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Vivian Myerson and her husband, Seymour, seen in 1982, display a brick and rock thrown through the front window of their Echo Park home by officers from the LAPD's Public Disorder Intelligence Division because of their political activities. (Los Angeles Times)May 13, 2011 |
Vivian Myerson, a longtime peace activist and Los Angeles human relations commissioner who won an early legal victory against a controversial Los Angeles Police Department unit that spied on leftists, died May 13, 2011, at her Hollywood home. She was 100.
Myerson and her husband, Seymour, contended that they were subjected to "fascist, terrorist" harassment by the department's Public Disorder Intelligence Division from 1972 to 1976 because of their political activities.
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