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uvt k(i<rh(1'3>«x KOSKMAKY K AIM. / lx» AiikcIm Times ■ Union members hold a rally to mark one-year anniversary of confrontation with Los Angeles police. Suit Filed Over Violent End to Janitors' Protest By BOB BAKER IIMI S I AIIOK WKIIIK Participants in a 1990 "Justice lor Janitors" march, a Century City labor demonstration that turned into one of Los Angeles' most violent police confrontations in recent years, filed suit on Friday against Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates and the City of Los Angeles. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 1T>Q people who said they participated in the march, seeks unspecified damages for injuries, false arrest and mental anguish. A $75-million claim against the city, filed by the marchers last year, has yet to be resolved, the city attorney's office said. About 40, people were arrested and dozens injured a year ago today when police cut short a march coordinated by l^ocal 399 of the Service Fmployecs International Union, which was on strike against a major janitorial contractor who had turned down the strikers' demand for union recognition. The effort was part of the union's national "Justice for Janitors" campaign, which has been organiz ing non-union janitors in Los Angeles office buildings for several years. Police officials had publicly promised they would not interfere with the march into Century City. However, as the march approached Century Park East and Olympic Boulevard, police ordered the marchers to halt. They refused. An estimated 100 officers then used batons to force about 400 demonstrators—including strikers, scores of other SEIU members and supporters from other unions and local groups—lo disperse. The violence, shown frequently on television news programs, brought outrage from national leaders of organized labor and contributed to the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's call for Gates' resignation in the wake of the police beating of Rodney G. King. The Century City confrontation has also been the subject of testimony at one of the public hearings held by the Christopher Commission, which is investigating the LAPD. Last November, the Los Angeles Police Commission concluded that the janitors' protest turned violent because police were overzealous in chasing protesters who refused to disperse and because union organizers were too secretive. "We take no satisfaction in filing this lawsuit," said Jim Zellers, president of Local 399, at a union rally Friday. "But there afehiedi- cal bills, including emergency room and ambulance fees, which must be paid. . . . We know of no action by the LAPD to review what went wrong and to determine what should be done about it. Maybe a lawsuit of this proportion will prompt such action." Ironically, the graphic violence in Century City gave the janitors' organizing campaign unprecedented public visibility and organizing leverage. Within two weeksr the janitorial contractor who was the target of the march agreed to sign a union contract. Earlier this year, the union pressured another major non-union janitorial contractor in downtown Los Angeles into signing a contract. Friday's union rally was held at a mid-Wilshire office building that is the current organizing target of the union.
Object Description
Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991 |
Description | Newspaper clippings (Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Daily News, New York Times, Sentinel) and magazine articles (U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek) documenting Los Angeles Police Department misconduct under Chief Daryl F. Gates, 1978-1991, compiled by Irving Kessler and Lynn F. Kessler. Includes: Introduction, Contents, Excessive force, Rodney King, Mexican nationality, Civil rights, Property, Silence, Discrimination, Accountability, Gates intolerance, Recommendations. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
Coverage date | 1978/1991 |
Creator |
Kessler, Irving, compiler Kessler, Lynn F., compiler |
Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times; L.A. Weekly; U.S. News & World Report; Los Angeles Daily News; New York Times; Newsweek; Sentinel |
Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA; Washington, DC, USA; New York, New York, USA |
Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
Date created | 1991 |
Date issued | 1978/1991 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 368 p. |
Format (aat) |
clippings (information artifacts) articles summaries |
Format (imt) | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
Series | Independent Commission File List |
File | Complaints, suggestions, and support |
Box and folder | box 23, folders 7-9 |
Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
Filename | indep-box23-07_09 |
Description
Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991, p. 67 |
Format (imt) | image/tiff |
Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
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Archival file | Volume76/indep-box23-07-03~065.tif |