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“The status quo is our workers are being harassed and assaulted and spit upon,” he said, adding he believed a worsening mental health crisis had exacerbated the issue.

Because Shylock, the Jewish moneylender who infamously demands a pound of flesh in “The Merchant of Venice,” is, if a villain, a complicated one: persecuted, spit upon and scorned by Christians for being a Jew.

If it necessarily leaves out a lot, “Chinatown Punk Wars” nevertheless provides a good primer to L.A.’s late ‘70s underground music scene and its rise and — not a fall, really, but a transition. Scenes are productive while they last, and they never last. As most observers agree, Los Angeles punk grew less fun with the arrival of a new more combative crowd, and the benign pogo gave way to the brutal slamdance. “The music was always aggressive,” says Doe, who had no time for being spit upon.

“The bottom line was I was defending myself from being spit upon and defending another deputy from the potential of being spit upon,” Grismore said during an appearance on Northwest Access Television.

The Post has again shown that it is consistently willing to spit upon the foundations of the country that enable it to operate a free press.