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Two LAPD Commanders Reassigned After May Day Protest Violence

HeadlineMay 08, 2007

In Los Angeles, two high-ranking police department commanders have been reassigned over their role in the police department’s violent crushing of a lawful immigrants’ rights rally last week. Police dressed in riot gear fired 240 rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas. Officers were seen on video clubbing protesters and journalists with batons. Overall, 10 people, including seven journalists, were taken to hospitals with injuries. On Sunday, L.A. Police Chief William Bratton took 60 members of the police department’s elite Metropolitan Division’s B Platoon off the street.

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