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--- C A R O L M I R A K O V E it was [ad infinitum] the confrontation that led to silence [In June 2000] Mayor Omar Bradley of Compton petitioned Cardinal Mahoney to order Father Stan Bosch to stay away from all future city council meetings. ..Father Bosch [had begun] taking members of his parish to city council meetings to protest a council proposal to disband the Compton city police department.. simply to ask for some accountability in terms of what is happening in the city. - Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission staving off violence or trying over father stan. the new ''less than honorable'': metal detectors. ''was there any actual violence?'' ''No,'' & possible place, basically would prevent uprising, decided, we could at least contain. presuppose destructive forces. might be within an organized next. ''I can't say the names,'' ''I don't know the names, we started to ask the 'why' questions - there are persons sometimes paid. sometimes encouraged. those kinds. strictly to try. elicit / illicit. ''agitators.'' "well because'' [as reported] I trust / issued. ''I don't know the names,'' On Tuesday, July 9, city police set up special barricades around the council chambers after all 160 seats in the chambers had been filled. Outside, protesters waved copies of a city law that requires all council proceedings to be open to everyone. - Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission influx of immigrants (or, '', a very essential connection among ourselves.'') from our day-to-day life. one degenerate politician ''that's all I can afford.'' blatantly identified - the aberration to deter. peace to this resilient - community - purchase translation & propel the instrumental, vis-a-vis narcotics. forward in the transition: homelessness. federal and state / grants to the city, already committed, a done / deal. dead, dogs, black, sabbath. sunday, bloody but ''was there any actual violence? No, confirmed. lateral? linear. the dead? strained relations: remedy what might have been. noise. much? motivation, indicated that. ''the city prevailed. And of course nothing ''But that's what'' ''that's what.. peaceful intention was;'' the voters know how to forgive. the hell we do. |
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