L.A. La Land

Only in L.A. would a cop defending himself would be a cause for a riot:

Police Chief Charlie Beck pleaded for calm and vowed his department would conduct an exhaustive investigation into a bicycle officer’s fatal shooting of a drunken day laborer with a knife.

But his words did little to dissuade demonstrators, who spilled into the streets for a second straight night Tuesday -- some to pray and light candles and others to pelt a police station near downtown Los Angeles with eggs, rocks, and bottles.

Day laborer?? With a knife? Just how peaceful were his intentions?

Guatemalan immigrant Manuel Jamines, 37, was shot twice by a police officer Sunday afternoon near MacArthur Park, a poor neighborhood packed with recent immigrants from Central America.

In other words, a slum.

Beck said the incident involving Jamines started when someone flagged down three bicycle officers to tell them a man was threatening people with a knife.

So, the guy was threatening people with a weapon? Isn’t that against the law even in L.A.?

The officers approached the suspect and told him in Spanish and English to put down the weapon. Instead, Jamines raised the knife above his head and lunged at Officer Frank Hernandez, a 13-year veteran of the department.

Multiple civilian, police and even fire department personnel witnessed the exchange. Officer Hernandez had no choice but to defend himself against a lethal attack. Seems pretty open and shut to me.

[Jaminez] came to the United States six years ago to find work as a day laborer and spent most of his time looking for jobs in a Home Depot parking lot near his home.

Translation: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. Nice try, My Way News, but we the informed citizenry know code. His cousin claimed in the interview that Mr. Jaminez was “a friendly, hardworking man who liked to drink on the weekends but wasn’t violent.” So, what was he doing pulling a knife on people, then? Offering a free haircut?

At least one immigrant gets it:

“It’s bad, what the police did, but what’s worse is the silly stuff that people were doing here,” [Juana Neri] said, referring to Monday’s violence. “We are not in our country, and with the problems that Hispanic immigrants have these days, it’s better not to cause problems.”

But hey, as long as the illegals riot and make demands, the citizens of this country will awaken and start pushing back. So, keep on rioting, L.A. You do have a talent for it. Just one question: at what point will you realize that harboring illegals is becoming too expensive/ dangerous/ destructive to your environs?