Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Eye Openers ] [ California ] [ Los Angeles ]
Tags: police, protest
The Los Angeles Police Department has spent the past year trying to overcome the bad publicity from an immigration rally last May Day in which officers fired rubber bullets and pummeled some demonstrators with batons.
On Thursday, the department hopes to show what it’s learned when officers try to keep the peace at a demonstration expected to draw at least 50,000 protesters.
“There were significant points of failure,” said Deputy Chief Michael Hillmann, who has spent much of the past year looking at what went wrong last year. “It wasn’t one singular item, it was a whole series of things.”"*
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