latimes--2020-06-02--Voices from the protests: 'People of all races out risking their lives to march'

Sean Welch ’ s homemade T-shirt said it all : “ DYING BREED ” was scrawled across his chest in red and black , just above the name of George Floyd , who died in Minneapolis a week earlier after a white police officer pinned a knee on his neck .
That ’ s what brought the 40-year-old West Hollywood apartment manager to the protest at Laurel Avenue and Sunset Boulevard late Monday afternoon .
Anger and mortality .
His own and that of millions of others like him .
Black men in America in the 21st century .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” said Welch , who was 12 and living in South Central Los Angeles the last time National Guard Humvees rolled through the streets .
That was 1992 , when the city burned after four L.A. police officers were acquitted in the savage beating of Rodney King .
“ Cops have been killing us for years , ” he said , as a crew of disaster recovery workers boarded up a furniture store behind him .
“ What makes them believe it ’ s OK ?
People don ’ t even realize it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this.
” “ This ” being thousands of Americans drawn to the streets from coast to coast , day after day since May 25 , protests that tend to start out peacefully and often devolve into tear gas and riot gear , vandalism and looting , fear , injury and arrest .
The women and men demonstrating on Southern California streets have been as varied as their motives — a mix of ages and races and ethnicities , fueled by anger at needless death and at inequality laid bare by a pandemic whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ color .
As darkness falls , it can be difficult to tell protester from agitator from opportunist .
One thing is certain : They are all there .
“ We are seeing people who are out because they ’ ve been pent up for months due to the stay-at-home order and intent on causing anarchy , ” said Allissa V. Richardson , author of “ Bearing Witness While Black : African Americans , Smartphones and the New Protest # Journalism.
” “ There are factions from either left or right interested in using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the movement .
“ But then you have genuine concerned citizens willing to risk their lives in a pandemic , ” said Richardson , a professor of journalism at USC .
“ There are not just bad actors but brave actors .
People of all races out risking their lives to march .
They know they could bring home the disease , but they say this is important enough to come out after more than 10 weeks of sheltering in place.
” L.A. Police Department spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the agency was still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not immediately comment on the makeup of the crowds .
David Colker , a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California , said the group had no information about anarchists or white supremacists at the protests .
When Amma “ Satomaa ” Fordjour headed out Saturday to attend her first-ever protest , organized by the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter , she didn ’ t expect to end up helping lead more than 1,000 people for 12 miles into Beverly Hills .
At noon , she was at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Protesters peacefully headed west toward the Beverly Center , where organizers stopped to give speeches and lead chants .
At Fairfax Avenue and Third Street , she saw an LAPD cruiser in flames .
She carried a sign painted with the face of Sandra Bland , a 28-year-old black woman found hanged in a Texas jail cell three days after a state trooper pulled her over for failing to signal a lane change .
Locals waved from their patios and cars honked in support .
Police gave them space .
On Rodeo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more speeches .
But by 5 p.m. , Fordjour was in a Lyft vehicle heading back to her car at Pan Pacific Park , watching people drive up and start looting .
“ It was frustrating to see five hours of nothing but positivity and to get in my car and know that I was driving away from violence , ” she said Monday .
She was saddened , she said , that the lasting images of the protest would be police vehicles on fire and vandalism that was mostly disconnected from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personally do not want to be anywhere in public because of violence , ” she said .
“ Now I ’ m sitting at home because I ’ m scared.
” Cerys Rotoneo , a 19-year-old political science student at Cerritos College , and Guadalupe Juarez , 18 , had originally planned to protest Monday near Los Cerritos Center and help raise money for a nonprofit organization .
But when the event went viral , they worried about the effect of outsiders on their peaceful protest .
“ So we were , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , just to make sure that looting doesn ’ t happen and so forth , ” Rotoneo said .
Dozens of sheriff ’ s deputies still staged in the mall ’ s parking lots and blocked off entry points , fearful of looting .
But other officers traveled with the protesters , on foot and in squad car , as they walked to City Hall and chanted .
“ This is not about us .
This , it is not about politics , nor is it about our opinions , ” Rotoneo told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before the march .
“ This is about morality and humanity and our efforts to stand together in unity for Black Lives Matter.
” Tia Reed , a 30-year-old child psychologist who lives in Northridge , showed up at 7:30 a.m. Monday knowing that the protest near the LAPD ’ s Van Nuys Station had been canceled .
It would have been her first demonstration .
It was still important , she decided , for her and her friends to make their voices heard .
So they moved their protest to a more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ By early afternoon , microphone in hand , Reed was leading the crowd .
“ There ’ s no hard feelings toward peaceful cops , ” Reed said in an interview .
“ There ’ s no hard feelings toward anybody in the world that ’ s peaceful .
Our feelings are toward racism and police brutality.
” Sometimes protesters argued with each other over tactics and what they were trying to achieve .
Reed said some looters showed up about 10 a.m. and started tagging buildings , and she and her fellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ street from the protest , several men leaned against the boarded-up front windows of the Country General Store .
Other businesses in the areas had also boarded up their windows .
“ Everybody handles their pain in different forms , ” she continued .
“ So I don ’ t really want to speak up on that .
But at the same time , there ’ s a way of handling and conducting business to be heard .
And looting is not one of them , and vandalism is not the other .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ peaceful protest and you know , say it loud.
” A South Los Angeles high school senior who asked to be identified by just her last names to avoid retaliation also went out to protest — peacefully — in the wake of Floyd ’ s death .
Hernandez Cruz had been attending protests for more than a year , since she joined the ACLU ’ s youth liberty squad .
And nothing , not even her parents , could keep her from the Fairfax District on Saturday .
Hernandez Cruz said that police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ batons .
She sustained an injury to her head , just above her right ear .
It took six stitches to close , and she suffered a concussion .
The 18-year-old has a week left of high school , but as of Monday wasn ’ t able to use her computer to finish the remainder of her schoolwork yet — her head feels tight , it ’ s hard to move her neck and she ’ s not supposed to look at screens .
Hernandez Cruz said she attended the protest to support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her community .
She wants the police defunded to prevent further violence from the law enforcement community .
She hopes that her actions will play a role in the arrest and first-degree murder conviction of the four police officers involved in Floyd ’ s death , at the very least .
“ I ’ m a Latina and it ’ s like ... where I live , we ’ re all united and I feel like we should all speak up for one another and be there for each other , ” she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get me really mad because it ’ s like we don ’ t deserve this .
… black people and immigrants basically built this country and now people are getting mad that we ’ re standing up.
” And yet , she said , she still has hope .
“ I know it ’ s been happening for centuries , but if we continue to apply pressure on the cops and the system then I feel like something will be able to change .
Even if it ’ s small , it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Eventually something will happen .
We just all have to stay together ... my parents have gone through this , my grandparents have gone through this.
” Times staff writers Dakota Smith , Andrew Campa , Ruben Vives and Seema Mehta contributed to this report .

