A moderate-size demonstration of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union members was in progress outside the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel last week when the Santa Monica police showed up in full protective gear — helmets, face shields and all. The SaMo HERE crowd is a noisy but nonviolent bunch who’ve been marching for months and peacefully blocked traffic once or twice. So why, you might wonder, were the cops suddenly getting down to what you might call the Full Montgomery — if you recalled those sad, triumphant Alabama days 40 years gone by — in what looked like preparation for their further local manifestations at D2K time next month.
Source: What Reactionaries | L.A. Weekly