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 Witness Says Slain Day Laborer Was UnarmedPosted on Sep 10, 2010
The neighborhood of Westlake near downtown Los Angeles has been under lockdown as protests continue after the LAPD killing of a Guatemalan day laborer Sunday. Officers claim the man was brandishing a knife, but one witness has come forward to say he was unarmed. The witness, Ana, fears giving her last name, or even showing her face, out of fear of police retribution. Although it may not be out of the ordinary for the LAPD to use excessive force, the surge of resistance against officers in this largely immigrant neighborhood demonstrates a breaking point in long-standing tensions between the community and the police. —JCL
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By Carl, September 10, 2010 at 4:09 pm Link to this comment
Why does TD print these lies? An American is shot almost everyday by a policemen, and it is rarely national news. First, the two officers were Hispanic, so I guess they hate their own kind. Second, the other witnesses back the police version that he threatened them with a knife.
These type of lies are why “liberals” get a bad name. Pull this article ASAP.
Report thisBy FRTothus, September 10, 2010 at 1:59 pm Link to this comment
Of course he was unarmed. Of course the police lied. That’s what happens in a Police State when the Gestapo has a monopoly on force and violence. Kerryrose pegged this one: A jury will find the murderers “not guilty”, and the powerful escape justice once again. It is the United States that needs “regime change”.
“Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.”
(Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951))
“We live in a nation hated abroad and frightened at home. A place in which we can reasonably refer to the American Republic in the past tense. A country that has moved into a post-constitutional era, no longer a nation of laws but an autocracy run by law breakers, law evaders and law ignorers. A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now.”
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By kerryrose, September 10, 2010 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment
Michael Moore pulled a media stunt in NYC to protest the shooting death by police of an African American man that was holding a wallet. The police (all 17 of them) saw the gun in his hand and shot him dead. The stunt is actually the best way I can imagine of protesting these disgusting events. Police know they won’t be held accountable- so shoot first, ask questions later. A jury will find them not guilty and that’s it until the next time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE
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