Julia Wick, Jaclyn Cosgrove, Maria L. La Ganga, Sonali Kohli, Andrea Castillo

Sean Welch, 40, protests the death of George Floyd during a rally Monday at Laurel Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.
Sean Welch’s homemade T-shirt said it all: “DYING BREED” was scrawled across his chest in red and black, just above the name of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis a week earlier after a white police officer pinned a knee on his neck.
That’s what brought the 40-year-old West Hollywood apartment manager to the protest at Laurel Avenue and Sunset Boulevard late Monday afternoon. Anger and mortality. His own and that of millions of others like him. Black men in America in the 21st century.
“We a dying breed out here,” said Welch, who was 12 and living in South Central Los Angeles the last time National Guard Humvees rolled through the streets. That was 1992, when the city burned after four L.A. police officers were acquitted in the savage beating of Rodney King.
“Cops have been killing us for years,” he said, as a crew of disaster recovery workers boarded up a furniture store behind him. “What makes them believe it’s OK? People don’t even realize it until it has some massive effect like this.”
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“This” being thousands of Americans drawn to the streets from coast to coast, day after day since May 25, protests that tend to start out peacefully and often devolve into tear gas and riot gear, vandalism and looting, fear, injury and arrest.
The women and men demonstrating on Southern California streets have been as varied as their motives — a mix of ages and races and ethnicities, fueled by anger at needless death and at inequality laid bare by a pandemic whose victims have been disproportionately low-income people of color.
As darkness falls, it can be difficult to tell protester from agitator from opportunist. One thing is certain: They are all there.
“We are seeing people who are out because they’ve been pent up for months due to the stay-at-home order and intent on causing anarchy,” said Allissa V. Richardson, author of “Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism.” “There are factions from either left or right interested in using the Black Lives Matter name to discredit the movement.
“But then you have genuine concerned citizens willing to risk their lives in a pandemic,” said Richardson, a professor of journalism at USC. “There are not just bad actors but brave actors. People of all races out risking their lives to march. They know they could bring home the disease, but they say this is important enough to come out after more than 10 weeks of sheltering in place.”
L.A. Police Department spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the agency was still learning about the protesters, and could not immediately comment on the makeup of the crowds. David Colker, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said the group had no information about anarchists or white supremacists at the protests.
When Amma “Satomaa” Fordjour headed out Saturday to attend her first-ever protest, organized by the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, she didn’t expect to end up helping lead more than 1,000 people for 12 miles into Beverly Hills.
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1 / 81 Protesters stand on top of a burned LAPD cruiser. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 2 / 81 Protesters stand on top of a bus stop at the Los Angeles Civic Center to demonstrate for justice Wednesday night. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 3 / 81 Protestors turn on their cell phone flashlights at Los Angeles City Hall at 9 pm on Wednesday as part of a silent protest against the death of George Floyd. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) 4 / 81 A protester confronts National Guardsmen as thousands of protesters march down Spring Street in Los Angeles to demonstrate for justice in the George Floyd murder by cop case Wednesday. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 5 / 81 Protesters dance on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 6 / 81 Thousands of protesters march down Spring Street in Los Angeles Wednesday night to demonstrate for justice in the killing of George Floyd. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 7 / 81 LAPD Cmdr. Gerald Woodyard takes a knee with protesters and L.A. clergy during a march in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) 8 / 81 Khalil Mitchell speaks to protesters kneeling near a police line, preaching calm and working to preserve a peaceful protest on Monday. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) 9 / 81 In Hollywood, hundreds of protesters march Monday against police brutality. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 10 / 81 AJ Lovelace, a director and writer, and others keep potential looters from entering a dry cleaning store as they attempt to march peacefully. “We need peace and we need someone to talk to each other,” he said after the looters fled the scene. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) 11 / 81 Demonstrators in Riverside retreat as county sheriff’s deputies fire nonlethal rounds on Monday after law enforcement announced an unlawful assembly. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 12 / 81 Protesters in Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 13 / 81 An arrest in Hollywood during a protest Monday. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 14 / 81 A demonstrator, injured while trying to flee the firing of nonlethal rounds, lies on the ground in Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 15 / 81 An LAPD officer arrests a looting suspect in an alley behind a Hollywood Boulevard store. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 16 / 81 Riverside County deputies advance on demonstrators on Monday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 17 / 81 Fireworks thrown by a protester explode at the feet of Riverside police. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 18 / 81 Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco takes a knee with demonstrators. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 19 / 81 A watch and jewelry store is looted in Van Nuys on Monday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 20 / 81 A looting arrest in Van Nuys. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 21 / 81 AJ Lovelace, director and writer, tries to stop looters from breaking into a Walgreens in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 22 / 81 An LAPD officer arrests a suspected looter in an alley behind a Hollywood Boulevard store. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 23 / 81 Police advance on a line of protesters in Hollywood, firing rubber bullets. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 24 / 81 Arrests are made of those out after curfew in Hollywood. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 25 / 81 Protesters in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 26 / 81 A store is looted in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 27 / 81 Protesters in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 28 / 81 People out after curfew are arrested Monday at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 29 / 81 Arrests in Hollywood. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 30 / 81 Protests in Westwood. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 31 / 81 Volunteers help clean up the mess left by looters in Long Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) 32 / 81 Protest in Hollywood. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 33 / 81 National Guardsmen outside Santa Monica Place. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 34 / 81 Gilbert Haro and sons Richard, 8, and James, 6, help clean up in Santa Monica. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 35 / 81 Protesters face off with police in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 36 / 81 Santa Monica stores were the target of looting on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 37 / 81 Suspected looters in custody in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 38 / 81 L.A. County sheriff’s deputies in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 39 / 81 Sake House employee Jared Settles can’t bear to watch as the restaurant burns in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 40 / 81 An arrest in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 41 / 81 Broken glass from a looted store covers the sidewalk in Santa Monica. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 42 / 81 Cecelia Rosales, who said she was homeless, walks past a line of police officers in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 43 / 81 A man guards a convenience store in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 44 / 81 Looting erupted Sunday in Long Beach. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 45 / 81 Police and protesters face off in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 46 / 81 A police officer inspects the damage to a Santa Monica supermarket. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 47 / 81 A protester is treated after being struck by a rubber bullet. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 48 / 81 Looting in Long Beach on Sunday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 49 / 81 Looting in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 50 / 81 A suspected looter in Long Beach. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 51 / 81 Smashing windows in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 52 / 81 An arrest in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 53 / 81 People walk away with surfboards in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 54 / 81 People rush out of a looted store in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 55 / 81 Protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 56 / 81 Cheers for protesters in downtown Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 57 / 81 City Hall on Sunday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 58 / 81 A shattered storefront on Melrose Avenue on Sunday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) 59 / 81 Smashed windows on La Cienega Boulevard. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) 60 / 81 Downtown L.A. on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 61 / 81 People carry merchandise from a looted store. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 62 / 81 A person carries items from a looted store in the Fairfax District on Saturday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 63 / 81 A couple of protesters embrace on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) 64 / 81 People protest Saturday at Pan Pacific Park. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) 65 / 81 Protesters gather around a fire in the middle of a downtown L.A. street on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 66 / 81 Police fire percussion rounds to clear protesters from Grand Avenue in in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 67 / 81 A protester remains defiant after being pushed to the ground by police on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 68 / 81 Protesters are arrested by Los Angeles police in front of City Hall on Saturday. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 69 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 70 / 81 Protesters take to the streets Friday in downtown L.A. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 71 / 81 Protesters are escorted off the northbound 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 72 / 81 A protester is escorted off the northbound 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 73 / 81 Protesters climb over a barrier during the May 29 protest in downtown L.A. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 74 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway northbound and southbound in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 75 / 81 Police officers assume a defensive stance as a protester approaches them on the 110 Freeway on May 29. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 76 / 81 During a May 29 protest, Los Angeles police patrol the 110 after having moved protesters off the freeway. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 77 / 81 A protester rides a skateboard on the 110 Freeway. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 78 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway northbound and southbound in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 79 / 81 A protester confronts LAPD officers on Friday in downtown L.A. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 80 / 81 A protester lies hurt on the 101 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles on May 27. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones / Los Angeles Times) 81 / 81 An injured man gets up with the help of emergency workers during a protest May 27 in downtown L.A. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
At noon, she was at Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax District. Protesters peacefully headed west toward the Beverly Center, where organizers stopped to give speeches and lead chants. At Fairfax Avenue and Third Street, she saw an LAPD cruiser in flames. She carried a sign painted with the face of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman found hanged in a Texas jail cell three days after a state trooper pulled her over for failing to signal a lane change.
Locals waved from their patios and cars honked in support. Police gave them space. On Rodeo Drive, people knelt and listened to more speeches. But by 5 p.m., Fordjour was in a Lyft vehicle heading back to her car at Pan Pacific Park, watching people drive up and start looting.
“It was frustrating to see five hours of nothing but positivity and to get in my car and know that I was driving away from violence,” she said Monday. She was saddened, she said, that the lasting images of the protest would be police vehicles on fire and vandalism that was mostly disconnected from the heart of the event.
“I personally do not want to be anywhere in public because of violence,” she said. “Now I’m sitting at home because I’m scared.”
Cerys Rotoneo, a 19-year-old political science student at Cerritos College, and Guadalupe Juarez, 18, had originally planned to protest Monday near Los Cerritos Center and help raise money for a nonprofit organization. But when the event went viral, they worried about the effect of outsiders on their peaceful protest.
“So we were, like, we should probably change the location, just to make sure that looting doesn’t happen and so forth,” Rotoneo said. Dozens of sheriff’s deputies still staged in the mall’s parking lots and blocked off entry points, fearful of looting. But other officers traveled with the protesters, on foot and in squad car, as they walked to City Hall and chanted.
“This is not about us. This, it is not about politics, nor is it about our opinions,” Rotoneo told about 100 people gathered in Gridley Park before the march. “This is about morality and humanity and our efforts to stand together in unity for Black Lives Matter.”
Tia Reed, a 30-year-old child psychologist who lives in Northridge, showed up at 7:30 a.m. Monday knowing that the protest near the LAPD’s Van Nuys Station had been canceled. It would have been her first demonstration.
It was still important, she decided, for her and her friends to make their voices heard. So they moved their protest to a more visible location a few blocks away. By early afternoon, microphone in hand, Reed was leading the crowd.
“No justice!” she shouted.
“No peace,” dozens of people responded.
“There’s no hard feelings toward peaceful cops,” Reed said in an interview. “There’s no hard feelings toward anybody in the world that’s peaceful. Our feelings are toward racism and police brutality.”
Sometimes protesters argued with each other over tactics and what they were trying to achieve. Reed said some looters showed up about 10 a.m. and started tagging buildings, and she and her fellow protesters demanded they leave. Across the street from the protest, several men leaned against the boarded-up front windows of the Country General Store. Other businesses in the areas had also boarded up their windows.
“Everybody handles their pain in different forms,” she continued. “So I don’t really want to speak up on that. But at the same time, there’s a way of handling and conducting business to be heard. And looting is not one of them, and vandalism is not the other. I just want us to have a peaceful protest and you know, say it loud.”
A South Los Angeles high school senior who asked to be identified by just her last names to avoid retaliation also went out to protest — peacefully — in the wake of Floyd’s death. Hernandez Cruz had been attending protests for more than a year, since she joined the ACLU’s youth liberty squad. And nothing, not even her parents, could keep her from the Fairfax District on Saturday.
Hernandez Cruz said that police got aggressive and began hitting people with batons. She sustained an injury to her head, just above her right ear. It took six stitches to close, and she suffered a concussion.
The 18-year-old has a week left of high school, but as of Monday wasn’t able to use her computer to finish the remainder of her schoolwork yet — her head feels tight, it’s hard to move her neck and she’s not supposed to look at screens.
Hernandez Cruz said she attended the protest to support the people she sees as part of her community. She wants the police defunded to prevent further violence from the law enforcement community. She hopes that her actions will play a role in the arrest and first-degree murder conviction of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death, at the very least.
“I’m a Latina and it’s like ... where I live, we’re all united and I feel like we should all speak up for one another and be there for each other,” she said. “At times it does get me really mad because it’s like we don’t deserve this. … black people and immigrants basically built this country and now people are getting mad that we’re standing up.”
And yet, she said, she still has hope.
“I know it’s been happening for centuries, but if we continue to apply pressure on the cops and the system then I feel like something will be able to change. Even if it’s small, it’s still progress,” she said. “Eventually something will happen. We just all have to stay together ... my parents have gone through this, my grandparents have gone through this.”
Times staff writers Dakota Smith, Andrew Campa, Ruben Vives and Seema Mehta contributed to this report.


