Anarchy Reigns In Los Angeles

This past weekend, three LAPD officers responded to a call about a man with a 6" knife threatening women and children at the corner of 6th and Union in the Westlake district of Los Angeles near downtown. When confronted, the officers (all of whom were Hispanic) ordered the man, a Guatemalan national, three times in English and three times in Spanish to drop the knife. Instead, the man lunged at the officers with the knife and was shot dead. The man's own family has said that he had been drunk on the streets since 9 am. Result? The last two nights, the area has been hit with rioting.

And tonight, as I write, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is holding a public meeting in the area to "discuss" the incident with members of the community. Present are the consul generals of Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, as well as the city councilman for the district.

Why? Don't ask me.

Decades ago, I used to work in that area. The LA DEA office was located on 6th Street. Today, the area is inhabited mostly by illegal immigrants and the 18th Street gang controls the streets while the LAPD observes the sanctuary city status of LA under playboy mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The streets are clogged with street vendors operating without licenses but with impunity while in other parts of the city residents and business owners are harassed with every regulation and city fine you can imagine.

And now, after three Hispanic officers shoot an assailant who was threatening people with a knife and who lunged at them with said knife, the LAPD has to explain itself to the community and three consul generals.

Does it strain credulity to imagine that if in another nation, an illegal American community were carrying out such mayhem on that nation's streets, that the American consul general or ambassador might be called onto the carpet by that nation's interior ministry?

What has it all come to in cities like Los Angeles? And don't give me that crap about anti-Hispanic racism. Mexican-Americans have always been part of the landscape in Los Angeles and the SW United States. Mexican-Americans and illegal aliens themselves in Hispanic parts of Los Angeles are being victimized daily by the criminal elements. This hands-off policy by the politicians in LA is hurting everybody.

In other LA news, remember Rodney King? The last time we heard from him, he won a 4 million dollar award from a jury for the famous beating at the hands of LAPD. Well, it seems old Rodney is getting married and to guess who.....

juror number 5 in said civil trial.

And finally, there is this: A new middle school is being dedicated in LA. It is being named after environmental activist Rachel Carson and....Al Gore.


But it gets better. The school is being built on a toxic waste site!!

"Yee gads!"