A lawsuit accuses the LAPD of leaving curfew violators handcuffed on buses for up to 12 hours and of using force against a disabled homeless man in downtown Los Angeles
The LAPD has not completed a full breakdown of arrests during the protests. Department spokesman Josh Rubenstein estimated that about 2,700 people were arrested between May 29 and June 2 during the height of the protests, and booking records suggest the majority of those arrests were for failure to obey a dispersal order or curfew violations.
“Over the past week, while [Black Lives Matter Los Angeles] and its members were engaged in lawful First Amendment activity, the LAPD used force to terminate the protests, including the indiscriminate use of so-called ‘less lethal’ weapons that caused injury to its members and instilled fear in them that, if they chose to assemble in public spaces to express their opposition to police violence across the nation against black men and women, they would be the subject of such violence and arrest,”...
He urged anyone who believed they were the victim of police misconduct to contact Internal Affairs or the Office of the Inspector General, but declined to comment on the lawsuit.LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the department needed to show more force in response to attacks But in recent days, the LAPD has been criticized for its response to the demonstrations. Two City Council members and the president of the civilian Police Commission, former federal prosecutor Eileen Decker, have called for a review.
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