Got there late, got roadblocked, and saw the march go by. Cops cleared out the neighborhood for a couple blocks.
People are angry at the police, and social media is really getting people to understand some perspectives of people of color.
https://twitter.com/acsacollective/status/501148927869976576 Crazy glitter banner. This is the decade of glitter.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/501163228844408832 Solid flicks from LA.
https://twitter.com/syndicalisms/status/501149786461184000 The FB event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1464184837170479/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152397180668565&set=pcb.1466161063639523&type=1&theater There's a lot of discussion about the militarization of the local police, but what's not discussed enough in LA is that it's the LAPD that created and popularized the main tactical unit that started it in the US: SWAT.
There was even a tv show about it, called SWAT.
In addition to the "bad guys" SWAT was used to attack the good guys, to break strikes by the UFW, and to attack the Black Panthers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT SWAT was created by the infamous Daryl Gates, whose legacy includes the LAPD's use of the choke-hold, which was eventually ended after controversy about how many people were killed. The choke hold was the fighting tactic that the police in NY used that killed Eric Garner.
List of 16 LAPD deaths due to the choke hold, 1975 to 1982. 12 of 16 were Black men, and the other four were White men.
http://www.oocities.org/mraley.geo/choke.html http://www.oocities.org/mraley.geo/review16.html