latimes--2020-06-02--Huge, peaceful protests spread across L.A. as curfew approaches

Los Angeles County extended its sweeping curfew for a third day on Tuesday as protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continued across Southern California .
The curfew will be in effect from 6 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday , officials said .
The order to keep people at home comes after the Los Angeles Police Department ’ s Hollywood Division made more arrests Monday than on any single day in history in response to protests that devolved into a series of looting incidents , mostly in Van Nuys and Hollywood .
Officers took at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrests were for curfew violations , but officers detained 20 people on suspicion of looting and impounded 50 vehicles , a law enforcement source told The Times on Tuesday .
Authorities had taken approximately 2,500 people into custody between Friday and Tuesday morning after a mix of peaceful protests and property destruction rocked downtown , the Fairfax District , Van Nuys and Hollywood , according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore .
“ Each day has seen the continuation of peaceful protests , but we have seen instances of burglaries and looting of businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Moore said .
“ For the first time in decades , every sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department is working .
Days off have been canceled.
” Booking records reviewed by The Times show the vast majority of those arrested in L.A. County on looting , vandalism and burglary charges are county residents , seeming to refute perceptions of “ outside agitators ” coming in to fuel unrest .
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia blamed looting and nearly 100 small fires in his city on organized criminals unaffiliated with peaceful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear , given the type of activity and how organized the activity was , there is a strategy going city to city and doing this criminal work , ” Garcia said this week .
The damage to small business owners , he said , was unacceptable .
Demonstrations large and small continued Tuesday throughout California as protests ignited by Floyd ’ s death showed no signs of slowing .
An independent autopsy commissioned by Floyd ’ s family this week found he died of asphyxiation caused by neck and back compression after a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ground with a knee on the handcuffed man ’ s neck for several minutes .
Hundreds of protesters , many holding signs , gathered at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street late Tuesday morning .
After a few minutes , the group began walking through the streets of Hollywood , where they approached a line of several dozen officers holding batons .
The officers blocked the crowd ’ s advance .
“ Let us walk , ” the crowd yelled .
Chants of “ I can ’ t breathe ” and “ No justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Aijshia Moody , 30 , was among the crowd , holding a cardboard sign that read , “ Am I next ?
” Her brother is 14 years old and has often dealt with racial profiling in Pacoima where they live , she said .
“ He can ’ t even get on his skateboard , ” she said , adding that she ’ s dealt with racism throughout her life .
“ That ’ s why I ’ m here.
” Walking alongside the crush of protesters , community organizer Pete White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bank branch to snap a photo of a scrawled message : “ Chase yo dreams.
” Nearby , Kendrick Lamar ’ s “ Alright ” and N.W.A ’ s “ F— tha Police ” blasted from a speaker .
“ State violence brings me out here today , ” said White , who turned 49 Tuesday .
“ We see the signs that say ‘ Justice for George Floyd , ’ but also , when you see the kaleidoscope of faces , it ’ s justice for immigrants , it ’ s justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right , ” said White , a South L.A. resident and founder of the Los Angeles Community Action Network .
There is no peace without justice , he added .
“ How do you get justice ?
By making sure you defund the police and take all of those resources and put it in schooling , put it in services , in housing , in universal healthcare , ” White said .
“ We ’ re saying we don ’ t need another commission , another study or implicit bias training .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing keeps happening .
Again and again.
” In addition to the countywide curfew , three cities in L.A. County have opted to extend their own curfews through at least Wednesday morning .
Beverly Hills will be under curfew from 1 p.m. Tuesday till 5:30 a.m. Wednesday .
Police will be “ actively patrolling ” the city , including residential areas , officials said .
“ I know we are all feeling a great sense of uncertainty tonight , ” Beverly Hills Mayor Lester Friedman wrote in a statement .
“ We are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mutual aid partners from several neighboring agencies for helping us to keep our community safe.
” In Torrance , officials have imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily for as long as L.A. County is under a state of emergency .
Los Angeles city officials and Gov .
Gavin Newsom declared the emergency shortly before midnight Sunday after protests in the Fairfax District turned violent and widespread looting erupted .
In Santa Monica , where several businesses were vandalized and looted on Sunday , a curfew went into effect at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5:30 a.m. Wednesday .
Santa Monica police made 41 arrests Monday after taking 438 people into custody Sunday .
The city also recorded 347 damage reports , including 84 for graffiti , with the majority affecting retail businesses .
More than 150 buildings sustained significant damage , city officials said Tuesday .
“ If you were out around our city Monday morning , as I was , you know our streets were full of residents with brooms and sweepers .
Volunteers cleaned graffiti off walls .
The resilient spirit of our city was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ events of Sunday , it is again great to be a Santa Monican , ” Mayor Kevin McKeown said .
Under the curfews , people are prohibited from being on streets and sidewalks or in parks and other public spaces .
The restrictions do not apply to law enforcement , first responders , people traveling to and from work , or individuals seeking medical care .
While the county curfew applies to all cities and unincorporated areas , individual cities can impose stricter limits .
After peaceful protests across the region , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Monday evening when numerous stores were looted .
Newsom implored Californians to show empathy to one another in his first news conference since he to Los Angeles early Sunday , marking the third time in that troops had responded to unrest in the city over violence against a black person in police custody .
“ You ’ ve lost patience .
So have I .
You are right to feel wronged .
You are right to feel the way you are feeling , ” Newsom said to protesters , adding : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be better , and to do better.
” Just after 1 p.m. in Hollywood , dozens of activists chanted , “ Take a knee ” at members of the National Guard .
After several minutes , at least two Guardsmen complied .
Other protesters encountered a line of police officers and began chanting , “ Walk with us , ” and “ Let us walk.
” The group was trying to reach another crowd of demonstrators farther up Hollywood Boulevard , past Cherokee Avenue .
The were met with a line of at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t let them pass .
As the group neared the line , their hands up , police began raising their batons to hold them back .
One protester placed a white flower in an officer ’ s pocket .
The officer threw it to the ground .
A segment of the protest hit a snag later Tuesday afternoon as part of the crowd that had gathered near Ivar Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard surrounded police .
The confrontation came after law enforcement received a radio call about armed looters , authorities said .
Protesters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a growing police presence .
Officers then fired rubber bullets .
As police pushed the crowd down Ivar , they confronted two women in a red pickup .
The driver did not want to stop or put her keys on the dashboard as police tried to pass by , officers said .
She was quickly detained .
“ We don ’ t need a confrontation , ” one officer later said into megaphone .
“ Leave the area.
” “ Get out of the street , you can continue with your peaceful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer , who declined to give his name , acknowledged that the protest had mostly been peaceful .
“ Just a few people who ruin it for everybody else , ” he said .
Heaven Bouldin had been demonstrating for several hours as curfew neared .
At 25 , she said , she has been protesting for 10 years .
“ I ’ m tired , I ’ m tired , I ’ m tired , ” she said , holding a sign that read , “ Stop killing black people.
” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the last 200 years .
We ’ re in 2020 and we still can ’ t bring an end to this , ” she said .
“ Somebody has to do something.
” Times staff writers Richard Winton , James Queally , Matthew Ormseth , Laura J. Nelson , Gustavo Arellano , Seema Mehta , Taryn Luna , Luke Money , Alene Tchekmedyian , Julia Wick , Jaclyn Cosgrove and Anita Chabria contributed to this report .

