.............Green
Party of Los Angeles County
........Protests Mayday Police Brutality
Greens condemn 'brazen brutality'
by police at Los Angeles immigration rights march, charge police
targeting 'marginalized and disenfranchised'
LOS ANGELES,
Ca. (May 3, 2007) The Green Party of California today condemned
the "brazen brutality" of the Los Angeles Police Department
Tuesday at a peaceful immigration rights march here where dozens of
demonstrators and members of the news media were clubbed and
shot by so-called "non-lethal" projectiles.
At least
three investigations. including one by the FBI, are now
underway to determine the extent of the unnecessary violence used by
police to disperse a peaceful crowd at a park, although the
organizers of the May Day march had an approved permit. Police
apparently fired at least 240 rounds at demonstrators and reporters,
sending many to the hospital.
"The brazen police
brutality of the LAPD is yet another example of the erosion of our
civil liberties as we slide more and more into a police state, with
the poor, immigrants, people of color, the marginalized and
disenfranchised the targets of institutionalized violence and
repression," said Los Angeles City Greens' spokesperson Linda
Piera-Avila.
"The LAPD's mission of 'to protect and
serve' seems to only apply to those who are part of the corporate
interests, while immigrants are being used as target practice. For
justice to be served, NAFTA and similar disastrous foreign policy
agreements must be ended abroad while here at home immigrants must be
recognized and accorded human rights," she added.
Greens
in Southern California are mobilizing to provide any assistance
needed by those attacked by the LAPD on May Day.
"The
LAPD action was outrageous," said Peter Thottam, a Los Angeles
attorney and former Green Party candidate for Assembly in the 53rd
District, who has offered his help to those involved in the attacks
by police.
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ANGELES COUNTY GREENS SUPPORT
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