May Day report due
Five months after LAPD officers drew scorn by firing rubber bullets into crowds of women and children and roughing up journalists at a peaceful May Day rally, the department is expected to release its long-awaited report this week on what went wrong. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.
Widely seen as an overreaction to a few troublemakers, the LAPD's response at the May 1 MacArthur Park rally prompted more than a 100 lawsuits and claims, two demotions and creation of a special LAPD crowd-control unit.
The report is expected to detail the LAPD's account of what happened at the rally and why. So far, LAPD officials have refused to discuss its content, saying only that it will not name officers involved.