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Inalienable

The latest in a long list of incidents of excessive force by LAPD officers should serve as a clear indication that something is terribly wrong with our approach to "law enforcement" in America.

Police expected a much larger crowd than the 10,000-15,000 people attending the immigration rally at MacArthur Park on May 1st. Perhaps if there had been a larger crowd, they would have used better "judgement" before attacking peaceful protestors and reporters with clubs and rubber projectiles leaving several victims with bloody welts, two inches in diameter.

But that would have required a certain amount of courage that the LAPD has repeatedly demonstrated it lacks. Greatly outnumbered, they would have placed considerably less faith in their guns, batons, and body armor to protect them when they attempted to disperse the participants who were peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to Free Speech and Assembly.

They might have thought twice about endangering......

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