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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Videos of LA immigration reform rally

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton is promising an investigation into the police response to an immigration rally in Los Angeles yesterday. When some people threw bottles and rocks at the police, the police responded by firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd, and hitting people with batons. Several members of the media were injured.

Other members of the media who were injured included four employees of KVEA-TV Channel 52, a KTTV-TV Channel 11 news reporter who suffered a minor shoulder injury, a camerawoman who has a broken wrist and a reporter for KPCC-FM (89.3) who was bruised by a police baton.
"I was dumbfounded," said the KPCC reporter, Patricia Nazario. "I've covered riots. I've covered chaos. I was never hit or struck or humiliated the way the LAPD violated me yesterday."
Nazario said she was walking away from riot police when she was hit in the back.

Here are some amateur- and pro-videos of event:

Gamejew's 10 minute video
CNN video
Fox News video of police officers using force to make journalists vacate
Keith Olbermann commentary on MSNBC

Here's a Slate Explainer article that answers the question, "What are rubber bullets?" Link

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