A notorious City Hallagitator displaying a large swastikadisrupted a meeting of the LAPD’sPolice Commissionon Tuesday — frequently giving the middle figure to officials gathered to discuss the city’s crimefighting efforts.
The man, Armando Herman, took a seat toward the front of the public gallery as the Board of Commissioners and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnellspoke at their weekly meetingat the department’s headquarters in Downtown LA.
Herman, 59, of Hacienda Heights, is known for peppering public meetings with hateful statements. In 2023, he was slapped with a restraining order barring him from attending meetings of the LA Board of Supervisors for three years after he sent threatening emails to the board.
That didn’t stop Herman from showing up at the Police Commission meeting Tuesday, where he regularly flipped the bird at the dais while donning a crudely scrawled black swastika around his neck. He also made other gestures to the commissioners while fidgeting in his seat.
A spokesman for the LAPD declined to comment on the matter.
On Friday, Herman attended a City Council meeting and screamed at councilmembers, hurling anti-gay slurs and yelling, “You stupid f—k!” He was eventually escorted out of the meeting by police.
“I’m a known activist. I continue to come back and advocate,” Herman told The California Post on Tuesday.
The former LA special-education teacher described the swastika as “my thunderbird,” claiming that he wears it in protest to show support for the First Amendment.
“Some people find the the language offensive. I know the line, or the threshold, of my First Amendment rights,” he said.
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