Quotes to Consider
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007“‘Why did you hit me? I’m a reporter,’” said KPCC radio reporter Patricia Nazario, hit in the back and ribs with a baton. “And he hit me again, harder that time, and I fell on the dirt and my phone flew like 12 feet in front of me.”
“Quite frankly, I was disturbed at what I saw,” LA Police Chief William Bratton told KNX-AM. “Some of the officers’ action … were inappropriate in terms of use of batons and possible use of nonlethal rounds fired.”
“We’ve got boys here who should be working in the stockyards,” policeman to Phillip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler.