Today In Punk-Ass Pigs

Police forces in the Los Angeles area have among the worst records in the country. The Department of Justice concluded last year that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department was systematically and illegally targeting blacks and Latinos, while the Los Angeles Police Department only just ended a decade of close federal monitoring for the same reason. Officers killed an unarmed mentally ill man last year. Yet cops who brutalize rarely face consequences. One month later, cops in nearby Fullerton, CA, were fully acquitted of murder after video caught them beating another mentally ill man, Kelly Thomas, to death.

One of these days the people American society has declared mentally ill will throw off the medications w/ which we've been chained, get together & riot in the fucking streets after another of us has been killed by you allegedly chemically balanced but nonetheless blood-thirsty fucking murderers.

Just last night/wk. I took a ride:

SHERMAN OAKS (CBSLA.com) — A Mercedes Benz driver who the CHP said attempted to ram them on Coldwater Canyon Avenue was shot at Friday evening but not hit.

The officer-involved shooting occurred just before 11 p.m. at Coldwater and Riverside Drive, the CHP said.

Meanwhile, L.A. County's Sheriff's Dep't. is home to six more criminals.

The six Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were convicted today for their part in trying to obstruct a federal grand jury investigation into civil rights abuses and corruption in the jails by then-Sheriff Lee Baca. The grand jury probe remains open as no higher-ups have yet been charged in the conspiracy to hide a jail inmate from federal investigators. Sheriff candidate Paul Tanaka is a subject of the investigation, dating from when he was a top official of the department.

Potential indictee/jailbird Tanaka came in second in last month's primary election. Fortunately the leading candidate had 49%. Like to know when the hell resigned-in-disgrace ex-Sheriff Baca will face some charges. More of the same.

One may always trip down Memory Lane w/ another of our excellent local sheriffs, O. County's Richard Carona.

Back to the L.A.P.D., in the last days of May (Takes a while for this sort of thing to receive any notice at all, of course.):

Carlos Ocana, 54, a transient whose friends said he had mental health problems, climbed up a billboard atop the roof of a one-story at 5th and San Pedro streets on May 24, the L.A. Times reports. When LAPD officers and a SWAT team were unable to get him to come down after he had gone down and then back up a ladder, officers shot him with a Taser. According to the officers, they tried to grab him, but he fell to his death and didn't make it onto the airbag they set up for him.

One of these days.