Thread: Activists rally at LAPD's Rampart station to protest

Activists rally at LAPD's Rampart station to protest fatal shooting of day laborer

September 18, 2010 | 11:48 am

A crowd of about 200 demonstrators descended peacefully but boisterously on the LAPD's Rampart police station to protest an officer's fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant two weeks ago.

As a small group of bicycle patrol officers watched on 6th Street in the predominantly Central American and Mexican immigrant Westlake neighborhood, activists led chants on bullhorns of "assassins."

Manuel Jamines was shot and killed two weeks ago after police said he advanced on officers with a knife. Residents and the LAPD agree that Jamines was intoxicated at the time of the shooting, but there is disagreement over whether he had a knife or whether he represented an imminent threat to the officers. The LAPD has said that Jamines had drunkenly threatened people before the fatal encounter.

As he stood on the corner of 6th Street and Union Avenue, just yards from where Jamines was killed Sept. 5 at about 10:30 a.m., LAPD Commander Blake Chow said he expected the rally to remain calm and organized.

"It's a lot quieter than it was in the beginning," he said. "The vibe today is of a group that's really organized and respectful."

The demonstration was part police brutality screed and immigrant rights rally. Many of the organizers, young and old, were veterans of immigrant rights rallies. A few protesters denounced capitalism while wearing caps and shirts with the sickle and hammer, Che Guevara and other revolutionary symbols.

But others were residents of the neighborhood who said they had no larger agenda beyond showing support for a man they said did not deserve to be shot to death.

"I'm just here to support a friend," said Guatemalan immigrant Juan Lorenzo Lopez, 41. "It was an injustice what happened to him."

-- Hector Becerra

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And this is just going to get worse until the cops start to kick these animals to the curb

Start rounding them up and check their status

Give an inch and they will take a mile

it's an "injustice" that this happened to him ?

What would they have prefered that he had stabbed someone to death ?

The demonstration was part police brutality screed and immigrant rights rally. Many of the organizers, young and old, were veterans of immigrant rights rallies. A few protesters denounced capitalism while wearing caps and shirts with the sickle and hammer, Che Guevara and other revolutionary symbols.

Che fans wearing the sickle and hammer, huh? So these communist illegal aliens voluntarily choose to migrate illegally to a capitalist country, and then use the freedom they have in this capitalist country to demand their "rights" and protest against our law enforcement.

Okay then.

These people make me sick.

ONLY IN AMERICA THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY ARE ALLOWED TO MARCH AND PROTEST OUR LAWS FROM LOCAL,STATE AND FEDERAL IT DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TURN OUR COUNTRY INTO A CESSPOOL JUST LIKE THE ONES THEY LEFT BEHIND. I'M TELLING YOU, WE NEED TO DO A LOT OF PROTESTING AND MARCHING OF OUR OWN. AFTER ALL ITS OUR COUNTRY AND NOT THEIRS WE WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS IN MEXICO, BUT THEY ARE DOING IT HERE ON A REGULAR BASIS.

Originally Posted by marquis

it's an "injustice" that this happened to him ?

What would they have prefered that he had stabbed someone to death ?

I'm guessing they'll suggest that LEO's only be allowed to use "Force Equal To But NOT GREATER THAN" the force threat.

One of the bicycle cops should have fought him with a knife.

Why are these people not arrested during these rallies? Clearly they are here illegally, why not just check their status?