With subtlety, oddly enough, the New World Order came to mid-town Los Angeles last evening at the dinner hour.
Accenting notable distinctions, about 250 Black Lives Matter-style protestors chanted slogans and marched down a southerly sidewalk on Beverly Boulevard, on the north side of The Grove.
- They were mostly white.
- They were mostly young, including parents who brought below-age-10 children.
- They were so orderly that an observer might have thought they were protesting a new Parks and Rec commissioner instead of the true reasons: The controversial police officer fatal shootings last week of two black men, one in Baton Rouge and one in a St. Paul suburb.
Emphatically, this was not a sympathy march for the five Dallas cops murdered last Thursday by a black extremist.
Some marchers bore signs that screamed in three large letters:
“FTP – Film the Police.”
In keeping with the almost casual mood of the moment, the alert but silent LAPD was present in a quite low-key way.
As protestors marched the southerly sidewalk of Beverly Boulevard, east of Fairfax, at least 11 uniformed but casually attired LAPD officers were on the northerly sidewalk at Genesee Avenue.
Hatless, they could have been mistaken for an informal picnic gathering of colleagues – except they were in regular radio contact with other officers out of sight.
En route – peacefully — to Pac Pacific Park, took their cue from other protesting communities nationwide. It was as if someone had said, “Be peaceful. Pass it on.”
They drew surprisingly little attention from the neighborhood, virtually none from passersby. The only rejoinders to their chants were occasional honking horns.
At the end, they disbanded out of sight. A neighborhood yawned.
