Police Violently Crack Down on L.A. Protests

[justaprogressive]

LOS ANGELES—Protesters across Los Angeles, including the vast majority who were demonstrating peacefully, were met with overwhelming violence from law enforcement this past weekend, after thousands of people took to the streets to push back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on local workplaces.

Local agencies like the Los Angeles Police Department have not carried out raids, but they have assisted federal agencies in shutting down protests—often in ways that breach crowd-control protocols.

The Los Angeles Police Department has been recorded targeting journalists with "less-lethal" munitions, advancing on protesters while swinging their batons, and repeatedly trampling with horses a downed protester. Such behavior appears to contradict agency use-of-force policy, which requires the use of de-escalation techniques whenever feasible and authorizes the use of less-lethal weapons when “the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officer or others.”

Since protests began last Friday, law enforcement agencies have deployed a multitude of crowd-control weapons including chemical irritants, stun grenades and kinetic munitions. According to Dr. Rohini Haar, a medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights, all such weapons can be extremely dangerous.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-11-los-angeles-protests-police-ice-violence/

[MagickMuffin]

1. They shot a woman in her stomach trying to get home

She was all alone, no one was with her, she told them she lived at the building they were blocking. They didn’t care and shot her point blank in the stomach.

Luckily there was someone recording what occurred and offered aide to the woman who was shot by them.

They chose to shoot her instead of letting her go home.

Here’s the link, I couldn’t get the video to load.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKvp4F6to3a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Stargazer99]

2. She needs to sue the hell out of the enitity that shot her and the reporter that was hit by a rubber bullet

I am damn sick and tired of people being hurt for no reason by authorities. If authorities cannot conduct themselves responsibly maybe they should not be.
We need to show the rest of the world how our government is hurting people without do cause...