LAPD officials expect crowd of up to 100,000 at immigration march on Saturday

[MNeagle]

LAPD officials expect crowd of up to 100,000 at immigration march on Saturday

The Los Angeles Police are preparing for as many as 100,000 marchers to rally for immigration rights in downtown Los Angeles during the annual May Day event Saturday.

LAPD officials are preparing for a surge in the number of participants in the wake of an outcry over a controversial new Arizona law that requires police to check the legal status of people they suspect of being illegal immigrants.

Deputy Chief Jose Perez Jr. said that police initially estimated no more than 60,000 people would participate in the May Day march to Los Angeles City Hall. But Perez said those numbers were revised after organized labor and immigrant rights groups informed authorities they expect far more people.

“We are looking for an orderly crowd," Perez said. "Organizers are also looking for an orderly crowd for this to be a success.”


Marchers are permitted to walk north on Broadway from Olympic Boulevard and eventually gather at City Hall. In addition to the downtown march, police are preparing for small gatherings in MacArthur Park and Westwood.

Perez said the department does not provide details about the number of officers it would have on hand, but said it would be a citywide maximum deployment.

The LAPD wants to avoid any repeat of the May Day 2007 melee in MacArthur Park. That year a contingent of the department’s elite Metro Division officers were videotaped wielding batons and shooting less-than-lethal rubberized bullets in an attempt to disperse the mostly peaceful crowd after a small group of agitators confronted police.

Dozens of protesters and journalists were injured as officers cleared the park. In the aftermath, the department issued a scathing report and the city settled litigation for more than $13 million.

Planning for this year’s march has been in the works for months, police said. With a tight budget the department had to insure that a massive number of officers were available to work the May 1 rally.
In this year’s planning, march organizers and other groups have expressed concern about how the LAPD will approach the marchers, who would include illegal immigrants.

Police, however, have assured marchers that the department will continue to be guided by Special 40, which prohibits officers from initiating action against people solely to discover their legal status. “It shows the fear and emotion behind this [the Arizona law], Perez said.

First established three decades ago by then-Police Chief Daryl F. Gates, the order has been embraced by Chief Charlie Beck, who calls the rule an important key to build trust and relationships with immigrant communities.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/04/lapd-officials-expect-crowd-of-up-to-100000-at-may-day-rally-on-saturday-.html

[MNeagle]

Workers demand better jobs, pay on May Day

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Tens of thousands of workers marched in cities from Hong Kong to Istanbul Saturday to mark international worker's day, demanding more jobs, better work conditions and higher wages.

More than 100,000 jubilant workers gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square in the first celebrations at the site since dozens of people died there in a May 1 gathering more than three decades ago.

The demonstrations in Istanbul, which sits on both European and Asian continents, marked a special victory for the Turkish unions, which had been denied access to the Taksim Square since 1977, when 34 people died after shooting triggered a stampede. The culprits were never found and workers on Saturday demanded an inquiry into the deaths of the demonstrators.

Most of the annual May Day marches were peaceful, but in the Chinese territory of Macau police used water cannons and pepper spray against rowdy protesters who tried to break away from the approved route. Hong Kong radio RTHK reported at least eight people injured, including a photographer.

German police said 17 officers were injured following clashes with demonstrators who threw paving stones and set garbage cans ablaze in the northern port city of Hamburg.

At least nine demonstrators were detained after the confrontations with police on the eve of Saturday's May Day holiday, the German news agency ddp reported.

Berlin police said Friday night celebrations in the capital remained peaceful. Several hundred officers were patrolling the streets Saturday, ahead of a planned neo-Nazi march and other demonstrations.

Rallies and other events marking May Day in Berlin and Hamburg have turned violent in recent years leading police to cordon off hotspot areas and ban bottles.

In Manila, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced she had ordered the labor secretary to speed up negotiations between unions and employers on a 75-peso ($1.67) increase in daily minimum wage.

In Indonesia's capital, thousands of workers marched on the presidential palace, shouting: "Workers unite! No more layoffs!". Rally organizer Bayu Ajie said a free trade agreement with China had cost jobs, decreased wages and encouraged corruption. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to create safer working conditions and improve job prospects if the workers maintained political and economic stability.

In Seoul, South Korea, Tokyo and Taiwan, thousands marched for better working conditions and permanent jobs. Jeong Ho-hee, spokesman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Union, vowed to fight against long working hours and high death rate related to industrial accidents.

In the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, several hundred workers protested a proposed 4 percent goods and services tax while about 1,000 protesters, including janitors, construction workers and bus drivers, demanded the government in Hong Kong to introduce a minimum wage of 33 Hong Kong dollars ($4.30).

This freewheeling capitalist Chinese enclave is one of the world's wealthiest cities, but critics say its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.

