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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 |
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| 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 |
