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Video: Police Brutality in Los Angeles May Day Rally: Mac Arthur Park 2007

by Necalli Olin Tonatiuh Wednesday, May. 02, 2007 at 10:18 AM

Stock footage of the Police use of excessive force to dispurse Los Angeles Immigrant Rights May Day Rally, 2007

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Wow

by ... Wednesday, May. 02, 2007 at 7:39 PM

The weird thing is, the cops don't even look like they know what they're doing or why. I've seen football hooligans that look more organised.

This was some petty bureaucrat's sloppy test run. This can still be stopped before it turns in to real fascism.
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Violence Was Provoked

by Gnat Thursday, May. 03, 2007 at 10:36 AM
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QuickTime movie at 166.3 kibibytes

This incident was provoked by the LAPD. Beginning with the fact that the streets were not properly closed down and the march was not given the proper street permits is asking for trouble. Furthermore, as an eyewitness of the initial attacks against the people who were peacefully marching (I was just trying to get into the park when a pig pushed me then hit me with his batton!), it was the LAPD who began to strike people with their battons and rev their motorcycles to intimidate people. The idea that it was gangsters provoking stuff is absolutely wrong...get the facts straight!
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Jim ''Anarchist" (a big emaphasis on the quotes)

by Me Thursday, May. 03, 2007 at 11:34 AM

You seriously call yourself an anarchist and cannot see that this is the fuckin police state. they were just waiting to do this. This shit was planned. They started this, they provoked. None of this gangster nonsense. Get your shit right and then talk homie. Jim the "anarchist" ha bunch of bullshit.
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"Jim Anarchrist" is a troll

by @ Thursday, May. 03, 2007 at 7:19 PM

No real anarchist would post shit like that. It's probably a cop.
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Nazi Amerikkka

by Fredric L. Rice Monday, May. 07, 2007 at 12:31 PM
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The Los Angeles Police. Exactly how are these scumbags any different than the other violent crooks out there who they're supposedly protecting us from?

Good fucking grief. This is what Republicanism has done to America.
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Where's the brutality?

by gregglory Tuesday, May. 08, 2007 at 5:38 AM

The video opens with the video guy announcing that the helicopter is telling everyone to leave the park. Then everyone stands around waiting for the cops for twenty minutes. How is that brutality? the order to disperse was heard and then ignored. How could the people in the video blame anyone besides themselves for what follows?
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Order to disperse

by git chew Tuesday, May. 08, 2007 at 7:28 AM

The order to disperse was not a lawful order. It contravenes the 1st amendment. The LAPD had no right ti issue such orders.
There was no public safety issue until the LAPD went off w/o provocation.
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Hello

by talachner Wednesday, May. 09, 2007 at 4:41 PM
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What do you mean it is not a lawful order? Welcome to America buddy! There are laws to follow. You can not just go around doing what you want all the time. When the police tells you to do something, that is a direct order and you are to follow it. Plain and simple. If they can not understand that then something is wrong.
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my american balls

by sack Friday, May. 18, 2007 at 11:34 AM

You go find a law that states 'peaceful assembly and the right to protest' as illegal... Post it for us please.
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IF NO LAPD HEADS ROLL, THEN YOU KNOW THE LAPD MAY 1ST POLICE RIOT WAS PLANNED.

by IF NO LAPD HEADS ROLL, U KNOW IT WAS PLANNED Friday, May. 18, 2007 at 4:33 PM

IF NO HIGH LAPD HEADS ROLL -- IF NO HIGHER UPS GETS FIRED -- OVER THE LAPD POLICE RIOT, THEN YOU *KNOW* IT WAS PREMEDITATED, OKAYED, AND PRE-PLANNED.
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