Just before 11 p.m. on a recent Friday, ChaSharee Hunter saw several Los Angeles Police Department squad cars rolling into Nickerson Gardens.
She watched as officers jumped from their cruisers and began chasing a teenage boy around a courtyard where Hunter and her friends were hanging out.
But her mild amusement at seeing the youngster outrun the authorities turned to anger when police detained a bystander who they claimed "bumped" into an officer, Hunter said. A crowd soon gathered around the officers, shouting profanities and insults.
