Recent protests in Los Angeles have served up a steady stream of troubling videos of police aggression and violence.
The Rodney King beating 29 years ago and riots the following year sparked major reforms in the LAPD that have continued over the last few decades. That includes rules around the use of force, restrictions on holds and using flashlights as weapons, and more recently
While Moore, Villanueva and Garcetti have largely commended officers for their handling of the unrest in recent days, they too have acknowledged that problems have arisen. Moore has said internal affairs officers are working around the clock to investigate specific incidents — including the one in which a patrol vehicle was driven into protesters.
“The way the LAPD has dealt with everything, I’ve never felt so anti-police or LAPD,” he said. “I’ve always been of the opinion that there’s good and bad in every group … but even if there’s a majority of good officers, they’re not doing anything. It sounds like the cliche, canned thing, but they’re all complicit in what’s going on.
“It was just a colossal expenditure of time and money that didn’t have to occur while you could have been dealing with other much more serious activities,” said civil rights attorney Carol Sobel, who has successfully sued the department in the past over its handling of protests.While not commenting directly on use-of-force incidents, Moore has said the department needed to become more aggressive in response to sustained looting and mounting injuries to officers.
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