Neon Tommy: "Occupy L.A. Plans to Resist Monday Eviction"

Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Member and Occupy LA Red Rabble Organizer Mario Brito (center) defending Occupy LA's cooperation with the LAPD to an anti-LAPD KPFK Pacifica Radio Commentator (right). That cooperation with LAPD and the end of Occupy LA should come in the pre-dawn hours on Monday.

No surprise here at the report from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication's "Neon Tommy" Online Publication, that the "Red Rabble" occupying City Hall park space, will symbolically resist LAPD's efforts to remove them after tonight's 12:01 A.M. deadline. After all, what is a life protesting the "one percent" if you never get arrested?

As we near the last noon hour on Sunday for Occupy LA, Neon Tommy reported that various sub-groups within the Occupy LA collective, were planning diverse methods of resisting LAPD when removal time come tomorrow

In the smaller sessions, some said they would lock arms to resist police and others said they would sit on the ground and refuse orders to move. The so-called Raid Committee discussed plans for all those who avoid getting arrested to gather less than a mile away at Union Station. Not everyone camped at at City Hall plans to get arrested. "We're going to challenge them. We have the right to assemble. At the very minimum we deserve a 30-day eviction notice," Chris Legal Sr., 55-year-old from Detroit told Neon Tommy. "If the police chief says leave, I will obey the law. But I will also ask a judge as soon as possible to invalidate his actions." 

Many others among the 500 or so protesters camped out in the chilly downtown site were more adamant about staying. An artist who called himself Sirblu said he'll refuse to leave: "We're going to stand in solidarity. This is our First Amendment right.".  

 Meanwhile, across the street at the "Old Gray Hag on Spring Street", Civil Rights Observers Connie Rice and Attorney Carol Sobel have some reservations about Mayor Antonio Villar's deadline. From Connie Rice,
  The deadline “precipitated a crisis for no real emergency,” said veteran L.A. civil rights attorney Connie Rice. ...... and from the ACLU Attorney Carol Sobel, Police “have been restrained up until now but it's not over,” said civil rights attorney Carol Sobel. But the deadline “made people dig in their heels. There were discussions taking place. There was no reason not to let it play out further and see what the city could do.” 

..... and we are little over twelve hours from that deadline.

Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14