To the editor: This latest article detailed how town’s response to protests drains public coffers (“L.A. immigration protest costs reach nearly $20 million for police and city repairs,” June 16). Thus far, media protection has ignored how the battle between protesters and legislation enforcement impacts these of us locked up within the Metropolitan Detention Middle. As a result of MDC L.A. is positioned on the coronary heart of the protests, I’ve watched them out the window of my cell.
For greater than per week, we’ve been on lockdown, which implies no commissary, programming or train, and severely restricted cellphone time. My very own launch date is approaching, however overburdened MDC employees can’t, for instance, assist me put together for reentry by securing placement in transitional housing. I’m terrified that I will probably be left homeless.
When contemplating the protests and police response, please take note how they make our imprisonment much more painful and our post-release prospects even worse.
Andrew Goltz, Los Angeles
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To the editor: As an American citizen, it’s a responsibility and an honor to take part in nonviolent protest when the federal government violates our constitutional and human rights. That’s why I participated within the “No Kings” demonstrations in downtown L.A. and Pasadena on June 14. What I witnessed had been huge crowds of passionate, various marchers who raised our banners and our voices in opposition to Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for his or her unwarranted roundup and arrests of staff, college students and households. There was little or no legal exercise reported, and there was an unlimited contingent of police and safety.
Workers author Dakota Smith’s article reported a price of some $20 million {dollars} because of the protest in L.A., with a lot of the price racked up by the Los Angeles Police Division, primarily for time beyond regulation pay. On the similar time, on the opposite facet of the nation, a army parade hosted by Trump on his 79th birthday price taxpayers an estimated $25 million to $45 million and noticed low attendance. It appears that evidently a nonviolent march for human rights is a discount in comparison with a ineffective, smug present of energy.
John C. Wooden, Pasadena
