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xiamiam

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11. a couple decades ago i was accidentally witness to lapd brutality
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 11:31 PM
Feb 2013

then, by an even stranger set of circumstances, they found out and a couple detectives showed up at my door, and asked me to come to the station to be interviewed... the things i saw were questioned and they attempted to justify what i saw... a couple dozen police officers gathered around while a few young men had the shit kicked out of them...handcuffed, hogtied, and beaten. Eventuallly, I was subpoened to testify. I moved from LA to Long Beach during that interim because I was afraid of being harrassed. What I saw occurred in broad daylight, on a main street in Venice, I happened to be in a third floor apartment and the entire image is forever frozen in my mind. When I testified, the lawyers for the police department tried to discredit me. I was just the witness of something I never wanted to see in the first place. I don't know how the case worked out but I do know that I testified against the lapd for police brutality one year before Rodney King and the riots happened.

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