A small group of protesters descended on the Los Angeles Police Department this afternoon to draw attention to allegations of corruption inside the police force. While several members of the media, academics and others have tried to walk the fine line of denouncing Christopher Dorner’s actions while supporting his “message,” only a few turned out in person to confront the police today.
Chris #Dorner supporters rally outside LAPD headquarters, claim he was wronged by the department http://t.co/5cnvhJnv
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 17, 2013
Protest going on now.Come join in stopping corruption #LAPD #FKLAPD #occupyLA http://t.co/7b4jIDRq @FKLAPD #Dorner #Anonymous
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) February 16, 2013
That was the movie poster version of the protest. The Instragram-filtered version of the event itself looked something like this.
PROTEST ALERT! These folks gathered to protest police brutality outside #lapd & support #dorner. Had the… http://t.co/K7mXzm2m
— Christina Pascucci (@ChristinaKTLA) February 16, 2013
An overhead view was less impressive, however.
LAPD Corruption Protestors: "We kno LAPD r liars." NOTE TO PROTESTORS: Sat. is an ineffective day to attack gov HQs pic.twitter.com/j6u6O8te
— Last Resort (@abacor) February 16, 2013
LOL. #LAPD blocked publicly paid for LAPD HQ property off after total of MAYBE 20 protestors came thru armed w/SIGNS pic.twitter.com/0LJsEQVC
— Last Resort (@abacor) February 16, 2013
LA Riot part 2"@NBCLA: Protest this morning at #LAPD headquarters brings out about 2 dozen who say "We stand with Christopher #Dorner"
— Simeon Campbell (@Simisim04) February 16, 2013
#LAPD heard us loud and clear. photo via @thisisshelby1 pic.twitter.com/8F70N6kS
— eye_kahn (@eye_kahn) February 17, 2013
Gonna go ahead and call this best sign placement of all time. #LAPD pic.twitter.com/p1eWVMzr
— eye_kahn (@eye_kahn) February 17, 2013
Cops got shy when the camera came out. Downtown LA protest against the #LAPD going on now. pic.twitter.com/tNipu8iM
— eye_kahn (@eye_kahn) February 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/SinisterAnon/status/302961625294569472
The protest went largely unnoticed by the media, which had packed the same area just two days before, and attracted little chatter on Twitter. If there was any consensus from those not participating, it was this:
https://twitter.com/dakotagatcomb/status/302951228386717697
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