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Confrontation
BERNARDO ALPS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A demonstrator is clubbed after breaking through police lines Saturday at Olympic Boulevard and Century Park East.
Striking janitors, police clash
From staff and news services
At least 40 people in a crowd of hundreds of striking janitors and their supporters marching toward Century City
Friday were arrested in a violent confrontation with police, officials said.
The mostly Hispanic janitors are working with the Service Employees International Union to organize a union at International Service Systems, which cleans
buildings in Century City.
About 200 janitors and their supporters
marched from a 12:30 p.m. rally at Rox-
About 40 arrested
near Century City
bury Park in Beverly Hills, and headed
west along Olympic Boulevard to Century
Park East, where they met a line of police in riot gear.
Police told the marchers they were assembled illegally, and had to disperse,
union spokesman Stephen Lerner said.
Marchers were confused, he said, because
they had met with police and city offi
cials earlier, and been assured they could
march on the sidewalk.
"People linked arms and started to
march, and police started flailing with
billy clubs at everybody," Lerner said.
"They waded into the crowd with billy
clubs and beat people sitting down."
Lerner said marchers had planned
ahead of time to sit down peacefully if
police began to arrest them. He said
about "two dozen" janitors and their supporters, including a pregnant woman, had
JANITOR8/A9
Object Description
| Title | Public session, 1991-05-01: materials from organizations (2 of 2), 1990 June - 1991 May |
| Description | Public session, 1991 May 1: materials from organizations (2 of 2), 1990 June - May 1. 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 | 1990-06/1991-05-01 |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1990-06/1991-05-01 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 84 p. |
| Format (aat) |
agendas (administrative records) clippings (information artifacts) correspondence faxes fliers (printed matter) lists (document genres) memorandums presentations (communicative events) |
| 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 | Public Sessions |
| Box and folder | box 24, folder 25 |
| 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-box24-25 |
Description
| Title | Striking janitors, police clash, [1990-06] |
| Description | News Article - "Striking janitors, police clash" |
| Coverage date | 1990-06 |
| Date created | 1990-06 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 1 p. |
| Format (aat) | clippings (information artifacts) |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Public Sessions |
| Box and folder | box 24, folder 25, item 3 |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | Confrontation BERNARDO ALPS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER A demonstrator is clubbed after breaking through police lines Saturday at Olympic Boulevard and Century Park East. Striking janitors, police clash From staff and news services At least 40 people in a crowd of hundreds of striking janitors and their supporters marching toward Century City Friday were arrested in a violent confrontation with police, officials said. The mostly Hispanic janitors are working with the Service Employees International Union to organize a union at International Service Systems, which cleans buildings in Century City. About 200 janitors and their supporters marched from a 12:30 p.m. rally at Rox- About 40 arrested near Century City bury Park in Beverly Hills, and headed west along Olympic Boulevard to Century Park East, where they met a line of police in riot gear. Police told the marchers they were assembled illegally, and had to disperse, union spokesman Stephen Lerner said. Marchers were confused, he said, because they had met with police and city offi cials earlier, and been assured they could march on the sidewalk. "People linked arms and started to march, and police started flailing with billy clubs at everybody," Lerner said. "They waded into the crowd with billy clubs and beat people sitting down." Lerner said marchers had planned ahead of time to sit down peacefully if police began to arrest them. He said about "two dozen" janitors and their supporters, including a pregnant woman, had JANITOR8/A9 |
| Filename | indep-box24-25-03.tif |
| Archival file | Volume82/indep-box24-25-03.tif |
