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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] and NIKIE JOHNSON | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 2:52 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 2:52 p.m.

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San Bernardino County reported 281 new novel coronavirus cases Tuesday, June 16 — its highest one-day increase so far.

Tuesday’s cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, broke the previous record of 273 cases reported May 9, according to the county’s online dashboard.

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The county has confirmed 7,796 cases, which was up 3.7% from Monday, June 15. Deaths remained at 228.

The county also reached a new milestone in hospitalizations. On Monday, June 15, 221 patients were hospitalized with the disease, up from the previous high of 206 on Sunday, June 14, according to the state’s data.

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Meanwhile, the county’s hospital census shows that 2.3% of the hospital beds available for a surge in patients were in use as of Sunday, June 14.

Testing was up 2.3% from Monday, when an additional 2,097 people were tested. So far, 92,020 people have been tested for the disease in the county of 2.1 million residents, of which 8.5% were positive.

Testing has been increasing steadily this month. In early June, the county was averaging just under 1,700 test results per day, but that number has now risen to more than 2,000 for the first time ever.

However, the number of positive tests has been increasing even more. On June 1, the county was averaging about 140 new cases per day, but it’s now approaching an average of 200 cases per day.

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https://www.sbsun.com/...navirus-cases/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=tw-sbsun[6/16/2020 3:13:43 PM] Coronavirus: San Bernardino County reports 281 new cases, no new deaths Tuesday By Brian Blueskye Palm Springs Desert Sun Posted Jun 16, 2020 at 6:32 PM San Bernardino County reported 281 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, a 3.7% increase from the day before, bringing its total number of cases to 7,796.

Of the total number of cases, 4,749 of those infected have recovered or are projected to do so.

The county also reported no additional deaths, remaining at 228. The county’s overall fatality rate is 2.9%. About 79% of the deaths have occurred in people over age 60, and 57% were in people over the age of 70.

The county has not reported a new death since Friday.

Testing in San Bernardino County has increased 2.9%, or 2,097 people, since Monday, bring the county’s total number of tests to 92,020. The positive testing rate is 8.5%.

Increased testing, however, is still falling short of daily targets that would help clarify how far the virus has spread. State guidelines recommend 3,288 tests per day. So far, the county has surpassed that daily goal three times since it began tracking in April, according to the county’s testing dashboard.

There are 206 confirmed COVID-19 patients being hospitalized, 2 more patients than what was reported Monday. There are an additional 89 patients suspected of being COVID-19 positive. There are 77 positive cases in the ICU, 18 suspected cases in the ICU, and 140 available ICU beds.

San Bernardino County has remained in the top five of those with the most cases around the state, along with Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and Orange counties. In the High Desert, Victorville added 26 cases on Tuesday, while Hesperia added 10. All other additions were fewer than 10 each.

Cases in the High Desert totaled 895 on Tuesday, an increase of 56 from Monday. The vast majority of those — 776, or 86.7% — were in Victorville, Hesperia, Adelanto, Apple Valley and Barstow.

Victorville has amassed the highest number of deaths in the High Desert, with eight. Adelanto has recorded three deaths, and Apple Valley, Barstow and Hesperia have two each.

Combined, the Victor Valley’s four cities and Barstow have 17 of the High Desert’s 21 COVID-19-related deaths.

Here is the list of cases and deaths in the High Desert. Changes from Wednesday are in parentheses:

Adelanto: 109 cases (+4), 3 deaths

Apple Valley: 96 cases (+7), 2 deaths

Barstow: 30 cases (+3), 2 deaths

Fort Irwin: 2 cases

Hesperia: 200 cases (+10), 2 deaths Crestline: 16 cases, 2 deaths

Rimforest: 1 case

Running Springs: 5 cases

Wrightwood: 2 cases

Total: 35 cases, 3 deaths

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Joshua Tree: 15 cases, 2 deaths

Morongo Valley: 7 cases

Oak Hills: 30 cases (+2), 1 death

Phelan: 26 cases (+3)

Twentynine Palms: 12 cases

Victorville: 341 cases (+26), 8 deaths

Yucca Valley: 27 cases (+1), 1 death

Here is the list of cases and deaths in mountain communities:

Big Bear City: 4 cases

Big Bear Lake: 7 cases

Blue Jay: 1 death Barstow Veterans Home spared from budget cuts By Jose Quintero Staff Writer Posted at 8:37 AM BARSTOW — California lawmakers on Monday approved a state spending plan that rejects most of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts, including the closing the veterans home in Barstow.

After helping pull the Veterans Home of California-Barstow from the list of proposed cuts for the state’s upcoming fiscal year budget, 33rd District Assemblyman Jay Obernolte said he was “elated” that the state Legislature approved the spending plan that rejects most of the proposed cuts if Congress does not send the state more money by Oct. 1 to cover the shortfall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This budget also includes a guarantee that not a single veteran in this home may ever be involuntarily displaced,” Obernolte, R-Big Bear, said in a statement. “Keeping this vital facility open is a huge victory for our veterans, their families, and our community.”

Obernolte had been a vocal supportor of the VHC-Barstow, which was founded in 1996 and is home to nearly 200 veterans.

When contacted Tuesday, CalVet spokesperson Lindsey Sin said they did not have a statement on Monday’s budget approval. Sin provided the language from the Budget Act pertaining to the veterans home.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is required to hold at least three stakeholder meetings, and provide a report to the Legislature by Feb. 1, 2021, regarding its plan for the home. The news follows several recent rallies in Barstow. One rally on Memorial Day drew thousands to the veterans home where residents waved signs and American flags while cheering on demonstrators.

Barstow Mayor Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre said at the time that the event was designed to send Newsom a message not to close VHC-Barstow, one of eight homes in the state that offers residential and skilled nursing services for veterans and their spouses.

In addition to closing the facility, Newsom’s revised budget called for a one-year delay to realigning levels of care at the veterans’ homes in Chula Vista and Yountville.

If approved, the changes would have netted state General Fund savings in Fiscal Year 2020-21 of $2.6 million, according to a previous Daily Press report. Under Newsom’s original proposal, long-term savings were expected to be $14 million annually.

State Sen. Scott Wilk also shared his support of Monday’s passing of the budget.

“While the governor and the Democrat majority talk about CA values, the budget harms our most vulnerable Californians including seniors, veterans, foster youth and the disability community by holding them hostage to an unaffordable tax increase,” Wilk said in a statement. “Only if there is a tax increase will these groups get the assistance they deserve.

“We have a moral obligation to help these communities with no strings attached, not use them as pawns in a political chess game.”

But the budget likely won’t become law because it does not have the backing of Newsom, who has the power to sign, veto or alter whatever the Legislature sends him.

Lawmakers passed a budget anyway to make sure they met a constitutional deadline and will continue to be paid. Legislative leaders will continue to negotiate with the Newsom administration to reach an agreement before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. Budget negotiations progressed on Monday when Newsom backed off some of his proposed cuts. During a Monday news conference, Newsom said he was pleased with the conversations and he would not “say anything publicly that puts any of those conversations at risk.”

“In this budget, the Legislature closes a $54 billion deficit using a combination of budget deferrals, billions in borrowing, a $4.4 billion tax increase on businesses, and depletion of most of our reserves,” Obernolte said in a statement. “While we were able to protect vital services this year, unfortunately these budget gimmicks merely defer difficult decisions about reducing state spending and will only create larger budget deficits in the future.

“I wholeheartedly approve of the Legislature’s resolve to stand up to the Governor’s continued overreach in exercising executive power. This budget reasserts our constitutional authority to provide fiscal oversight of state spending. As a coequal branch of government, we have an obligation to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely and appropriately.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Jose Quintero may be reached at 760-951-6274 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @DP_JoseQ. Demonstrators gather in Victorville to protest death of black man found hanging in tree – Press Enterprise

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By ROBERT GUNDRAN | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 7:18 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 8:24 p.m.

Roughly 200 people gathered outside Victorville City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to protest the hanging death of Malcolm Harsch.

No foul play was suspected in the death of 38-year-old Harsch, according to San Bernardino County authorities. Harsch, a black man, died in Victorville on May 31.

Harsch’s death came a week before another black man, Robert Fuller, was found dead near Poncitlán Square, just east of Palmdale City Hall. Fuller’s death was also a hanging and was initially described by officials as a suspected suicide. Coroner’s investigators have yet to rule on a final cause of death

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pending the investigation and toxicology results.

In a news conference on Monday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said there wasn’t any evidence the deaths were linked, but that his detectives would talk with San Bernardino County detectives.

In a statement later Monday, San Bernardino County sheriff’s homicide investigators said Harsch had been talking with his girlfriend at a homeless encampment at Circle and Victor drives. Not much later, he was discovered hanging in a tree at 7:07 a.m. S

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His girlfriend had returned to her tent, then later came out when others alerted her that Harsch was found hanging, a cord around his neck. Residents of the encampment tried to resuscitate Harsch before deputies arrived and also attempted to revive him.

San Bernardino County coroner’s investigators also have not officially determined Harsch’s cause of death. But they said there was no indication of foul play.

An autopsy was performed on Harsch’s body on June 12, and coroner’s offices are waiting for results of a toxicology report.

Harmonie Harsch, Malcolm’s sister, said on a video on Facebook from her home in Ohio that she doesn’t believe her brother’s death was a suicide.

“My brother is 6-feet-3-inches tall, and that tree was four feet tall,” Harmonie Harch said. “He was tied to a tree with an HDML cord. One question I have is where did the HDML cord come from? Someone took their time with that knot. It was too perfect.”

She said that an unidentified man stole from Malcolm and she believes that man is responsible for Malcolm’s death.

Protesters also lined up outside of City Hall to call for less funding to go to law enforcement and instead be rerouted into other public programs, the Daily Press newspaper reported.

Approximately 42 percent of the money from the city of Victorville’s General Fund in 2019-20 goes toward law enforcement, according to the City of Victorville’s annual budget.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said deputies were near the protest and roughly 200 people were there protesting.

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https://www.pe.com/...-in-tree/?utm_content=tw-pressenterprise&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social[6/17/2020 8:52:57 AM] Protest at Victorville City Hall tackles hanging death, defunding police By Martin Estacio Staff Writer Posted Jun 16, 2020 at 6:16 PM VICTORVILLE — About 150 protesters lined up in front of City Hall on Tuesday to ask for more scrutiny into the hanging death of Malcolm Harsch and the defunding of law enforcement so that money could be used for other services.

Harsch was found hanging from a tree on May 31 near the city’s library, more than a week before another Black man, Robert Fuller, was found hanging near Palmdale City Hall.

Palmdale, in Los Angeles County, is located about 53 miles west of Victorville.

Both deaths have sparked protests and increased investigation after officials initially ruled Fuller’s death as a suicide and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials said there was no foul play suspected in Harsch’s death.

Adelanto City Council member Stevevonna Evans said that due to conflicting stories in Harsch’s death, her group, For The People, were asking the Victorville City Council to “demand a clear and transparent, independent investigation from the FBI and that they also bring in the attorney general.”

On Monday, the Sheriff’s Department said it was working closely with both state law enforcement officials from the Attorney General’s office and the city of Victorville.

Harsch’s younger sister, Harmonie Harsch, said in a Facebook video Tuesday that her family still had many questions about his death after she said she spoke with witnesses. According to Harmonie Harsch, several witnesses told her that her brother was stopped twice by police in the early morning hours before his death. In the second stop, she said people saw two officers who “threw my brother to the ground and choked him until he threw up.”

Harsch said that may have been the reason her brother had blood on his shirt when he was found around 7 a.m. on May 31.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Jodi Miller told the Daily Press that Malcolm Harsch was “contacted by a Victorville deputy on May 31 at about 3:00 a.m.”

“Mr. Harsch was seen yelling in the street, which caught the deputy’s attention as he was driving by,” Miller said in an email. “The deputy contacted Mr. Harsch to check on him. After a brief conversation, the deputy left the area.”

She said the Sheriff’s Department did not contact Harsch a second time.

Meanwhile, Evans said, “Whenever we start having those kind of issues, you have to call in outside sources.”

At the protest, many people waved signs as Sheriff’s deputies stood nearby in the area of the Victorville Superior Courthouse, which is adjacent to City Hall. A Sheriff’s helicopter flew overhead.

Robert Hoskins started chants with a bullhorn: “No justice, no peace. No racist police.”

He said his frustration with the Sheriff’s Department stemmed from “how long it took for everyone to find out.”

The Sheriff’s Department did not initially release a public statement on Harsch’s death until Monday. His death occurred as protests highlighting police violence and systemic racism have broken out worldwide in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

Miller previously told the Daily Press the Sheriff’s Department does not typically write press releases on suspected suicides. Hoskins said he was also at the protest to encourage defunding law enforcement, or reallocating funds into other areas like after-school programs and social services. He said such programs could build more of a sense of community and possibly result in law enforcement being more proactive, rather than reactive.

