The real modus operandi here...

Panagioti Tsolkas passed these out last night among the crowd waiting to speak.  Click here to go to the blog referenced in the flyer.

Their mission statement from the website:

Lake Worth Area COPWATCH Mission Statement

LWAC’s mission is to monitor police activity, on both a street and a policy level, with a focus on: police brutality and killings; racial and political profiling; suppression of constitutional rights; and violation of grassroots community activists.

The group was formed in response to the conflict that arose in the City of Lake Worth over a loss of accountability and local control of law enforcement. In summer 2008, residents of the the City acted in the public interest to keep their our local Police Department. These residents, and the elected officials who supported them, lost the vote. Due to the personal interests of the police unions and the political maneuvering of the local elite, LWPD would be absorbed by the Palm Beach County Sheriff.

In the same week, the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ruben Debrosse occurred in Royal Palm Beach. Only two years prior, Royal Palm's Police Department had also been absorbed by the Sheriff. The town will have little-to-no say in the ongoing investigation...

After decades of working on the constant process of police accountability, race relations and civil liberties in Lake Worth (which involved the removal of a one police chief), we have lost much of the ground we gained, due to the Sheriff merger.

WE REFUSE TO WAIT FOR THE SHERIFF TO KILL A CHILD IN OUR COMMUNITY! Now more than ever in Lake Worth we feel we must stay vigilant.

-We demand an independent Community Review Board for acts of misconduct or aggression.

-We demand full justice for all who have been mistreated, denied rights, beaten or lost loved ones at the hands of law enforcement.

While our efforts are focused on the Lake Worth and the surrounding areas. We feel that, as Dr. M.L. King said: "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

We will extend our activities across the great Palm Beach and Treasure Coast region, and even participate in activities relevant to our mission across the Country, and beyond.

[A more elaborate Position Paper on the impacts of policing on low-income communities and social movements will be forthcoming, along with a list of resources for community justice activists.]

And we wonder why the real focus of the Willdan report was to re-create Lake Worth's own Police Department?