L.A. COUNTY STATE OF EMERGENCY; COUNTYWIDE CURFEW
May 31st, 2020Via: LA Times:
After two days of protest, chaos and looting, it was a surreal Sunday in Southern California as demonstrators once again gathered en masse, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck.
National Guard troops and police officers guarded the barricaded steps of Los Angeles City Hall. Los Angeles County officials enacted a mandatory, countywide overnight curfew — and Santa Monica enacted one that started even earlier, at 4 p.m.
The protests in downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Beach and elsewhere were, by far, mostly peaceful. But in Santa Monica and Long Beach, police struggled to deal with looters breaking into stores and vandalizing businesses.