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100 protesters throw rocks, eggs at LAPD station
AP/YahooNews ^ | 9/7/10 | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON

Posted on 09/07/2010 10:30:47 PM PDT by Kartographer

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IS LA BURNING? If not I think it soon will be.
1 posted on 09/07/2010 10:30:49 PM PDT by Kartographer
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TRE!


2 posted on 09/07/2010 10:32:20 PM PDT by RingerSIX
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100 protesters throw rocks, eggs at LAPD station

10 cops throwing buckshot back would probably stop that.

3 posted on 09/07/2010 10:35:06 PM PDT by The Cajun
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A knife. what pikers. They just shot a drunk with a hamburger flipper in Modesto. In his own home.
4 posted on 09/07/2010 10:39:52 PM PDT by Domangart
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10 cops throwing buckshot back would probably stop that.

I'm sure that type of overreaction is what set the crowd off in the first place.

5 posted on 09/07/2010 10:41:06 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Hambuger flippers are DANGEROUS! Try boarding a fly with one in your suitcase! ;-)


6 posted on 09/07/2010 10:42:57 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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I'm sure that type of overreaction is what set the crowd off in the first place.

Yeah I know, we should all just get along. Let them flame the police station and things will automatically get better for everybody.

7 posted on 09/07/2010 10:48:19 PM PDT by The Cajun
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Update -LA Times:

“Police fire at least 2 volleys of non-lethal projectiles during protest over police shooting” [Updated]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/police-fire-at-least-2-volleys-of-non-lethal-projectiles-as-crowd-gathers-on-6th-street-in-westlake.html


8 posted on 09/07/2010 10:58:02 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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Remember when the media invented the term ‘suicide by cop’? It was over a guy pointing a screwdriver at 15 or so cops, who knew full well it wasn’t a gun, and they were in no danger.

I understand there is so much rabble rousing over police crime its hard to take any allegations seriously, but the cops are doing stuff that is just plain bad alot of times.


9 posted on 09/07/2010 11:00:51 PM PDT by TeachableMoment
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Yeah I know, we should all just get along. Let them flame the police station and things will automatically get better for everybody.

I'm not saying that, all I am saying is that so many times so few people realize the causality of cause and effect...

10 posted on 09/07/2010 11:19:18 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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ping


11 posted on 09/07/2010 11:25:31 PM PDT by dalebert
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Its all in the name of justification of deadly force for lesser and lesser crimes. Once upon a time you have to posses a weapon and threaten them with said weapon before you were shot. Once upon a time cops would only draw down on you if you were committing a felony.

Once upon a time, excessive force complaints were rare and usually ended up being justified.

But today you have cops who will taze you for talking back, cops who refuse admit they are wrong in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Cops who will kill you simply because you could of had a weapon and its all justified because the cops tells some judge he/she thought you were reaching for a concealed weapon, notwithstanding the fact that no weapon was recovered.

Cops are killing folks for what amounts to misdemeanor crimes. Crimes that don’t even carry the penalty of jail time, just fines of less than $1,000... and probation or community service.

Or in the case of one recent Tennessee police shooting that’s still under investigation, a cop shot at a man 6 times, the man was wanted on a warrant for failure to complete his court ordered community service... Oh yeah, in that shooting the cop missed the man all six times, but hit his partner in his bullet proof vest.


12 posted on 09/07/2010 11:27:20 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Update - LA Times:

“At least 15 arrested in Westlake as protesters hurl objects at police from rooftops” (Situation is Calming..)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/at-least-15-arrested-in-westlake-as-protesters-hurl-objects-at-police-from-rootops.html


13 posted on 09/07/2010 11:29:49 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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If 100 Tea Party people were throwing eggs, rocks and bottles - would they be called “protesters”?
14 posted on 09/07/2010 11:41:26 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question.)
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MacArthur Park, a densely packed neighborhood west of downtown populated with recent immigrants from Central America

Has the looting started yet?


15 posted on 09/07/2010 11:41:43 PM PDT by 1035rep
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Good point.


16 posted on 09/07/2010 11:42:37 PM PDT by 1035rep
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Oh,my goodness!


17 posted on 09/07/2010 11:57:34 PM PDT by onedoug
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“Protest” indeed. It’s more like a mini-riot. And Surprise! the RCP is heavily involved this time, as well, just like in 1992.


18 posted on 09/08/2010 12:00:51 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.)
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It’s amazing what minor incidents in LA, makes big news out in places like New Mexico....lol


19 posted on 09/08/2010 12:02:24 AM PDT by dragnet2
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It has been called Protest since the 1960's when cities across the nation burned and the order to the cops was to just stand by and watch unless they were threated...

Then the inner cities wondered why no one wanted to do business in those areas....gee all the business's were owned by bigots for not building and letting the locals burn them out again....

20 posted on 09/08/2010 2:37:17 AM PDT by goat granny
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