The Times of San Diego reported that the resolution condemned “the forced removal of Palestinian residents in West Jerusalem, the bombing of civilian areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the continued human rights violations committed by the Israeli government during its 73-year occupation of this land.”
The actions for which they were charged occurred on January 27, 2020 when they were on duty with the Torrance PD. In his statement, Los Angeles DA George Gascon reiterated that his office is “committed to uprooting discrimination with law enforcement ranks.”
Apparently, they had staged an illegal prayer service for the Jewish new year and the police had come to administer a $5000 fine per person. It must have seemed funny to witness the men in dark attire, sidecurls flying, with the accompanying “Mission Impossible” theme song that was added by a viewer for good effect.
It is always necessary to calculate our closeness to flaming hot spheres, since the proximity will determine our activity.
In almost a New York minute, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that red-letter day of infamy in America’s collective consciousness, was supplanted by another day so emblematic of catastrophe, it needed only two numbers to name it.
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