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LA police officers disciplined
Los Angeles police chief William Bratton has ordered up to 60 officers off the streets for their role in using rubber bullets and batons to break up a mostly peaceful immigration rally last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The officers served in the force's Metropolitan Division, which is the city's premier police squad with extensive training in crowd control tactics. Police and the FBI are investigating why the officers fired some 150 rubber bullets without making any arrests, and beat many onlookers, including some journalists, with batons.
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Seattle Times - United States
28 December 2005
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Group says killing will tarnis
By The Associated Press and USA Today
NEW ORLEANS — The officers who gunned down a knife-wielding man appeared to be justified in using lethal force, but the death will be perceived as a black mark on the beleaguered Police Department, the head of a watchdog group said Tuesday.
Part of the confrontation leading to Monday's shooting was caught on videotape that shows about a dozen officers surrounding the man as he waved his arms and brandished a knife. The shooting itself was not taped.
"People will continue to have a negative opinion of police in this city," said Rafael Goyeneche, executive director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission of Greater New Orleans. "That goes back to some of the sins the department has been guilty of over the past 10 to 15 years."
The victim was identified by the coroner's office as Anthony Hayes, 38, of New Orleans.
Police Chief Warren Riley said Tuesday that it appears the officers tried to avoid shooting Hayes.
"All preliminary indications, based on the video that you all saw and the account of numerous witnesses that have come forward, say the police did everything they could, and the subject left them no choice," he said in an interview with MSNBC.
Hayes' death follows a series of allegations of police misconduct after Hurricane Katrina, including the videotaped beating of a retired teacher and accusations that some officers deserted their posts and took part in looting.
Tuesday's shooting happened on St. Charles Avenue, the thoroughfare famous for its Mardi Gras parades.
The officers' lives were "in imminent danger, and they did what they had to do," department spokesman David Adams said Tuesday.
Officers ordered Hayes "to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling," Adams said. "Then he lunged at an officer, who had to step back to avoid being stabbed."
That's when police fired.
Hayes suffered multiple wounds, and 10 shell casings were recovered. Adams said police had tried to subdue Hayes with pepper spray, but it had no effect.
"Tasers would have been nice, but officers on the street don't have them," he said. "SWAT was not called because it happened too quick."
The officers who fired have been reassigned, pending an investigation.
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