L.A. and the Politics of Sanctuary Cities

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National Review:

L.A. and the Politics of Sanctuary Cities
September 13, 2010 5:00 A.M.
By Heather Mac Donald

The aftermath of the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan illegal alien by Los Angeles police officer continues to provide a breathtaking window into the politics of a sanctuary city. The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is now blaming “anti-immigrant sentiment” in the U.S. for the rioting that broke out in the wake of the shooting.

On the night of September 5, pedestrians in the heavily Hispanic Westlake area near downtown Los Angeles flagged down three LAPD bike officers to protect them from a man who had been threatening passersby, including a pregnant woman, with a vicious, saw-toothed knife. The officers, two of whom were Hispanic, told Manuel Jaminez to drop the knife several times in Spanish and English; instead, he lunged at them with the knife held over his head. One of the officers fired two rounds at the 37-year-old Jimenez, killing him.

The shooting — clearly justified under the facts as reported — triggered two days of rioting in the Westlake neighborhood; vandals hurled bottles and rocks at police cars and the local police station. To his credit, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called the officer who shot Jaminez a hero and said it was outrageous that residents at an angry police-community meeting after the shooting labeled police chief Charles Beck a “murderer.” But Beck himself, in all other matters a tough, street-wise cop, has been astoundingly conciliatory, beyond even what his unequivocal support for Los Angeles’s sanctuary policy, Special Order 40, would predict.

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The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is now blaming anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. for the rioting that broke out in the wake of the shooting.

 

Well, Arizona now knows where to send their illegals. If L.A. wants them, they can have them. Arpaio and the other sheriffs in AZ should round up some prison buses and put the illegals on the road to L.A. and San Francisco and let them off at the city limits.

 

When the mayors and police chiefs in L.A. and Frisco call Jan Brewer to complain, she can smile, laugh a little, and tell them, "And there's plenty more where that came from!"*

 

Texas and New Mexico can send their illegals to other 'Sanctuary Cities' like Denver and NYC. You want'em, you got'em!

 

 

*A Dave Barry quote...