Immigration - Demography vs. Border Control

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

You're glad the police kicked the asses of people who were doing nothing illegal? Why?

Disorderly conduct and failure to disburse are hardly legal. If ordered to move and you fail to do so you will suffer the consequences.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Disorderly conduct and failure to disburse are hardly legal. If ordered to move and you fail to do so you will suffer the consequences.

Wrong. Not only because "failure to disburse" (this doesn't apply, anyway, because it looks to me like the media was moving when asked in the videos) when you aren't doing anything wrong should never be met with violence, but also:

The use of force on news crews came despite a legal settlement signed in 2002 calling for the Los Angeles police and city officials to recognize journalists' right to cover public protests even if there is a declaration of unlawful assembly and an order to disperse.

Under the settlement, the city agreed to assign a press liaison to such events and to set up designated media areas.

The pact resolved a lawsuit brought on behalf of seven journalists who said they were assaulted by police officers while covering the 2000 Democratic National Convention in L.A.

Peter Eliasberg, an ACLU lawyer who helped negotiate the settlement, said that based on broadcast news reports he has heard and viewed, "the police went way over the line," using force that "violates the law and the Constitution."

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Wrong. Not only because "failure to disburse" (this doesn't apply, anyway, because it looks to me like the media was moving when asked in the videos) when you aren't doing anything wrong should never be met with violence, but also:

Maybe they just needed a work out or a warm up or something for a bigger ass kicking later. I don't know.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Maybe they just needed a work out or a warm up or something for a bigger ass kicking later. I don't know.

That sounds par for the LAPD, yeah.