Police departments out of control are too easily exonerated under the present system. The news Media loses consciousness of the crimes police perpetuate upon innocent civilians too easily because no police officers are brought to trial, and although they remember well the beatings they get from the police; intimidation from the police department soon cools their temper and injustice is smoothed over. There is always mention of a police department investigation that seems to satisfy the naive public, but it is rediculous to presume a police department will investigate itself or its members.
Marches, rallies and demonstrations tend to be accompanied by
evildoers who break who start riots but no such evidence exists for
the May Rally. Here we see participants in
the May Rally behaving peaceably around the LAPD while
apparently trusting them to keep them safe.
It is not difficult to know the LAPD is already out of control. They
have been out of control individually and corporately for decades. They are a
violent police force. This next video clearly shows LAPD ploughing through
peaceful civilians on a downtown sidewalk and attacking them without a
cause. If they were supposed to disperse they didn't know it! In fact many
of them appear to have had nothing to do with the May Rally, but were going
about their business coming and going as usual in the vicinity of it.
The LAPD unleashed brute force at the May Day to shut down the rally after fights apparently broke out between the spectators and participants in the march. This was a trigger happy call on the part of a racist minded Commander in the field ordering racist minded cops to use whatever force they wanted to use on the despised public.
LAPD fired rubber bullets indiscriminately and with little warning upon May Day marchers in MacArthur Park today, pushing and clubbing teens, seniors, and Media with virtual abandon. L.A. police pushed back the crowd, and then attended an emergency press conference at the park with Chief Bratton.
Reporters there were outraged. Some said
colleagues were in the hospital being treated for wounds
from baton attacks and rubber bullets. When the Media
is indiscriminately persecuted as you will clearly see in this
next video, America is in serious trouble. You
are living in a police State. The Media exists to shine the
Light of truth upon transgressors. As
soon as their rights to report what they see are crushed, your
rights to know the truth are diminished considerably:
Pedro Sevcec was broadcasting live for the Spanish-language television network Telemundo when police knocked over his monitors and lights and hit his staff with batons. Sevcec told the Los Angeles Times a police officer grabbed one of his cameras and threw it more than fifteen feet to the ground. He said police pointed a riot gun at his face, hit him with a baton and forced him out of the park.
Patricia Nazario of the public radio station KPCC was also injured. "The cop jammed me in my ribs with his billy club, and so I turned around square, looking at him. I had my press pass on. I had my mic flag in my hand, my notepad and my pen. And I said, “Why did you hit me? I’m a reporter.” And he said, “Move!” And I said, “I am moving! Why did you hit me? I’m a reporter.” And he hit me again, harder that time, and I fell."
Since the LAPD riot squad attacked the Latino media, there is no reason whatsoever to believe Patricia Nazario is lying. A riot officer beating a woman is incomprehensible. She obviously was not a physical threat to anyone. The only thing we are left to interpret from the facts, is that the LAPD is racist and bigoted. It has been an out of control police department for decades.
Others assaulted include four employees of KVEA-TV Channel 52 and a reporter for the public radio station KPCC hit by a police baton. Christina Gonzalez, a reporter for the Fox affiliate KTTV-TV Channel 11, suffered a bruised shoulder after she was shoved to the ground. Her camera operator suffered a broken wrist. The incident was caught on tape.
Ernesto Arce, Correspondent for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. He was shot with a police rubber bullet at the May Day protest.
L.A. police brutality was not only directed against Latino's, and Latino media; but against anyone caught in the trap of their aggressions. When the media was attacked, the police added another dimension of wickedness to their crimes.
When the media is attacked, freedom of press is attacked. By attacking the Latino media, the LAPD made itself the judge of what media ought to have freedom of press in Los Angeles. What the LAPD made clear in its brutal handling of what is generally reported to have been a peaceful rally, is their bigoted attitude toward Latino's and the Latino press, as well as the safety of the public.
Anyone planning to hold a public protest of any kind in Los Angeles ought to seriously consider whether or not they can control the crowd they are inviting.
Police brutality against gatherings is easy to incite. Here's how it works. A contention arises between those gathered and some of the police who have come out in force. Evil minded officers are fearful the crowd will attack them. Those kind of officers are easily provoked. They don't know how to calm people down.
When they get overly aggressive, others in the force gain courage and get aggressive too. Soon the entire force is out of control. The police force has turned into a mob of rioting police.
The decent law abiding officers among them have to participate. They have to back up their own. Their career and reputation is at stake. They don't want to be branded "wimps" back at headquarters when the whole fiasco is over.
The problem in managing a large contingent of police in the midst of the potential turmoil of a public protest begins with the right of the individual officers to take aggressive action.
Normally individual officers are accustomed to being able to get aggressive in the line of duty, but in a large force of officers they ought to be restrained to obeying commands from superior officers.
A commanding officer would see transgressors among the protesters, and would give specific commands for the protesters to come out of the crowd with their hands up.
Wading into a crowd stampeeds them and often times generates resistance from the brave few who believe their rights are being trampled.
After the whole thing is over, we don't know if the guy with a
body wound from a rubber bullet was a transgressor or a victim.
