Open Letter to LAPD on Proud Boys at Pt. Fermin Park

Thank you for including me on the list of folks interested in the Pt. Fermin incident. Has a follow up meeting been planned? I would like to know. There are at least three San Pedro community groups who are coordinating follow-up inquiries to the illegal assembly that was allowed to happen at our park.

We want to know why the police allowed an illegal assembly of known violent and insurrectionist people at our park. It is either suspicious, (knowing the political tendencies/right wing gang affiliation of some law enforcement in Los Angeles) or an inept or systemic mistake (you did not know they did not have a permit?) or both ... We are trying to sort that out. We feel that there is political leniency in Los Angeles with rightwing, violent groups, while progressive and multiracial groups have always been hounded, thwarted, and, through the years, jailed and murdered by U.S. law enforcement and the political establishment.

This is U.S. History 101.

The tough irony for us is that we PAY for that treatment through our own taxes!

Additionally, and lastly, like I stated when I spoke at the first zoom meeting after the unlawful assembly at Pt. Fermin was allowed by law enforcement ...

Police have a tough, stressful and scary job. We have a violent, uncooperative, unhinged society in many ways, full of ills, trauma and suffering. And you all are on the frontlines of that. I see and acknowledge that.

I also stated in that call that it is precisely the perspectives of the progressive left, our policy ideas and our analysis and solutions to much of society’s ills and dangers that we believe would make society — and therefore you allSAFER. Yet, as I stated before, it is U.S. History, repeating itself at our beloved Point Fermin Park last month, that our very institutions coddle and appease fascism and violence, and rather see us propeace, pro-equality, Americans as the enemy.

The problems that people and the planet are facing today are way too urgent to allow America to keep screwing around with reality. I suggest you all turn your guns AROUND, stand with US — for once, and see how we can make a functioning society with liberty and justice for all. Finally.

Rachel Bruhnke Member, San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice