de Sade's Uniformed Children Run Amok in California

I am on record as seeing a long-tradition of an almost-erotic affection in California--an affection, not to say fetish, for beating the living daylights out of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. What happened in Los Angeles over the weekend merely underscores the salience of this, what's the word?, hm, ritual.

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This image appeared this morning from KNBC.