“We’re not saying get rid of the police officers,” he said. “But instead of putting it towards making it easier for another person to get a ticket, or so on, they’re just worrying about what’s happening after the crimes.”

Hoskins compared it to the hypothetical situation of more houses catching fire.

“When you have houses that are catching fire easily, you don’t hire more firefighters,” he said, adding that more police officers shouldn’t be hired until the underlying causes of crime and poverty are examined.

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Tonda Bradshaw, far right, addresses people protesting racism in the city of Yucaipa on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. She had invited them to stage outside Yucaipa City Hall during her meeting with sheriff’s officials. Bradshaw said after the meeting, “The racism here runs deep.” (Photo by Brian Rokos, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department will recommend that charges be filed against four people who fought June 1 at a gas station in Yucaipa, that station’s commander said Tuesday, June 16.

Capt. James Williams said the report to the District Attorney’s Office will recommend that three people be charged with battery and one person be charged with assault with a deadly weapon — a telescoping baton.

The revelation came during a meeting at City Hall with two community residents seeking action from city and sheriff’s leaders to stem racist behavior in Yucaipa.

Men who appear to be holding weapons stand outside of a Yucaipa business during a Black Lives Matter protest Monday, June 1, 2020. (Screengrab via Twitter courtesy of Emily Wieners @EmilyWinters27)

About a dozen protesters carrying signs reading Black Lives Matter and other slogans stood outside City Hall during the meeting that included Lt. Julie Landen, local physicians Tonda Bradshaw and Walter Jones, City Manager Ray Casey and Mayor Pro Tem Denise Allen.

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READ MORE Coronavirus concerns will extinguish most fireworks The meeting followed the June 1 fight on Yucaipa Boulevard among people protesting George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25 and another group. No one was arrested after that fight because no one wished to press charges, the Sheriff’s Department said.

But the investigation was reopened when victims came forward.

Also June 1, business owners were seen carrying firearms on rooftops, and City Councilman Bobby Duncan sat outside a bar with a rifle next to him. The owners said they were protecting the city from an online threat against the city; others saw the display of weapons as an attempt to intimidate protesters.

Landen said the owners have been educated on firearms laws and that they could be arrested if they illegally wield the weapons in public. She said the threat was not credible.

Bradshaw and Jones asked the community leaders to take action to stop racism in the city, which they said fueled the actions of some on June 1. Bradshaw said Duncan and Mayor David Avila’s actions contributed to the problem.

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Upland Councilwoman Janice Elliott has declared she is running for mayor in the November election. Others have not yet announced. (photo courtesy of Janice Elliott)

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READ MORE Coronavirus concerns will extinguish Elliott was elected in 2016, then again in 2018 to fill the new District 2 seat, which means her four-year term is not complete until November 2022. Hence, running for the mayor’s seat on Nov. 3, 2020, means that win or lose, she will remain on the City Council.

“One of the reasons for getting out early is you have time to observe people’s reactions,” she said.

So far, reaction has been muted.

For starters, Mayor Debbie Stone has not said if she will be running for reelection. Stone did not return

several phone calls and emails seeking comment for this story.

Former council member Ricky Felix, who resigned May 31 and moved his family to Utah, said Elliott told him in January she intended to run for mayor and that she probably has considered it since her victory in 2018. That same year, Elliott’s fellow incumbents, Carol Timm and Gino Filippi, lost to Felix and Rudy Zuniga.

“Her hat has been in the ring for two years,” Felix said Tuesday, June 16.

Lois Sicking Dieter, a 31-year Upland resident who attends council meetings and is involved in city issues, said Stone would face “solid” opposition from Elliott.

“Debbie Stone seems nice but I don’t think she has the depth of leadership to guide our city,” Sicking Dieter said.

City Councilman Bill Velto, appointed to fill Elliott’s at-large seat in January 2019, is considering a run for mayor but hasn’t decided, he said.

“I’ve been flattered by people asking me to (run) but I haven’t made a decision,” he said.

The District 1 seat is on the ballot Nov. 3, but Velto said he’s not interested in running for that seat because he would prefer to represent all of Upland. “The role of mayor is better suited for me,” he said. The mayor is an at-large seat.

Velto and Elliott differed on the Bridge Development warehouse/logistics and package delivery center for northwest Upland. The 201,096 square-foot warehouse was approved by a 4-1 vote, with Elliott the lone dissenter.

Elliott, who sees the environment and other “quality of life” issues as important, said the developer needed to do a full-blown Environmental Impact Report and may have underestimated effects on traffic, noise, air pollution and water.

Velto, the California business development director for the Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, favored the project.

Elliott said she opposes sale of part of Memorial Park to San Antonio Regional Hospital.

She’s also talking to residents concerned about police use of force after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck. Floyd’s death, which was recorded and widely broadcast, and those of other black Americans who died in police custody, have set off protests throughout the country.

Elliott said she favors hiring a social worker to work with the Upland Police Department, especially when dealing with those identified as homeless.

She has formed a campaign committee registered with the California Secretary of State’s Office. So far, she has raised $600, she said.

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https://www.dailybulletin.com/...tm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin[6/17/2020 8:53:17 AM] Victorville’s 24 Hour Fitness, Hesperia’s Fitness 19 fall victim to COVID-19 By Rene Ray De La Cruz Staff Writer Posted at 8:42 AM VICTORVILLE — After the California Department of Public Health approved the reopening of gyms, two popular fitness centers in the Victor Valley have announced they will shutter their doors for good.

Company officials announced last week that the 24 Hour Fitness on Bear Valley Road in Victorville would not reopen. Likewise, the Fitness 19 location on Main Street in Hesperia will also remain shuttered.

On Friday, a Daily Press reporter found locked doors at both gyms. At 24 Hour Fitness, employees were seen removing containers of powdered protein, energy drinks and other supplements from the fitness center and placing them into a U- Haul truck.

Several signs that read “This Club is Closing” were posted on the doors and windows of the 24 Hour Fitness, a security guard told the Daily Press on Saturday.

The signs also invited 24 Hour Fitness members to workout at nearby company- owned locations. June 22 is the reopening day of the 24 Hour Fitness located at 18825 Bear Valley Road in Apple Valley, the company website said.

On June 11, 24 Hour Fitness CEO Tony Ueber told club members via email that he was excited to announce plans to reopen many locations after the company closed its clubs in March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the letter, Ueber said some of the fitness clubs would remain permanently closed. The 24 Hour Fitness website revealed that 100 locations would be shuttered, including 33 fitness centers in California. The gym closures came after the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the company had laid off a number of employees across the country as it struggles with the negative financial impact from gym closures amid stay-at-home orders.

On Monday, Ueber announced a financial restructuring for the company through a voluntary Chapter 11 filing that is expected to financially strengthen the company.

“As part of this, we have received commitments for $250 million in financing that will allow us to continue our club reopening process without interruption,” Ueber said. “This restructuring will enable us to eliminate debt and close selected clubs that were either out-of-date or in close proximity to other 24 Hour Fitness clubs.”

Removing these financial and operational constraints will allow 24 Hour Fitness to focus its network of approximately 300 existing clubs nationwide, Ueber said.

“We will have the financial flexibility to upgrade our equipment and expand and improve our fitness offerings to best serve our members and continue our transformational journey,” Ueber said.

Before the closures, the company had more than 400 gyms in 14 states, with nearly 22,000 employees, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“Reducing the number of clubs in our network will allow us to meet the needs of the majority of our members and allow added flexibility to re-invest in the clubs we are reopening,” Ueber said. “As a reminder, you can enjoy access to any of these locations as they reopen. Soon after the clubs closed in March, many 24 Hour Fitness members were charged one last time before the company froze membership dues in April.

Bodybuilder Johnny Espinosa said he spent the best days of his career at 24 Hour Fitness in Victorville.

“I spent thousands of hours with friends making each other better, and I went from an amateur bodybuilder to a world class pro, all while helping and coaching others there to do the same,” said Espinosa, who lives in Victorville. “Dreams really came true there.”

On Friday, rows of treadmills stood at attention just inside the closed Fitness 19 near the Cardenas supermarket in Hesperia as signs posted outside explained how the COVID-19 pandemic had forced the gym’s closure after seven years in operation.

The Fitness 19 letter said all memberships from the Hesperia location would be transferred to the Fitness 19 at 13605 Bear Valley Road in Victorville, which opened on June 12.

The Fitness 19 website includes a list of access changes for its members, including contactless entry at the front of each gym, the temporary closure of the Kids Club and a limited number of members allowed in the gym.

For more information, or to see the complete list of safety and health protocols for Fitness 19, visit www.Fitness19.com or email [email protected].

Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227, or by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.

The 24 Hour Fitness website includes new protocols to help guard against the coronavirus, including limiting the amount of members into the club at one time. Those wishing to workout must now reserve a workout through the company’s app.

The website said 24 Hour Fitness centers will open from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily to allow for overnight cleaning. Also, some equipment may be powered off or moved to provide ample space for members to workout safely. Courts will be repurposed as extra workout space, and no ball sports will be allowed. All Kids’ clubs, wet areas and drinking fountains will remain closed for the time being.

Chris Centola, a Hesperia resident and longtime 24 Hour Fitness member, told the Daily Press the club’s reopening plan is insufficient.

“They upset a lot of customers by charging dues a month after they shut down,” Centola said. “I don’t think there’s many people that are going to stay when they are offering one-third of their amenities, and from all we have heard, we’ll still be expecting their already high monthly dues.” San Bernardino crash leaves 1 dead – San Bernardino Sun

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San Bernardino crash leaves 1 dead

By ERIC LICAS | [email protected] | Orange County Register  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 11:04 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 11:04 p.m.

One person died in a traffic collision in San Bernardino on Tuesday, June 16.

The crash happened at about 12:41 p.m. in the intersection of Little Mountain and Kendall drives, San Bernardino Police Sgt. John Echevarria said. Coroner personnel were summoned shortly after officers arrived.

Vehicle traffic was restricted at the intersection where the collision took place as traffic investigators gathered evidence, Echevarria said. Further information regarding the circumstances surrounding the crash or the identity of the person who died were not immediately available. M

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Elizabeth Martinez, 14, of San Bernardino, was attending a family gathering at a residence on the 1600 block of West Porter Street when she was shot at about 10:56 p.m. Saturday, June 13, San Bernardino Police officials said. She was taken to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. (Photo courtesy of the San Bernardino Police Department)

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A 14-year-old girl died and another girl was injured when gunfire rang out during a party in San Bernardino over the weekend, officials said Tuesday, June 16.

Elizabeth Martinez, 14, of San Bernardino, was attending a family gathering at a residence on the 1600 block of West Porter Street when she was shot at about 10:56 p.m. Saturday, June 13, San Bernardino Police Department Sgt. John Echevarria said. She was taken to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

A second gunshot victim, a girl, was also hospitalized, Echeverria said. She was in recovery as of Tuesday, and was reported to be stable.

Further details regarding the circumstances surrounding shooting were not immediately released. No arrests were immediately announced and a detailed description of any possible suspect was not available as of Tuesday evening.

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W Three people, including a 5-year-old child, died Tuesday when a minivan they were in was hit from behind by a semi truck on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, pushing it By into the trailer of another semi-rig in front of it, the California Highway Patrol said.

The San Bernardino County Coroner’s office early Wednesday, June 17, identified the victims as Rachel Miller, 27, of San Dimas, Aubree Hardy, 5, of San Dimas, and Aaron Hardy, 25, of Fontana. The relationships of the three were not immediately available. M

The minivan was stopped for traffic.

Witnesses said the driver of the big-rig that hit it was going about 60 mph in heavy traffic, with no indication he braked before impact around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, said CHP Officer Jesus Garcia, a spokesman for the agency.

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The San Bernardino County Sheri's Department arrested a 22-year-old man who allegedly robbed and punched a victim while yelling homophobic slurs during an incident at a train station in Rancho Cucamonga.

Deputies arrested a 22-year-old man who allegedly robbed and punched a victim while yelling homophobic slurs during an incident at a train station in Rancho Cucamonga, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

On June 15 at 3 p.m., deputies were dispatched to a call of a robbery at the Metrolink Station on Azusa Court.

The victim reported he was waiting for the train and saw an abandoned bag on a bench. While the victim was looking in the bag, a man, later identied as Luke Carter, a resident of Highland, Indiana, appeared and began yelling and accusing the victim of stealing his property. The victim was unsure if the bag really belonged to Carter so he left the bag on the bench and called police.

Bulk Hand Sanitizer in Stock Bulk Hand Sanitizer Gel 1/2 Gallon Jug with Pump. 70% Alcohol with Aloe Vera. Order Now! Bulk Apothecary Carter approached the victim and the victim tried to walk away. Carter allegedly ripped the victim’s bag from the victim’s shoulder and stole money and a cell phone.

When the victim demanded his property back, Carter allegedly punched the victim several times on the head and face while yelling homophobic slurs.

The train arrived and the victim was able to get away and board the train for safety.

