The 1. 98. 4 Olympics Were Bad For Poor Black People In Los Angeles. Now that Los Angeles has won the bid to host the 2. Olympics, it seems as good a time as any to look back at what happened to the city when it last hosted the events. The 1. 98. 4 Games were successful in L. A., in that they were profitable for the host city and didn’t leave behind a bunch of decaying stadiums eventually overtaken by weeds and wildlife like some scene out of The World Without Us.

While Los Angeles didn’t get bankrupt itself hosting the 1. Olympics, that doesn’t mean the city’s citizens weren’t harmed by it. The Los Angeles Police Department used the Olympics as a justification for ramping up police harassment of young black and brown Angelenos under the guise of providing security for the Olympics. Max Felker- Kantor, writing in the Washington Post yesterday, pointed out how the 1.

Olympics led to an increased militarization of the police. As the 1. 98. 4 Olympics neared, officials were concerned how the city’s problems with drug addiction, gang crime, and homelessness would appear to the foreign delegations and the media. So, they cracked down on African- American and Latino youth. Using federal funds, the LAPD stocked up on weapons, including machine guns. They, in conjunction with the FBI and the Los Angeles Sheriff Department, conducted large, indiscriminate sweeps of gang members, drug addicts, and homeless people to “clean up” the area near the Coliseum.

The aggressive policing did not end once the Games were over and the foreign delegations went home. Once law enforcement was given more power to ruthlessly target poor people of color in L.

A., they didn’t exactly it hand it back: These resources and tactics didn’t disappear when the athletes left town. They would continue to be used for aggressive policing and punitive policies in the city’s most vulnerable communities in the years that followed. On Feb. 6, 1. 98. LAPD SWAT team used a military- grade V- 1. Olympics and equipped with a 1. The officers found two women and three children eating ice cream, no guns, a small amount of marijuana and no cocaine.

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Three years later, the LAPD engaged in massive anti- gang sweeps known as Operation Hammer, which led to the arrest of 2. African American youths, often without cause, and involved detaining them for 2.

Coliseum. By the early 1. A study by the Los Angeles County Adult Detention Center found that nearly a third of black men ages 2. Some observers have even linked the bubbling discontent over this discriminatory criminal justice system, which spilled over in the 1. Los Angeles rebellion, to the 1. Games. We’ve got 1. Olympics will fuck over the most marginalized citizens of L.

A.[Washington Post].

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Los Angeles to host 2. Summer Olympics. Los Angeles has reached an agreement with international Olympic leaders to host the 2. Summer Games.  The southern California city had been making a bid for the 2.

Paris.  City Council President Herb Wesson’s office on Monday confirmed the deal. Watch The Prodigy Online Mic. Spokeswoman Caolinn Mejza says the pact is expected to be reviewed by the council later this week. An announcement from the International Olympic Committee was expected later on Monday, as was a press conference from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's office, scheduled for 5pm Pacific time. Agreement: Paris and Los Angeles have finally decided that the French capital will host the 2. Olympics games and the Californian city will host the 2. Olympics. Above, Paris' Arc de Triomphe is lit up in favor of the bid in February 2. Centennial: Paris will be a fitting choice for the 2.

Olympics in 1. 92. Above, a photo from the Opening Ceremonies of those games A formal announcement about which city would host and when was not expected until the International Olympic Committee's meeting in September in Lima, Peru. The Los Angeles committee had argued that it could host a low- cost Olympics given that it already has all the necessary infrastructure in place, while Paris would need to build several expensive structures.

But recent bids by Paris had been passed over and many felt the French capital was due to get the nod for the 2. Games, which will mark 1.

The International Olympic Committee made the unusual announcement in June that both cities were such strong candidates, that whichever didn't get the 2. Political games: The last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games was back in 1. Warsaw Pact including the USSRTinseltown: The Los Angeles committee had argued that it could host a low- cost Olympics given that it already has all the necessary infrastructure in place. Above, the Staples Center jumbotron advertises the bid in May The Paris committee was fiercely against the idea, but the Los Angeles committee said they were willing to take the later date, if some concessions were made, such as getting funding for operations and youth programs in the city. Garcetti in June had indicated that while Los Angeles would prefer to host the Games in 2. The details of the agreement have not been made public yet, so it's unclear whether the Los Angeles committee was able to get any of the concessions they wanted. Both Los Angeles and Paris are now set to join London as three- time Olympic host cities. Los Angeles previously hosted games in 1.

Paris hosted the 1. Olympics (the second in the modern era) and the 1. Olympics. The last time that the U. S. hosted the Summer Olympics was in Atlanta in 1. It also hosted the Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2.