77 CLAIMS FILED AGAINST CITY AS RESULT OF MAY DAY MELEE.Byline: RACHEL URANGA Staff Writer Three months after the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. shot more than 160 rubber bullets into a crowd of women and children during a mostly peaceful immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. protest, more than 77 claims against the city have been made and four lawsuits filed. Lawsuits are likely to mount, as the number of claims -- usually a prelude to a lawsuit -- continues to rise. Those involved in the protest, which has become known as the May Day melee, have up to one year to file a claim against the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . .
"The city attorney is concerned about the potential liability to the city," said Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
Tuesday, LAPD Chief William Bratton told the Police Commission that he expects an action plan addressing the incident to be released in mid-September, followed by a public report within a month. The report will detail who was in charge that day and the LAPD's version of events. But Bratton has not said whether the officers involved in the fracas will be publicly named or punished. At least nine members of the news media and 23 protesters were injured May 1 after an elite group of LAPD officers used batons and rubber bullets to clear MacArthur Park at the end of an immigration-rights rally. Shortly after the incident, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. -- who cut short a foreign-trade mission to deal with the crisis -- said the incident would likely result in multimillion-dollar legal judgments that would be a "waste" of taxpayer dollars. Less than a week after the melee, Bratton placed Cmdr. Cayler "Lee" Carter, one of the supervisors in charge that day, on home assignment. The second-ranking officer in charge, Cmdr. Louis Gray Louis Gray can mean:
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