all three officers involved in this incident were latinos. This is not an easy situation to understand but wide scale rioting and destruction of property, both public and private is wrong.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. 26 now. Currently I’m actually living in Buenos Aires so I heard about this through a friend. LA has unfortunately a long history of police killing of minorities–for all the years I lived in LA I don’t ever remember a white person being accidently shot by the police.

That being said I think the fact that all three officers were Latino does change the dynamics somewhat. That usually doesn’t happen in incidents like these that I’ve seen before, and IMO, it does make me believe what happened, may have happened the way it did. But there is always room for doubt.

Several high school classmates of mine are cops now. Being a cop in LA is not an easy job. I think people forget that sometimes. LA still has a huge gang problem and many areas of the city are pretty rough. In the 90s and early 2000s there were a lot of bad and corrupt cops–many of those have been rooted out. I’m kind of rambling as I really don’t know what to make of this case. It definitely needs to be investigated but people really shouldn’t jump to conclusions either way.

In LA, you learn very quickly that if you are brown or black, you do what the police say…..it’s a very sad sad reality. I just hope this case is investigated thoroughly! Just my two cents.

take it from me, i grew up in Tijuana and there’s plenty of asshole latino cops there. hijole, you can believe that

Police brutality in recent times has taken on both a qualitative and quantitative leap in extent,range and depth.
I am certain that due to the ongoing collapse of America socially,politically and economically the word has been put out nationally to all police departments to beat,kill and intimidate Americans OF ALL RACES.
In the past it was almost exlusively people of color who were brutalized and murdered by cops.Things have changed.
Now we are seeing more and more reports of of police beating up and brutalizing white people,even middle class types as well as elderly white men, women,teens and children..
I am absolutely certain that this development is by design being enforced and carried out as a POLITICAL agenda and strategy of creating safety and security for corporate America and it’s political class of flunkies who obediently carry out their interests and their needs of maintaing control over an America in decline.
The last thing the rulers want to see are Americans of all races refusing to obey and submit to unjust outrageous corruption and perversion of power.
The goal of police brutality,of the careless and wonton killing of people.. is to INTIMIDATE,DOMINATE and TERRORIZE the people into submission and obedience..to prevent potential REBELLIONS and yes potential REVOLUTION!
They see these things coming up over the horizon..they are fully aware that America is on the verge of implosion,of massive rebellion and protest.
The ruling class has put out the word to police departments across the country giving and encouraging them them,giving them full license to kill and brutalize anyone they damn well feel like jacking-up at any time.
The word is out to cops to go ahead and indulge their sick ass sadism,to unleash and give full expression to their insane pathological urges.
This is some sick twisted shit that’s going on out their in America and all Americans should be made aware that such violence and brutality coming from the police is at the source primarily political motivated strategies and tactics,meant to keep Americans intimidated,quiet,afraid and submissive.

Oops, sorry I guess I should have read the name of this post. Not going to get an unbiased opinion here! I guess everyone needs a place to get together and feel sorry for themselves.

Try being in a cops shoes for once, until you have stop second guessing what they do as law enforcement officers.