Hey, Angelenos: This is how it's supposed to work

The quote: "We don't train police officers to take knives away from people." (Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department, defending his officers' decision to shoot Manuel Jamines on Sunday)

The background: Jamines, a 37-year-old Guatemalan "day laborer" -- it's not hard to decipher that label, is it? -- reportedly was threatening bystanders with a knife. When police ordered him (in both English and Spanish) to drop the knife, Jamines raised it over his head and advanced on the LAPD officers. He died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

Game over, drive home safely.

Since the incident, predictably clueless residents have engaged in angry protests -- not against the illegal who was swinging a knife at innocent people, but against police.

Welcome to California.