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In reply to the discussion: No foul play suspected in Michael Hastings' death, LAPD says [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)15. I've lived in LA for decades, done copwatch on Skid Row...those who know nothing about LAPD
are issuing opinion from their nether orifice. LAPD lie lie lie, they brutalize and murder and oppress. Period. They are a gang of the worst sort. Racist, sexist, brutal...anyone who knows nothing of them can take it elsewhere.
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Rodney King and others say you should trust LAPD with all of your heart:
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#7
I do hope that someone somewhere who can be trusted verifies that his speeding was not
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#25
I've lived in LA for decades, done copwatch on Skid Row...those who know nothing about LAPD
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#15
I've seen enough movies to know that all this means is that "they" got to the LAPD too. (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#18
If you lived in LA, you'd understand that LAPD are little more than a gang
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#22
Weird how incidents like this instantly divide DUers into the suspicious and the cocksure
whatchamacallit
Jun 2013
#21
Well, there's always the crowd that says "That's one more piece of the puzzle, wonder what the
MADem
Jun 2013
#35
Of course no foul play just like all the blackmen who were shot in the back of the head down south
YeahSureRight
Jun 2013
#28
I remember when the LAPD choked a kid to death in a parking lot at a Dead show for doing a handstand
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2013
#49
The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing.
Vinnie From Indy
Jun 2013
#52