Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton's apology July 3 for making
remarks criticized as offensive to blacks did little to quell outrage
directed at the Police Department at a town hall meeting held Saturday
by an ad hoc citizens commission in Leimert Park. The discussion began
with a video clip of a June 30 City Council meeting in which Councilman
Bernard C. Parks asked Bratton to respond to claims that the chief had
used words such as "tribal," "thugs" and "terrorists" to describe
minorities. A spokeswoman for Bratton later said the chief was using
the words only to describe gang members. [more]
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