LAPD Hollenbeck Riots

Los Angeles, CA (HC News)

Back in 1995 I was working an LAPD patrol beat. Another officer involved shooting occurred in the Lincoln Heights section of Hollenbeck Division.

This is the story where the main-stream media claimed that a problem officer just gunned down and killed a cute little 14 year old by named Jose Antonio Gutierrez. However the truth is, that officer Michael Falvo only shot gangster Jose Gutierrez after Gutierrez pointed a Tec-9 machine gun at officer Falvo.

The Monday morning quarter-backs and the media then put more fuel onto the fire. Henceforth causing what became known as the LAPD Hollenbeck Riots.

In the first two days of the riots I was deployed into my trained position as a mobile field force squad leader. We always deployed a good block away from the main target(s) with the Airship above. LAPD is so large that when you responded to tactical alerts like this, supervisors may not even know you. They often have to rely on your skill levels based on hash-marks or more specifically, ribbons or metals on your uniform.

In the below video you will hear a Lieutenant tell me and my partner Grab a piece of curb and stand here until we get eight more guys. Then were gonna do business. Once my squad was gloved and helmeted, we did our job. I loved those 40mm less lethal munitions.

Later in the last couple days I drove an unmarked dual-purpose car, and became a rear guard roving and watching the officers backs; as they moved forward for the final threat assessment and clean-up. In this riot we took lots of rocks and bottles and a few gun-shots. Youll see one suspect throw a rock which hits an officer in the back. Watch how the media swarmed around my partner and I, hoping that we would make a mistake that would move their film up to the top story on their big screen.

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