Brittny Mejia, Dorany Pineda, Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Sarah Parvini, Hannah Fry

Several hundred protesters take a knee and hold their fists in the air during a moment of silence to honor George Floyd during a peaceful protest march from Manhattan Beach to Hermosa Beach. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti walks out to address protesters and clergy members outside LAPD headquarters on Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Cmdr. Gerald Woodyard takes a knee with clergy members from the Los Angeles area as they participate in a march and demonstration outside LAPD headquarters in Los Angeles. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Janie Hill,15, from Lawndale, receives a hug from a friend, following an emotional discussion with a Manhattan Beach Police officer, at the conclusion of a protest in Manhattan Beach. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Several hundred protesters gather to demand justice for George Floyd at the Manhattan Beach Pier Plaza Tuesday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
Demonstrators take a knee during protests in Hollywood on Tuesday. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
Mira Ercingoz,16, from Palos Verdes, center in red hat, holds a poster with an image of George Floyd alongside protesters in Manhattan Beach. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Protesters sit in front of National Guardsmen closing Sunset Blvd at Vine Street in Hollywood. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)
Jayse Garcia, 27, of Los Angeles takes part in a demonstration in Hollywood. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
A young woman reacts to a group chant, while gathered with a couple hundred people to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, near the Manhattan Beach Pier. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Jessica Jordan takes a knee as she joins other protesters at Sunset & Vine in Hollywood on Tuesday. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)
Protestors gather outside Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Hancock Park house as they continue to demonstrate against police brutality. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
Terrence Burney, 36, left, and Commander of the LAPD Operation West Bureau Cory Palka, right, talk together peacefully in front of Getty House in Hancock Park. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
A woman stands next to an image of George Floyd as hundreds participate in a march against the in-custody death of Floyd in Venice. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Several hundred protesters take a knee and hold their fists in the air during a moment of silence to honor George Floyd during a peaceful protest march from Manhattan Beach to Hermosa Beach. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
Protesters shoot hoops while taking a break from marching against the death of George Floyd by police on Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice on Tuesday. The basketball hoop was attached to the front of a bus that followed the protest for a while. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Members of the California National Guard flash peace signs after protesters had marched by in support of Black Lives Matter in Venice. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
“Hands up. Don’t shoot,” say hundreds participating in a march against the of George Floyd on Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice onTuesday. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Hundreds of protesters march throughout downtown ending with many arrested for curfew violations. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Hussain Sharif, left, Mari Drake, and Thomas Rosado chant as they ride along with hundreds of protesters at a downtown demonstration. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Marcus Owen, yells out chants for George Floyd as hundreds of protesters gather outside City Hall in a daylong protest. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Makenzie Anderson, 2, rides on her father, Shawn’s shoulders as they join hundreds of protesters marching throughout downtown. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
A couple promote peace on Highland Ave. in Hollywood as protesters continue to demonstrate. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Bando Kev prays along Hollywood Blvd. in front of the National Guard and near TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Protestors rally on the steps Anaheim City Hall steps against last week’s in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Protestors rally on the steps Anaheim City Hall steps against last week’s in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Protestors rally on the steps Anaheim City Hall steps against last week’s in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Protestors rally on the steps Anaheim City Hall steps against last week’s in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Protesters march through West Hollywood to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd during march on Wednesday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Protesters march through West Hollywood to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd during march on Wednesday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Hundreds of demonstrators block traffic as they march down both sides of Balboa Blvd. to protest against racism in Newport Beach. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
In a sign of peace, protesters reach out to Riverside County Sheriff deputies, who were there to enforce an 8pm curfew during a demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd’s in Moreno Valley. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
Riverside County Sheriff Lt Chris Durham tries to calm nerves after hundreds of demonstrators that marched to the police station protest the death of George Floyd in Moreno Valley. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
A huge crowd gathers in downtown Los Angeles to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)
Paul Villalobos, 28, from Oakland, joins other demonstrators as they protest on Spring St. in downtown Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
Mustafa-Ali, 27, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joins other demonstrators as they protest on Spring St. in downtown Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
A L.A. Sheriff’s deputy watches as protester Annik Chung holds a sign while cheering on marchers along La Brea Ave. in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Protester Vailing high-fives National Guardsmen as they march through Hollywood to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Miles Miles, 8, left, and Memphis Miley, 6, center, of Newport Beach, join protest against racism in Newport Beach. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
Stephen Chang, 32, left, of Silver Lake, with an American flag draped over his head, joins other demonstrators at the intersection of Spring and Temple streets in downtown Los Angeles, as they protest against L.A. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey and also demand justice in the death of George Floyd. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
Thousands of protesters gather at the Los Angeles Civic Center. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
Thousands of protesters gather at the Los Angeles Civic Center. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Thousands of protesters gather at the Los Angeles Civic Center. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Protesters dance on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles as a march attracted thousands of people. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Crowds gather in downtown L.A. to protest the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. At 9 p.m., for exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds, protesters shone lights into the sky. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
Gustavo R. Ramirez of Pomona kneels in front of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A protester drapes himself with a flag during a demonstration in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Allison Bracy of Fontana hugs daughter Brielle Bracy, 10, while attending a rally in Riverside on Thursday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A man lays a rose at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Chief Michel Moore, left, talks with community leaders outside police headquarters after a candlelight vigil for George Floyd on Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Zoe Perkins, 4, of Glendale and her mother brought flowers to the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles to protest the death of George Floyd. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Katyana DeCampos, a citizen of France visiting California, marched with a sign with the words “Anti Racism,” joining nearly 1,000 people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, in downtown Los Angeles. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Mek Bitul held up a sign with the words, “This Is The Tipping Point!!!” in front of City Hall, joining nearly 1,000 people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, in downtown Los Angeles. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Tempers flare between Black Lives Matter demonstratiors and pro-Trump counterprotesters in Huntington Beach on Saturday. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
A protester lies on the ground under his horse with his hands behind his back as demonstrators including some on horseback rally in front of LA City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s office in Los Angeles Saturday. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
A Black Lives Matter protester blows bubbles by a police line in Huntington Beach on Saturday. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
A National Guardsman holds a rose given to him by a protester along Fairfax Ave. during a march Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
A protester yells in front of a Black Lives Matter mural with the names of victims on Fairfax Ave. during a march Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Regina Scott takes knee next to Johnathan Jasper, brother of slain teen Anthony Weber, during a rally in front of LA City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s office Saturday. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
A woman tries to get between Black Lives Matter protesters and pro-Trump counter protesters during a demonstration at the intersection of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach on Saturday. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
A family member of Breonna Taylor, right, is hugged by another woman after speaking to protesters in Beverly Hills Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Elijah Estrada, 6, holds up his fist for 8:46, the length of time George Floyd was held down by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, at the conclusion of a peace ride and walk with the Compton Cowboys at Compton City Hall on Sunday. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook speaks to the crowd of protesters and the Compton Cowboys at the end of a peace walk at Compton City Hall on Sunday. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
The Compton Cowboys ride horseback down South Tamarind Avenue, joining thousand of protesters Sunday during the Compton peace ride, which ended at City Hall. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
Protesters march, raising fists and signs in the air, on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood on Sunday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Protesters hold up signs at the All Black Lives Matter march, which was organized by Black LGBTQ leaders and organizations in place of a previously planned event by the group behind LA Pride. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Jason De Puy of West Hollywood wears a mask that reads “Black Trans Lives Matter” as people fill Hollywood Boulevard during a solidarity march called All Black Lives Matter on Sunday, June 14. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
Thousands hold up signs and march in the All Black Lives Matter solidarity protest on Hollywood Boulevard. The procession started at Hollywood and Highland and moved into West Hollywood. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A protester waves a rainbow flag on Sunset Boulevard during the All Black Lives Matter march on Sunday. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice and LGBTQ rights. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
In a dramatic display of outrage over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, thousands converged across Southern California for peaceful protests that began in the morning and continued into the night.
Marchers streamed through Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles and outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home.
A citywide curfew that began at 6 p.m. Tuesday is in effect until 6 a.m. Wednesday. By 7:30 p.m., police were beginning to arrest downtown protesters who refused to leave.
In Larchmont at around 8:30 p.m., 40 or so people entered an apartment complex on the 400 block of Van Ness Avenue and went to the roof in order to avoid arrest. The complex was surrounded by helicopters and police ordering the presumed demonstrators to get down.
Helicopter footage showed the demonstrators laying down on the roof, forming the letters BLM
— Black Lives Matter — with their bodies.
Around the same time in Koreatown, police detained more than 40 people near West 8th Street & South Crenshaw Boulevard. The protesters chanted “peaceful protest” intermittently and for the most part, calmly complied with police as they were cuffed with plastic bands and escorted to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department bus.
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The effort to keep people at home comes after the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division made more arrests Monday than on any single day in history in response to protests that devolved into a series of looting incidents, mostly in Van Nuys and Hollywood.
Officers took at least 585 people into custody Monday. Most arrests were for curfew violations, but officers detained 20 people on suspicion of looting and impounded 50 vehicles, a law enforcement source told The Times on Tuesday.
Authorities arrested about 2,500 people from Friday to Tuesday morning after a mix of peaceful protests and property destruction rocked downtown, the Fairfax district, Van Nuys and Hollywood, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said.
“Each day has seen the continuation of peaceful protests, but we have seen instances of burglaries and looting of businesses in various parts of the city,” Moore said. “For the first time in decades, every sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department is working. Days off have been canceled.”
Booking records reviewed by The Times show the vast majority of those arrested in L.A. County on looting, vandalism and burglary charges are county residents, seeming to refute perceptions that “outside agitators” were fueling unrest.
Even still, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia blamed looting and nearly 100 small fires in his city on organized criminals unaffiliated with peaceful protests.
“It’s pretty clear, given the type of activity and how organized the activity was, there is a strategy going city to city and doing this criminal work,” Garcia said this week. The damage to small business owners, he said, was unacceptable.
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Speaking Tuesday evening, Garcetti said he has directed LAPD to minimize their use of rubber bullets during interactions with peaceful protesters.
“I think that we’ve seen less of any of those tactics, and I hope that we can see the most minimal, if not zero, of those tactics,” said Garcetti, who earlier in the day took a knee with protesters outside City Hall.
Garcetti took the extreme step of asking for the National Guard to be brought to Los Angeles, evoking for many in this city the bloody memories of the 1992 riots sparked after the police officers’ acquittal in the beating of Rodney King.
Garcetti said that about 1,000 guardsmen were on the streets as of Tuesday night.
Earlier in the evening, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Garcetti’s residence in Windsor Square, chanting “defund police!” as an LAPD helicopter circled overhead. About half the crowd left as the clock struck 6 p.m.
To Whitney Peterson, 35, of Los Angeles, the chant was not a call for abolishing law enforcement but limiting it and steering resources elsewhere.
“When ... people are getting killed by police, and yet we have schools and lower-income communities struggling, it’s hard to swallow,” she said of public spending for police. “These communities are not being protected, and that needs to change.”
An independent autopsy commissioned by Floyd’s family this week found he died of asphyxiation caused by neck and back compression after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee on the handcuffed man’s neck for several minutes.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street late Tuesday morning to express their dismay over recent and historic oppression. After a few minutes, the group began walking through the streets of Hollywood, where they approached a line of several dozen officers holding batons. The officers blocked the crowd’s advance.
