Black and Brown unite to stop the Minutemen

Los Angeles – Anti-Minuteman protestors, called by the Mayday Defense Committee and Unión del Barrio, linked arms across the 43rd Place entrance to Leimert Park three lines deep to defend the park against the minutemen. Across the street, Choose Black America (CBA), a front group for the anti-immigrant march sponsors, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Save Our State, a Minuteman spin-off, fretted and stewed. The LAPD, obviously sensing the determination of the people and reeling from the public outcry against their violence in MacArthur Park last month, kept the groups apart, moving cruisers in front of the entrance to prevent a Minuteman incursion and rescinding the Minuteman permit to enter the park.