When deputies arrived, Carter was still at the Metrolink claiming to wait for a train. Several witnesses identied Carter as the person who assaulted the victim.

Carter was arrested and booked at West Valley Detention Center, where he remained in custody on $110,000 bail.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is urged to contact the Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s Station. Callers wishing to remain anonymous can call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) or leave information at www.wetip.com. Fireghters promptly control house re late Tuesday night By Jose Quintero Staff Writer Posted at 1:45 AM VICTORVILLE — No injuries were reported from a fire late Tuesday night at a home on Aloe Road that law enforcement believe might be a marijuana grow house.

A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department official at the scene Tuesday night said no one was home during the fire and there were indications of a possible marijuana grow.

Victorville Fire Department Battalion Chief Andrew Roach did not report any injuries.

Firefighters were dispatched to the fire at 11:34 p.m. and the first unit arrived six minutes later, Roach said.

“Units initiated an aggressive fire attack and found the fire in a bedroom upstairs,” Roach said. ”

The blaze was knocked out four minutes after arrival, according to Roach.

“There was extensive overhaul and check for extensions because of conditions that existed inside the structure,” Roach said.

The department responded to the fire with four engines and a truck company, Roach said. Riverside County Reports ‘Rapid Rise in Hospitalizations’ Due to COVID-19 – NBC Los Angeles

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Riverside County health officials have reported 409 newly confirmed coronavirus cases -- the largest one-day increase since the start of the pandemic -- 11 additional fatalities and “a rapid rise in hospitalizations.”

Infections countywide now stand at 11,694, with 395 deaths attributed to COVID-19, according to the Riverside University Health System.

The number of hospitalized patients went up by nine from Monday, to 237, though the number being treated in ICU units -- 65 -- was down by five from the previous day.

The county has documented 65 recoveries this week, bringing the total to 6,165. More than 159,000 tests have been administered countywide.

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Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage reported this week it has seen a near quadrupling of COVID-19 hospitalizations since late May, when the county got permission from the state to move into an “accelerated” stage 2 allowing for more business reopenings.

Nearly three weeks ago, Eisenhower Health had 12 patients being treated for coronavirus complications. Last Wednesday, there were 45 COVID-19 patients at the hospital -- the highest number Eisenhower Health has reported since the pandemic began. The number was down to 41 as of Monday.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, who is an emergency room physician, said in a Facebook posting on Monday that Eisenhower Health's data “demonstrates a rapid rise in hospitalizations.”

“People are getting sick. All of us have a role to play in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Please wash your hands regularly, wear a mask in public near people, keep your distance, and follow other recommendations from the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention),” he wrote.

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This data from Eisenhower Health demonstrates a rapid rise in hospitalizations. People are getting sick. All of us have a role to play in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Please wash your hands regularly, wear a mask in public near people, keep your distance, and follow other recommendations from the CDC.

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Riverside County -- which rescinded its mandatory mask mandate -- has moved into the first half of stage 3 under the state's four-stage public health de-regulation plan, permitting more private sector interests to resume operations following Gov. Gavin Newsom's March 19 shutdowns for COVID-19 mitigation.

Motels, gyms, bars, museums, theaters and wineries are among the entities that were given the green light to reopen under public health guidelines that encourage social distancing, caps on the size of gatherings and repetitive sanitation of spaces.

“We have long looked forward to reopening more Riverside County businesses, which provide valuable goods, services and jobs vital to the fabric of our economy,” county Supervisor Karen Spiegel said late last week. “It's very important that while visiting these businesses, all residents continue to do their part to slow the spread of the disease by wearing face coverings and maintaining six feet from others.”

Personal care businesses, including nail salons, as well as sporting venues and libraries, are still prohibited from resuming operations. However, day camps for children were among the facilities given the approval to reopen.

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Riverside County saw its biggest one-day increase in confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, June 16, with 409 cases added to a total that’s approaching 12,000.

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The county, according to its public health website, now has 11,694 confirmed cases, up 409 from the Monday, June 15, update. Deaths are up to 395, an increase of 11 deaths from Monday.

The previous one-day high was June 9. The county crossed the 10,000-case mark June 11.

Numbers added in each day’s update typically reflect what’s happened over a few days. It takes time for reports of new diagnoses and deaths to reach the public health department.

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M Countywide, 6,165 have officially recovered from COVID-19, up 65 from Monday. Official recoveries are defined as those who contracted the virus who are no longer in isolation, show no symptoms and have had their public health cases closed.

There are 237 people in the county hospitalized with COVID-19, up nine from Monday, the county reported. Of those, 65 are in intensive care, down five from the day before.

Unlike the state, which tracks hospitalizations of confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases, the county only reports hospitalizations of those confirmed to have the virus.

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More than 159,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the county.

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Staff Writer Nikie Johnson contributed to this report.

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The Riverside City Council passed a budget Tuesday, June 16, as some wore masks, some didn’t, and some participated digitally. (Screenshot via https://riversideca.legistar.com)

By RYAN HAGEN | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 11:52 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 11:52 p.m.

A budget battered by deficits related to the novel coronavirus and pension costs, but with police funding mostly intact, got the Riverside City Council’s unanimous approval late Tuesday, June 16.

The emergency budget — meaning it was passed without the usual review process and officials intend to modify it every three months — cuts general fund spending by 10%, or $28.1 million, in the fiscal year that begins July 1. That’s based on budget officials’ best guesses of how taxes and other revenue will fall as a result of the virus.

Members of the public asked the city to follow the lead of other cities and defund the police department. In general, that means taking much of the funding that normally goes to officers and instead using it on social programs, education and housing, while using beefed-up social programs to handle nonviolent problems that traditionally are the responsibility of police.

But the cuts proposed by city officials mostly shield the police department, with a few major exceptions. A proposed new police headquarters, which would cost $2.1 million in the 2020-21 year, was postponed by a year, and incentives to recruit officers from other departments were eliminated. S Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said he had heard and understood the public’s comments during the meeting about defunding police. He then volunteered to replace two police officers who would have L been added to the Public Safety Engagement Team, which focuses on homelessness issues, with funding for social and medical help for homeless people performed by a different department. By

“Those are things that we would be willing to give up police officer bodies for,” Gonzalez said. “We’re on the same team.” R Council members voted to make that change.

Councilwoman Erin Edwards wanted those positions to be dedicated to nurses, specifically. Mayor Rusty Bailey argued that doing so would tie the hands of the homeless solutions team if the money could be better spent on other homelessness-focused employees.

As the meeting approached 11 p.m., Councilman Jim Perry said he would hold back his comments on

calls to defund the police department because it appeared other council members weren’t pursuing the idea.

“Yes, we did receive a lot of correspondence,” he said. “Let’s be honest — the emails were form letters.”

Perry also said that, to show solidarity with city workers who have been furloughed during the pandemic, he had reduced his salary 10% and would reduce his $6,000 allowance for travel, training and office supplies to $3,200. Councilman Chuck Conder, who earlier in the pandemic tried unsuccessfully to have all council members reduce their annual pay to $1, said he would try to follow suit.

The council also voted to begin priority-based budgeting by next year, in which the council ranks priorities and then allocates funding based on those priorities, rather than basing funding on departmental budgets as Riverside does now. The first meeting on what those priorities should be will be next month, the council voted.

Since 2016, Riverside has adopted two-year budgets to allow for more long-term planning. This budget, by contrast, includes only one year of spending and expected to be changed quarterly once more is known about the cost of COVID-19 and shutdowns meant to slow the spread of the virus.

Only limited financial information is available since most businesses shut down, and the impact is difficult to predict when it’s unclear how long it will last, Budget Manager Kristie Thomas said.

“Even after the stay at home order is lifted the toll it has taken on the local economy and psyche of citizens will still be highly unpredictable,” Thomas said in a written report. “Time alone will provide us a better barometer of the impacts, but not until the order is lifted and a ‘new normal’ emerges.”

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closed, while entertainment revenue, sales tax, public parking and the gas tax are all expected to bring in less money than usual, among the expected COVID-19 changes.

The budget also did not go through the usual community and departmental review process because of COVID-19, so it mostly continues funding from the 2019-20 year.

One of the major areas of savings is leaving vacant positions unfilled, which the city projects will save $15.6 million over the course of the year. As of Tuesday, the city has 332 vacant positions, said Edward Enriquez, Riverside’s chief financial officer.

Resident Tom Evans said residents should know how RELATED LINKS residents will feel the loss of the jobs those people used to

perform. Riverside prepares for 10% budget cut as coronavirus strikes revenue “What those positions translate to is a reduction in service,” Evans said, “and I think we deserve to know what service Riverside County supervisors asked to levels are going to change as we keep positions vacant.” defund Sheriff’s Department

The total budget is almost $1.2 billion, including $271 Riverside County sees biggest one-day jump in coronavirus cases million in general fund spending.

Riverside passes budget without cuts but Projected savings to the general fund in 2020-21 include eyes ‘insolvency’ in 2023 the following: $100 million shortfall blamed on Leaving vacant positions unfilled — $15.6 million savings coronavirus forces Riverside County Pension Obligation Bond — $7 million savings budget cuts

New Riverside police chief Larry Savings to the Measure Z fund, a 1-cent sales tax that city Gonzalez has been in department since voters approved in 2016, include the following: 1993

Defer new police headquarters until 2023 – $2,1 million savings Defer museum expansion and rehabilitation to 2023 — $807,000 savings Eliminate plans for new downtown parking garage — $807,000 savings

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By JULIA PRODIS SULEK | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 5:46 p.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2020 at 6:10 a.m.

SAN JOSE — Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s public health officer who has faced criticism for her cautious approach to lifting stay-at-home orders, has also been the target of personal threats.

“We are aware of the threats made against Dr. Cody and it is under investigation,” Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Low said in a statement Tuesday.

He provided no details about the nature of the threats. They were first reported by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

In an interview Tuesday, Cody did not address the threats specifically, but said “we’ve all taken more heat than we usually take. I try as much as

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READ MORE Race for a vaccine: Synthetic COVID Cody is credited with leading the Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order in mid-March — the first in the country and days ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide order. When Newsom began loosening restrictions on church services and hair salons statewide at the end of May, however, Cody cautioned that he was moving too fast and Santa Clara County would proceed more cautiously.

Cody is not alone among public health officers across the country who have become targets of ire. Seven other health officials in California have resigned since the pandemic began after enduring withering criticism.

Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Related Articles Association of California, said that although she hadn’t heard about threats against Cody specifically, the phenomenon is 18 people arrested for violating “alarming and disappointing. Public comment is an important quarantine rules remain jailed in Hawaii part of making public policy. But instead of attacking the policy, they’ve started attacking the person.” Positive discipline 101: How to rein in your kids when the pandemic changes the relationship

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Not wearing masks or social distancing, family and friends celebrate graduates from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach on June 11. (Jay L.

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To the editor: As a physician who specializes in public health and preventive medicine, I am shocked to see that places like Orange County are not requiring people to wear face coverings in indoor public areas as they allow more businesses to open.

Opening up carefully is probably necessary, but in return for opening up, the public should be required to wear face coverings for now. We have very good evidence that the two most important practices to prevent COVID-19 transmission are to avoid crowded indoor places and to wear masks. If everyone did those things, we could probably at least keep the epidemic in check to some extent.

I am also greatly disturbed to learn that Dr. Nichole Quick, the ex-health officer of Orange County, felt the need to resign due to threats and harassment. What a sad state of affairs.

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To the editor: Those who would threaten people of science regarding the best practices for avoiding COVID-19 should consider the following.

You may not die if you contract the virus, but if you infect me, directly or indirectly, my chances of dying are much higher. My wife and I would love to go to our favorite pizza joint and a movie tonight, but it isn’t worth the risk. The bad news for others is that me and people like me (older people) control so many workers’ financial futures.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people 55 years and older (those more likely to have serious complications from the virus) are responsible for about 40% of all consumer expenditures in this country.

Here are two takeaways from this data: As long as the risk of contagion is perpetuated by younger people who refuse to take precautions to protect people like me from COVID-19, we will stay away from pizza joints and theaters and, for that matter, any place that doesn’t enforce wearing masks when practical. That means the goods and services we buy and sell will go away.

Write when you find work.

Bob Merrilees, Camarillo

To the editor: Without masks, there is no respect for my health and my life.

I used to spend a lot of money in Orange County, but not anymore. As an over-65 human being, I am convinced that my life does not matter to the people who run Orange County.

My dollars can go elsewhere.

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Laura Thompson, Marina del Rey

To the editor: The picture in the print edition of people celebrating their high school graduation in Manhattan Beach could have been a statement of support for social distancing and wearing masks, a sure way to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Rather, and more fundamentally, this is a moral failure. It could have probably taken just one parent or student to speak up and say, “This is wrong.”

So sad.

John Van den Akker, Hermosa Beach

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READ MORE Premier League returns Wednesday here’s what Authorities have said foul play was not suspected in either man’s death. But the proximity and timing of the hangings led to suspicion among activists and the men’s family members.

