Follow-up: Elite LAPD cops off streets after post-immigrant march violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) removed from active duty approximately 60 police officers who were involved in a chaotic encounter with protesters after an immigrants rights march last Tuesday. The officers were from the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division which is “made up of experienced officers who have extensive training in crowd control” (according to the AP).

The incident in MacArthur Park has drawn widespread condemnation in Los Angeles including from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD commissioner William Bratton:

"Things were done that shouldn't have been done," Bratton told a group of journalists who gathered at the KTLA-TV Channel 5 studios in Hollywood. "I'm not seeking to excuse it…. This was my best, and that was what was extraordinarily disturbing about this."

Links- FOX News, The Latin Americanist, CNN, TIME, Los Angeles Times

Image- CNN