Word: throngs
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...While many will argue the LAPD was only using necessary force to disperse an angry throng Monday night, the scale and locale of the disruption may cause serious harm to the force's already tattered reputation. And the city's police commissioner will have to endure the inevitable second-guessing: Was there a gentler way to approach the protesters? Could the police have done their job without firing rubber bullets? Ask an officer with the LAPD, and you won't get much of an answer. Ask anyone else, and you'll get an earful...
...Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white demonstrators pushing strollers and carrying mostly black poor...
...closest thing this throng had to a leader, the council met nightly to plan, debate and cheer the week's events. Each cluster chose a "spoke," or representative. The council met in a warehouse truck bay (targeted by the police on Saturday) with room for hundreds of affinity groups to squeeze in. The spokes stood in the center, wearing party hats to distinguish themselves. The clusters branched out from them, forming a giant wheel (that's why they're spokes...
...only way to be reunited with his son, and has undertaken to remain on these shores pending the outcome of his relatives' appeal. But the only way to transfer Elian from his great-uncle to his father would appear to be by sending federal marshals through the throng of protesters around Lazaro Gonzalez's home in Little Havana, and that's an option for which Reno appears to have little stomach - an impression underscored by increasingly vocal and public criticism from inside the Justice Department of her handling of the case. An offer Wednesday by the Miami relatives to allow...
...with a court order. With Juan Miguel Gonzalez having agreed to remain in the U.S. pending the outcome of the appeal, pressure will now mount on Reno to bring that to fruition. But the Miami relatives have insisted that won't happen unless Reno sends federal marshals through the throng around Lazaro's house to collect the boy. Reno has faced mounting criticism inside the Justice Department for the lack of follow-through on her threats to enforce the law. "Many officials at the Justice Department and FBI believe she's done infinitely more harm than good by her personal...