LAPD Accused of Unprovoked Attack at Vigil

[Johnney]

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Sat Aug 27, 6:09 AM ET

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised an investigation Friday into claims that a Nation of Islam minister was beaten by Los Angeles police during a vigil for a shooting victim.
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Supporters of Tony Muhammad, western regional director of the Nation of Islam, are calling for tougher scrutiny of a police department that has repeatedly faced allegations of using excessive force.

Police said Muhammad was "very belligerent and uncooperative" when officers asked that two vehicles to be moved Thursday night during the vigil. They said two of Muhammad's bodyguards also began fighting with officers, who called for backup.

Muhammad was arrested on suspicion of committing battery against a police officer.

In a series of news conferences Friday, the mayor, police officials and religious leaders called for calm, and Villaraigosa and Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell promised an investigation.

"We will hold anyone accountable for breaking the law," Villaraigosa said.

Community activist Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, said he believes Muhammad was "battered brutally in an unprovoked attack by the Los Angeles Police Department."

Unless the department is reformed, "We all walk in danger," he said.

and the nation of islam has never risen up? well the lapd isnt exactly angels themselves

Muhammad, his lip appearing badly swollen, told a group of supporters earlier Friday: "Nothing's changed in 40 years. We are at the bottom and we might as well stand the hell up today."

The vigil Thursday night was for Nahun Beaird, 21, who was fatally shot the night before. Some area residents didn't believe paramedics did enough to try to save him and had accused them of covering his body with a sheet while the victim appeared to still be alive.

When members of the crowd demanded paramedics remove the sheet and attempt to revive him, the paramedics, who had been loading a second victim into an ambulance, complied but were unable to resuscitate him.

and who better to say someone is dead than a crowd of angry people?

Fire officials said Beaird was dead when paramedics covered him. Doctors at California Hospital Medical Center said Beaird had died at the scene.

McDonnell said Beaird was another needless victims of violence that grips the South Los Angeles neighborhood where he died. The area, just 8 percent of the city, has had 42 percent of its homicides this year, McDonnell said.

He implored residents not to let differences with the Police Department divide a mutual effort to reduce crime.

 

[Mr. P]

Community activist Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, said he believes Muhammad was "battered brutally in an unprovoked attack by the Los Angeles Police Department."
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Unless the department is reformed, "We all walk in danger," he said.
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The area, just 8 percent of the city, has had 42 percent of its homicides this year, ....

Yes sir Danny yer right, all that homicide is committed by the POLICE and until you get them out of there you'll never be safe, you friggin MORON!!!

 

[William Joyce]

The vigil Thursday night was for Nahun Beaird, 21, who was fatally shot the night before. Some area residents didn't believe paramedics did enough to try to save him and had accused them of covering his body with a sheet while the victim appeared to still be alive.

Blacks blow each other up, and yet they target their anger at WHITES because... we didn't work quickly enough to save them.

I have a different point of view.

Ready?

The ones responsible for black death are overwhelmingly black. We as whites dis-enslaved them more than a hundred years ago. They are responsible for their lives, not us. But this will be hard to come by for the simple reason that blacks are inherently more prone to violence. DOJ stats, DNA and a walk down the street all prove this:

http://www.amren.com/colrcrim.html

So the best thing we can do is simply disengage from them altogether. Because nothing we do will make them civilized. So the anger will persist until the races separate.

 

[theim]

Villaragosa is such a dipshit. When he says "the law", he does not of course mean "the law", but some of the laws. From listening to things that man has said I honestly beleive he holds more loyalty to Mexico than to the US.