underestimate crowd size.
Let's look at some fotos and make some comparisons.
The first image is of today's march in LA. This is supposed to represent 500,000 people...