Posted on 03/27/2002 4:53:33 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Los Angeles is in a tizzy over Police Commission President Rick Caruso's alleged description of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters as a "bitch."
"If it is all right for the Police Commission president to call a congresswoman a bitch, is it all right for police officers on the street to call women bitches?" the furious Waters asked the commission Tuesday when she and dozens of supporters crammed themselves into the board's meeting room, the Los Angeles Times reported today.
Earlier in the day about 100 supporters of the congresswoman demonstrated against Caruso outside the Los Angeles Police Department's downtown headquarters.
"It outrages all of us who are citizens of the city of Los Angeles," fumed Danny Bakewell, head of a group called Brotherhood Crusade.
Not all. According to Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight, the issue was splitting La-La Land along racial lines, with blacks supporting Waters and whites backing Caruso.
"Caruso's alleged comment was distributed in a letter from an anonymous person who claimed to have been at a Feb. 28 meeting attended by Caruso and several top police officials," the Times said.
The commission is deciding whether to give Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, supported by Waters, a second five-year term. Mayor James K. Hahn, who appointed Caruso, opposes Parks' reappointment.
"Caruso has declined to comment on the matter, and the police officials who attended the meeting would not confirm or deny that he made the remark," the Times said. A top Hahn aide, Deputy Mayor Matt Middlebrook, said earlier this month that Parks' supporters were using "shameless political tactics" to discredit Caruso.
The far-left, wacky Waters is "notoriously anti-cop," O'Reilly noted, and once accused the Drug Enforcement Administration of bringing crack to L.A.
- Sorry mom.
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