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Comment on Organizing continues over mistreatment of inmates by Occupy Shadow Media

Occupy Shadow Media — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:21:44 +0000

Good work! One thing though. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police, under directives from Roy Mitchell of the FBI, fired 99shots into the apartment on s Munro street, murdering Chairman Fred Hampton, and Defense Minister Mark Clark. There was no shoot out, as the police claimed. The families were able to win a civil suit against the police, FBI, and the Hoover estate, however, no pigs were ever prosecuted. There was no question, those pigs went to that apartment with orders to kill the Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party.

Comment on The unrelenting prosecution of Cherise Rogers by Raven

Raven — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:36:57 +0000

To the author, first, please stop calling us, “Hookers”, we are sex workers and, second, this:

“and civilian men posing as police looking for female prey also ran through her mind”

The cops raping sex workers is, unfortunately, common. Through my copwatching, I hear and once saw it, too (a cop, CHP, near Figueroa, the major hoe stroll, had a sex worker in the car with him because I saw a “passenger” close the passenger side door while parked near the 110 freeway at night near Western and between Fig. When I drove up, I saw this and ran after them in hot pursuit.

The Los Angeles Sheriffs are horrible. I had an encounter with them one night during my copwatching and they act like security guard thugs. One yanked a guy out his car, refused to give his badge name and number (I had to walk up in front of him to get it) and asked, “Would I like to frisk him?” damn sick fcuk!!!

I am happy that you finally started this. I will be glad to start a change.org story on this. I believe it was merely a white cop who wanted to rape a black femail because he feels that he could get away with it…as was the case with Mitrice Richardson.

Comment on Conference on housing seeks to assist the foreclosed by Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:16:01 +0000

Want to learn more about housing ,i live in south africa in cape town on the same informal settlement for 43 years this yeat 2012

Comment on A reflection on Occupy LA’s creative living by Big c

Big c — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:41:28 +0000

Fuckin awesome yo

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:56:30 +0000

If the Occupy encampment was LAPD’d over apossible head lice, what does the school district do when head lice show up in one of the primary schools (as they do, predictably, every year)? Send in SWAT?

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:28:34 +0000

Hey Owen: You mean to tell us they were doing laundry??? Hanging their laundry out to dry. As in WASHING THEIR CLOTHES??? Man how filthy can they be? I guess all the people back in the day that hung their laundry out to dry because they didn’t have AUTOMATIC DRYERS were just a bunch of low life filthy scum? You are a natural born MORON.

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by Diana Davies

Diana Davies — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:05:14 +0000

Thank you so much for this welcome attempt to set the record straight.

The LA Times should know by now that the police lie to them. It’s legal for cops to lie and they do. The LAPD is now completely meshed with the FBI, CIA and “private entities” (corporations and pro-business groups like CCALA)to “identify and respond to threats” through the DOJ/DHS Fusion Centers and militarized through the DOD 1033 Program. We’ve lost local control.

Wise and effective community policing is no longer the goal, just control of a “hostile” population, same as any other third-world country.

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by max

max — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:06:10 +0000

This can’t be right. Just this morning on NPR they had a huge thing about how the LA PD has completely reformed and now they’re upstanding defenders of civil liberties.

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by Daren McCloud

Daren McCloud — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:29:52 +0000

The truth will set the world free. great work LAist.

Comment on Public health concerns: an OLA eviction myth by Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:59:36 +0000

Simply put, we knew they’d have to make something up. We knew what they could claim long before they got tired of us, and we worked proactively to eliminate any reason for any city department to have health concerns. I was told by several LAPD officers on multiple occasions that our upkeep impressed them, and as far as they were concerned, we were keeping things healthy and safe. Unfortunately, it isn’t those same smiling human officers who make the decision of whether or not the mayor is sick of us. I still have the business cards of two different heath inspectors who seemed to genuinely appreciate our efforts. We used donated OLA funds to register many people as certified food handlers in order to play by the rules, and I may never forget how amazed i was by the amount of people constantly volunteering to scrub the porta-potties.

But none of that matters when the press lies to the people. What really happened may as well not have happened. Our only hope is that the truth will come out on top eventually, but I don’t see these fabrications ending anytime soon. It’s just another speed bump on the road to positive change, and each new lie only makes me want to protest harder.