{"article":{"id":2205,"heading":"WSWS: Los Angeles police attack protesters at Democratic convention","author":"World Socialist Web Site","created":"2000-08-18 15:44:16","modified":"2013-11-10 23:35:48","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:35:48","article":"","contact":"editor@wsws.org","link":"http:\/\/wsws.org\/articles\/2000\/aug2000\/la-a17.shtml","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union has denounced Monday night's attack by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on protesters and others outside the Democratic Party National Convention as \u201cnothing less than an orchestrated police riot.\u201d In a letter to the city attorney, Daniel Tokaji, staff lawyer for the Southern California ACLU, said, \u201cThe LAPD has not merely failed to protect demonstrators' right to free speech, it has run roughshod over them.\u201d\r\n\r\n[...]","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/2205.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}