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Reporter Leo Stallworth and Chief Bratton have a difference of opinion and at yesterday's press conference about violence in South LA, the no-nonsense East Coast sensibilites of LAPD's top cop came out in front of everyone... and ABC aired it.
Stallworth asked about racial tensions, maybe in a more speculative way, based off interviews with community members. Bratton did not like that and responded. "We have to work with fact and speculation... You're a one note band on this issue... The rest of you [members of the press], seem to get it."
Daily News' crime blog picked up on the public bickering too and added this fact:
And some have suggested that the city is reluctant to confront race. An AP story quotes Joe Hicks, vice president of Community Advocates Inc. and former executive director of the city's Human Relations Commission, saying that race is part of a complex gang problem. "There seems to be some reticence to talk about what is taking place," Hicks said. "There certainly appears to be a racialized component."
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kudos to this reporter leo stallworth. city leaders are so bound by political correctness, how many more lives will be lost before they act rather than just react. brown vs. black violence just does not resonante with these people because all of them live west of la cienega blvd. wait til the violence trickles down towards the westside, then perhaps these city leaders will wake up and see that the war on terror should begin with these senseless acts against citizens of los angeles.