Tag LAPD brutality

LAPD brutality. Stills

After repeated watching of the video, it appears most of the beating of Villa and Westberry was done by an LAPD sergeant. Villa and Westberry were standing on the street videoing. An officer on bicycle comes behind them, picks up…

LAPD brutality. Arrest for ‘lynching.’

Jose Villa was videoing LAPD during the anti-Minutemen protest called by ANSWER LA last Saturday. As the YourTube video shows, he and Christen Westberry were standing still when an LAPD officer on a bicycle stopped next to them, picked up…

LAPD brutality press conference

The National Lawyers Guild and ANSWER LA announced today they will file numerous lawsuits and complaints against LAPD for their brutal behavior at the anti-Minutemen protest Saturday, clubbing people, even after they were prone on the sidewalk motionless. (See the…

LAPD brutality video (full version)

Unprovoked attacks by Los Angeles police. From the counter-protest called by ANSWERLA.org to protest a Minutemen march in Hollywood on July 8, 2006. Man in white shirt on left walks towards police, is clubbed. Others are clubbed, person in wheelchair…