“Let us walk,” the crowd yelled. Chants of “I can’t breathe” and “No justice, no peace” echoed throughout.
Aijshia Moody, 30, was among the crowd, holding a cardboard sign that read, “Am I next?” Her brother is 14 years old and has often dealt with racial profiling in Pacoima where they live, she said.
“He can’t even get on his skateboard,” she said, adding that she’s dealt with racism throughout her life. “That’s why I’m here.”
Walking alongside the crush of protesters, community organizer Pete White briefly stopped in front of a Chase bank branch to snap a photo of a scrawled message: “Chase yo dreams.” Nearby, Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and N.W.A’s “F— tha Police” blasted from a speaker.
“State violence brings me out here today,” said White, who turned 49 on Tuesday.
“We see the signs that say ‘Justice for George Floyd,’ but also, when you see the kaleidoscope of faces, it’s justice for immigrants, it’s justice in thinking that housing is a human right,” said White, a South L.A. resident and founder of the Los Angeles Community Action Network.
There is no peace without justice, he added.
“How do you get justice? By making sure you defund the police and take all of those resources and put it in schooling, put it in services, in housing, in universal healthcare,” White said. “We’re saying we don’t need another commission, another study or implicit bias training. We’ve been there and the same thing keeps happening. Again and again.”
California What time are the curfews in and around L.A. tonight? Los Angeles County officials imposed a countywide curfew for the third consecutive day Tuesday, citing a desire to protect public safety amid ongoing protests. Some cities implemented even stricter limits.
In addition to the countywide curfew, three cities in L.A. County have opted to extend their own curfews through at least Wednesday morning.
Beverly Hills will be under curfew from 1 p.m. Tuesday till 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police will be “actively patrolling” the city, including residential areas, officials said.
In Torrance, officials imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily for as long as L.A. County is under a state of emergency. Los Angeles city officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom declared the emergency shortly before midnight Sunday after protests in the Fairfax district turned violent and widespread looting erupted.
And in Santa Monica, where several businesses were vandalized and looted Sunday, a curfew went into effect at 2 p.m. Tuesday and will last till 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Santa Monica police made 41 arrests Monday after taking 438 people into custody Sunday. The city also recorded 347 damage reports, including 84 for graffiti, with the majority affecting retail businesses. More than 150 buildings sustained significant damage, city officials said Tuesday.
“If you were out around our city Monday morning, as I was, you know our streets were full of residents with brooms and sweepers. Volunteers cleaned graffiti off walls. The resilient spirit of our city was evident everywhere. Even after the shocking events of Sunday, it is again great to be a Santa Monican,” Mayor Kevin McKeown said.
Under the curfews, people are prohibited from being on streets and sidewalks or in parks and other public spaces. The restrictions do not apply to law enforcement, first responders, people traveling to and from work, or individuals seeking medical care. Although the county curfew applies to all cities and unincorporated areas, individual cities can impose stricter limits.
After peaceful protests across the region, tensions escalated in Hollywood and Van Nuys on Monday evening, when numerous stores were looted.
1 / 81 Protesters stand on top of a burned LAPD cruiser. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 2 / 81 Protesters stand on top of a bus stop at the Los Angeles Civic Center to demonstrate for justice Wednesday night. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 3 / 81 Protestors turn on their cell phone flashlights at Los Angeles City Hall at 9 pm on Wednesday as part of a silent protest against the death of George Floyd. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) 4 / 81 A protester confronts National Guardsmen as thousands of protesters march down Spring Street in Los Angeles to demonstrate for justice in the George Floyd murder by cop case Wednesday. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 5 / 81 Protesters dance on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 6 / 81 Thousands of protesters march down Spring Street in Los Angeles Wednesday night to demonstrate for justice in the killing of George Floyd. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) 7 / 81 LAPD Cmdr. Gerald Woodyard takes a knee with protesters and L.A. clergy during a march in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) 8 / 81 Khalil Mitchell speaks to protesters kneeling near a police line, preaching calm and working to preserve a peaceful protest on Monday. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) 9 / 81 In Hollywood, hundreds of protesters march Monday against police brutality. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 10 / 81 AJ Lovelace, a director and writer, and others keep potential looters from entering a dry cleaning store as they attempt to march peacefully. “We need peace and we need someone to talk to each other,” he said after the looters fled the scene. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) 11 / 81 Demonstrators in Riverside retreat as county sheriff’s deputies fire nonlethal rounds on Monday after law enforcement announced an unlawful assembly. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 12 / 81 Protesters in Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 13 / 81 An arrest in Hollywood during a protest Monday. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 14 / 81 A demonstrator, injured while trying to flee the firing of nonlethal rounds, lies on the ground in Riverside. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 15 / 81 An LAPD officer arrests a looting suspect in an alley behind a Hollywood Boulevard store. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 16 / 81 Riverside County deputies advance on demonstrators on Monday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 17 / 81 Fireworks thrown by a protester explode at the feet of Riverside police. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 18 / 81 Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco takes a knee with demonstrators. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 19 / 81 A watch and jewelry store is looted in Van Nuys on Monday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 20 / 81 A looting arrest in Van Nuys. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 21 / 81 AJ Lovelace, director and writer, tries to stop looters from breaking into a Walgreens in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 22 / 81 An LAPD officer arrests a suspected looter in an alley behind a Hollywood Boulevard store. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 23 / 81 Police advance on a line of protesters in Hollywood, firing rubber bullets. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 24 / 81 Arrests are made of those out after curfew in Hollywood. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 25 / 81 Protesters in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 26 / 81 A store is looted in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 27 / 81 Protesters in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 28 / 81 People out after curfew are arrested Monday at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 29 / 81 Arrests in Hollywood. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 30 / 81 Protests in Westwood. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 31 / 81 Volunteers help clean up the mess left by looters in Long Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) 32 / 81 Protest in Hollywood. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 33 / 81 National Guardsmen outside Santa Monica Place. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 34 / 81 Gilbert Haro and sons Richard, 8, and James, 6, help clean up in Santa Monica. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 35 / 81 Protesters face off with police in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 36 / 81 Santa Monica stores were the target of looting on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 37 / 81 Suspected looters in custody in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 38 / 81 L.A. County sheriff’s deputies in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 39 / 81 Sake House employee Jared Settles can’t bear to watch as the restaurant burns in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 40 / 81 An arrest in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 41 / 81 Broken glass from a looted store covers the sidewalk in Santa Monica. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 42 / 81 Cecelia Rosales, who said she was homeless, walks past a line of police officers in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 43 / 81 A man guards a convenience store in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 44 / 81 Looting erupted Sunday in Long Beach. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 45 / 81 Police and protesters face off in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 46 / 81 A police officer inspects the damage to a Santa Monica supermarket. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 47 / 81 A protester is treated after being struck by a rubber bullet. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 48 / 81 Looting in Long Beach on Sunday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 49 / 81 Looting in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 50 / 81 A suspected looter in Long Beach. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) 51 / 81 Smashing windows in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 52 / 81 An arrest in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 53 / 81 People walk away with surfboards in Santa Monica on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 54 / 81 People rush out of a looted store in Santa Monica. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 55 / 81 Protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 56 / 81 Cheers for protesters in downtown Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 57 / 81 City Hall on Sunday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 58 / 81 A shattered storefront on Melrose Avenue on Sunday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) 59 / 81 Smashed windows on La Cienega Boulevard. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) 60 / 81 Downtown L.A. on Sunday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 61 / 81 People carry merchandise from a looted store. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 62 / 81 A person carries items from a looted store in the Fairfax District on Saturday. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 63 / 81 A couple of protesters embrace on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles Saturday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) 64 / 81 People protest Saturday at Pan Pacific Park. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) 65 / 81 Protesters gather around a fire in the middle of a downtown L.A. street on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 66 / 81 Police fire percussion rounds to clear protesters from Grand Avenue in in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 67 / 81 A protester remains defiant after being pushed to the ground by police on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 68 / 81 Protesters are arrested by Los Angeles police in front of City Hall on Saturday. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 69 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 70 / 81 Protesters take to the streets Friday in downtown L.A. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 71 / 81 Protesters are escorted off the northbound 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 72 / 81 A protester is escorted off the northbound 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 73 / 81 Protesters climb over a barrier during the May 29 protest in downtown L.A. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) 74 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway northbound and southbound in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 75 / 81 Police officers assume a defensive stance as a protester approaches them on the 110 Freeway on May 29. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 76 / 81 During a May 29 protest, Los Angeles police patrol the 110 after having moved protesters off the freeway. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) 77 / 81 A protester rides a skateboard on the 110 Freeway. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 78 / 81 Protesters block the 110 Freeway northbound and southbound in downtown Los Angeles. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 79 / 81 A protester confronts LAPD officers on Friday in downtown L.A. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 80 / 81 A protester lies hurt on the 101 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles on May 27. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones / Los Angeles Times) 81 / 81 An injured man gets up with the help of emergency workers during a protest May 27 in downtown L.A. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Just after 1 p.m. in Hollywood, dozens of activists chanted, “Take a knee” at members of the National Guard. After several minutes, at least two guardsmen complied.
The crowd cheered.
National Guard troops take a knee with protesters on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. pic.twitter.com/dwxjrYww9g — Dorany Pineda (@DoranyPineda90) June 2, 2020
Other protesters encountered a line of police officers and began chanting, “Walk with us,” and “Let us walk.” The group was trying to reach another crowd of demonstrators farther up Hollywood Boulevard, past Cherokee Avenue.
The marchers were met with a line of at least 20 LAPD officers who wouldn’t let them pass. As the group neared the line, their hands up, police began raising their batons to hold them back.
One protester placed a white flower in an officer’s pocket. The officer threw it to the ground.
A segment of the protest hit a snag later Tuesday afternoon as part of the crowd that had gathered near Ivar Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard surrounded police.
The confrontation came after law enforcement received a radio call about armed looters, authorities said. Protesters began throwing bottles and sticks in response to a growing police presence. Officers then fired rubber bullets.
As police pushed the crowd down Ivar, they confronted two women in a red pickup. The driver did not want to stop or put her keys on the dashboard as police tried to pass by, officers said. She was quickly detained.
“We don’t need a confrontation,” one officer later said into megaphone. “Leave the area.”
“Get out of the street, you can continue with your peaceful protest,” he continued.
Another officer, who declined to give his name, acknowledged that the protest had mostly been peaceful.
“Just a few people who ruin it for everybody else,” he said.
Heaven Bouldin had been demonstrating for several hours as the curfew neared.
At 25, she said, she has been protesting for 10 years.
“I’m tired, I’m tired, I’m tired,” she said, holding a sign that read, “Stop killing black people.”
“My people have been getting killed for the last 200 years. We’re in 2020 and we still can’t bring an end to this,” she said. “Somebody has to do something.”
On North Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, police were standing in a line blocking the road as a crowd chanted and screamed at them. One woman shouted: “All of you ... are found guilty. You violent criminals. All of this because y’all don’t want to stop killing black people. You treacherous snakes!”
One officer approached the protesters to announce through a megaphone that they were standing in a line to protect businesses that had been looted.
“We understand why you’re here,” the officer said before assuming his position in the line again.
When the crowd began chanting, “Take a knee! Take a knee!” at the officers, the woman screamed, “We will not take a knee!” and charged toward officers, the yellow caution tape stopping her. “Back up, sis!” A young woman told her.
The woman explained, emotionally, why they should not ask the officers for a knee.
“I’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive,” she said. “Y’all are stupid.... They already took a knee ... and they took a life. This don’t look like that to you?” she said, taking a knee herself and raising her fist in the air. “Y’all are ... ignorant. This ain’t a time to take a knee.”
The crowd stopped the chant and started a new one: “Say his name! George Floyd!”
Times staff writers Richard Winton, James Queally, Matthew Ormseth, Laura J. Nelson, Gustavo Arellano, Seema Mehta, Taryn Luna, Luke Money, Alene Tchekmedyian, Julia Wick, Jaclyn Cosgrove, Benjamin Oreskes and Anita Chabria contributed to this report.


