Yesterday, Anaheim activist group Los Amigos held a sparsely attended press conference to announce that it had just settled a four-year-old lawsuit against the city's police department. The lawsuit began thanks to a secret spying operation against members of the group who had often complained about police brutality against local activists--allegations that surfaced mostly in articles I wrote at the time, like this one. Apparently, the cops read my stories, and In Sept. 2001, they compiled 500 pa
