CBS TV cameraman and local journalist, Dave Bryan, attacked while reporting the story of Trayvon Martin peaceful protests

At the All-Star break, are racial agitators testing for weakness in rookie L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti's pleas for pacifism?


CBS2/KCAL9 Reporter, Photographer Attacked During Crenshaw Protests

A CBS2/KCAL9 videoographer and reporter were assaulted Monday night while covering a George Zimmerman protest in Crenshaw.

Reporter Dave Bryan was conducting an interview around 10 p.m. when the suspect tackled him and his videographer, the station confirmed.

“All of the sudden, this guy came up from behind, he had a hood, and he knocked David on the head and he pushed the camera guy down. The camera guy went down, the camera went down, David went down,” witness Joseph Deguerre, said. “I was in shock.”

The suspect then fled the scene and the crew was treated for minor injuries, the station added.    The attack was under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.

 CBS Video Courtesy: Bill Omar

Dave Bryan, Newsman KCBS-Ch2LA

“To attack a news reporter when he’s getting an interview? That’s just crazy,” Deguerre, 43, said.

Fourteen people were arrested during Monday night’s protest.







Ruben Vives reports in The Los Angeles Times:

About 350 Los Angeles Police Department officers swarmed the Crenshaw district Monday night after groups of youths broke away from the demonstration protesting the George Zimmerman murder trial verdict.

The group roamed Crenshaw Boulevard and neighboring streets, breaking windows, setting fires and attacking several people.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck put the public on notice that officers would be taking a more aggressive posture toward protesters beginning Tuesday.

"This will not be allowed to continue," he said.

Police estimated that about 150 people took part in the violence after the peaceful vigil at Leimert Park following a Florida jury's Saturday acquittal of Zimmerman, 29, on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in last year's shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Protesters stormed a Wal-Mart at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, pushing their way through as guards scrambled to close security gates. A short while later, LAPD officers wearing helmets and carrying batons swarmed the store as others marched through the parking lot.

At a late-night news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blamed the violence on a "a small group [that] has taken advantage of this situation."

He said protesters have the right to voice their disagreement with the verdict, "but people also deserve to be safe on the streets and in their cars."

Courageous approach to overcome "racism" which polarizes and stifles society

Veteran, Black community activist, Ted Hayes, challenges slavery shibboleths utilized to manipulate both black-ambition and white-guilt into a polarized America.

Europeans, not white Americans, were responsible for capturing and bringing Black Africans into slavery in America, Mr. Hayes asserts. While it is true that 1.4% of white Americans actually employed slaves, a full 50% of white America did fight and die in battle against their cousins in the South to free black slaves and grant them citizenship under the U.S. Constitution.

It is time for today's blacks, Mr. Hayes feels, to reconcile with whites and overcome a taught racial schism which he feels is impeding social progress in this country. Hayes believes that this is the crucial step towards overcoming the inhibiting of honest debate of Pres. Barack Obama by threats of labeling critics "racist."

Hayes intends for his movement, America's Black Shield, to serve as the catalyst for healing - to overcome the stigmatizing of civil debate over Administration policies. He plans a rally in Appalachia to release the stigma of racist guilt of debating Obama policies openly.  Hayes made these remarks on Sunday 13 September at the Tea Party Rally in West Los Angeles.