latimes--2020-06-01--Viral Twitter video shows San Jose police officer barking at a protester, 'Shut up, b —'

In a Twitter video that hit nearly 12 million views on Monday , San Jose Police Officer Jared Yuen is shown grinning and swaying from side to side .
In an apparent attempt to rouse fellow officers at a protest following the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd , he shouts , “ Let ’ s get this [ expletive ] .
” In the background , protesters note the officers ’ frivolous behavior .
“ This is funny to them .
They have smiles on their faces , ” one says .
Another post apparently captures the 33-year-old officer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up , bitch.
” Seconds later , his team charges into a crowd .
He is seen extending his projectile launcher and firing toward the protesters .
Yuen , a six-year officer at the San Jose Police Department , was put on leave Friday as a result of his comments and flippant conduct , according to the agency , and was under internal investigation , said Police Chief Eddie Garcia .
“ I ’ m not happy with his actions .
I ’ m sure if Jared was sitting here , he would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will tell you , I know Jared , and he is a good kid who made a mistake , who let his emotions get the better of him , ” Garcia said at a media briefing .
“ He ’ s put his life on the line for this Police Department on many an occasion .
And so we will take all of that into consideration .
He will have to live with the consequences of what he did.
” But Raj Jayadev , director of social justice organization Silicon Valley De-Bug , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Garcia acknowledged .
He says a police badge is practically a “ state license to kill.
” “ What you can ’ t see in the video is that there are hundreds of people right around him , and they ’ re mainly young people .
I ’ m talking about high-school-aged kids , ” he said .
“ Lives are literally at risk when you have an officer that is armed to the teeth and ready for a battle .
Simply waving it off as ‘ officers need to be in control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little bit tone-deaf , ” he said .
Scores of Twitter users have likewise condemned the department for an inadequate response to Yuen ’ s comments .
Many called on the department to fire Yuen .
User @ Stephanieee_li criticized Garcia for calling “ a full grown 30 something year old ” officer a “ kid , ” saying an adult must be held responsible for his behavior .
@ ManeAbdallah pressed the police department to “ Get this thug off our streets.
” User @ CaliCruz408 tweeted at the department to recognize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Videos like this show the true nature of your men .
Pay close attention to the ones trying to de-escalate with their mannerisms and to the ones ENJOYING this … Your sociopaths show themselves.
” Garcia responded to the tweets with empathy but stressed that the investigation into Yeun was standard practice for any complaint in the department .
“ We ’ re angry as well , and we ’ ve made that clear .
We ’ ve allowed peaceful protest .
But we will not tolerate lawlessness.
” San Jose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was dismayed by the videos .
He says an independent police auditor will fully review the circumstances .
“ I found the video of Officer Yuen ’ s statements particularly disturbing and his conduct in sharp contrast with what was otherwise overwhelmingly admirable professionalism in our department .
And in my view , that officer allowed his emotions to undermine his professional duty to the public , ” Liccardo said in a statement .
But for Jayadev , there ’ s no leeway for the department to employ an officer with this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s appropriate for Yuen to be paid with our dollars to insult , interrogate and threaten community members , and then have the actual weaponry to act upon those threats , is not thinking , ” he said .
San Jose City Council members have joined the Twitter commentary as well .
For Councilman Lan Diep , Yuen ’ s remarks brought a national problem close to home .
“ As an Asian American I feel obligated to call out the poor judgment of Jared Yuen ... during the # GeorgeFloyd protest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a national debate about systemic racism and the role of police , his provocations are not helpful .
… This is a learning moment for all and I expect our SJPD to become an even better force for it.
” Raul Peralez , a City Council member and former reserve San Jose police officer , felt that the actions shown in the videos were inappropriate and humiliating .
“ As someone who has worn the same patch I was embarrassed .
This is exactly the kind of behavior we don ’ t need @ @ @ @ @

