VIDEO: LAPD officers seen striking protesters with batons in Fairfax district confrontation

[Dennis Donovan]

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ABC7 Eyewitness News ✔@ABC7

SHOCKING VIDEO: LAPD officers seen striking protesters with batons in Fairfax district confrontation https://abc7.la/3dzg9qX

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6:37 PM - Jun 4, 2020

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Thomas E. Ricks ✔@tomricks1

I think police forces will pay for decades for their behavior in recent days. Feels to me like a nationwide police riot. "Respect me now or I'll knock you down."

9:31 PM - Jun 4, 2020

"...a nationwide police riot." That nails it.

[agingdem]

1. Fairfax district...

UCLA students and multi-ethnic residents...OMG those elderly Jews on their way to synagogue had weapons in their hands...canes, walkers, oxygen canisters...I'm 71 years old..why is this racist shit still a thing?!!

[virgogal]

2. The protestors in the video are white,nothing to do with race in this instance.

[agingdem]

3. I know...

gotta give the cops "credit"..black, white...no difference...it was about inflicting pain...

[winstars]

7. This attack on protesters on Saturday is soooo wrong... Terrible!!!!!!!

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Out of control

This is insane and what you see in 3rd world dictatorships.

[Blue_true]

5. The LAPD Chief used some pretty incendiary language.

Garcetti needs to fire him and hire someone that will bring that department under control. A lot of Captains and Lieutenants need to be fired also, clean the freaking deck and bring in people that won't tolerate unjustified police violence against citizens.

[SamKnause]

6. I fucking hate them.