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Weekly demonstrations calling for an end to police brutality and community control of the police are being held every Saturday in Activist wins suit against LAPD A three-week-long civil rights lawsuit ended on May 14 with an unprecedented victory for the Black community and for all social activists. A Los Angeles Superior Court ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $3.83 million in compensatory damages to Black activist Michael Zinzun.
The case is the result of LA police assistant chief Robert Vernon's having used a police department computer to release a 156-page report on Zinzun in an attempt to smear and disrupt his 1989 campaign for the Pasadena City Council. Vernon himself was ordered to pay personally an additional $10,000 in punitive damages.
Zinzun, a long-time community activist, is no stranger to dealings with the LA Police Department. He has headed the activist Committee Against Police Abuse (CAPA) for 15 years, and was a Cleveland P.O. Box 6151 Cleveland, OH 44101 (216) 429-2167 Detroit P.O. Box 1613 Detroit, MI 48226 Kansas City P.O. Box 32543 Westport Station, Kansas City, MO 6411 For information about other areas, contact the national office of Socialist Action at (415) 821-0458. branch in your area!
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major figure in the 1983 $1.8 million lawsuit resulting in the dismantling of the notorious LAPD Public Disorder Intelligence Division, also known as the "Red Squad."
Zinzun also had previously won a $1.2 million lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department over a brutal beating he suffered, which resulted in the permanent loss of vision in one eye.
The jury that voted in favor of Zinzun could tell a cover-up when they saw one. The police defendants, Chief Gates and Vernon, claimed that the report Vernon had issued was all public information. But one juror said, "I felt they [Gates and Vernon] had blatant disregard for the truth."
Zinzun viewed this victory as a victory for all activists fighting police abuse. The jury "sent a message to the city," he said, "that enough is enough and they won't be a part to the antics of the LAPD."-K.O.
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