COPS SHOULD BLOW KISSES AT MOBS HURLING PROJECTILES AT THEM

Calls To Restrict Police Use Of Projectiles On Crowds Renewed After Latest L.A. Injuries

 

LAPPL News Watch

October 21, 2020

A growing number of California lawmakers, medical experts and criminal justice reform advocates are calling for stricter limits on the use of hard-foam projectiles by law enforcement after Los Angeles police officers seriously wounded several men following the recent Lakers’ NBA title victory. 

Some critics want a total ban. Others want to see reduced use and better mechanisms for tracking the impacts. 

Police officials, meanwhile, defended their use of the weapons but said they are trying to minimize it. 

LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that he is rushing to order shields for officers so that they have another tool to defend themselves against increasingly violent threats from demonstrators. 

Craig Lally, president of the union that represents LAPD officers, said taking projectile weapons away from police would be “dangerous and wrong.”

“Dangerous mobs and individuals who are blending in with peaceful demonstrators have shot officers, thrown bricks, rocks, and frozen water bottles at them and even launched fireworks and pointed lasers at them hoping to cause harm,” Lally said.