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Crackdown at Echo Park homeless encampment begins as LAPD moves in, clashes with protesters
"We have met the enemy and they are ours!" -- Oliver Hazard Perry
Although the Battle of Echo Park may have not ranked alongside the Battle of 1812 or more notable wartime clashes, you'd never know it by the intense media coverage last night in Southern California. A breathless reporter anxiously announced that the LAPD had just gone on Tactical Alert after a sizable group of homeless and their supporters began chanting rhythmic protest slogans around a large encampment at once bucolic Echo Park. That meant that SWAT, dressed like sci-fi cyborgs, were totted out along with their way-cool blow-em-up toys and plenty of helicopters thump-thumping overhead to add to all the drama. Soon after mucho fun began.
The late LAPD Chief Daryl Gates maintained it was he who dreamed-up the concept of SWAT--a Special Weapons And Tactical unit of the police department-- where highly-trained officers, armed with formidable weapons of mass destruction, could more easily take-on enemies of truth, justice and the American way. In one of SWAT's most glorious battles they fought against the likes of the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA, clandestinely hidden in a lair in South Central Los Angeles.
The SLA was lead by a barely literate ninth-grade drop-out from Cleveland named Donald DeFreeze, an African-American who had somehow cobbled together a rag-tag group of mostly affluent white members, including heiress Patty Hearst. Chief Daryl Gates was alarmed upon being told that DeFreeze (somewhat modestly) had changed his named to General Field Marshall Cinque, and was reportedly heading south to LA from the SF Bay area with his merry band of followers. Moreover, the "Field Marshall" had armed his elite regiment with the finest firepower they could scrounge-up at inner city swap meets. Inevitably these two world powers clashed. Against all odds, SWAT defeated the SLA by six touchdowns on that day. SWAT's been kicking-ass ever since!
Thankfully saner heads prevailed last night. They met the enemy and they are us.
"We have met the enemy and they are ours!" -- Oliver Hazard Perry
Although the Battle of Echo Park may have not ranked alongside the Battle of 1812 or more notable wartime clashes, you'd never know it by the intense media coverage last night in Southern California. A breathless reporter anxiously announced that the LAPD had just gone on Tactical Alert after a sizable group of homeless and their supporters began chanting rhythmic protest slogans around a large encampment at once bucolic Echo Park. That meant that SWAT, dressed like sci-fi cyborgs, were totted out along with their way-cool blow-em-up toys and plenty of helicopters thump-thumping overhead to add to all the drama. Soon after mucho fun began.
The late LAPD Chief Daryl Gates maintained it was he who dreamed-up the concept of SWAT--a Special Weapons And Tactical unit of the police department-- where highly-trained officers, armed with formidable weapons of mass destruction, could more easily take-on enemies of truth, justice and the American way. In one of SWAT's most glorious battles they fought against the likes of the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA, clandestinely hidden in a lair in South Central Los Angeles.
The SLA was lead by a barely literate ninth-grade drop-out from Cleveland named Donald DeFreeze, an African-American who had somehow cobbled together a rag-tag group of mostly affluent white members, including heiress Patty Hearst. Chief Daryl Gates was alarmed upon being told that DeFreeze (somewhat modestly) had changed his named to General Field Marshall Cinque, and was reportedly heading south to LA from the SF Bay area with his merry band of followers. Moreover, the "Field Marshall" had armed his elite regiment with the finest firepower they could scrounge-up at inner city swap meets. Inevitably these two world powers clashed. Against all odds, SWAT defeated the SLA by six touchdowns on that day. SWAT's been kicking-ass ever since!
Thankfully saner heads prevailed last night. They met the enemy and they are us.
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