USA: rally in Los Angeles ends in clash with police

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Rally Ends With Clash Between Marchers, Police

Mayor Villaraigosa Calls Clash 'Unfortunate'

AP

 

LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2007 - A day of mostly calm immigration rallies

around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles where officers

fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. Police

promised to review the use of force. Several people, including about a

dozen officers, were hurt during skirmishes at MacArthur Park west of

downtown late Tuesday. About 10 people were taken to hospitals for

treatment of injuries including cuts, authorities said. None of the

injuries was believed to be serious. At least one person was arrested,

Officer Mike Lopez said late Tuesday.

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Police to Review Clash at LA Rally

May 2, 10:26 PM (ET)

By PETER PRENGAMAN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police Chief William J. Bratton on Wednesday

promised an investigation into the conduct of police who dispersed an

immigration rally, after videos captured officers using force with

reporters and firing rubber bullets into crowds. Bratton said officers

fired 240 " nonlethal " rounds to clear MacArthur Park late Tuesday.

News images showed police hitting a television cameraman to the

ground, shoving people who were walking away from officers and

injuries from the rubber bullets, including a Hispanic man with welts

on his abdomen and back. Lines of officers moved through the park

firing the rubber rounds. " The events of yesterday, with all (the

training) that we do, should not have occurred, " Bratton said at a

tense news conference. " We should not be engaged in attacks on the media. "

 

SAMVA , " cosmologer " <cosmologer wrote:

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> Rally Ends With Clash Between Marchers, Police

> Mayor Villaraigosa Calls Clash 'Unfortunate'

> AP

>

> LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2007 - A day of mostly calm immigration rallies

> around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles where officers

> fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. Police

> promised to review the use of force. Several people, including about a

> dozen officers, were hurt during skirmishes at MacArthur Park west of

> downtown late Tuesday. About 10 people were taken to hospitals for

> treatment of injuries including cuts, authorities said. None of the

> injuries was believed to be serious. At least one person was arrested,

> Officer Mike Lopez said late Tuesday.

>