Link to complete L.A. Police Report (in English and Spanish) is on the LAPD web page: http://www.lapdonline.org/
NATION IN BRIEF
Wednesday, October 10, 2007; Page A05
Los Angeles Times
L.A. Police Faulted in Melee
LOS ANGELES -- A series of errors by Los Angeles police commanders led to a May Day melee at a pro-immigration rally in which officers clashed with protesters and journalists, according to a long-awaited report released Tuesday.
Officials said 26 officers are under investigation and could face discipline for excessive use of force during the clash.
The report, prepared by top LAPD officials, highlighted numerous missteps by commanders and officers before and during the confrontation.
Television footage showed officers wielding batons and firing rubber bullets at reporters covering the event. More than 40 protesters, reporters and police officers were injured...
http://www.lapdonline.org/
Showing posts with label Immigrant Rally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immigrant Rally. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Confrontation Over Woman in Sanctuary
A woman named Liliana and her infant are staying at a church in Simi Valley as part of the New Sanctuary Movement. The anti-immigrant group (Save Our State) was actually going to try an make a citizen's arrest. Is this even legal?
Someone was using chemical spray - which injured a pro-immigrant protester.
Sounds like "Save Our State" is going beyond civility. Remember this is Simi Valley where the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted. Maybe I need to post an article I found from the 1880s that talks about the South and the "barbaric" actions of the Southerners...
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Groups Clash Over Immigration at Church
The Associated Press
Washington Post
Monday, September 17, 2007; 8:14 AM
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Dozens of activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son.
One immigrant-rights advocate was injured with a chemical spray during Sunday's confrontation at the United Church of Christ, and police were investigating allegations that an opposing protester was responsible, police Capt. John McGinty said.
Members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally that drew about 120 protesters and counter-protesters, said they had hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana.
The woman has been living in the church's former parsonage as part of the New Sanctuary Movement, which arranges church accommodations for illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Group members shouted for Liliana, who lived in Oxnard before taking shelter at the church, to give herself up.
"I'm here because I'm for the movement for the illegals to go home," protester Dee Barrow said.
Daniel Smallwood, one of the counter-protesters, accused the anti-illegal immigration activists of racism and said members of his group joined the rally because they didn't want their ideological opponents "to get all the attention."
click title of post for link to original article
Someone was using chemical spray - which injured a pro-immigrant protester.
Sounds like "Save Our State" is going beyond civility. Remember this is Simi Valley where the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted. Maybe I need to post an article I found from the 1880s that talks about the South and the "barbaric" actions of the Southerners...
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Groups Clash Over Immigration at Church
The Associated Press
Washington Post
Monday, September 17, 2007; 8:14 AM
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Dozens of activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son.
One immigrant-rights advocate was injured with a chemical spray during Sunday's confrontation at the United Church of Christ, and police were investigating allegations that an opposing protester was responsible, police Capt. John McGinty said.
Members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally that drew about 120 protesters and counter-protesters, said they had hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana.
The woman has been living in the church's former parsonage as part of the New Sanctuary Movement, which arranges church accommodations for illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Group members shouted for Liliana, who lived in Oxnard before taking shelter at the church, to give herself up.
"I'm here because I'm for the movement for the illegals to go home," protester Dee Barrow said.
Daniel Smallwood, one of the counter-protesters, accused the anti-illegal immigration activists of racism and said members of his group joined the rally because they didn't want their ideological opponents "to get all the attention."
click title of post for link to original article
Monday, September 3, 2007
Protest in Prince William County
It has been my experience that in the U.S. "white people" (the term could be debated) generally go balistic if anyone says they could be racist. Might be good for the Minute-Men/Romney types to think about what many people see when they look at the immigrant bashers.
Its like all of them are wearing white hood.
Protest in Prince William County a great start. I wish I had a picture of of Corey Stewart's effigy they were carrying around. Not that I am so reactionary but it sort of reminds me of other protests at other times and places...
