For LAPD, Time (Again) to Redefine Protect and Serve

More police brutality and racial profiling as a beefy phalanx of LAPD officers beat up and arrest black college student Ronald Weekley, 20, in front of his Venice home for skateboarding on the wrong side of the road . Said a tearful Weekley, who suffered a broken nose and cheekbone: "I thought I was going to die." His family has hired Trayvon Martin's family attorney. Cell phone video.

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Tampa Sheriff to Agitators, Anarchists: Fuhgeddaboudit

After two years of planning, Tampa area sheriff David Gee says he's "tactically ready" for the unwashed protesting masses he expects to descend on the GOP convention. He has emptied a 1,700-bed jail, now being transformed into a color-coded "one-stop booking, detention center." His "boots on the ground" will be "a fine-tuned machine" with "a laser focus - a peaceful and purposeful RNC." What could possibly go wrong? "To the agitators and anarchists who want only to bring a dark cloud to this event, let me be clear: criminal activity and civil disturbances will not be tolerated."

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