Thousands marched over the weekend in both cities. On Monday, detectives and coroner investigators in both counties said they would continue examining the deaths.

L.A. County fire paramedics and later coroner investigators who responded to scene of Fuller’s death initially said the hanging appeared to be a suicide.

After an autopsy last Friday, however, the coroner’s office deferred declaring an official cause of death.

A coroner’s spokeswoman said a report on the examination of Fuller’s body would not be made available until they release a cause of death — examiners are asking for more information, “including laboratory testing and witness statements” to determine how the man died.

L.A. County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said his office never officially determined a cause of death for Fuller. The examiners who initially viewed his death as a suicide “felt it prudent to roll that back and continue to look deeper,” he said.

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva homicide detectivers would also continue investigating Fuller’s death, with oversight from state and federal officials.

In a statement, the FBI in Los Angeles said its agents, along with the “U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of California and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are actively reviewing the investigations into the hanging deaths of two African American men in the cities of Palmdale and Victorville to determine whether foul play or civil rights violations played a role.”

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a video statement on Monday said he was dispatching investigators from his office to Palmdale to review the L.A. County Sheriff’s investigation. He did not say whether the investigation in Victorville would also be part of that review.

Capt. Kent Wegener said L.A. County detectives were surveying the park for any surveillance camera footage that may have captured activity before and after the hanging of Fuller. He said they were also looking for the witness who first saw Fuller’s body and called 9-1-1.

Hicks, the family’s attorney, said they were seeking to have RELATED ARTICLES an independent autopsy paid for by the city of Palmdale.

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Demonstrators gather outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale Station on June 13 to demand an investigation into the death of Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree. (Los Angeles Times)

By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD

JUNE 17, 2020 | 3 AM

The image of a Black man hanging from a tree is seared into the American psyche as the embodiment of racism in all its ugliness and cruelty. Lynchings of African Americans through the civil rights era of the 1960s challenged the nation’s perception of itself as the land of liberty, justice, equality and rule of law, and we have seen to our horror that even today, racial hatred can still descend to murder.

So even if a hanging in the Antelope Valley might look at the authorities’ first glance like suicide, that simply must not be the end of it. There must be a thorough probe, and findings must be made public.

The body of 24-year-old Robert Fuller was found June 10 in a tree near Palmdale City Hall. Officials quickly labeled it a suicide, but protesters to their credit immediately demanded a deeper investigation. So did Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.

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How likely is it that a man would hang himself from a tree? It is not unheard of, but it is hardly reassuring to note that two weeks earlier the body of 38-year-old Malcolm Harsch was found hanging from a tree in Victorville, a desert city at the opposite end of the storied Pearblossom Highway from Palmdale. Coincidence is possible. But so is a pattern. We don’t have enough information yet to know.

Until a generation ago, much of the desert just north of Los Angeles and San Bernardino was dotted with mostly white communities that attracted families seeking homes that were more affordable and a lifestyle that was less urban than what was found in the packed cities south of the mountains. They were joined in the 1980s by a large migration from L.A. of Black families. The relatively quick demographic change brought some tension and several instances of violence.

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey is today vocally opposed by protesters angry that she has not prosecuted police who have killed unarmed Black men. But as a young deputy district attorney assigned to Lancaster (not far from Palmdale), she prosecuted the killers of a homeless man whom they had met at a McDonald’s. Lacey said that they had set out to kill a Black man and that, when they had done it, they celebrated by getting tattoos. Lacey won the county’s first hate crime convictions.

“Here we are in the 1990s, in Southern California,” she recounted as a candidate in 2012, “and you have a racist group that has decided to murder people much the way they did in the South and got away with it in the ’50s. The verdict was about this: We are not going back there. Justice will be served. It was a message to anyone else out there who would even think of engaging in this behavior — that we’re just not going back there.”

That’s a sentiment that ought to ring true today: We will not go back there. Those are the words that ought to be on our minds when we see the videotaped killing of Ahmaud

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Arbery, who was chased down this year by white men in Georgia and shot to death. We will not go back there — and yet here we are. Arbery’s killing has the look and feel of a lynching, even if in this instance there was no rope and no tree.

That was the South, but those same words echo when we see the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. And yes, Floyd was killed not by a lynch mob but by a police officer. Yet the brutality and gratuitousness of the killing lend it the caustic flavor of a lynching. We will not go back there, yet here we are.

People around the nation are marching in resolve and anger against the continuing individual and institutional — and deadly — anti-Black racism still ingrained in our society. We struggle with the lines that separate the killing of people like Breonna Taylor in her own home by police officers from the killing of people like Arbery by civilians.

So we do not — we must not — simply shrug and say “suicide” when Black men are found hanging in trees. We leave no stone unturned until we can determine conclusively that these men were not killed by others, but by themselves.

And then, if we conclude that it could not have been murder but must have been suicide, we must recognize that our work is not done. We will have to ask ourselves: Why would a young Black man in the 21st century United States kill himself? Suicide in the Black community was historically low but is on the rise, especially among teenagers and young adults. Where did we go wrong? And, whether it be murder or suicide, how do we prevent such a thing from happening again?

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Los Angeles police officers talk to a homeless man on San Pedro Street along skid row. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Several Los Angeles City Council members called Tuesday for a new emergency-response model that uses trained specialists, rather than LAPD officers, to render aid to homeless people and those suffering from mental health and substance abuse issues.

A motion submitted by City Council members Nury Martinez, Herb Wesson, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren Price and Bob Blumenfield asks city departments to work with the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to develop a model that diverts nonviolent calls for service away from the LAPD and to “appropriate non-law enforcement agencies.”

The LAPD now has a “greater role in dealing with homelessness, mental health and even COVID-19-related responses” the motion states, blaming budget cuts to social service programs for the city’s increased reliance on police officers.

“We have gone from asking the police to be part of the solution, to being the only solution for problems they should not be called on to solve in the first place,” the motion said.

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It’s unclear how large the new response team would be, but in a statement, council members cast the program as part of an effort to reimagine public safety and reduce unnecessary police interactions.

Representatives for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing rank-and-file officers, have previously pointed to the increased demands placed upon police officers, saying officers now perform the duties of therapists, drug treatment counselors, social workers and EMTs.

Jerretta Sandoz, vice president of the union’s board of directors, said Tuesday that the union agreed that “not every call our city leaders have asked us to respond to should be a police response.”

“We are more than willing to talk about how, or if, we respond to noncriminal and nonemergency calls so we can free up time to respond quickly to 911 calls, crackdown on violent crime, and property crime and expand our community policing efforts,” Sandoz said.

The council members’ motion comes after tens of thousands of people have protested in Los Angeles streets in recent weeks, decrying police brutality and calling for a new approach to long-held strategies over policing, particularly in Black communities.

The City Council on Tuesday also voted to move ahead with studying ways to cut the LAPD’s budget by $100 million to $150 million and put the money into community programs. The council vote was 11-3, with Councilmen Paul Koretz, Joe Buscaino and John Lee dissenting.

A report back to the council on those proposed budget cuts is expected in the coming weeks.

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Buscaino, a former police officer who now serves as a reserve officer, told The Times that his no vote reflected his belief that “real police reform” will come from expanding an existing LAPD program focused on building relationships between police officers and communities.

Separately, the council members’ motion submitted Tuesday also asks for a report back on crisis intervention models, including the “Cahoots” program in Eugene, Ore. The program, short for Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets, sends in teams of medics and mental health counselors if 911 operators determine armed intervention isn’t needed.

The program’s teams handled 18% of the 133,000 calls to 911 last year, requesting police backup only 150 times, Chris Hecht, executive coordinator of White Bird Clinic, which runs the operation, said in an interview.

The program operated on a $2-million budget last year that Hecht said saved the Eugene-Springfield, Ore., area about $14 million in costs of ambulance transport and emergency room care.

Times staff writer Richard Read, in Seattle, contributed to this report.

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In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo, a Los Angeles police officer wears an on-body camera during a demonstration in Los Angeles.

By CITY NEWS SERVICE | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 6:21 p.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2020 at 8:08 a.m.

By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO, City News Service

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is set to roll out body-worn cameras for its deputies at the end of the third quarter this year — five years after the LAPD initiated its own program — according to a report released Tuesday, June 16, by the Office of Inspector General.

“LASD has lagged far behind other major police agencies in the incorporation of video technology as a means for police supervision and public accountability,” the report by Inspector General Max Huntsman states. “This step forward, slow as it is, is historic.” S In comments during a Monday town hall with Palmdale and Lancaster residents, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Lancaster would be in the first group of five stations to get the new technology. T https://www.dailybulletin.com/...tm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin[6/17/2020 8:53:11 AM] LA County Sheriff to start rolling out body cams later this year – 5 years after LAPD – Daily Bulletin

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READ MORE Coronavirus concerns will extinguish most fireworks The sheriff blamed his predecessors and the Board of Supervisors for the delay, and said body cameras have been his priority since day one.

“The previous administration had five years … of wasted time, wasted opportunities and four different plans, four different studies and nothing ever came to fruition,” the sheriff said. “Within that first week, we had a plan … it was delivered to the board in December of 2018, and this is where the wheels fall off the wagon.”

Yet another study was requested, he said, accusing the board of intentionally dragging its feet to prohibit him from getting a “win.” The board and the sheriff have wrangled in court and elsewhere over a host of issues, including rehiring deputies terminated for misconduct and failing to turn over documents requested by the OIG.

The supervisors generally insist that they are seeking cooperation, though their exasperation is sometimes evident, while the sheriff seems to believe they have a vendetta against him.

In the case of body-worn cameras, the policy debates predated Villanueva — who was sworn in on Dec. 3, 2018 — and have also characterized the adoption of cameras at other law enforcement agencies, including the LAPD.

A pilot program for the Sheriff’s Department was launched in 2014, but plans for a broader roll-out seemed to stall under the weight of questions about when and how to release recordings to deputies and the public, as well as how to pay for storing and managing extensive amounts of data.

As then-sheriff Jim McDonnell, the board, the OIG, law enforcement unions and the Civilian Oversight Commission worked toward a consensus on policy, the Los Angeles Police Department rolled out cameras department-wide.

Though the LAPD initially kept recordings for internal use, the LAPD revised its policy in March 2018 to require public release of video from “critical incidents,” such as police shootings, within 45 days.

In high-profile cases, the department has acted more quickly. For example, in the 2018 shootout at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake — where store assistant manager Melyda Corado was killed by an LAPD bullet during an exchange of gunfire between police and a man suspected of shooting two other people — LAPD Chief Michel Moore released bodycam video three days later.

The value of video footage couldn’t be clearer at a time when protesters nationwide have been enraged into action by the images of George Floyd, a 45-year-old Black man, fighting to breathe while held down by the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer now charged with murder.

In Los Angeles County, money has also been an issue, with McDonnell asking for $55 million in funding and 239 new personnel to run the system. The board chose to focus first on installing fixed https://www.dailybulletin.com/...tm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin[6/17/2020 8:53:11 AM] LA County Sheriff to start rolling out body cams later this year – 5 years after LAPD – Daily Bulletin

cameras in county jails to counter use-of-force against inmates.

The plan ultimately agreed upon by Villanueva and the board in September 2019 carried a cost of roughly $35 million and called for 33 new employees. At that time, county Chief Executive Officer Sachi Hamai said it would take about 19 months to roll out the devices to more than 5,200 deputies and security officers operating out of 58 patrol stations and sub-stations, 84 county facilities and nine community colleges, with full roll-out expected in the first half of 2022.

The contract with the vendor providing the cameras and related services is still being negotiated, according to the OIG.

The unions have since ratified a bodycam policy — which the department has not yet publicly released — but the OIG and COC have recommended changes. Citing the sheriff’s failure to respond to two subpoenas issued by the COC, the OIG underlined concerns about how the program would be implemented.

“Aggressive resistance to public oversight and review of department conduct suggests policy-based concerns regarding the body-worn camera program are warranted,” the report stated.

The LASD policy “largely mirrors” that of the LAPD, according to Huntsman. However, where it diverges, it favors deputies, he said.

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“Implementing body-worn cameras is an immediate necessity,” the report concludes.

Along with Lancaster, the Century, Lakewood, Industry and West Hollywood stations are slated to be the first locations where patrol deputies will be outfitted with cameras.

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S S Donate “SOMEBODY’S GOTTA HELP ME” Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis. In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with force and restrained the 51-year-old inmate for almost 20 hours, until he died.

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MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — Phillip Garcia was desperate to sit up. His wrists and ankles were bound to a hospital gurney and a hood covered his face. Garcia strained upward and then collapsed as he had countless times that day.

It was shortly after 10 p.m. on March 23, 2017, and he was at the public hospital here in Riverside County in a special unit

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Some 33 hours before, Garcia was led into a county jail, where he was almost immediately put in isolation for failing to follow orders and yelling irrational threats. When his mental condition worsened, deputies tied down the 51-year- old and eventually took him to Riverside University Health System Medical Center.

