{"article":{"id":132919,"heading":"VIDEO: Watts community responds to shooting of infant Susie Pena Lopez","author":"C","created":"2005-07-17 20:11:28","modified":"2006-09-15 16:36:06","last_modified":"Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:36:06","article":"<p>Watts community residents took the streets in response to the shooting of 17 month old Susie Lopez who was shot in the head with a rifle by the LAPD...... LA IMC needs to feature this media on the front page. There has been little if any covereage of the rampant police killings burning throughout this city. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"video\/x-ms-wmv","summary":"Watts community residents took the streets in response to the shooting of 17 month old Susie Lopez who was shot in the head with a rifle by the LAPD...... LA IMC needs to feature this media on the front page. There has been little if any covereage of the rampant police killings burning throughout this city. ","numcomment":9,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2005\/07\/catsjul1405mov_towmv.wmv","filesize":"6.3 mebibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2005\/07\/132919.php"},"attachments":[{"id":132920,"heading":"snap shot","article":"","author":"C","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"image\/gif","created":"2005-07-17 20:11:28","modified":"2005-08-15 00:14:32","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2005\/07\/promo.gif","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2005\/07\/promo.gif"}}],"comments":[{"id":133061,"heading":"don't live that life","article":"Sad abou the girl. Perhaps it will give other women pause before having a relationship with drug users and dealers. Perhaps it will cause at least one woman to choose a life for herself that doesn't include drugs and guns. . ","author":"dave","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-19 15:15:15","modified":"2005-07-19 15:15:15","fileurl":""},{"id":133062,"heading":"or","article":"the cops should stop murdering innocent people. Maybe the cop who murdered the little girl should take some more target practice before being let loose on the general public. \r\nMaybe the brass should do something about this murder rather than selfishly cover their own asses. The police reaction in this case shows they don't give a fuck about that little girl. They don't give a fuck about any of us.\r\n","author":"maybe","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-19 15:31:23","modified":"2005-07-19 15:31:23","fileurl":""},{"id":133082,"heading":"Video Soundtrack Detracts from Impact","article":"I appreciate the video enormously.  Unfortunately, the sound is mixed up quiet high and obscures the dialogue of those who are captured on the video explaining what has happened.  I'm sorry, but did the assembler of this video imagine the soundtrack to be helpful?!  I am certain that the video itself should be the focus, and not Dead Prez!  C'mon now, they're on point, but irrelevant and distracting compared to the history captured on this film.\r\nKeep the fire burnin","author":"Johnny","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-19 17:24:48","modified":"2005-07-19 17:24:48","fileurl":""},{"id":133090,"heading":"Butting in","article":"I'm an outsider to the situation, in all ways, but the LAPD are blowing it by not dealing with the larger issue of police behavior, and police support in general in Watts.\r\n\r\nMy friend said that if the same thing happened with white people in an afluent white neighborhood, it wouldn't be a big deal.\r\n\r\nWrong, I told her.  If it happened in a white neighborhood, people would be asking about what's gone wrong with society.  They would enlarge the issue.  Also, the police in that neighborhood would have a different relationship to the community, and would not have a history of collaring the wrong guy, being slow to deal with incidents, stray bullets, and so forth.\r\n\r\nIt's a class issue more than a race issue.  We'd both lived in low-income areas, and the police service you get there is just different from what you get in the suburbs.\r\n\r\nIf you just want an idea - look at how one of the former city councilmembers in Burbank is getting treated in the press about her recent cocaine and weapons arrest.  Turns out she's hooked in with the gangs or something.  It's largely ignored, and there's no violence.","author":"johnk","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-19 18:09:12","modified":"2005-07-19 18:09:12","fileurl":""},{"id":133108,"heading":"sound track","article":"The sound track was added because we felt it was revelent to the situations that are all too common in communities like Watts. The song talks about police shootings and makes note of young victims like Susie Lopez. Wasn't aware about the sound levels were too high we could hear the people talking over the music on our end. We felt the sound track was instrumental in getting peoples attention. Of course you activists will watch the video through and through but when we take this on the streets to people in communities like Watts and when we show it to the high school kids we need something to keep them tuned in. ","author":"c","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-19 19:11:51","modified":"2005-07-19 19:11:51","fileurl":""},{"id":133273,"heading":"Sad so very sad","article":"So sad to here this , I live in SAn Francisco and her to we have so many cop's kill our love one's our friends and kid's , and it seems to me the cop's made war with the people the poor people and I don't know what I can do any more then fight back what ever that means , so I hope that you get some justice out of this . ","author":"Why ?","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-20 23:42:49","modified":"2005-07-20 23:42:49","fileurl":""},{"id":133514,"heading":"Names of officers who shot","article":"Los Angeles Police Department officials released the officers' names on Wednesday, 10 days after the incident, after repeated requests from local media.\r\n\r\nAccording to the LAPD, the officers involved in the shootout were:\r\n*\tJohn Rusth, 33, a two-year LAPD veteran\r\n*\tMatthew Valencia, 33, a seven-year veteran\r\n*\tSamuel Marullo, 33, an eight-year veteran\r\n*\tJeffrey Ennis, 38, a 16-year veteran\r\n*\tGina Holmstrom, 40, a 15-year veteran\r\n*\tBenjamin Santero, 33, a nine-year veteran\r\n*\tDennis O'Sullivan, 36, a 15-year veteran\r\n*\tRobert Gallegos Jr., 36, an 11-year veteran\r\n*\tEduardo Perez, 33, an 11-year veteran\r\n*\tWilliam Casey, 46, a 17-year veteran\r\n*\tDaniel Sanchez, 39, a 15-year veteran","author":"repost from NBC","parent_id":132919,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-22 22:42:22","modified":"2005-07-22 22:42:22","fileurl":""}]}