http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127292.php
Garden Grove: From Where I Stood
A report on Garden Grove, from the street.
A car plowed without hesitation through the protestors picketing
at the driveway, knocking two to the ground. Reportedly, the woman
on the ground called out for the other to move his feet, the car’s
rear wheels were going to run over them. He managed to pull away.
I didn't see the incident. But as I came away from the boisterous
crowd on Chapman shouting “Racists Go Home!” with drums and
whistles, and debating a Cuban refugee from the Minutemen,
and rounded the corner toward the driveway, the steel-blue
anger in people’s eyes was unmistakable.
The police in the parking lot quietly checked the driver’s license,
casually conversing with him while the protestors began shouting
for his arrest. Two of the Minutemen crossed the picket line on
foot; a scuffle broke out; one of the protestors was thrown to
the ground, handcuffed, and led by police to the parking lot.
The quiet questioning of the driver continued until he, too, was
taken away. The green-hatted legal observer shook his head.
We waited for the 150 or so Minutemen to end their meeting. The
protesting crowd waxed and waned, perhaps as few as 200, as many
as 300, webs of side conversations undeterred by the nonstop
chants. Two white Minutemen, one parading a large U.S. flag and
the other sporting a flag-colored tie under his cowboy hat and
vest, were joined off and on by others in the parking lot as
they mocked the mostly-Chicano protestors from behind the
safety of the 30-member police line.
As I stood a couple of hundred feet north of the driveway on
Gilbert, a uniformed arm reached across the police line and
grabbed a protestor’s collar while the man had his back turned,
talking with friends. The protestor was dragged to the parking
lot, thrown on the ground, handcuffed, and taken away. We
were stunned; no one knew why it had happened.
At 8:30 p.m., the police lowered their visors, mounted police
started moving, batons were readied, and the police helicopter
began circling. It was clear that the meeting, 500 feet away
behind sliding glass doors, was breaking up. A woman came out
on the porch facing Gilbert and waved her ass at the protestors
in a taunting dance that lasted several minutes, apparently
to trying to distract the unperturbed protestors, while the
rest of the Minutemen were escorted out a back door through
the darkness to their cars.
Then the police moved in, in riot gear and on horseback, forcing
protestors into the street on Gilbert, toward Chapman, north of
the driveway. A caravan of cars pulled out, turning south and
driving into the dark, the “victims” of an occasional water bottle.
We were at a standoff. Several batons were raised and lowered at
a particular spot in the crowd. The police moved forward; the
crowd stepped back. A few minutes later, out of no where, five
or six cops on foot rushed the crowd from the southwest to the
northeast, threw a young man no more than five feet from me to
the ground and handcuffed him, as demonstrators scurried under
police legs to reach out to their fallen friend. The police
encircled him waving batons and pepper spray cans to back the
protestors away. The young man, who had done nothing while I
was facing him, disappeared into a phalanx of police.
The police stormed the crowd, batons raised, horses driven
forward. The crowd dispersed down Gilbert.
About thirty protestors rendezvoused at the Garden Grove police
station and began a vigil for those being booked, encouraging
those held inside with circling pickets and chants. Between
five and ten police looked on from the steps. Protestors
gathered the names of those being held, and the police revealed
to the protestors’ negotiator that, in all, seven people were
being transported from the booking center to county jail for
arraignment on felony charges. One of them was being charged
with deadly assault with an automobile.
Author: Leslie
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excelllent report
Leslie's report is about as great as it gets on objectively
what happened last night. Thanks!!
LA Times and other junkers are getting all kinds of things
wrong, so keep coming on with truth.
Author: bruce
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Leslie is a big Fricking LIAR
We all know the truth Horse lover Leslie!
La Raza and her friends crashed the CCIR event and caused all
the trouble. You are only making La Raza look bad!
Author: Honcho
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LA RAZA isn't going to win La RAZA
YOU WILL LOSE JUST LIKE IN 1848!
BY THE WAY MEXICO ONLY CLAIMED THE U.S. FOR 27 YEARS.
WHY DO YOU FEEL YOU OWN IT?
DUMBASSES!
Author: Honcho
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We were here first pilgrims?
Mexicanos
Does the truth hurt that bad?
Mexico only claimed the U.S. for 27 years.
The Spanish had the American Southwest for over
500 years!
La Raza? Why is the southwest yours? Hahahahha
As usual you make asses of yourself
No one respects YOU. Hahahahah-
Author: Honcho
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Pathetic Lies
Theres video tape confiming violent protestors throwing bags full
of marbles, kicking cars, surrounding cars.... Photos can be
doctored... video can not. All politics put aside....watch the
video. Theres reasons why people aren't charged... VIDEO can't lie.
Author: Unbiased_Va
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Coconut Hispanics are joining Save our State
Coconut Hispanics are joining Save our State
Hahahahahahahahha
La Raza will lose and so will Mexico!
Author: RAMSEY
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Intersting....
If a video is simply moving photos, then naive me always assumed
they could be doctored. Hence the ability of programs like Apple™
Motion and Adobe™ After Effects and Premiere.
Author: PunkNosed Kid
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By the term" doctored"
I meant... planned out... only one person had "MINOR injuries" yet,
photos showed it like it was a suicide bombing. Just propaganda....
From the garden grove police...
Netkin was released after police watched a videotape that showed
protesters surrounding the vehicle, banging on it and refusing
to move, said Garden Grove Police Lt. Mike Handfield. About 300
protesters at the scene were “trying to intimidate him and
refused to let him pass,” Handfield said. By night’s end, five
demonstrators had been arrested.
{snip}
The protesters blocked the entrance and tossed soda cans and cans
packed with marbles at police and attendees, Handfield said. They
kicked, banged and threw rocks at cars; some wore latex gloves and
hoods so they wouldn’t be identified by police, Handfield said.
Some attendees decided not to enter the building because they
feared violence.
Author: Unbiased_VA
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Re: By the term" doctored"
Reality check: the cops say they have a video that exonerates
them, so it must be true. Who's seen it? You, "Unbiased"?
We have witnesses, the cops have Handfield, so, according to
the "Unbiased" comments, the demonstrators are liars, the cops
are telling the truth.
"All politics put aside" my ass. Politics according to
Unbiased_Va are that the police must be right be telling the
truth because they're the police. I don't know anyone who's
fallen for that one in forty years, except a few yokels up
in the hills.
Author: The Morrígan
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All photos are real...my apoliges to 1planet
I just want everyone to know that all photos are real... I used
poor word usage by saying doctored... I meant to mean one sided...
nonetheless... I'm sorry to 1planet , ...his photos are 100
percent real!!!
Unbiased OUT
Author: Unbiased_VA
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Lying AGAIN
Quote:
"A car plowed without hesitation through the protestors picketing
at the driveway..."
LIAR. His car was attacked by Mexican fanatics and pro-illegal
immigration zealots. Hal stopped his car during the assault
before logic and reason kicked in and told him to get the fuck
out of dodge. The two protestors knocked down faked their injuries
and the videos prove it.
Can IndyMedia scum do ANYTHING else than LIE???
Author: Hellfire USA
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