The hospital’s detention care unit treats the county jails’ most urgent and complex medical cases, among them inmates like Garcia, who are in mental crisis and need emergency psychiatric care.

But Garcia couldn’t get a bed. For 12 hours, he waited in the emergency room, seemingly unable to stop pulling against the four-point restraints. By the time his gurney was wheeled into the detention care unit, his skin was tearing beneath the straps.

A team of eight Riverside County sheriff’s deputies in helmets and body armor was called to the room. Their mission was to move Garcia 3 feet, from the gurney to the hospital bed that had finally opened up for him. One of them was responsible for recording the operation with a hand-held camera.

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Footage shows deputies took positions around Garcia. One of them, Robert Packer, pressed a large plastic shield down on Garcia’s head. The team began pinning, lifting and dragging Garcia from the gurney to the bed.

“Somebody’s gotta help me. Somebody’s gotta help me. Please, man,” Garcia cried out, his voice raspy and muffled by the shield.

He was naked except for the hood and remnants of his green pants around his ankles.

The deputies and nurses fumbled at times as they tried to secure the restraints again. A second later, Packer leaned his chest against the plastic shield, pushing down hard on Garcia’s head and neck. The team’s commander signaled for Packer to ease up, footage shows. Packer stood, lifting his body weight off the shield.

As the scrum of deputies and nurses finished tying down his limbs, Garcia groaned under the plastic shield and bled through the hood.

A nurse asked a colleague to bring in a heart monitor.

One of the detention care unit’s regular guards, Deputy Noemi Garcia, intervened.

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“The way he is right now,” she said, “we’ve gotta wait till he calms down before we put that machine on there.”

The nurse left.

Garcia died a few hours later. Earlier in the day, the emergency room had diagnosed Garcia with a potentially fatal condition called rhabdomyolysis, according to court records.

Rhabdomyolysis is brought on by overexertion, and it causes the body’s muscles to break down. It can lead to kidney failure. Garcia had been destroying muscle tissue as he struggled against the restraints, which poured toxins into his bloodstream, autopsy and jail records indicate.

Yet over the last five hours of Garcia’s life, a ProPublica investigation found, nurses and deputies appeared oblivious to both his rhabdomyolysis and his psychosis, doing nothing to treat either.

Video and other records show that during Garcia’s 44 hours in custody, deputies repeatedly struck, shoved and twisted Garcia’s head and limbs when he was already tied down. They falsified jail logs, then made false statements in their reports after he died. The county coroner bureau, which is part of the sheriff’s department, determined that Garcia’s death was a homicide. The same sheriff’s department conducted a review of Garcia’s death and did not discipline any deputies.

https://features.propublica.org/riverside-jail-video/mental-health-crisis-force-restraint/[6/16/2020 9:29:00 AM] “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me” Millions of people across the country have joined protests against police brutality over the last few weeks, spurred by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and fueled by the deaths of other unarmed black men at the hands of the police in recent years.

Like some of the most notorious of those killings, Floyd’s death was captured on cellphone video, and his fateful cry for help, heard around the world, has helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement and its call for police reform in the United States.

But abuse by law enforcement inside jails remains largely out of sight and harder to document. When it does come to light, it’s less likely to prompt public outrage because the victims have been charged, if not convicted.

And abuse by guards is but one threat facing inmates in many jails. The novel coronavirus has sickened thousands of inmates nationwide, underscoring long-standing problems in jail health services, not least in Riverside County.

A federal judge appointed outside monitors as part of a 2016 settlement to ensure the jails’ health care meets constitutional minimums. The monitors have documented continuing problems. But the monitors’ findings had not been made public until last month when an outbreak of COVID-19 heightened concerns about health conditions in the jails and prompted a lawsuit by lawyers representing inmates.

https://features.propublica.org/riverside-jail-video/mental-health-crisis-force-restraint/[6/16/2020 9:29:00 AM] “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me” The newly released reports, covering 2017 to 2019, READ MORE Inside the Jail With One describe lapses in of the Country’s Largest investigating inmate deaths Coronavirus Outbreaks and inadequate treatment of Correctional officers, health care prisoners with mental illness. staff and detainees describe how COVID-19 spread through Cook In Garcia’s case, the sheriff’s County Jail in Chicago as the department resisted sheriff came under fire for his handling of the crisis. “You’re disclosure of specifics about working in a petri dish,” one Garcia’s time in custody, staffer said. even to his family. Garcia’s widow filed a lawsuit against the sheriff to get the records released.

Using California’s public records laws, ProPublica obtained 17 hours of surveillance and hand-held video footage documenting Garcia’s time in Riverside County’s jail and medical center, as well as thousands of pages of internal investigation records, facility activity logs, arrest reports, and autopsy and toxicology results. The county withheld these records from court monitors and initially denied ProPublica’s request for them.

ProPublica attempted to directly contact all of the jail and hospital employees named in this story. Many of the employees did not respond, and those who did declined to comment or referred ProPublica to the county.

Sheriff Chad Bianco agreed to an interview but canceled a day before. His department has declined to respond to

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There are details we don’t know about Garcia’s health history and the treatment he received during his final hours. In the internal files released by the county, Garcia’s medical information was redacted. ProPublica repeatedly contacted Garcia’s wife and sons in person and by phone, email and social media. The family, which agreed as part of a legal settlement not to talk publicly about the death, declined to speak with reporters or share documents.

Still, the records obtained by ProPublica provide an unusually thorough account of a recurrent tragedy — a person in mental crisis dying in law enforcement custody.

CHAPTER 1 A LIFE SHAKEN

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RIVERSIDE COUNTY SPRAWLS from the Arizona border to Orange County, 180 miles of suburbs and desert brush. Garcia was born there in 1965. His family lived in Indio, tucked between Joshua Tree National Park and the San Jacinto Mountains.

He became a repairman and went into business with his friend, Dwight Walker, fixing almost anything that could break in a house. They ran advertisements for P & D Maintenance Service in a local newspaper in 1986, including a photo of them standing beside a pickup truck, the 20-year- old Garcia sporting a tank top and shorts and a thick black mustache.

Birth records show Garcia and his wife, Mary, had their first child the following year, a son. A second son was born in 1993, and they later took in and raised another boy.

On Father’s Day 2019, Garcia’s middle son posted family pictures on Instagram in a remembrance of his dad. One snapshot shows Garcia crouched down and holding a power drill, in the middle of a backyard project. In another, Garcia sits at a dining room table with one of the boys, behind a big sheet cake with white frosting and “Happy Birthday” written in blue icing.

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Christopher DeSalva, a family friend and lawyer. Court records show Mary Garcia accused her husband of domestic violence, and he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in 2006.

In later years, Garcia and his wife shared a home with Walker, their friend and business partner, in Cathedral City outside Palm Springs. Garcia had a history of seizures, mental illness and inconsistent treatment, DeSalva said.

On March 20, 2017, a Monday, Garcia became disoriented. He told his wife an earthquake had knocked things over in the house, but there had been no earthquake. The next day he was out of sorts and couldn’t remember basic things, like whether he’d eaten, Mary Garcia later told the detectives.

Shortly before dawn on Wednesday, March 22, Garcia sprinted around his yard in the dark, shouting obscenities. Neighbors called police after Garcia threw something that shattered their window, and officers from the Cathedral City Police Department arrived to find him in a state of angry disarray. His oversized T-shirt had bloodstains on the front.

Garcia had allegedly assaulted Walker, then 87, earlier that morning, punching and kicking him in the head and arms. The attack was unprovoked and out-of-character, Walker told police, and Garcia had been “rambling, making no sense” all night.

As police looked on, Garcia went on slur-filled tirades and threatened to beat up every person around him — neighbors,

https://features.propublica.org/riverside-jail-video/mental-health-crisis-force-restraint/[6/16/2020 9:29:00 AM] “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me” police, medics. The arresting officers noted Garcia’s bizarre behavior several times in their reports, describing his threats as more irrational than menacing. “Phillip continued to yell incoherently and did not make sense with any of his statements,” one wrote. Garcia told an officer he was going to kill him, and the officer asked why. “Because you are my motherfucker!” Garcia shouted.

A Cathedral City record of Garcia’s arrest shows Mary Garcia told police he had recently stopped drinking and suffered from seizures. She contacted the police again, prompting the arresting officer to take Garcia to an emergency room for a brain scan. The ER cleared Garcia for booking.

On the way to the jail from the hospital, he slammed his head against the Plexiglas barrier inside the patrol car.

The Larry Smith Correctional Facility is the largest of Riverside County’s five jails and on average holds 1,000 defendants awaiting trial, plus a few hundred inmates convicted of nonviolent felonies.

Shortly after noon, the Cathedral City officer delivered Garcia to the intake building, a squat structure next door to multistory housing units. Deputies and nurses are supposed to gather new inmates’ basic medical information, criminal history and other relevant details. From that information, jail staff determine where to house each person and who needs health care.

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On surveillance video, Garcia stood against a high-top table facing forward, with Deputy Amir Khodr behind him. Garcia turned his head to the left, toward Khodr, and said something. There’s no audio on the intake video, but the deputy took exception.

Khodr kicked at Garcia’s feet several times and nearly swept him off balance, the footage shows. Garcia continued to crane his head and talk to the deputy, until Khodr grabbed him by the nape of his neck and forced Garcia to look straight ahead.

Garcia kept talking out of turn, his mouth moving in VISUAL INVESTIGATION Watch Our Video the pixelated video. Khodr Analyzing Garcia's shoved Garcia’s back and Treatment In Custody pressed his ribs into the table The video contains graphic until he cried out. Deputies images. Read why we are fingerprinted Garcia’s right publishing it. thumb, handcuffed him and marched him down the hall to Sobering Cell 1.

The deputies didn’t enter any information about Garcia into the jail’s classification notes, the internal record that details important facts about an inmate. Instead, a day later, jail staff added, “Unknown medical or mental health issues.” The belated entry describes Garcia as “uncooperative” during booking and said he was placed in a sobering cell “for being

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Garcia wasn’t intoxicated. He’d shown signs of psychosis for hours. Now he was alone with his thoughts in an isolation cell.

The room had a toilet and a sink, a ceiling light and one roll of toilet paper. There was no bed, no chair and not a single thing to do.

CHAPTER 2 UNCONSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE

STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS have cemented a constitutional right to health care for people in jails and prisons in scores of rulings in the past century because jailers so often fail to give basic care.

In the 1980s, jails’ health care demands multiplied as sheriffs

https://features.propublica.org/riverside-jail-video/mental-health-crisis-force-restraint/[6/16/2020 9:29:00 AM] “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me” nationwide began booking far more inmates with mental illnesses. Jail officials and advocacy groups primarily attribute the shift to the closure of state institutions, which had detained people diagnosed with severe psychological disorders.

Studies over the past 20 years have found about half the jail population has a history of mental illness.

Treatment for schizophrenia, manic depression, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is typically limited to medication in jails. When the medicines don’t work, are not given on schedule or inmates refuse to take them, guards frequently put inmates with symptoms of mental illness in solitary confinement. This can be as punishment for disruptive behavior or a safety measure that keeps vulnerable or violent inmates from others.

Mental health experts have discouraged the practice for years.

“The effect of solitary confinement on mentally ill prisoners is almost always adverse,” states a 2014 report from the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit that works to improve access to care for people with severe mental illness. “The lack of stimulation and human contact tends to make psychotic symptoms worse.”

Sheriffs complain their jails are not designed, or funded, to treat chronic illnesses, though in practice, they are some of the nation’s largest mental institutions.

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Elected sheriffs run nearly all of California’s county jails. James Sida, a jail consultant and former California state corrections official, said that voters care about street patrols, and that there is little political benefit when sheriffs spend more money on inmates. “Your jail will never get you elected,” Sida said. “It will get you fired.”

More often, sheriffs get sued.

In 1981, Riverside County inmates filed a class-action lawsuit against the sheriff’s department to improve jail conditions, most notably overcrowding that forced inmates to sleep on the floors, insect infestations, and a lack of clean clothes and medical care. A state court judge ordered the sheriff to increase staff and minimize overcrowding.

Nevertheless, many county inmates remained packed into group cells, where they received substandard health care in the years after the settlement.

As the housing crisis crippled the economy in 2009, the county’s board of supervisors cut spending, singling out inmate health care in particular.

More than 150 nurses cared for roughly 3,500 inmates in five jails before the cuts. By 2011, only 47 remained, a county grand jury found. The board cut the number of doctors to three from 11. Two of the remaining physicians resigned, leaving one doctor to serve a jail system that books 50,000 people a year.

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conditions unconstitutional, said Stan Sniff Jr., who had taken over over as Riverside County sheriff in 2007 and served until 2018.

