Activists "Protesters" gathered Monday night in Los Angeles at 65th Street and Broadway, where Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old black man who family members said was mentally ill, was killed by two LAPD officers on Aug. 11. That vigil soon turned violent with some of the demonstrators threatening members of the media covering the vigil.
One of the protesters shoved a lighter in the face of a KTLA photographer and threatened to set him on fire if he didn’t stop videotaping the vigil.
Earlier Monday, activists were called to LAPD headquarters downtown at 3 p.m. in an “emergency call to action” posted by Los Angeles People’s Media on Facebook. “Hands Up 4 Justice” was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in Leimert Park, according to the advocacy group National Action Network Los Angeles.
Scheduled for four days after the release of a “Selma,” film about Martin Luther King Jr.’s Alabama protests for African-Americans’ voting rights, the march and rally in Leimert Park was advertised on a flier featuring an image of the iconic civil rights leader with his hands up. The flier also referred to Ezell Ford.
A long-delayed autopsy report on Ford’s death was also released Monday. In November, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said he had ordered the report released before the end of the year.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck at that time said the report was being withheld while investigators sought out witnesses to the shooting.
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