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Woman Who Spit At LAPD Officer in Viral Video Teams With Weather Underground Radical

Jeffrey Cawood

A woman who spat at a police officer while being arrested in a subway station last week wants to change the rules guiding rider conduct on public transportation, joining forces with a former Weather Underground radical to transform mass transit in Los Angeles.

“I witnessed a social injustice,” said Selena Lechuga, 22, at a press conference on Friday while seated next to Eric Mann, an organizer who has spent decades molding boisterous L.A. youth into revolutionary, defiant activists.

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