Thread: Officers in May Day Melee Off the Street

May 6, 10:20 PM EDT


Officers in May Day Melee Off the Street



LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street.

Bratton said he spent the weekend viewing video of the MacArthur Park incident and he said LAPD failures were widespread with officers from the top on down culpable.

"I'm not going to defend the indefensible," Bratton told journalists groups during a meeting at a television studio in Hollywood. "Things were done that shouldn't have been done."

Journalists were among those roughed up as Metropolitan Division's B Platoon moved through MacArthur and fired 148 rubber bullets to break up what had been a peaceful and lawful immigration rally.

Police said they moved in after rocks and bottles were thrown at them by 30 to 40 agitators, he said.

The Metropolitan Division is the city's premier police squad, made up of experienced officers who have extensive training in crowd control.

Bratton said up to 60 members of the Metro's B Platoon are no longer in the field. Additionally, he said, some officers will "in all likelihood" not return to the Metropolitan Division.

"Some of this will be career-impacting," Bratton said, adding that imposition of permanent discipline will await completion of the Police Department investigation.

Journalist organizations asked why officers ignored LAPD policies toward the news media worked out after reporters were assaulted during the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

A 2002 agreement called for designation of a safe spot for reporters covering news events. LAPD spokeswoman Mary Grady acknowledged reporters were not given "a designated safe spot" at MacArthur Park.

"There appears to have been here a failure to communicate," Press Photographers Association local president John McCoy said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ ... SECTION=US

This is horrible!

W

How can this be when there is recorded evidence that the police were attacked first?

The LAPD can only do their jobs when the Mayor and Chief are out of town.

Dixie

This is just not right! The police union should be screaming!

I'd give anything to know what those officers are saying among themselves and what they think of Chief Bratton. Looks like a bunch of pr fluff to me.
Was Chief Bratton out of town too?

These brave officers just ran afoul of Globalist politics like Ramos and Compean and now they are going to get railroaded because what they did upset the big Open Borders politicians.

They touched the untouchables!

W

Here is what you need folks!

In this biased CNN report, it says near the end that Bratton had to cancel a planned trip to Central America over this!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HQwmme7_fQE& ... ed&search=

Is it clear to you now who he really works for?

W

Let's hope this video helps these officers!

Macarthur Park Mini riot -- The Other Side Of The Story!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-XCWNe0pBTI

William, is there anything we can do, as we have been with the Ramos and Compean case, to help these officers?

My first thoughts are not so much about the police chief, but about the mayor, who is an ardent supporter of "immigrants rights" for illegals. I felt this nagging thought that what is at stake here is to start getting in ONLY officers who will bow down completely to the OBL policies, and apparently these officers would not.