LAPD officers in MacArthur Park melee to face censure

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Los Angeles police officials announced Tuesday that 17 officers and two sergeants from the department’s elite Metropolitan Division should be punished for their roles in last year’s May Day melee in MacArthur Park which left scores of people injured.

The pending discipline revolves ‘mostly around force issues,’ LAPD Cmdr. Rick Webb told the civilian Police Commission at its weekly meeting. The department’s misconduct findings come after more than a year of investigative work, which included the review of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing officers swinging batons and firing foam rubber bullets at journalists and immigrant rights protesters, officials said.

-- Deborah Bonello in Los Angeles