New band name, "Potential for Civil Disorder". I am not sure if I have heard a more vaguely ominous phrase recently. These are the types of things that Los Angeles sends you via Outlook Exchange, you know, just to brighten your day with the rush of the potential for physical harm. Those asterisks alone could keep me awake for days.
excerpt from the e-mail:
"Please be advised that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has issued an alert of the possibility of civil disorder resulting from the verdict of the Mehserle case scheduled to be announced before 4:30 pm today. LAPD has a contingency plan in place for the City in the event of any civil disorder.
Should we feel any potential danger to the occupants of the building exists, the Security staff will be on heightened alert, which includes locking all building entrance doors, the parking garage and the loading dock. In addition, no one will be allowed to enter the building."
Great, the LAPD has a "contingency plan" in case the racial tension that one of their officers provoked turns into a riot. I hope it isn't beating more strung-out minorities to death, that doesn't seem to have been an effective deterrent yet.
I also feel much safer knowing that my building's reaction to this will be to go into Stage 5 lock-down. I appreciate that they make a point of delineating between locking every single orifice of the building and my permission to exit and enter as well. Did you have to insult my basic reasoning skills as well as needlessly panic me?
All a day-in-the-life of someone who works in "downtown" Los Angeles (I put this in air-quotes when speaking as well, as not to offend real downtown areas). If the earthquakes don't get you, the riots will. If the riots don't get you, the jaded hipsters will.
Los Angeles: 5,377 -- I Heart Palindromes: 0
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