Thursday, September 9, 2010

Update and 'progress' of LA westlake riot. It Appears LA has narrowly escaped having a 1992 -type widespread riot


This is a brief update on LA Westlake riots. Wednesday night Sept 8 they had the community meeting which was set up to allow the community to vent their spleen at LAPD. Afterwards when the meeting was finished and protests went outside there was about 1000+ protestors/ bystanders/onlookers lined up along 6th street & union ave., with heavy police presence. The mobs stood along that street waiting for something to incite them and trigger widespread rioting. That fuse was not lit and Wednesday night, Sept.8th may have marked the final day of 4-day tense tinderbox situation when LA came as close to a general widespread riot since the 1992 Rodney king riots(which i went thru). I may be wrong and demonstrations and attempts at starting riots may continue, but i think that the protests will wind down from here, though there may be a few smoldering embers here and there.

I had been following westlake protests very closely via KFI 640 talk radio and local TV.

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