No LAPD Officers Fired for May Day Melee

good outcome.

What is the point of laws if the police are going to enforce and then the courts allow these stupid F***ing suspects to sue they city and possibly cost the officer their jobs. Yeah 42 people were injured but if the police tell you to disperse, then you need to dispers. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. And Bratton, screw you for trying to fire these 4 officers.

May Day Melee? Awwwww just wait until October Baton bashhead fest! LOL!!

You want to make a bet on the immigration status of the 40 people "pummeled"?

For the record I'm pro-pummeling of non-dispersing protestors....ragardless of immigration status but I'm just saying...you KNOW they were all undocumented visitors from foreign lands.

No sh** nobody was fired. They responded with lawful force, using the tools they were issued, to a crowd that was pelting them with rocks and bottles. The organizers of this event are the ones responsible.

HA! GOOD! Why does society even have cops if they are not allowed to respond to disorderly proetstors.
Again, bad guys....
Dont resist arrest, dont stay when lawfully ordered to leave by the PO-leece and dont throw things.... you you wont have any problems.

Why not just change LAs name to San Fran-angeles, lefties!!! get ready America, another touchy feely agency will be policy changed in a town near you.

The city pays 13 million in legal settlements to people who refuse to leave and throw rocks,bottles,and what not at the Police.My brothers, the inmates have truly taken over the asylum.

Officers did what the command asked them to do. A riot situation in which the police can not lose or everyone loses. If the community is at odds with what the officers did then they have to question the training and direction and that goes all the way back to Chief Brayton. He stands in his White House and fires the street cops when he only cares about himself and his position. He has learned to be a surviver even when his right hand man in charge of Internal Affairs left for another Chiefs job with several sexual assualt lawsuits still pending. Never fired him. Braxton is a profession Police Chief who will throw under the bus anyone he has too to survive. I pity the LAPD line officers.

Tom, do you mind if I use your line......October baton bashhead fest? Now that's funny! Good job.

"The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."

Some of the injured included members of the press who were clearly ID'd with press passes vests, etc., in a designated media area.

Some of them were standing next to their media vans in the designated media parking area and were knocked down as they were attempting to get into them (so they could leave).

Video clearly shows some were prevented from getting into their vehicles.

No excuse for that. When you work crowd, or riot control, you know who the players are.

It is NOT an excuse for settling grudges, hiding behind the badge, or assault under color of authority.

Unruly demonstrators are one thing, use of necessary force if required.

Peaceful crowds of people attempting to leave, credentialed media and local residents asking which way to go are another matter.

It's all on video and still photos, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Even other officers testified some of their platoons were acting like a uniformed mob.

No way can Bratton let that slide.

There will always be frivolous suits but $13 million didn't all go to BS charges.

Yelling "Double time, it's tussle time". was not the smartest move either.

Sounds like a goon squad was at the scene. No matter how well planned the response and number of command officers on site.

I doubt the nine journalists, some shown being overrun by the police without reasonable justification were in the same category as the rioters.

Ditto for the female reported dragged out of her satellite van and thrown to the ground.

What did the nice officer think the letters "CNN" stood for on her windbreaker?

He had to know her credentials, issued by LAPD specifically for this event, for that day were valid.

Let's see...12 foot tall white van with eight foot high "CNN" letters on the side. Huge dish on top.

Big diesel generator behind it. Immediate area around it taped off.

Press pass in windshield. Photo ID with the word PRESS hanging around her neck.

Yup, she needed to be butt stroked with that riot baton.

Even the LAPD public affairs officer was on the radio telling the platoon commander to pull his people off the media.

Looked like the Selma, AL PD at the Edmond Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965.

Good job LAPD, you are almost as good as a third world police agency.

I hear Iran is hiring.

When the police turn on their citizens, they lose public support.

We don't expect you to kowtow, or make friends with the bad actors, or a disorderly mob.

But we don't either expect you to make enemies of the lawfully assembled media, or members of the public.

If the public, or reporters cross the line and become members of the mob, then reasonable force is necessary.

Just don't lie and have the video show up on the 10 o'clock news.

Exactly the kind of thing that led to a revolution in this country. And elsewhere around the world.

You can't have it both ways.

If you run amok in uniform, don't play the victim when IA and the lawyers come knocking.

As for Bratton, even he had enough evidence to fire the four in question.

Only in LA.

A chief (like Gates) the mayor and city council can't fire.

Officers the chief himself can't fire.

Plus $13 million down the drain.

Don't forget the federal oversight, which the judge refused to suspend.

LAPD needs adult supervision.

Jack Webb must be spinning in his grave.