See also, this SHORT EXCERPT from the L.A. Times, via www.infoshop.org:
Tuesday, May 01 2007 @ 09:24 PM PDT -- snip --
Clashes erupt with LAPD during evening immigrant rally at MacArthur Park
Tuesday, May 01 2007 @ 08:28 PM PDT
Contributed by: Collin Sick
Views: 94Tuesday's protests were generally peaceful most of the day, but the calm was broken by run-ins between police and demonstrators during an evening rally in MacArthur Park. Just after 6 p.m., some of the few thousand participants still in the park started throwing plastic bottles and rocks at police, said Mike Lopez, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Then, several dozen riot police, clad in helmets and carrying batons, started clearing the park, firing a few dozen volleys of rubber bullets into the crowd. No one appeared to be hit. A reporter saw at least three people struck by police batons...
...Then, several dozen riot police, clad in helmets and carrying batons, started clearing the park, firing a few dozen volleys of rubber bullets into the crowd. No one appeared to be hit. A reporter saw at least three people struck by police batons.
Several marchers and police officers were injured, Lopez said, adding that arrests were made but it was not known how many.
A helicopter flew low over the east side of the park about 6:30 p.m. and sirens blasted as police ordered people out of the park, telling them they would be arrested if they didn't move out.
The police formed a riot line across the park on the east side, forcing the crowd to move west in a big mass. Some of the participants were yelling at police, "You can't do this."
About 6:45 p.m., police ordered the last people out of MacArthur Park, mostly news personnel and some marchers filming the police actions, declaring an "unlawful assembly..."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-march2may02,0,4573824,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines