Occupy LA Still Standing: 'LAPD Wants Something From Us, But It's Unclear What Their Demands Are'

[BradBlog]

Occupy LA Still Standing: 'LAPD Wants Something From Us, But It's Unclear What Their Demands Are'
Demonstrators, officials make it through night as encampment continues beyond Mayor's 'deadline' to shut City Hall Park...

It was a long night at the OccupyLA encampment outside of City Hall. The celebratory mood during the day had turned to tension at night, as the 12:01am Monday deadline loomed for what Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa had announced on Friday as the "date certain" when peaceful demonstrators would no longer be able to peacefully demonstrate in the overnight encampment on the lawn at City Hall.

57 days of free speech and peaceable assembly were fine, apparently, but 58 days would simply be a bridge too far. Or so Villaraigosa had made it sound during his presser that night, with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck by his side. They each took the opportunity then to praise the "Occupy LA movement for its peaceful efforts to change the national political and economic conversation."

But, as LAPD cops and the Mayor had been telling (often skeptical) demonstrators for the last several days: "We are not Oakland. We are not New York City." They had promised that there would not be a repeat of the horrific scenes which had gone viral on YouTube in other cities, where peaceful demonstrators were shot, beaten, "nudged", pepper sprayed, threatened and tear gassed during violent confrontations created by the police themselves, as they attempted to evict OWS encampments elsewhere…

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Villainaigosa: "My lawn. Get off it."

Even though it's just bare dirt and the cost to taxpayers to water something that size...

What he DOESN'T want are expressions of Constitutional rights.

[Demeter]

2. They want us to just "go away"

which is a rather silly thing to want--it's not like we are illegal immigrants.

[BlueToTheBone]

5. They're used to the homeless in the back alleys

downtown, but not freedom campers in front of city hall where they have to walk and other people see them every day and be reminded that nothing is different.

[Huey P. Long]

3. Thank you BradBlog -eom

[lonestarnot]

4. What? Do they want money? Yeah prollee money. Tell 'em to call Alec.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. It's Unclear What Their Demands Are...

Took me a while to get the pun on Faux Noise :)

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. We tried donuts, so that's not it

:shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Perhaps they were insulted by a perceived lack of quantity. We have to try HARDER...