LAPD and the Immigrants Right March

I think the whole concept of riot police creates more problems then it solves. Knowing two LAPD cops personally, who I think are good people, I'd like to give the officers the benefit of the doubt that as individuals, most (probably not all) of the cops wouldn't get as carried away as they did at the end of the immigrant rights march yesterday in MacArthur Park. But as soon as they began the "Double time, It's tussle time!" chant, it was all over. Mob mentality works both ways...

Here are a couple of videos to check out:



Fox 11 unedited footage of their camera woman getting batonned (an update on Fox news said the two women reporters both ended up at the hospital, one with a broken wrist and the other with a dislocated shoulder) (Higher quality version here)



10 minutes from Jonathan Mann, a march participant and citizen journalist.

There was another one I saw last night that showed a toddler in the line of fire, as well as a man who was desperately trying to get to his bicycle that was on the other side of a wall, while riot police manhandled him, but the clip seems to have vanished from the internet.