The images do not completely match the version of the Los Angeles Police Department
The police threw a man and a woman to the ground.
Photo: APU GOMES / AFP / Getty Images
Seven people, including four police officers, were injured after a fight between officers and protesters Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles. A video collected the exact moment of the incident.
Sending federal forces to Portland, Oregon, unleashed protests this Saturday in several cities in the country. In Los Angeles, everything was proceeding normally and peacefully until around 5:30 in the afternoon the altercation took place, according to the Los Angeles Police Department in a statement.
According to the police authority, it all started when some people between a crowd of peaceful protesters “began to physically attack officers”. However, a KTLA-TV video shows a agent pushing a woman just outside the United States Courthouse on First Street. Immediately afterwards, a man pushed a policeman down to the ground.
The agents they quickly surrounded the man and beat him with a truncheon, as can be seen in the images. They did the same with two other women who ran to the scene apparently to help the man. A policeman threw one of them on the ground to immobilize it.
There are four people detained, three on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and another suspected of causing a riot, according to the police authority.
“The Los Angeles Police Department is committed to ensuring that Angelenos can exercise their First Amendment rights peacefully, and we cannot allow violence and destruction of property to jeopardize security from anyone, whether they are officers, protesters or spectators, “chief Michel Moore said in a statement Sunday.
Violent clashes broke out among police and demonstrators in downtown LA amid protests at City Hall and the Federal Buildinghttps: //t.co/cjk4nrJNEu pic.twitter.com/jFzgu8T62a
– KTLA (@KTLA) July 26, 2020