In 2011, supervisors put the Riverside University Health System in charge of inmates’ medical care. The sheriff’s department negotiated an agreement with the county health agency, requiring that medical and mental health staff operate at every facility, that nurses evaluate inmates at booking, and that medicines be distributed consistently.

But in 2013, a group of inmates filed a federal lawsuit against Riverside County, alleging it provided incompetent care, violating their constitutional rights. Court filings described the jails’ intake process as cursory, with deputies failing to document an inmate’s history of seizures. The plaintiffs described care for the mentally ill as especially dreadful. “Acute psychiatric symptoms, such as hearing voices, have been ignored by Riverside jail mental health treatment staff,” the complaint states.

The county and inmates reached a settlement two years later, with the government agreeing to spend tens of millions of dollars more a year on staff and treatment. The court brought in experts to evaluate the jails’ medical operations and the plan to fix them. While the experts noted recent upgrades, they continued to find problems.

Dr. Scott Allen, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, Riverside, and one of the experts, found in 2015 that local judges were issuing 150 orders a https://features.propublica.org/riverside-jail-video/mental-health-crisis-force-restraint/[6/16/2020 9:29:00 AM] “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”

month to the sheriff’s department to force it to provide medical or mental health treatment to inmates.

“The current level of care in Riverside County jails is inadequate, poses a significant risk of serious harm to inmates confined there and in the opinion of this expert does not meet minimal constitutional standards,” Allen wrote in his report to the federal court that November.

The deficiencies were widespread. Treatment for inmates’ chronic conditions was inconsistent, poorly documented and plagued by long waits. The sheriff’s investigations of inmate deaths were incomplete or nonexistent.

Allen, who had served as state medical director for Rhode Island’s prisons and jails, described the Riverside County jails as among the most restrictive facilities he’d ever seen, severely limiting inmates’ movement in ways that could block them from medical care, putting their health in danger. Instead of assessing which inmates posed threats, deputies treated all of them “as if they are high risk,” Allen said.

CHAPTER 3 “EMPTY”

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THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO from Sobering Cell 1 showed Garcia shirtless and standing by the door. It was 2:45 p.m. on March 22, 2017. Deputies had seized Garcia’s T- shirt as evidence and didn’t provide him a jail garment.

Video files from that camera only show fragments of live action and then freeze on a single frame for long stretches of time. There is no audio, the image resolution is poor. The footage is revelatory, nonetheless.

Sheriff’s policy requires deputies to check on inmates in sobering cells at least once every 30 minutes and to document the checks. The log provides space for “comments regarding welfare of inmates.” On the log for Garcia, deputies scribbled the same thing for each check-in: “C-4,” the department’s code for “all clear.”

All the while, Garcia continued to act strangely. At 6:04 p.m., footage shows him wearing toilet paper around his neck as a scarf, and he’d littered the floor with shredded tissue. Garcia then ripped part of the scarf, crumpled it and compulsively wiped at the cell window.

A log entry shows one of the jail’s nurses, Alejandra Moreno-Ibarra, evaluated Garcia at 6 p.m., just as the camera

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At 9:40 p.m., Deputy Athena Hickman-Gallegos wrote that staff removed Garcia from Sobering Cell 1 and the room was “EMPTY.” The supervisor, Sgt. Aaron Nelson, confirmed the transfer more than an hour later, also writing “EMPTY” in the log. Deputies wrote that they moved him to an unspecified holding cell.

Those were lies. Garcia was still in the sobering cell, video shows, and remained there the whole night without a mattress, a blanket or even a shirt.

After falsifying the log, deputies no longer wrote down when, or if, they checked on him.

Over the next several hours, Garcia’s behavior grew more bizarre and self-destructive. Garcia was dancing at 2:53 a.m. He swayed, clapped and shimmied in front of the window.

Shortly before 6 a.m., the video shows Garcia jump at the security camera and his hand came just inches short of the lens. He staggered once back on the ground. Garcia touched his brow, which was bleeding from fresh cuts above and below his left eye. He was frantic to get deputies’ attention.

Garcia climbed up on the short privacy wall in front of the toilet and pulled at the ceiling light’s metal frame. Jail staff yelled at him to stop. Garcia came down and told them to let

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him out of the sobering cell. Then he went back on the wall. This sequence repeated several times.

The intake staff changed shifts and asked for assistance in dealing with Garcia. Deputy Leo Llanos responded, reaching the sobering cell at 6:15 a.m. According to Llanos’ report, the deputy told Garcia to stop damaging the light, “but Garcia refused to listen.” Then Llanos ordered Garcia to face toward the back wall and place his hands behind his back so deputies could handcuff him. Garcia climbed on the privacy wall.

Did Garcia understand the order? Was he capable of following it? The video images alone cannot answer those questions. The Riverside County sheriff’s deputies believed Garcia was intentionally defying them, according to their written reports.

Garcia slammed his head against the window a moment later, deputies’ reports state. The cuts on his face had been bleeding heavily and left a pool of red that dripped down the Plexiglas.

CHAPTER 4

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Around 6 a.m., a dozen deputies assembled outside Sobering Cell 1, most of them equipped for confrontation. Their camouflage-green hazmat suits shine in the hallway surveillance video, which they wore over body armor, riot helmets and gas masks. Internal records show the team had a simple plan: overwhelm Garcia, handcuff him, put him in a restraint chair and wheel him into a safety cell a few feet away.

Deputy Andrew Pearson aimed a paintball gun under the cell door and fired a barrage of pepper balls toward Garcia. The balls burst when fired, releasing a chemical that causes a painful burning sensation in people’s eyes and airways.

The pepper balls only hindered Garcia briefly, Pearson’s report states.

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Garcia ran to a back corner of the cell and cowered.

The tactical team opened the operation with a stinger grenade, an explosive device that emits a piercing sound, a blinding light and rubber pellets, and then spews smoke.

Steele opened the cell door just enough for another deputy, Robert Figueroa, to throw the grenade toward the back wall. For a split second, the video shows Garcia sprint toward the door and away from the explosive that was throwing off red sparks. Then the grenade detonated and a flash filled the cell’s camera frame.

Deputies in hazmat suits surged to the door, the one in front gripping a large plastic shield designed to corral people during riots. The lead deputy struck Garcia with the shield, knocking him on the floor, and the rest piled on top of him. They yelled at Garcia to put his hands behind his back as they pushed and wrestled with him.

“Due to Garcia refusing to comply with commands,” Deputy Nigel Hinson reported, “I punched him five to six times on the right side of his face and back.”

Several deputies punched Garcia’s head and upper body, internal records show. Figueroa fired Taser prongs into Garcia’s abdomen, the voltage causing his body to go limp.

The team handcuffed and lifted Garcia to a restraint chair.

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They wheeled him 10 feet into another cell across the hall. Jail staff had described him as agitated before the assault. He was frenzied after, the video shows. Now pinned down in a restraint chair, Garcia would never freely move his arms and legs again.

Garcia waited more than an hour before a nurse entered the cell to remove the Taser prong embedded in Garcia’s side. Five deputies pinned his already restrained limbs. One deputy, Pearson, who fired the pepper balls, held Garcia’s neck in a painful pressure-point hold and shoved Garcia’s head as he left.

Jail staff noted that Garcia “continually yelled for family members to rescue him” and made “bizarre statements” suggesting the deputies wanted to kill him.

At 9 a.m., Adelaide Aplin, a clinical therapist at the jail, stood outside the safety cell, the activity log shows. She was there to evaluate Garcia, his first interaction with mental health staff. She was supposed to speak to him face-to-face. But on video, the door slot opened and Garcia turned his head and talked to the therapist. Then she was gone and the slot closed. The exchange lasted 27 seconds.

Aplin documented that Garcia was in a psychiatric crisis and cleared the jail to transfer him to the county hospital. Deputies covered his head in a hood to keep him from spitting on them before carting him out of the intake

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“They’re trying to kill me, baby, these motherfuckers,” Garcia yelled, a plea to loved ones recorded by the intake camera. “Hurry up!”

CHAPTER 5 VIOLENT FORCE TO THE END

THE DETENTION CARE UNIT is a cellblock in the middle of a public teaching hospital, with concrete walls and cement floors. Deputies effectively control most of the unit’s operations, but the hospital is legally required to provide the same standard of care to the people there as to any other patient.

ProPublica reviewed a sample of the detention care unit’s activity logs documenting 50 days from the last three years. The unit has room for 22 patients from the Riverside County

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However, the unit is primarily a psychiatric ward for the county jails.

The logs show, on average, two-thirds of the detention care patients came in on mental health holds. Several days last year, psychiatric patients from the jail occupied 19 of the rooms. The unit runs short on space, and expertise.

Nurses in detention care earn less than those working in any of the hospital’s other departments, according to the county employment contract. The only certification required of nurses on the inmate unit is for “management of assaultive behavior.”

Garcia reached the county hospital’s ER at 10:05 a.m., March 23, 2017. The jail assigned a pair of deputies to guard him while he waited to get into the detention care unit. With no beds open, Garcia remained strapped to the restraint chair, his face covered by a hood, straining to the point of self- destruction.

The sheriff’s department entirely redacted medical records in the case files it released to ProPublica and the county health system refused to release documents, citing patient privacy. Garcia’s family declined to provide any information. As such, ProPublica is not able to say with certainty how much

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But records from the sheriff’s death investigation provide key details and a chronology.

At about 11:30 a.m., the deputies guarding Garcia called their supervisor and reported that medical staff had just given Garcia “an unknown type of sedative,” a detective’s report states. The coroner’s investigator documented that over the course of a day, the ER gave him four small doses of lorazepam, a sedative that hospitals often use to relieve anxiety, and zyprexa, an antipsychotic medication.

The ER drew Garcia’s blood at 12:55 p.m., presumably to evaluate his condition. Thirty minutes later, deputies and hospital workers moved him out of the chair and onto a gurney. Garcia had spent six hours in the restraint chair, two more than what the sheriff’s policy advises as the maximum. Deputies again locked down his wrists and ankles.

The investigator’s timeline does not document that an emergency room doctor had diagnosed him with rhabdomyolysis, the potentially fatal condition brought on by the restraints. It fails to note when nurses placed the intravenous lines, one in the crook of his right arm and another a few inches away in his forearm. It does not say what medicines or fluids emergency staff flowed through those lines as Garcia idled all day.

Whatever treatment Garcia received during his 12-hour wait in the emergency room bed, surveillance video makes clear

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ProPublica consulted with two forensic psychiatrists with extensive experience in prisons and jails about how medical staff should treat inmates showing acute signs of mental illness.

After reviewing footage and records, experts said it was troubling if medical staff did not consider why the patient was so agitated after hours in restraints. They added, it is also possible the nurses were simply unwilling to intervene in the deputies’ handling of Garcia. They emphasized that medical staff need to direct and approve any use of restraints, and force should not be used on a patient who is restrained.

“Keep the setting as therapeutic and calm as possible, so an agitated patient can actually relax and feel safe,” said Jhilam Biswas, a forensic psychiatrist and director of the Psychiatry, Law, and Society Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The approaches of medical and security staff can clash, she added, and the best facilities have drills where clinicians lead security personnel to manage acute crises.

One of the outside jail monitor’s criticisms in the recently released reports was a lack of joint decision-making between mental health and security staff in Riverside’s jails. And the reports make clear, the detention care unit of the hospital must comply with the hospital’s standards of care.

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There is a gap in the surveillance video Riverside County released, and the footage provided to ProPublica does not show the detention care unit providing Garcia with care. After the tactical team violently moved Garcia to a hospital bed, the unit’s regular staff kept using force on the patient. They shifted and tightened his restraints again and again. As others worked the straps, Deputies Victor Martinez and Noemi Garcia took turns shoving his head down with two hands.

Sweat poured from Garcia and puddled on the mattress in the last images of him alive.

At 2 a.m., a detention care nurse injected Garcia with an antipsychotic drug, sheriff’s records state. The sheriff’s department did not release footage of this moment. A state prison guard in the room later told detectives he heard Garcia make a strange, growling sound. Then the patient seemed to stop breathing. The guard peeled back the hood over Garcia’s face and saw his eyes had rolled back.

Garcia didn’t have a pulse.

The nurse alerted the unit and started trying to resuscitate the patient.

With Garcia’s heart stopped, his medical care became the chief concern. A surveillance camera recorded as staff from the ER flooded in minutes later. A scrum of nurses and doctors compressed his chest, pumped air into his lungs, ran tubes down his throat, sent electric shocks to his heart.

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His body laid motionless for the first time in days.

EPILOGUE

THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY Sheriff’s Department posted a press release on its website at 6 p.m. on March 24, 2017, to notify the public of an in-custody death. The release explained that “a 51-year-old male housed in the secured detention unit at the Riverside University Health System experienced a medical emergency.” Medical staff tried to save his life but were unsuccessful.

“At this time, no foul play is suspected,” the release stated. The department was investigating. “The subject’s identity is being withheld pending notification to next of kin.”

