LAPD are domestic terrorists.

[Fire Walk With Me]

40. Yes. And as an Occupy activist in LA, I can assure you that they are using force and threat and

courts to attempt to get everyone who shows up, to stop and go home and stay there. And that's just against activists. Consider the long-term oppression of the homeless on Skid Row. I can assure you and have posted here in GD that the homeless in LA have been criminalized and are being pressured to leave that area because ccala.org, a haughty business lobby with strong influence in city hall (and thus, LAPD), are attempting to gentrify that area. They succeeded in doing so to an area a while back; it is depicted in the book and film "The Soloist", so their new attack upon Skid Row is terrorism, but for profit purposes. (Bratton's "safer cities initiative" provides IIRC $6,000,000 a year to fund an extra 50 police in Skid Row, and that number has recently been upped again. Something like 4.7 or 5.7 million dollars are spent on the homeless citywide per year. That's citywide, not just the small zone of Skid Row, which is within walking distance of City Hall.)

A few months ago, an area of Skid Row not even mentioned in the city's health study of the area was increasingly pressured by LAPD and ccala.org's "redshirts", who are their corporate security squads (yes, roving corporate security with zero accountability to the public). This area was Occupy Skid Row. They agreed to pack up to allow a larger-than-usual street cleaning, but once through the safety tape, were not allowed back in to get the rest of their property. LA CAN and OccupyLA lawyers were present and got them back in to get all of their stuff. One person who had been allowed through against a red light (cop lifted the safety tape to let them cross on the red light) was then given a ticket for it. Once the cleaning was done, it was announced that everyone could not return and must go elsewhere. We moved everything back anyway. Cops came and formed a line and pressed us down the street, clearing it again completely. News crews from Spanish channels began to arrive and the cops backed off. Occupy Skid Row set up again in their spot. Later that evening, among many police cruisers which did slow drive-bys, one came through with LAPD chief Charlie Beck in the passenger seat, looking over the situation. I saw the vehicle but not Beck, but everyone was saying it was him. This shows how much sway cca have in city hall, and how much far up the decision tree little goes little things such as homeless activists and the ground and rights they defend.

Cops stepped up their bullying and made nuisance arrests and at least for a while, managed to break up the group. Domestic terrorism.


Saturday, June 23, 2012
Occupy Skid Row, Evicted and Re-Occupied!

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/06/occupy-skid-row-evicted-and-re-occupied.html


Sunday, September 2, 2012
Occupy Skid Row is gone. LA Times lies about them

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/09/occupy-skid-row-is-gone-la-times-lies.html