Calling out LAPD
Re “Black woman attacked by mob,” Jan. 10
In the wake of the heinous attack on Berlinda Nibo by a mob of white Trump supporters in front of police officers who did nothing, the slogan of the Los Angeles Police Department needs to be amended to read, “To protect and to serve white citizens.”
Can anyone imagine the carnage that would have ensued if Nibo had been a white woman being held against her will while a mob of Black people pepper- sprayed her at point- blank range? Or dehumanized her by removing her wig and proclaiming she had been “scalped”?
The police have not learned enough from the fallout almost 30 years ago from their beating of Rodney King. The systemic racism in this country was again on full display on Jan. 6, both in Washington and downtown Los Angeles.
This country, this city and its institutions will never heal until the stain of this nation’s use of enslaved people is confronted and dealt with honestly, openly and with real consequences for those who continue to commit hate crimes.
Terry Snyder Los Angeles