Another protester on the same skirmish line said an officer broke his arm with an aggressive baton strike. In interviews with The Times in the last week, a half-dozen wounded Echo Park protesters, journalists and bystanders acknowledged that protesters were giving police a hard time. The small group had gathered to observe the LAPD as they surrounded a much larger group of protesters on nearby Lemoyne Street. Barbadillo said the smaller group was on a sidewalk at some distance from the area that police had cordoned off. “I can’t fathom why they would need to do that, other than distaste for protesters.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 31, 2021 03:00 UTC