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Los Angeles police chief William Bratton has ordered up to 60 officers off the streets for their role in using rubber bullets and batons to break up a mostly peaceful immigration rally last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The officers served in the force's Metropolitan Division, which is the city's premier police squad with extensive training in crowd control tactics. Police and the FBI are investigating why the officers fired some 150 rubber bullets without making any arrests, and beat many onlookers, including some journalists, with batons.
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Deccan Herald - Bangalore, Ind
22 December 2005
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Meerut police turn ‘moral’ hoo
“Operation Majnu”, purportedly a drive in Meerut against indecency and eve-teasing in public wherein police assaulted young couples in a park on Tuesday in the full glare of TV cameras, has snowballed into a major controversy.
The Meerut police had in a well-planned and co-ordinated operation taken the press, both print as well as electronic, along and cracked down brutally on people lounging in Gandhi park.
The operation was telecast live by some TV news channels. Locals reacted strongly against the incident.
Taking a serious view of the police action, the Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday suspended the additional superintendent of police and the circle officer of the city and ordered a high level inquiry into the incidents, Principal Secretary (Home) Alok Sinha told newsmen in Lucknow.
A lady inspector, Madhu Malti and in-charge of women police station Mamta Gautam had been suspended in connection with the incidents on Tuesday itself, he said.
Even as citizens of Meerut staged protest demonstrations across the City on Wednesday, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Commission for Women (NCW) asked the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a report on the police action.
Uproar in RS
The issue also figured in Parliament with CPM leader Brinda Karat condemning the police action in the Rajya Sabha, saying that police did not have any rights to beat up couples spending time together.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil promised to gather the facts of the case and report back to the House.
Sushma Swaraj (BJP) said such actions – speaking of an ill-mind – did not augur well for the upcoming generation. ''What are we trying to convey when we beat up boys and girls sitting together peacefully in a public park?” she asked during zero hour.
The police singled out females as their victims who were slapped and pulled by their hair, Ms Swaraj said.
Report sought
Terming the incident as an “affront to women’s dignity”, both the NHRC and the NCW asked the state chief secretary and the special superintendent of police to submit a report within a week.
“The manner in which the police has acted… if whatever has been shown is correct... is definitely going to show that they have not cared for the dignity of women,” NHRC chairman Justice A S Anand said.
The NCW also termed as “not proper” the visuals of police action against the couples being telecast by a section of the electronic media.
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