メーリングリスト仲間のSashaから入電。
ロスのメーデーでMacArthur Parkは賑わっていた。
子供が駆け回り、アイスクリームやホットドッグを食べている観客、音楽とダンスという
ごくごく平和な風景にLAPD(ロサンゼルス警察)がいきなり群衆に襲いかかったという。
rubber bullets, batons, motorcycles and chemical spray.
Fox NewsやTelemundoの記者にも襲いかかったらしい。
このビデオの一部撮影&編集者はSasha本人で、ちょうどステージで演奏をしている際に
何の警告もなく警察に襲われ、とっさにスピーカーの後ろに隠れてビデオを撮影し
他の人が撮影した映像とミックスして編集したそうだ。
こちらで映像をダウンロードできます。
。。。本件まとめがこちら
下記、Sashaのメールをそのまま掲載。
This may be slightly offtopic, but I stayed up late last night cutting
this video together so I'm sending it out to the world as part of my own
catharsis and attempt to shake the creepy feeling that always comes over
me after I watch armor clad police use batons on fleeing defenseless people.
If you are not in LA, the story is that LAPD brutally attacked thousands
of families celebrating international workers' day in downtown macarthur
park, using rubber bullets, batons, motorcycles and chemical spray. They
even attacked several members of the media, including Fox News and
Telemundo correspondents! It was so ludicrous that they are no longer
even attempting to spin it in the standard way (ie, 'we used controlled
nonlethal force against a few troublemakers). They have abandoned that
line and even the chief (bratton) has admitted that it got out of hand.
I was there to support the event and to play music with my band fosforo.
We were literally on the soundstage playing when the police attacked
without clear warning. I happened to have a cam and hid behind a speaker
stack to record everything.
For you non-spanish speakers, the music is a cover of Bob Marley's
'War,' itself an interpretation of a speech by Haile Selassie I.
The band is my band Fósforo, the footage is a mix of stuff shot by me,
some shot by Larry Gross (!), and some pulled from la.indymedia.org and
from YouTube at 2am.
enjoy the (riot) porn.
5/4追記:
Things happen for reason. 今回も原因はあるに違いないわけですが
LAPDというとこんなこととかを起こしすぎていて、何かがおかしいと頭をかすめる。
LAPDのChiefのコメントがLAPDのブログで公開された。
きちんとコミュニケーションと情報公開が行われることを望みます。
今のところ調査中です。調査中です。調査中です。。。。なので。
gamejewより、更に現場映像。
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