"A lunch box at a fast-food restaurant costs about HK$30 ($4). It's an insult if you can't afford a lunch box after working for an hour," pro-democracy legislator Leung Yiu-chung said on the sidelines of Saturday's protests.

Associated Press writers Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara, Turkey, Tanalee Smith and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo, Min Lee in Hong Kong, Kwang-tae Kim in Seoul, South Korea, Oliver Teves in Manila, Philippines, Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Annie Huang in Taipei, Taiwan contributed to this report.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Workers-demand-better-jobs-apf-3605068239.html?x=0

[Publico Pro Se]

It should be easier to get around in L.A. today.

[goldmonkey]

Incompatible Nature Of Invaders Will Eventually Be Revealed

As the invaders numbers grow so will their confidence and their own culture will start to publicly assert itself. The invader's general contempt for the culture of their host will become evident and will generate resentment between the different cultures, but while this may fester and flare from time to time, the host will confirm the decaying nature of its own culture by being unable to take effective action against the invaders.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/theend.htm

[woodman]

Incompatible Nature Of Invaders Will Eventually Be Revealed

As the invaders numbers grow so will their confidence and their own culture will start to publicly assert itself. The invader's general contempt for the culture of their host will become evident and will generate resentment between the different cultures, but while this may fester and flare from time to time, the host will confirm the decaying nature of its own culture by being unable to take effective action against the invaders.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/theend.htm


Many mechanisms have been employed to induce the host to lie still while the insemination and subsequent feeding began. Were the host to wake up from the paralysis it would be a terrible struggle to disengage and emerge whole. It will become apparent to the diversity lovers that diversity is oxymoranic as applied to a society. We will fall into mayhem. I think we have lost our country.

Who is responsible for enacting the legislation that brought us to this pass? It is a tribal matter.

[Ponce]

You haven't seen anything yet......wait till summer gets here.

[Book]

Who is responsible for enacting the legislation that brought us to this pass? It is a tribal matter.


http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/books-immigration.html

???

[still afloat]

Are they having to march because they couldn't lift their cars over the fence when they were jumping the border in the middle of the night ?

Just asking

[General of Darkness]

I'd love to see about 100,000 marching, then call ICE and say,

me - "We got 100K illegals cornered"
ICE - "Where are they?"
me - "Downtown Los Angeles on Wilshire"
ICE - "How do you know there's 100K?"
me - "That's what the TV is saying"
ICE - hangs up on me.
Me - Rrrrrrrrrr

[Ponce]

Mr. Darkness? you probably were talking to an ICE man who at one time was an illegal himself.

Welcome to the new America.

[Apparition]

Does anyone want to bet that there'll be plenty of vandalism and ethnocentric & racist chants and signs?

[Book]

Does anyone want to bet that there'll be plenty of vandalism and ethnocentric & racist chants and signs?


"Kill Whitey" is not a hate crime according to our new Attorney General Holder...lol.


Under questioning, Attorney Gen. Holder was surprisingly forthright in admitting that the hate bill is not intended to protect everyone, or even the majority. He said only historically oppressed minorities were to benefit. This means Jews, blacks, homosexuals, women, etc. Holder made it clear that if a white Christian male, including a serviceman or police officer, was the victim of a violent hate crime by any minority he would have to find redress from traditional law. He could not avail himself of the triple penalties and rapid government/justice system response given a protected minority.

:o

[MNeagle]

I thought all crime was based in hate. Silly me.

[Libertytree]

I thought all crime was based in hate. Silly me.


Hell, I thought crimes were crimes were crimes were crimes. I must be the dense one in the bunch!

[Brent]

I thought all crime was based in hate. Silly me.


Heck, these days crimes don't even need victims!

Our "Justice" system is truly screwed up.

[General of Darkness]

Mr. Darkness? you probably were talking to an ICE man who at one time was an illegal himself.

Welcome to the new America.


Ponce, that reminds of when I was coming back from Croatia in 08 and was going through customs at LAX. The agent was some young asian guy with a horrible accent, and when he was questioning me and my mother I said, "Well I was born here", and just smiled. He knew what I was getting at. Fricken pissed me off.

[Twisted Titan]

Police, however, have assured marchers that the department will continue to be guided by Special 40, which prohibits officers from initiating action against people solely to discover their FIREARM status.


Well.........

At least one can wish right???



T

[I am me, I am free]

This cancer has the potential to kill this country and her culture.

[Publico Pro Se]

Ponce, that reminds of when I was coming back from Croatia in 08 and was going through customs at LAX. The agent was some young asian guy with a horrible accent, and when he was questioning me and my mother I said, "Well I was born here", and just smiled. He knew what I was getting at. Fricken pissed me off.


Okay General, I've figured you out ... you're actually BHO.