Two hours later, a pair of sheriff’s investigators sat in Mary Garcia’s home in Cathedral City, questioning her about her husband’s medical history. Christopher DeSalva, a friend

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Investigator Lester Harvey explained there had been “a series of events” related to Garcia’s medical condition.

“Mental or physical?” DeSalva asked.

“A little bit of both,” Harvey answered.

For 20 minutes, Mary Garcia and DeSalva provided information about Phillip Garcia’s medical and mental health history. Finally, Harvey delivered the news. “While he was being treated there early this morning, about 4 this morning, he became unresponsive.”

“Did he die?” DeSalva broke in. “Ultimately, yes,” the investigator said, “he did pass away.”

Sobs filled the recording.

Ten months later, on Feb. 8, 2018, Sheriff Stan Sniff signed off on Garcia’s autopsy results. (In Riverside County, the sheriff is also the coroner.) The cause of death was a diagnosis of “sudden death in schizophrenia” combined with “rhabdomyolysis in association with physical exertion by subject and application of control methods.” Jail deputies used force and restraints on a mentally ill man, who died

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Garcia died at the hands of other people, Sniff ruled, and that made his death a homicide.

Garcia’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against Riverside County in October 2018, accusing jail and clinical staff of excessive force and inadequate medical care. “Medical records show that Mr. Garcia never regained mental awareness while at the hospital,” the complaint reads, “and spent all of his time in Riverside County Sheriff’s Department custody in a psychotic state.”

The county denied the allegations and admitted no wrongdoing, but it settled the lawsuit last June and paid Garcia’s family $975,000.

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Moreno Valley Unified School District security officers are on campus Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, the day after a Sunnymead Middle School student attacked a classmate in a classroom. (File photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

By BEAU YARBROUGH | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 11:35 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 11:39 p.m.

Moreno Valley-area school districts are wondering whether paying for on-campus police is the best use of their money.

On Tuesday, June 16, the Moreno Valley Unified School District board heard from community members on its practice of hiring Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputies to work as school resource officers on campuses.

“SROs actually perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline … The youth that are part of this pipeline are criminalized for their minor issues in class,” said Jess Sanchez, a fifth-grade teacher at Ramona S Elementary School. “Are we saying that black lives do not matter?”

Nine miles away, the Val Verde Unified School District board voted to annually survey students about

L their attitudes toward the district police department. Secondary students will be surveyed in September, and every June after that, about how safe they feel with or without a district police officer By at their school, their interactions with school police officers and interactions with and attitudes toward police in general. Also, they’ll be asked whether they’d like to see the district eliminate the department, defund it and spend the money on other programs, limit or expand the department. M

Val Verde Unified, which serves parts of Moreno Valley and the Perris area, is one of only about two dozen California public school districts, out of more than 1,037 districts statewide, with its own police force.

Both school boards were responding to calls to “defund the police” by some of those protesting police violence after the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.

Moreno Valley Unified isn’t yet at the point of defunding anything. Cutting the $1.3 million the district spends on its contract with the sheriff’s was only up for discussion Tuesday.

But redirecting that money to pay for more school counselors, therapists and other services for students was supported by the Moreno Valley Educators Association, American Civil Liberties Moreno Valley Unified School District in Union of Southern California, NAACP of Riverside County and Moreno Valley on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. the ReThink Public Safety Coalition, which issued a news release (File photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) before the meeting calling for the dismantling on the the “school- to-prison pipeline” and said ending law enforcement contracts was “not negotiable.”

“We are concerned about the lasting harm and negative impact as they are being arrested by minor problems that used to be handled by school administration,” said Sharron Lewis, of the NAACP of Riverside County. “We must stand up against any practices that push our youth into prison, rather than colleges and careers.”

This same discussion is going on across Southern California and the nation. Hundreds of people rallied on Tuesday, calling for the Los Angeles Unified School District to dissolve its police department. United Teachers Los Angeles, the teachers’ union, wants the $63 million spent on school police to go to community schools with higher numbers of black students and social services such mental health workers and counselors.

On Tuesday, public sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of Moreno Valley Unified canceling its sheriff’s contract.

“We urge you to use all of your limited funding to educate students during the pandemic and stop the criminalization of black youth,” said Ariana Rodriguez, an attorney with the ACLU of Southern California.

Others supported keeping deputies on campuses.

“Probably one of the worst ideas I’ve heard of yet,” Roy Bleckert said. “Ask yourself this question: What’s going to happen when there’s no school resource officers in our schools and a school shooting happens?”

Jolynn Neal, president of the Moreno Valley Unified chapter of the California School Employees Association, which represents non-teaching employees, said her union opposed defunding the program.

And mother Annette DuPont referenced a 13-year-old student, who died in September 2019 after being assaulted by two Landmark Middle School classmates.

“After the death of Diego Stolz in 2019, parents were passionate about SROs in schools and rightly so,” DuPont said. “These are our kids and we will not tolerate another death.”

Stolz’s death led to friction between the district and sheriff’s department, after the department said it was taking a “zero-tolerance approach to criminal acts” on campus and would continue arresting middle school students.

How students are disciplined, and the role of police and SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA school resource officers in that, has been under increasing GOVERNMENTS GRAPPLE WITH scrutiny in recent years. POLICE REFORM

According to the California Department of Education, in the Teachers union board calls to defund 2018-19 school year, the most recent year for which data is school police at LAUSD campuses, available, 8.9% of African American students in Riverside sparking debate County were suspended, along with 6.3% of Native Riverside County supervisors asked to American students and 4.7% of Pacific Islanders, defund Sheriff’s Department compared to 3.9% of Riverside County public school students overall. Expulsion rates were similarly skewed LA Unified chief calls to end school police toward minorities, with Native Americans, African use of pepper spray and policy allowing chokeholds Americans and Pacific Islanders more likely, on a per capita basis, to be expelled than their peers.

A new study, scheduled to be published in the journal Social Problems, reports that police in majority white districts view their jobs as protecting students from outside threats, while police in districts with more black and Hispanic students view the students themselves as the potential threats.

According to the California Department of Education, in the 2019-20 school year, 73.3% of Moreno Valley Unified students identified as Hispanic or Latino, and 13.2% identified as African American. In that same year, 77.7% of Val Verde Unified students identified as Hispanic or Latino, and 12.2% identified as African American.

Concerns over school discipline falling disproportionately on minority students has led California school districts to overhaul the way discipline is done, with the introduction of “progressive discipline” models that attempt to deescalate situations and address root causes of students, rather than suspending, expelling or arresting students.

Public comments at the Moreno Valley Unified meeting went so long that the meeting was put on hold, going into recess until Thursday, when the school board could take up next year’s budget.

The next school board meeting is set for Thursday, June 18, at 6 p.m., at the district office, 25634 Alessandro Blvd., Moreno Valley. It can be viewed online at https://www.mvusd.net/apps/pages/boardvideos.

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The Legislature was out in front of demands for changes to police use-of-force techniques and reporting

By Gary Schons, Bes Bes & Krieger LLP

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San Diego, June 16, 2020 — In the pas week, Campaign Zero’s “#8CANTWAIT” was launched in response to George Floyd’s killing and the outcry for police reforms that followed. The campaign is a push for eight  police use-of-force reform measures and a database that tracks how these eight policies, meant to curtail police violence, are employed in major cities. Campaign Zero and its advocates have urged and challenged sate and local political and law enforcement leaders to implement these eight policies.

Gary Schons In California, many of these policies are already in use.

Campaign Zero is a police reform campaign proposed by activiss on a website that was launched in 2015 as a “data-driven platform” with the goal of ending police brutality. Since its launch, Campaign Zero has ofered analysis of policing practices across the country, conducted research to identify efective solutions to end police violence, provided technical assisance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and developed model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.

According to the Campaign Zero website, the fundamental basis for the #8CANTWAIT reforms is a large correlational sudy of the relationship between cities’ demographic characterisics, their use of force policies and their level of police killings of civilians. The results, the group claims, are very clear: Adopting these policies is satisically associated with a lower level of police killings, whether judged per person or per arres.

The eight policies are:

1. Require “de-escalation”

2. Require a warning by ofcers before shooting

3. Require ofcers to intervene when excessive force is being used

4. Require comprehensive use of force reporting

5. Ban chokeholds and srangleholds

6. Ban shooting at moving vehicles

7. Esablish and require “use of force continuum”

8. Require that all alternatives be exhaused before shooting

The Campaign Zero website notes that 10 sates, including California, have already enacted legislation addressing three or more Campaign Zero policy categories. In the days since the

#8CANTWAIT was launched, sates and localities across the nation have sarted to respond to these reform suggesions. Here is where California is ahead of the curve.

1. Require De-Escalation

The essential term here is “require.” Ofcers are trained in de-escalation and crisis intervention techniques and police department policy manuals commonly address these approaches. But requiring that the techniques be employed afords police departments and their jurisdictions the ability to enforce their use and to discipline ofcers who fail to conform to the mandates of the policy. The City of San Diego decided on June 9 to work on immediately making its de-escalation policies mandatory.

California Senate Bill 230, passed in the las legislative session and signed into law on Sept. 19, 2019 becomes efective on Jan. 1, 2021. That bill added section 7286 to the Government Code, covering a wide array of law enforcement use-of-force policies. Subsection (b) says that each law enforcement agency mus “maintain a policy that provides a minimum sandard on the use of force. Each agency’s policy shall include all of the following: (1) A requirement that ofcers utilize de- escalation techniques, crisis intervention tactics, and other alternatives to force when feasible.” Additionally, SB 230 added section 13519.10 to the Penal Code to require that the Police Ofcers Standards and Training Commission provide training for all ofcers in alternatives to deadly force and de-escalation techniques.

2. Require Warning by Ofcers Before Shooting

Assembly Bill 392, which took efect Jan. 1, amended Penal Code sections 196 (jusifable homicide) and 835a. Section 835a(c)(1)(B) sates: “where feasible, a peace ofcer shall, prior to the use of force, make reasonable eforts to identify themselves as a peace ofcer and to warn that deadly force may be used, unless the ofcer has objectively reasonable grounds to believe the person is aware of those facts.” This requirement is consisent with federal civil rights law and jurisprudence.

3. Require Ofcers to Intervene in the Event of Excessive Force

SB 230, in adding Government Code section 7286(b)(8), sets a “requirement that an ofcer intercede when present and observing another ofcer using force that is clearly beyond that which is necessary, as determined by an objectively reasonable ofcer under the circumsances.” Subdivision (b)(3) is a complementary provision and requires an ofcer to report to a supervisor when another ofcer employs excessive force.

4. Require Comprehensive Reporting of Use-of -Force Incidents

SB 230’s addition of Government Code section 7286(b)(12) requires “comprehensive and detailed requirements for prompt internal reporting and notifcation regarding a use of force incident, including reporting use of force incidents to the Department of Jusice in compliance with [Government Code] section 12525.2.” That latter provision was added by legislation in 2015 ( AB 71), which requires each law enforcement agencies satewide to provide detailed reporting of serious use-of-force incidents to the California Department of Jusice. This provision became efective on Jan. 1, 2017. Additionally, SB 1421, enacted in 2018 and efective Jan. 1, 2019, amended Penal Code section 832.7 to make available, under the California Public Records Acts (Government Code section 6254(f)), records pertaining to an incident of a discharge of a frearm by a peace ofcer as well as records pertaining to police use of force agains a person resulting in death or great bodily injury.

5. Ban Chokeholds and Strangulations

While there are no satutes explicitly banning chokeholds and neck resraints, AB 1196 was introduced in the California Legislature on June 4 and would prohibit a law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of a carotid resraint. Additionally, on June 5, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the sate’s police training program to sop teaching ofcers how to use a neck hold that blocks the fow of blood to the brain. Dozens of police agencies in the State have already moved to amend their policies to eliminate the use of or ban chokeholds.

6. Ban Shooting at Moving Vehicles

There are no satutes or legislation specifc to this measure. However, many police departments have policies that expressly prohibit shooting at vehicles except in life-threatening circumsances when the ofcer reasonably believes there are no other reasonable means available to avert the threat of the vehicle, or if deadly force other than the vehicle is directed at the ofcer or others. Additionally, in March 2016, the Police Executive Research Forum released its “Guiding Principles on the Use of Force.” Guiding Principle No. 8 prohibits shooting at moving vehicles. This is clearly a tactical and exigent matter within the overall scheme of reasonable use of force.

7. Require Use of Force Continuum

Many law enforcement policy makers and trainers, including the Police Executive Research Forum, hold that the use of force continuum is rigid and mechanical and an outdated model that has proven https://www.publicceo.com/2020/06/many-of-the-8cantwait-police-use-of-force-reforms-are-already-used-in-california/[6/17/2020 9:21:14 AM] Many of the #8CANTWAIT police use-of-force reforms are already used in California | PublicCEO

impractical, even dangerous, when applied in real life situations. Insead, provisions in AB 392 and SB 230 focus on requiring ofcers to create space and separation in an attempt to utilize de- escalation techniques and require policies be adopted by police agencies to require and carry out proportionate and appropriate use of force, generally.

