Thread: Officer Injured At Hollywood Minuteman Rally (PICS)

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Officer Hurt, Several Arrested During Anti-Immigration Rally

HOLLYWOOD, July 9, 2006 - An officer was injured and six people were arrested during an anti-illegal immigration march involving the Minuteman Project and other groups Saturday evening in Hollywood, police said.

One female officer suffered a minor injury, apparently to her ankle, after clashing with protesters, said Officer Sandra Escalante, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Counter-protesters stood along the sidewalks shouting as anti-immigration demonstrators, including members of the Minuteman civilian border patrol group, marched along Hollywood Boulevard. The Minutemen, many of them carrying American flags, had a permit to march.

Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist was among the marchers.

Angry counter protesters, some wearing bandannas to cover their faces, yelled at the Minutemen and called them racists.

They also tried to join the march, but since they did not have a permit, police stopped them, sometimes forcefully.

Escalante said several people were arrested, though it wasn't immediately clear if they were part of the anti-immigration march or the counter-protest.

Police estimated the number of marchers at 200 shortly after 7 p.m. The march began at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, Escalante said.


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Escalante said several people were arrested, though it wasn't immediately clear if they were part of the anti-immigration march or the counter-protest.

This statement is such BS! They know exactly who they have arrested and why.

He made this statement so it would not be clear to the public who the aggressors are. The aggressors are the illegal alien support freaks on the sidewalk.

Damn this makes me angry when I see things like this said.

W

They're using the old typical tactics seen in latino countries {communist tactics} to try to insight violent rioting.

They'll increase this little by little. they're looking for an outright physical confrontation.

It's going to be up to people like us to get the truth about the instigators and who they are out into the airwaves. The press will never do the job.

Angry counter protesters, some wearing bandannas to cover their faces, yelled at the Minutemen and called them racists.

They also tried to join the march, but since they did not have a permit, police stopped them, sometimes forcefully.

Tells you everything you need to know. Who was arrested, who the officer "clashed" with .....

http://polizeros.com/2006/07/09/lapd-pr ... xtremists/

July 9, 2006
LAPD protects right-wing extremist Minutemen
Category: immigrant rights — Bob @ 12:29 am
The role of the police is often to protect and defend the extreme right. Yesterday in Hollywood demonstrated that clearly.

The Minutemen, the racist anti-immigrant group, marched in Hollywood on Saturday. ANSWER LA called a counter-demo across the street from them on the sidewalk. As usual, there were more of us than them.

LAPD went out of their way to be deliberately nasty to us, the counter-demonstrators. If a counter-demonstrator stepped into the street, accidentally or not, they got their head cracked. Yet LAPD repeatedly let Minutemen get in the middle of the street and scream at or video us. No head cracks for them. Just a gentle escort back.

As the Minutemen started their march, we followed them on the sidewalk. LAPD then blocked the sidewalk, preventing us from continuing! Yet during every ANSWER LA march in Hollywood, LAPD has done nothing to prevent counter-demonstrators from trying to invade our march - which meant we had to keep them out (and did.) But they sure did an exemplary job of keeping counter-demonstrators away from their buddies in the extreme right.

Isn’t walking on the sidewalks legal? I guess not in Hollywood if you’re protesting the racist right. So, after being blocked by LAPD, we marched down another street, headed them off at the pass, and were there when the Minutemen passed by. LAPD then declared us an illegal assembly. We marched back, did a mini-rally and waited for the Minutemen to return. After they did, LAPD began making threatening moves against us (never, ever against their pals, the Minutemen, of course) so we told LAPD we would march out en masse and did so. When police act like thugs, leave in a group, this protects everyone.

Several heads were cracked by LAPD, for apparently minor actions, if indeed they had any justification at all. At least one person went to the hospital. There were a couple of arrests.

The contrast is obvious. LAPD in Hollywood does nothing to stop counter-demonstrators when there’s an anti-war march. But let the lunatic fringe right march in Hollyood and LAPD will crack skulls to stop the counter-protestors.

It's too back the guy in the first picture (with the microphone and pink guns on his shirt) didn't have enough money to buy a shirt that fit right!

The racist accusation is so old and worn thin.
The rally had been organized for weeks with permit and all. Police knew of it and acted accordingly. Good for the Minutemen and Save Our State people for trying to get the word out because we know the lamestream media won't.

How convenient they don't admit that they had no permit to "counter-protest" in the first place.

Dobbs had a this on tonight! Said six demonstrators were arrested. He pointed out how many of the opposition were wearing bandannas over their faces and showed the police arresting some of them. Good to see national exposure on this.

A few videos can be found here.

http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/07/1 ... lywood.php