Let's just make sure we have this straight: Hold a carwash for a high school field trip in Any Town, California, get a certificate from your church or a mention in the local paper. Hold a carwash at Ramona Gardens to raise funeral expenses for a guy who died in LAPD custody after witnesses said he was beaten with a baton while handcuffed, get a testy brigade of shotgun-toting cops in riot helmets. "We weren't getting any cooperation," Deputy Chief Cayler Carter told the L.A. Times after LAPD asked the crowd to disperse. Well, no, you wouldn't, would you?
Links: L.A. Times, LAObserved, and the murals of the projects. * LAT photo by Bryan Chan.