In a Twitter video that hit nearly 12 million views on Monday, San Jose Police Officer Jared Yuen is shown grinning and swaying from side to side. In an apparent attempt to rouse fellow officers at a protest following the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, he shouts, “Let’s get this [expletive].”
In the background, protesters note the officers’ frivolous behavior. “This is funny to them. They have smiles on their faces,” one says.
Another post apparently captures the 33-year-old officer barking at a demonstrator, “Shut up, bitch.” Seconds later, his team charges into a crowd. He is seen extending his projectile launcher and firing toward the protesters.
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Yuen, a six-year officer at the San Jose Police Department, was put on leave Friday as a result of his comments and flippant conduct, according to the agency, and was under internal investigation, said Police Chief Eddie Garcia.
“I’m not happy with his actions. I’m sure if Jared was sitting here, he would be embarrassed as well. But I will tell you, I know Jared, and he is a good kid who made a mistake, who let his emotions get the better of him,” Garcia said at a media briefing. “He’s put his life on the line for this Police Department on many an occasion. And so we will take all of that into consideration. He will have to live with the consequences of what he did.”
But Raj Jayadev, director of social justice organization Silicon Valley De-Bug, said Yuen posed a greater risk than Garcia acknowledged. He says a police badge is practically a “state license to kill.”
“What you can’t see in the video is that there are hundreds of people right around him, and they’re mainly young people. I’m talking about high-school-aged kids,” he said. “Lives are literally at risk when you have an officer that is armed to the teeth and ready for a battle. Simply waving it off as ‘officers need to be in control of their emotions’ just seems a little bit tone-deaf,” he said.
Scores of Twitter users have likewise condemned the department for an inadequate response to Yuen’s comments. Many called on the department to fire Yuen.
User @Stephanieee_li criticized Garcia for calling “a full grown 30 something year old” officer a “kid,” saying an adult must be held responsible for his behavior. @ManeAbdallah pressed the police department to “Get this thug off our streets.”
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User @CaliCruz408 tweeted at the department to recognize the atrocity of the officers’ misconduct. “Videos like this show the true nature of your men. Pay close attention to the ones trying to de-escalate with their mannerisms and to the ones ENJOYING this … Your sociopaths show themselves.”
Garcia responded to the tweets with empathy but stressed that the investigation into Yeun was standard practice for any complaint in the department.
“We’re angry as well, and we’ve made that clear. We’ve allowed peaceful protest. But we will not tolerate lawlessness.”
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said he, too, was dismayed by the videos. He says an independent police auditor will fully review the circumstances.
“I found the video of Officer Yuen’s statements particularly disturbing and his conduct in sharp contrast with what was otherwise overwhelmingly admirable professionalism in our department. And in my view, that officer allowed his emotions to undermine his professional duty to the public,” Liccardo said in a statement.
But for Jayadev, there’s no leeway for the department to employ an officer with this demeanor.
“Anyone that thinks it’s appropriate for Yuen to be paid with our dollars to insult, interrogate and threaten community members, and then have the actual weaponry to act upon those threats, is not thinking,” he said.
San Jose City Council members have joined the Twitter commentary as well. For Councilman Lan Diep, Yuen’s remarks brought a national problem close to home.
“As an Asian American I feel obligated to call out the poor judgment of Jared Yuen ... during the #GeorgeFloyd protest,” he wrote. “During a national debate about systemic racism and the role of police, his provocations are not helpful. … This is a learning moment for all and I expect our SJPD to become an even better force for it.”
Raul Peralez, a City Council member and former reserve San Jose police officer, felt that the actions shown in the videos were inappropriate and humiliating.
“As someone who has worn the same patch I was embarrassed. This is exactly the kind of behavior we don’t need,” he tweeted.


latimes--2020-06-01--As officials ramp up testing in L.A. County jails, first inmate with COVID-19 dies

Authorities said that a 47-year-old Los Angeles County jail inmate who tested positive for the coronavirus died Sunday , marking the first death related to COVID-19 in the sprawling system .
The man , who was not identified , was transferred to the county jail from state prison Feb. 22 , said Assistant Sheriff Bruce Chase .
He was classified as a high-security inmate and held in a single cell at Men ’ s Central Jail , facing charges of assault and possessing a shank while behind bars , Chase said .
The man fell ill May 15 and was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s jail ward , where he died .
Because he had preexisting health conditions , he had been offered a coronavirus test before he started to show symptoms , but had refused .
Chase said some asymptomatic inmates have turned down the tests because of the discomfort of a nasal swab .
“ I ’ m not sure if that would ’ ve helped us or not , ” Chase said , adding that it was unclear where and when the man was exposed to the virus .
The death came as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing , aiming to complete testing all inmates held in the jails by next week .
Correctional Health Services Director Jackie Clark said her staff has already tested more than 10,000 people in custody — some of whom have since been released — and now has about 1,600 inmates left to go .
She expects the first full round of testing to be done by June 10 .
Inmates still waiting on tests are those being held at the Pitchess Detention Center and in high-security housing at Men ’ s Central Jail , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re going to go back and circle back to people who refused the first time , ” Clark said .
She said L.A. County is one of the first large correctional facilities in the country to take on a system-wide testing effort .
Many have opted instead to test only those who show symptoms .
Since the start of the pandemic , 1,952 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 , according to figures released Monday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’ s Department .
Of those , 1,251 were asymptomatic .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — 5,539 out of 11,992 people — was quarantined , meaning those individuals had been housed with or had contact with someone who was infected or waiting for test results .
Clark said her staff has been hampered by a lack of rapid testing — it still takes about 24 to 48 hours to get results .
She said she tried to secure the rapid test machine made by Abbott Laboratories , which delivers results in minutes , but the Department of Health Services was concerned about the high number of false negatives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ false negative because what I want to find out is who ’ s positive , ” she said .
“ The most important thing for me is to find people who are positive , pull them out and put them in isolation.
” If she were to secure an Abbott machine , she said she would retest every inmate who returned a negative result using the nonrapid test .
“ We keep bringing people in , ” she said , noting that every new inmate is tested for COVID-19 at intake .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we don ’ t know where to move them.
” She said the large number of arrests during the protests over the weekend did not affect jail testing plans because most people were cited and released .
Patrisse Cullors , the chair of Reform LA Jails , which has pushed for system-wide testing , said in a statement that the testing figures show “ what we had already foresaw , a massive outbreak in the local jails.
” “ The sheriff has deliberately and knowingly allowed coronavirus to spread by making conditions awful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and keeping people incarcerated when they shouldn ’ t be , ” Cullors said .
Chase , who oversees the jails , told the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission at its meeting last month that the inmate population is just under 12,000 , down 32 % from before the pandemic , after many low-level offenders were released in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading .
Chase acknowledged that nonviolent and medically vulnerable inmates were still in the jails and that whittling down the population was a work in progress .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ age or preexisting health conditions make them especially vulnerable .
Of about 5,400 inmates awaiting trial , more than 1,100 are classified as nonviolent , Chase said .

