What Happened Last Night In LA, Thread
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I went to the protest last night in LA on August 26th 2020. I was one of the shields near the front of the group. When we entered the tunnel, I was skating ahead of the main group and was alerted that the LAPD terrorists were waiting..

On the other side. The group turned to leave, but the terrorists were waiting on the other side too. We were ambushed. The shields began calling for each other as we raced to the other end of the tunnel and began a wall to protect the protestors behind us. I had rigged my...

Skateboard to be a shield. We stood like that for a few minutes until we were ordered to put our shields down. We did, and the entire crowd put their hands up. I can’t remember exactly what happened next, There we’re just suddenly shots being fired and screaming. I tried to...

Stay calm, but when everyone panicked and tried to run I started to panic because I felt crushed and I couldn’t breathe, and everyone was pushing against the walls trying to avoid being targeted.
Several people were shot, dragged to the ground, and brutalized. I saw one person..

Thrown to the ground and shot when they were already down. One person tried to crawl away while the cops dragged them back like a horror movie. Don’t remember exactly when, but I fell and was trampled. I used my skateboard to stop people from falling on me and started screaming..

Even after they realized and stopped to help me I was still screaming. When I finally calmed down and stood back up the police were still shooting.
Eventually the police started letting us go five at a time. There were people that they shot who were badly hurt, and our medics...

Got them out first. The terrorists searched us before letting us go, and though people explicitly did not consent to have their bags searched, the cops still did. When people pointed that out, they said they didn’t care. When it was my turn to be searched, I was searched by a...

Cis female cop. She waited to search me until my friends were far enough away and I was alone. She told me to spread my legs and I did. She reached between my legs and fully grabbed me there with enough force to hurt, then did basically the same thing when she searched my front

At that point I was able to leave.
The cops are killing us. They are sexually assaulting us. They shot us while our hands were up. They committed war crimes. If they had tear gassed us in that tunnel we would have been killed. You can’t reform this. It cant be done.

We have to fight this harder and smarter, it’s our only option.