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video of police riot in LA's macarthur park
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:13:36 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns () vt edu> Date: May 3, 2007 9:02:41 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: video of police riot in LA's macarthur parkPerhaps for IP, this use of the internet to reveal recent police violence in LA.
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From: Sasha Costanza-Chock <costanza () usc edu> Date: May 3, 2007 8:50:41 PM EDT This may be slightly offtopic, but I stayed up late last night cuttingthis video together so I'm sending it out to the world as part of my own catharsis and attempt to shake the creepy feeling that always comes over me after I watch armor clad police use batons on fleeing defenseless people.If you are not in LA, the story is that LAPD brutally attacked thousands of families celebrating international workers' day in downtown macarthur park, using rubber bullets, batons, motorcycles and chemical spray. Theyeven attacked several members of the media, including Fox News and Telemundo correspondents! It was so ludicrous that they are no longereven attempting to spin it in the standard way (ie, 'we used controllednonlethal force against a few troublemakers). They have abandoned thatline and even the chief (bratton) has admitted that it got out of hand.I was there to support the event and to play music with my band fosforo.We were literally on the soundstage playing when the police attackedwithout clear warning. I happened to have a cam and hid behind a speakerstack to record everything. For you non-spanish speakers, the music is a cover of Bob Marley's 'War,' itself an interpretation of a speech by Haile Selassie I. The band is my band Fósforo, the footage is a mix of stuff shot by me,some shot by Larry Gross (!), and some pulled from la.indymedia.org andfrom YouTube at 2am. enjoy the (riot) porn. download at 43.5 megs http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/05/fosforo_mayday_rough_cops.mp4 or watch on myspace (lower quality):http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2026799363or if you must, youtube (still lower.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfkoULiI8N0 For good firsthand accounts of what happened, check http://la.indymedia.org peace sasha _______________________________________________
Jeremy HunsingerInformation Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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