Authorities said that a 47-year-old Los Angeles County jail inmate who tested positive for the coronavirus died Sunday, marking the first death related to COVID-19 in the sprawling system.
The man, who was not identified, was transferred to the county jail from state prison Feb. 22, said Assistant Sheriff Bruce Chase. He was classified as a high-security inmate and held in a single cell at Men’s Central Jail, facing charges of assault and possessing a shank while behind bars, Chase said.
The man fell ill May 15 and was soon transferred to L.A. County-USC Medical Center’s jail ward, where he died. Because he had preexisting health conditions, he had been offered a coronavirus test before he started to show symptoms, but had refused. Chase said some asymptomatic inmates have turned down the tests because of the discomfort of a nasal swab.
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“I’m not sure if that would’ve helped us or not,” Chase said, adding that it was unclear where and when the man was exposed to the virus.
The death came as correctional health officials were ramping up COVID-19 testing, aiming to complete testing all inmates held in the jails by next week.
Correctional Health Services Director Jackie Clark said her staff has already tested more than 10,000 people in custody — some of whom have since been released — and now has about 1,600 inmates left to go. She expects the first full round of testing to be done by June 10.
Inmates still waiting on tests are those being held at the Pitchess Detention Center and in high-security housing at Men’s Central Jail, she said.
“Then we’re going to go back and circle back to people who refused the first time,” Clark said.
She said L.A. County is one of the first large correctional facilities in the country to take on a system-wide testing effort. Many have opted instead to test only those who show symptoms.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,952 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, according to figures released Monday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Of those, 1,251 were asymptomatic.
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On Monday, nearly half the jail population — 5,539 out of 11,992 people — was quarantined, meaning those individuals had been housed with or had contact with someone who was infected or waiting for test results.
Clark said her staff has been hampered by a lack of rapid testing — it still takes about 24 to 48 hours to get results. She said she tried to secure the rapid test machine made by Abbott Laboratories, which delivers results in minutes, but the Department of Health Services was concerned about the high number of false negatives.
“I could live with the false negative because what I want to find out is who’s positive,” she said. “The most important thing for me is to find people who are positive, pull them out and put them in isolation.”
If she were to secure an Abbott machine, she said she would retest every inmate who returned a negative result using the nonrapid test.
“We keep bringing people in,” she said, noting that every new inmate is tested for COVID-19 at intake. “If we don’t have results we don’t know where to move them.”
She said the large number of arrests during the protests over the weekend did not affect jail testing plans because most people were cited and released.
Patrisse Cullors, the chair of Reform LA Jails, which has pushed for system-wide testing, said in a statement that the testing figures show “what we had already foresaw, a massive outbreak in the local jails.”
“The sheriff has deliberately and knowingly allowed coronavirus to spread by making conditions awful, minimizing testing, not screening deputies, and keeping people incarcerated when they shouldn’t be,” Cullors said.
Chase, who oversees the jails, told the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission at its meeting last month that the inmate population is just under 12,000, down 32% from before the pandemic, after many low-level offenders were released in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading.
Chase acknowledged that nonviolent and medically vulnerable inmates were still in the jails and that whittling down the population was a work in progress.
The jails house more than 2,000 inmates whose age or preexisting health conditions make them especially vulnerable. Of about 5,400 inmates awaiting trial, more than 1,100 are classified as nonviolent, Chase said.


latimes--2020-06-01--A 'lifetime of stress' in black communities at tipping point as coronavirus, protests collide

As protesters — both peaceful and violent — took to the streets across Los Angeles County over the weekend to decry the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd , new concerns of a possible resurgence in coronavirus cases have emerged .
Public health officials continued to warn that the virus has not changed , despite eased restrictions allowing some businesses to reopen .
Political protests of up to 100 people are one of two types of mass gatherings allowed under the state ’ s updated shelter-in-place order and are also permitted under L.A. County ’ s latest guidance .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gatherings could affect the transmission rate of COVID-19 .
The weekend saw thousands gathered in places like Fairfax Avenue and downtown Santa Monica , both of which were the sites of widespread looting .
The coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 2,300 people and has infected more than 55,000 in Los Angeles County , numbers that account for the bulk of California ’ s infections .
County officials on Monday reported 22 additional deaths , including a pregnant woman who had tested positive for the virus and had underlying health issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a jail facility .
Both deaths are the first of their kind in the county related to the coronavirus , health officials said .
Over the weekend , 73 deaths and more than 3,511 cases were recorded .
Statewide , the total number of confirmed cases was approaching 113,000 on Monday , with nearly 4,200 deaths .
Black communities continue to bear the brunt of the virus ’ impact .
The disease has devastated the lives of black people at a higher rate than most other races , accounting for a disproportionate number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incredible economic toll on workers who have lost jobs and hours .
It ’ s impossible not to connect this fact with the current protests and outrage , Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday .
She pointed to racism and unequal access to healthcare as a root case of the inequities that put a larger strain on minority communities , noting that the health issues in the black community can be attributed to a “ lifetime of stress ” connected with oppression and daily fears .
“ When I report each week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black deaths in this county due to COVID-19 , I am reporting on the consequences of these long-standing inequities , ” she said .
Ferrer reminded residents and protesters to wear face coverings and maintain social distancing as much as possible during demonstrations .
While the county has seen modest improvements in the fight against the virus , it remains to be seen whether a new upward curve will occur in the coming weeks as more restrictions are eased — and in the wake of the disturbances over the weekend .
“ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Ferrer said .
The county declared a state of emergency late Saturday night as violence erupted after a day of protests .
The previous day , officials had announced that hair salons , barbershops and restaurants could fully reopen for the first time since the start of the pandemic .
A countywide curfew was imposed Sunday , forcing many businesses to close early , some of whom had just reopened .
The 6 p.m.-6 a.m. lockdown was extended Monday for a second day .
“ This emergency comes as we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ caused by the COVID-19 pandemic .
This taxes our resources , but not our resolve , ” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement .
“ We will do everything in our power to keep our communities safe and protect lives and property .
I continue to call on our residents to maintain calm and seek solutions productively , not destructively.
” Gov .
Gavin Newsom echoed the sentiment Monday , calling racism “ a stain on the history of this country that we have concealed.
” “ We have never dealt with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his support for those protesting peacefully .
While officials continue to encourage residents to get tested for COVID-19 , several testing sites were closed Monday across the county in the wake of protests .
“ Los Angeles County is in the midst of fighting an unprecedented pandemic while also facing a State of Emergency that impacts public safety , ” L.A. County Department of Health Services Director Christina Ghaly said .
“ Public health remains a key concern , and testing remains a priority as we continue to battle the coronavirus .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safe for both patients and staff.
” In the city of Los Angeles , testing at Dodger Stadium and Kedren Community Health Center will continue , while other locations are closed .
“ We expect to reopen all test centers on Tuesday , June 2 , 2020 , ” the city posted on its website .
To date , more than 598,000 of the county ’ s 10 million residents have been checked for the virus .
Of those , 8 % of people have tested positive .

As protesters — both peaceful and violent — took to the streets across Los Angeles County over the weekend to decry the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, new concerns of a possible resurgence in coronavirus cases have emerged.
Public health officials continued to warn that the virus has not changed, despite eased restrictions allowing some businesses to reopen.
Political protests of up to 100 people are one of two types of mass gatherings allowed under the state’s updated shelter-in-place order and are also permitted under L.A. County’s latest guidance. But it’s still unclear how such gatherings could affect the transmission rate of COVID-19.
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The weekend saw thousands gathered in places like Fairfax Avenue and downtown Santa Monica, both of which were the sites of widespread looting.
The coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 2,300 people and has infected more than 55,000 in Los Angeles County, numbers that account for the bulk of California’s infections.
County officials on Monday reported 22 additional deaths, including a pregnant woman who had tested positive for the virus and had underlying health issues and a person who was incarcerated in a jail facility. Both deaths are the first of their kind in the county related to the coronavirus, health officials said.
Officials also reported an additional 978 cases.
Over the weekend, 73 deaths and more than 3,511 cases were recorded. Statewide, the total number of confirmed cases was approaching 113,000 on Monday, with nearly 4,200 deaths.
Black communities continue to bear the brunt of the virus’ impact. The disease has devastated the lives of black people at a higher rate than most other races, accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths, and has placed an incredible economic toll on workers who have lost jobs and hours.
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It’s impossible not to connect this fact with the current protests and outrage, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday.
She pointed to racism and unequal access to healthcare as a root case of the inequities that put a larger strain on minority communities, noting that the health issues in the black community can be attributed to a “lifetime of stress” connected with oppression and daily fears.
“When I report each week that we have seen elevated numbers of black deaths in this county due to COVID-19, I am reporting on the consequences of these long-standing inequities,” she said.
Ferrer reminded residents and protesters to wear face coverings and maintain social distancing as much as possible during demonstrations. While the county has seen modest improvements in the fight against the virus, it remains to be seen whether a new upward curve will occur in the coming weeks as more restrictions are eased — and in the wake of the disturbances over the weekend.
“I’m always worried about a surge,” Ferrer said.
The county declared a state of emergency late Saturday night as violence erupted after a day of protests. The previous day, officials had announced that hair salons, barbershops and restaurants could fully reopen for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
A countywide curfew was imposed Sunday, forcing many businesses to close early, some of whom had just reopened. The 6 p.m.-6 a.m. lockdown was extended Monday for a second day.
“This emergency comes as we are in the midst of battling another emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This taxes our resources, but not our resolve,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement.
“We will do everything in our power to keep our communities safe and protect lives and property. I continue to call on our residents to maintain calm and seek solutions productively, not destructively.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed the sentiment Monday, calling racism “a stain on the history of this country that we have concealed.”
“We have never dealt with it,” he said, noting his support for those protesting peacefully.
While officials continue to encourage residents to get tested for COVID-19, several testing sites were closed Monday across the county in the wake of protests.
“Los Angeles County is in the midst of fighting an unprecedented pandemic while also facing a State of Emergency that impacts public safety,” L.A. County Department of Health Services Director Christina Ghaly said. “Public health remains a key concern, and testing remains a priority as we continue to battle the coronavirus. We need to ensure our testing sites are safe for both patients and staff.”
In the city of Los Angeles, testing at Dodger Stadium and Kedren Community Health Center will continue, while other locations are closed.
“We expect to reopen all test centers on Tuesday, June 2, 2020,” the city posted on its website.
To date, more than 598,000 of the county’s 10 million residents have been checked for the virus. Of those, 8% of people have tested positive.
Times staff writer Kailyn Brown contributed to this report.