We know he was there where a protest was taking place. We do not know if he was minding his own business or if he got caught in the middle.
What we do know from experience with the LAPD, was that their force rioted. Chief Bratton said after the fiasco that police officers in force are hard to control.
The public deserves somthing better than what we are getting from the police departments in this country.
For all of the millions large police departments are paid annually, you would think they could have trained a force to handle public protests so the people of this nation could retain the right to gather peacefully to state their grievances against the powers that be.
"Clearly, leadership was lacking. It was sorely missing," Police Commission President John Mack said in a press conference after a commission meeting in which top brass presented a nearly two-hour overview of the preliminary investigation.
"Things just got out of control."
At least 23 protesters and nine members of the media were injured May 1 after riot-clad LAPD officers used rubber bullets and battons to clear MacArthur Park during a mostly peaceful immigration rally.
Broadcast images of officers hitting reporters and
shooting non-lethal bullets into a crowd that
included women and children led Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
to cut short a trade mission to Mexico and Central
America and severely strained relations between the LAPD and
immigrant communities.
Much to my amazement, it was discovered the Police Chief could not directly terminate any police officer for their wicked performance in the May Day riot of violence and police brutality. To further complicate matters, there was a 13 million dollar settlement for the victims which is good and just for them, but it comes out of the taxpayer's pockets rather than out of the pockets of the offending police. In other words, the police in Los Angeles have impunity. They can riot as a mad mob against the public without punishment.
In the media the public gets an illusion that all is well and the wicked fellows behind the badge of police brutality on May Day have learned their lesson. No, not at all! If anything they are encouraged to attack the public anytime they feel like it. Police brutality is perpetuated because justice did not fully take its course.
Since we, the public, cannot count on police chiefs in America to terminate offending officers for police brutality; the solution is to have all officers on a police force to come up for democratic election every four years after they have had the badge of power pinned on their uniform. In this way, the public becomes the police chief.
Officers would be recruited and trained like always by police departments, but every four years after taking to the field of law enforcement; their names would be put on the ballot of an election where a certain number of votes against them would terminate the privaleges of their power and service to the public.
Sound good? Why not do your part to get it into law. They'll scream bloody murder when they find out what you're doing, so get ready. Its not easy to fight city hall. But the election of "continuance of service" of every police officer in contact with the public will purge police departments of wicked evil fellows driving around in squad cars like little dictatorial tyrants in their jurisdiction.
When you put together your take on it, be sure to guarantee the freedom of press of every individual to publicize their side of the story no matter how wrong it may be in regard to a police officer, not that we want any injustice to take place. But that freedom must be preserved from police retaliation and the censor of the courts.
City Hall should actually be bound by law to publish all letters of testimony regarding alleged police brutality and the evil behaviour of law enforcement officers and mail them out to every resident of the city prior to the election. They should have no power or authority to withhold publication of any letter or photograph or to judge the validity of what is said. The public should be able to weigh the preponderance of evidence for or against any officer and vote accordingly.
There are always going to be the malicious both on the force and off of it; but the public in general can be expected to retain any officer who is not overwhelmingly accused of police brutality. And if you do not trust the public in this matter, then perhaps a certain number of written accusations against an officer would be necessary for the public to vote to terminate them.
Another thing that will need to be brought out into the open is just which officers have killed citizens through the years. Once again, one or two deaths might have been necessary; but three or four separate killings would certainly quality the officer to become a candidate for voters to terminate him (or her).
I think you've got the idea. Let's get something done! We can make this a better country
in the greatness of God's grace.
Prosecutors say that the group of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officers caught on tape GANG KICKING three suspects on May 5, 2008 will not be charged after a grand jury ruled they did not use excessive force.
What you are seeing here is the trampling of our rights to safely submit to police officers who are now authorized by legal precedence to do what you see on the video because it is no longer considered excessive force in one jurisdiction, it becomes contagious in our legal system and spreads to all other police departments who are always on the watch for stretching the limits of the legal system.
It should be expected that a Grand Jury might render such an unjust judgment when the truth is there was excessive force. Anytime a crowd of police officers is kicking defenseless suspects on the ground, they are likely to suffer severe and permanent injuries before they have their day in court.
Your job as the public is to make these things known to the right people and to organize legislation to counteract the Grand Jury ruling with a system of laws and strict accountability to bring that kind of outrageous police department behaviour to a halt. Our police departments in America are becoming gangs of thugs wearing badges who will understand only one thing. Catch them, fine them, jail them, and when they are terminated and have to turn in their badge in one police agency; they can no longer work for any law enforcement agency, security company, detective business and can never obtain a license to carry a gun in public for any purpose. In other words the intent of the new laws should be to totally disarm any man or woman found guilty of police brutality.
Now don't misunderstand the situation. The police in every city in America are frustrated by the
Justice system when they do catch the bad guys, the courts turn them loose without punishment;
or the Sheriff releases them before they have served their time and the thugs are back on the
streets breathing threats at the same police officers who arrested them. So there is the police side
to these stories, but we can't afford their evil behaviour to become law either, so if they don't
like police work, they can turn in their badges and find a more satisfying job. We have to live with
the present Justice system, so should they. And if we all can fix it too, good! Lets get it done!
