Thread: Local San Diego news makes excuses for protester violence

On KNSD-TV news tonight, they reported that most all of yesterday's protests were peaceful, but violence that did occur last night in Vista, involving rock and bottle throwing at sheriff's deputies was actually the fault of the POLICE!! The news report says the protesters were just responding to longstanding abuse and discrimination by police and sheriff's against the largely Mexican population of Vista, and was an understandable reaction to the endless discrimination against Latinos, most notalby the police shooting deaths over the last few years of 3 Mexican criminals, armed robbers, etc., and had nothing to do with the pro-illegal rallies, although most of the participants were waving Mexican flags and carrying signs demading full amnesty and rights for illegals. Although the protesters got violent enough to require a SWAT unit to be called in, and additional police units from other parts of the county, they referred to the partipants as being 'unruly'.

Vista Immigration Protest Turns Unruly
Hundreds Of Officers Called In After Protesters Throw Rocks, Bottles

VISTA, Calif. -- Deputies and police officers from all over San Diego County were sent to Vista on Monday night to disperse an unruly crowd at an immigration rally.
The demonstration began peacefully as one of the many "Day Without Immigrants" demonstrations that took place around the county. But at about 8 p.m., some of the 800 to 1,200 protesters began throwing rocks and bottles at deputies, sheriff's Lt. Phil Brust said.

Between 150 and 200 officers from police departments in Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, El Cajon, Escondido, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside and the California Highway Patrol formed riot lines and marched toward the demonstrators, telling them to disperse.

By midnight, all but about 150 people had gone home. The smaller group made a last stand, throwing more rocks and bottles, Brust said. Deputies warned the mob to disperse or face arrest. At that point, the group broke up and officers cleared the area.

No arrests were made, and nobody was injured during the confrontations.

Extra deputies were assigned to patrol Vista overnight to prevent additional disturbances, NBC 7/39 reported.

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department has a history of tension with Vista's Latino community. Although nearly 50 percent of Vista residents speak Spanish as their first language, not a single deputy patrolling the city's streets is fluent in Spanish, according to the department.

Three fatal officer-involved shootings in the city last year added to the tensions. The three Latino men who were shot were unarmed (Unarmed? One had a knife, another had tried to ram deputies with a car, another had just commited armed robbery of a store and charged deputies) and apparently all spoke at least some English, but department officials admit, the language barrier has hurt communication (Maybe these idiots should learn English, or gee.... I don't know, maybe they shouldn't commit armed robbery or attack police with knives and cars. But of course, it's the police's fault, because they don't speak the primary language of the lawbreakers).

I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
How did it become the police fault? I just
can't take this anymore. San Diego like
the rest of So. California is really a Mexican
city.

It's insanity, I hope I wake up and realize it's all a bad dream......

This is exactly what happened after the first protests here in Escondido...the press didn't say anything about the hateful signs, slogans or the violence...disturbing isn't it? They played it all down and explained that is was America's fault.

Are any of you from San Diego? If so, we need to form a local group.

See this thread:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-25190.html