Late Sunday night motorists on the 405 freeway near La Cienega Boulevard were stopped by a group of Black Lives Matter protesters, blocking traffic in both directions to demonstrate against the fatalities in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The protesters stopped at the intersection of Manchester and La Cienega, assembling in the form of a peace symbol and chanting, “black lives, we matter, yeah” and “racist cops have got to go.”
Interestingly, LAPD is significantly diverse in it’s hiring practices with its police force representing much of the ethnic demographic for whom they serve.
The LAPD (with 9,906 officers) is 44.6 percent Latino, 34.1 percent white, 11.2 percent Black and 9.6 percent Asian.
The city of Los Angeles (population 3.8 million) is 49.3 percent Latino, 28.2 percent white, 8.6 percent Black and 11.2 percent Asian.
Certainly within this police population there will be a “racist cop”, but the narrative in BLM is that all cops are racist.
They (protesters) remained in the intersection known for the landmark Randy’s Donuts, snarling traffic for more than an hour.
The demonstration was one of several across the country this weekend that focused on the fatal police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. Gatherings also paid tribute to the five Dallas police officers shot to death Thursday in an ambush. The gunman, Micah Johnson, said he wanted to kill white people and particularly police officers, according to Dallas authorities.
Almost everyone in the United States is aware of the horrific events of last week, so is it necessary to create a nuisances for those traveling on the 405 to get the BLM message out?
Source: LA Times
There was a white man that stopped traffic on the 4 way just ask his girlfriend to marry him. He was arrested jailed and had a find. Of course a group of black people can stop freeways and not get in trouble. And people talk about white privilege I see way more black privilege then I do any white privilege.
lock them all up
People should start oozing forward until their grilles are TOUCHING the protestors, then ALL start blowing their horns at the same time!
Todd Minard Yeah, while you are sitting there at a DEAD STOP, some guy can come flying down the road behind you at 70MPH and crash into you.