{"id":4513,"date":"2007-05-06T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2009-02-05T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T19:29:12","slug":"la-may-day-melee-reporter-responds-to-hateful-racist-response-to-his-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;LA May Day Melee&#8217; Reporter Responds to Hateful, Racist Response to His Video Report&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamejew.com\/?q=node\/68\">from GameJew&#8217;s Jonathan Mann<\/a> who says &#8220;human rights are human rights no matter who you are,&#8221; in the wake of his <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4502\">stunning video account<\/a> of the LA May Day Melee and the firestorm of astoundingly racists comments and controversy which came in it&#8217;s wake. Such comments were found at both his blog and on our own after running startling first-hand video account of LAPD in riot gears firing rubber bullets into the crowds and beating down men, women and children with batons during an Immigration Day rally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U2464ohb1bY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U2464ohb1bY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We share his sentiments, and thank him again for his landmark and courageous work of citizen journalism.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>UPDATE 2\/5\/09:<\/b><\/i> L.A. agrees to $13 million settlement with victims of the 2007 &#8220;May Day Melee&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6886\"><i>Details&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from GameJew&#8217;s Jonathan Mann who says &#8220;human rights are human rights no matter who you are,&#8221; in the wake of his stunning video account of the LA May Day Melee and the firestorm of astoundingly racists comments and controversy which came in it&#8217;s wake. Such comments were found at both his blog and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}