Hope the protest does some good. I would still encourage people to think twice before they buy something... that's where the power lies.... people listen when they lose money.
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Latinos Join in Protest In N.Va.
Thousands Denounce Immigration Measure At Prince William Rally
By Bill Turque
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 3, 2007; Page B01
Carrying American flags and chanting "Si, se puede" ("Yes, we can"), several thousand Latinos rallied at the seat of Prince William County government yesterday to denounce the Board of Supervisors' plan to curb services to illegal immigrants.
Protesters from as far as Minnesota converged on the Sean T. Connaughton Community Plaza for speeches and a two-mile march, organized by Mexicans Without Borders and other immigrant advocacy groups.
...On July 10, the Prince William board thrust the county into the middle of the Northern Virginia immigration debate, adopting a resolution directing officials to determine which government services can be lawfully withheld from anyone in the country illegally.
The measure also authorizes Prince William police to ask about residency status if they have probable cause to believe that an individual is in the country illegally. Exactly what constitutes probable cause, and how legal residency would be verified, is still under review by the police.
The county's Latino community responded with a week-long economic boycott, concluding this weekend, targeting businesses deemed hostile to immigrants.
Organizers also announced plans for an Oct. 9 work stoppage in Prince William.
The message at yesterday's late-afternoon protest was that immigrants want what they said everyone else wants, to be left alone to work and raise their families.
...Protesters marched along Prince William Parkway past Prince William County Republican headquarters and a large campaign sign for board Chairman Corey A. Stewart (R-At Large), a leading advocate of the July resolution. One group carried a large plaster effigy of Stewart.
...Prince William police declined to offer an estimate of the turnout, which informal estimates placed at 5,000 to 7,000.
...It has been difficult to gauge the effectiveness of the boycott, although it seems to have had only a marginal impact on the national chain stores that are its chief targets. Latino customers continue to patronize such businesses as Wal-Mart and Giant and fast-food restaurants.
What is easier to see is that the action has both energized and split Prince William's Latino community. Mexicans Without Borders favors such economic measures as the boycott to push back, and other business leaders seek negotiations with county leaders.
The immigration issue has also driven a wedge between the region's local governments. The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors recently passed a similar, if less exact, version of the Prince William measure. It directs county officials to study which services might be legitimately denied to illegal immigrants and to explore ways to cut off business with companies that hire undocumented workers.
Fairfax County has resisted entreaties from Prince William leaders to follow their example. Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) has said that it is impractical and constitutionally questionable for local governments to undertake immigration enforcement. He said he wants the county to focus on "outcomes and behavior," rather than immigration status, by cracking down on boarding houses and other code violations that can degrade the quality of life in neighborhoods.
for complete article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201190.html
cartoon: http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/cole.jpg
Monday, July 30, 2007
Rally in Sonoma County, CA - the ICE Capades
"Sonoma California" by Stephen San Filippo www.stephensanfilippo.com/ l1144.htmlThe telephone number for the Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County (CIRSC) is
707.524.8818.
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SR rally targets immigration enforcement
Deputies' cooperation with feds unfair to Latinos, advocates say
By KATY HILLENMEYER
AND MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Santa Rosa, CA
Immigrant rights and minority groups Saturday called on Sonoma County sheriff's deputies to stop cooperating with agents who enforce federal immigration law.
Young Latinos are being unfairly deported because deputies on a multiagency gang prevention team work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said Davin Cardenas of the Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County.
"Crime, in general, runs the risk of not being reported when you do not know if law enforcement is collaborating with immigration services," Cardenas said before Saturday's rally at Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa. "We don't think our community should be targeted when they're living productive lives, working and going to school."... Organizers dubbed the event ICE capades, and in a symbolic act, froze a number of small dolls in blocks of ice that melted throughout the day in the warm afternoon sun.
for complete article:
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/NEWS/707290393/1033/NEWS01%20%20
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