Report documents last year’s Los Angeles police crackdown
On March 10, the Los Angeles City Council released a 101-page report commissioned in the wake of mass protests against police violence following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota that documents the violent, heavy-handed crackdown on lawful demonstrators by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
A police officer arrests a woman as protests over the death of George Floyd continued in Los Angeles. (Image Credit AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Independent Counsel Gerald Chaleff concluded that the LAPD again responded violently to demonstrations, despite having been slammed for its responses to mass protests that occurred at the Democratic National Convention in 2000, the MacArthur Park May Day rallies in 2007, the Occupy Los Angeles encampment in 2011, and in response to Michael Brown’s murder in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.