Wow! I found it interesting that almost 50% of LAUSD students skipped class for this demonstration. What was the most interesting it that 48% of Hispanics drop out of school before they graduate……Any connection?

By the way, I still don’t agree with people being hit for no reason.

This is quite disturbing. The channel 7 news briefly (I mean briefly) aired a video showing LAPD hitting a protester repeatedly.

I heard that people were not able to disperse from the area quickly because the buses they were promised did not arrive. Apparently, buses were suppose to drop people off at certain designated areas. This is all hear say, so who knows if that was the case.

I’m more impressed that the video was shot at 9:30 but he was able to go home, compress, and upload it by 10:30.

Would be good to see some higher res video to see exactly what happened here. Cops were mellow all day, and I try and give them the benefit of the doubt. From the video I see kids tossing things and antagonizing the police, plus bashing in windows. On its own no excuse to hit anyone with a billy club, but it does make me wonder what else was happening that the camera didn’t catch.

David – that’s kind of why I said this is just one side of the story and I’ve asked my contacts at the LAPD to respond here about it. As for the video, I think this was shot on a camera phone and uploaded directly, so no compression or other versions exist.

Sean: Was just agreeing with you.
As for better quality video – I did see a kid carrying an Canon XL-1 in some of the video – I wonder if he was able to tape any of what happened?

Let me just say that I was able to monitor the command process and the Rock and Bottle throwing started an hour or two before the video was shot. I also saw the video on FOX and the cops let the crowd throw stuff for a few minutes before the chased down the individuals themselves. Also, the cop hit the guy a few times until he got his hands showing, he did not continue to beat him.

The police used an enormous amount of restraint dealing with the crowd. I for one will back the cops on this one….

Oh my….so a rock-throwing Aztl√°nian caught the vapors.

Ooo…how very “disgusting”.

Too bad the LAPD isn’t allowed to inquire about his immigration status.

this is almost as disgusting as the comments made here.

Yes, Ugly American, its a shame we can’t assume every brown fellow out there is either a terrorist or an illegal immigrant.

(thats sarcasm on my part, btw… shame i feel the need to point this out)

Yes…I’m a terrible, terrible racist gringo for implying that we should do background checks on ALL arrestees…including honkies.

But then again, most brown-skinned people I know don’t make a habit of throwing rocks at police officers.

Fox News just aired some footage of what looks like the same altercation from a different angle, with much better clarity.

Nope, Sondra, you’re a terrible, terrible racist gringo for writing and believing terribly racist things.

Correct…I am a backwater, redneck, racist asshole.

Thought I already made that clear.