8. Require Ofcers to Exhaus All Means Before Shooting

Government Code section 835a(c)(1), as amended by AB 392, and already in efect, says: “a peace ofcer is jusifed in using deadly force upon another person only when the ofcer reasonably believes, based on the totality of the circumsances, that such force is necessary for either of the following reasons: (A) To defend agains an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the ofcer or another person. (B) To apprehend a feeing person for any felony that threatened or resulted in death or serious bodily injury, if the ofcer reasonably believes that the person will cause death or serious bodily injury to another unless immediately apprehended.”

Thus, California law enforcement agencies are well on their way to achieving compliance with the #8CANTWAIT policy suggesions.

Gary Schons is of counsel at Bes Bes & Krieger LLP, where he heads the frm’s Government Policy & Public Integrity group. He previously served as a deputy disrict attorney and senior advisor for Law & Policy in the San Diego Disrict Attorney’s Ofce, as trial counsel for the Commission on Judicial Performance and as a member of the California Attorney General’s Ofce Criminal Division in San Diego. He can be reached at [email protected].

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NEWS CALIFORNIA CORONAVIRUS SAN DIEGO New data show that nearly half of California's new coronavirus cases have been identified in young people under 35.

Using historical data from the California Department of Public Health, infectious disease epidemiologist George Lemp found that more than 44 percent of new diagnoses are in those under 35. A month ago, this age group made up 29 percent of new cases.

At the same time, there's been a decline in new cases among older people. California residents over 50 have gone from 46 percent of new diagnoses to 30.5 percent in the same month.

"It is striking that there is such a strong shift. Cases are much younger now than they were earlier in the pandemic," Lemp told The Mercury News.

However, he said these changes may not be reflected in death rates and hospitalizations. While the disease COVID-19 is less fatal for young people, they are still as susceptible as older people to contracting the coronavirus. SUBSCRIBE

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New cases among middle-aged Californian residents have plateaued. Those aged 35 to 49 make up the second largest group of new infections, with 9,691 known cases diagnosed between May 31 and June 13. Young people under 35 account for the largest group, with 12,919 new cases in the same two-week time frame.

"It may reflect the opening up of California since mid-May, particularly among younger people who may have started to move away from the practices of social distancing and consistent mask use," Lemp said.

Governor Gavin Newsom has yet to lift the state's stay-at-home order, which has been in effect since March 19. However, he has responded to pressure from local officials who have raised concerns about the state's economy.SUBSCRIBE

In recent weeks, Newsom has allowed California's 58 counties to resume commercial activity, including dine-in restaurants and bars. Images of maskless bar-goers in places like San Diego flooded social media over the weekend.

Newsom defended his reopening decisions at a news conference on Monday. "There's a certain point where you have to recognize you can't be in a permanent state where people are locked away for months and months and months on end," he said.

Newsweek reached out to Newsom for further comment but did not hear back before publication.

It is still unknown whether the recent George Floyd protests have caused a spike in cases, but Lemp said an individual's proactive actions are more instrumental in increasing the virus's spread than mass gatherings.

"People under age 34 are moving out and about a lot more, and moving away from social distancing and consistent mask use," he said. "That is the concern."

As of Tuesday, California had reported 153,560 coronavirus cases and 5,121 deaths.

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By LUKE MONEY, RONG-GONG LIN II, IRIS LEE

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Health officials have said that the public needs to look beyond the rising number of coronavirus cases in California and focus on whether hospitalizations are increasing as a sign that reopening the economy is leading to new outbreaks.

Statewide, coronavirus hospitalizations have been relatively flat for the last six weeks, even as officials have allowed myriad businesses to open their doors and people begin to resume old routines.

But in some parts of California, hospitalizations are again on the rise, according to a Los Angeles Times data analysis. And if the trend continues, it could force officials to slow the pace of reopenings.

The reasons for the upticks vary and are open for debate, but health officials have

expressed concern about some people not following safety recommendations, including wearing face coverings and social distancing.

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“We have met the enemy, and they are us,” said Dr. Robert Levin, the health officer in Ventura County, where hospitalizations are up. “And many of us have to do a better job of social distancing and quarantine. Some of us are doing a great job; we’re stalwarts. If we can do this — and I know we can — we can prevent the state from telling us that we must take a step back from some of the gains we’ve made in opening our activities and businesses.”

Last week, there were an average of 91 people hospitalized in Ventura County with confirmed or suspected coronavirus infections, the highest such number since early April. That’s a 75% increase from each of the previous two weeks, The Times analysis found.

Ventura County coronavirus hospitalizations The number of hospitalized patients with confirmed or suspected cases rose 75% last week. Source: California Health and Human Services Agency Los Angeles Times

Orange County has experienced a 76% jump in coronavirus intensive care unit hospitalizations in the last six weeks. In the week of May 4, the county reported a seven- day average of 94 people with confirmed or suspected coronavirus infections in its ICU beds. Last week, that number rose to an average of 165 being hospitalized.

Orange County coronavirus ICU hospitalizations There has been a 76% jump in intensive-care unit patients linked to COVID-19 since the week of May 4. Source: California Health and Human Services Agency Los Angeles Times

The eight-county San Joaquin Valley has seen a 45% rise in coronavirus ICU hospitalizations in the last six weeks.

San Joaquin Valley coronavirus ICU hospitalizations The number of intensive-care unit patients linked to COVID-19 in the region has risen 45% in recent weeks. *Includes Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare counties.

Source: California Health and Human Services Agency Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, L.A. County and statewide ICU hospitalization rates have been declining.

L.A. County once had the worst ICU coronavirus hospitalization rate on a per capita basis among all of California’s 58 counties. But that’s changed, with Imperial County, Kings County and now Orange County having larger ICU coronavirus hospitalization rates, The Times analysis found.

L.A. County now reports 5 ICU coronavirus patients per 100,000 residents; Orange County is now reporting 5.2 ICU patients per 100,000 residents; Kings County, 6.1 ICU patients per 100,000 residents; and Imperial County, 9.9 ICU patients per 100,000 residents.

Coronavirus intensive care unit rate Average daily ICU hospitalizations for the week of June 8 Source: California Health and Human Services Agency Los Angeles Times

Though Ventura County health officials say there is still plenty of space in its hospitals, it’s possible the county could have to press the pause button on reopening additional sectors of the economy if hospitalizations continue to rise.

“At this point, it would be foolhardy to just open up and continue to open up everything given … what our numbers are doing,” Levin said during Tuesday’s meeting of the county’s Board of Supervisors.

Ventura County allowed in late May the resumption of in-restaurant dining, in-store shopping and hair styling. Gyms and bars were allowed to reopen last Friday. California officials are set to allow counties to decide starting this Friday to reopen nail salons, tattoo shops and massage therapy establishments in counties that have filed paperwork to accelerate their reopening.

Levin, however, said it’s not a given that such personal-care industries will be able to reopen on that date."We’re watching those numbers and we will do our best,” he said. “I personally would like to see them open and we’re going to do our best to make that happen as we evaluate the numbers.”

Even as more spaces reopen, though, he said it’s vital that residents continue to observe physical distancing to stem the spread of the virus.

Santa Barbara County and the San Joaquin Valley are also being closely watched for increasing coronavirus hospitalizations, according to the state Department of Public Health.

Santa Barbara County is seeing increased hospitalizations in the northern part of the county. The increase has been blamed on rising community transmission due to increased

gatherings, as well as workplace spread. Outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities are also a factor.

The same problems are being blamed for an increase in hospitalizations in San Joaquin County, east of the San Francisco Bay Area.

And in the the broader San Joaquin Valley, one of the nation’s most important agricultural areas and home to 4.2 million residents, increasing hospitalizations were reported in Kern and Kings counties, where nursing home outbreaks are also a contributing factor.

In the last three days, five counties across the state have experienced more than a 10% rise in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: Contra Costa (13%), Kings (18%), San Joaquin (12%), Santa Barbara (27%) and Stanislaus (42%).

Increasing hospitalizations and elevated disease transmission have been recorded in Kern County amid outbreaks at state and federal prisons as well as because of residents in nearby counties being admitted to the Kern County hospital, state officials said.

Kings County has reported a number of outbreaks, including at a meatpacking plant in Hanford and its Adventist Health hospital. An outbreak at Avenal State Prison caused the virus to spread to nearby areas — including Fresno County — carried by prison employees returning home.

In Tulare County, home to cities including Visalia, Tulare and Porterville, state officials are closely monitoring elevated disease transmissions related to outbreaks in nursing homes and workplaces, as well as the difficulty in preventing transmission within households.

And Imperial County, east of San Diego, is also experiencing elevated disease transmission as Americans return from Mexico, which is experiencing a worsening outbreak.

A recent surge in hospitalizations in Sacramento County was linked to members of the same household who gathered for birthday parties and a funeral.

Dr. Olivia Kasirye, Sacramento County’s health officer, said many people think “we’re out of the woods,” but health experts continue to warn of the seriousness of the virus and the need for safety and health precautions as larger swaths of the state continue to reopen.

On Monday, California reported nearly 3,400 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest number at the start of a week since the outset of the pandemic.

Despite the continued rise in infections, California’s top health officials have said that overall case counts are not necessarily a measure of how the state is faring in its fight against the novel coronavirus, noting that increased testing can drive up the number.

“We’ve ramped up testing in an extraordinary way, nearly hitting our goal that was set for August — not June, not July, but August — of getting to 60,000 to 80,000 tests a day,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services. “We’re already knocking on that door, averaging in the mid- to high 50s over the past few days across the state.”

Officials, instead, are closely monitoring two metrics as they gauge how California is handling the pandemic: the positivity rate, or the percentage of people who have tested positive, and the daily number of hospitalizations. A rise in the former could mean an uptick in community transmission separate from increased testing. A rise in the latter may mean that more people are becoming seriously ill, possibly jeopardizing the ability of the healthcare system to deal with the influx in patients.

Los Angeles County has seen its ICU cases consistently decline. Six weeks ago, there were an average of 633 people in L.A. County ICUs daily during that seven-day period. Last week, there were 501, a decline of 21%.

L.A. County coronavirus ICU hospitalizations There has been a sustained reduction in ICU patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections. Times reporting Los Angeles Times

In Los Angeles County on Monday, 1,956 people with confirmed or suspected coronavirus infections were in hospitals, according to the state health agency. Officials are working with the state to prepare for the possibility of an influx in patients.

Health officials noted last week that coronavirus transmission continues to worsen in Los Angeles County, bringing with it the chance that the nation’s most populous county could run out of intensive care unit beds in two to four weeks. The numbers have not reached danger levels yet, but health officials said they are monitoring conditions carefully for any signs of new pressures on hospitals.

Times staff writer Colleen Shalby contributed to this report.

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Former California Institution for Women (CIW) inmate Michelle Garcia hangs out the window of a vehicle as she protests and takes part in the “Car Caravan Protest” outside the California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino Saturday afternoon May 23, 2020. The group of approximately 100 people also protested outside of CIW to highlight ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks at both prisons and to call for the compassionate release of incarcerated people in response to the deadly epidemic.(Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

By ERIC LICAS | [email protected] | Orange County Register  PUBLISHED: June 16, 2020 at 8:07 p.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2020 at 8:08 p.m.

State prison inmates in California who have less than 180 days left to serve and meet certain other criteria will be released ahead of schedule beginning Wednesday, July 1, in hopes of stemming outbreaks of COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.

The move aims to increase space inside state prisons, thereby allowing for better physical distancing S and the isolation of patients, and could impact prisoners at facilities throughout California. Those who are allowed to leave prison ahead of schedule will be offered COVID-19 tests, California Depatment of

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Prisoners found to be infected prior to release will be placed into a housing situation that will allow for By isolation and monitoring.

Eligible inmates either will be placed on state-supervised parole, transferred to county-run “post- R release community supervision,” or have the remainder of their sentence discharged, depending on the circumstances of their incarceration, CDCR officials said. Early release will not be eligible to those found guilty of violent crimes or those who must register as sex offenders. Inmates paroled as part of the emergency health measure may be brought back into custody “for any reason” to continue serving their sentences.

The purpose of releasing inmates early is “to amplify actions to protect staff and inmates at the state’s prisons from the spread of COVID-19,” prison officials said.

More than 3,200 inmates and over 560 staff members at California prisons have tested positive for COVID-19, according to CDCR statistics. There were 2,123 prisoners held at state-run facilities actively infected with the virus as of Tuesday evening.

So far, the largest outbreaks have occurred at the Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (CVSP) in Blythe and the California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino. Officials had recorded 1,003 and 802 cases at those facilities, respectively. Fifteen out of the 17 CDCR inmates who have died after contracting the novel coronavirus were held at CIM.

It was not immediately clear how many state prisoners will be released ahead of schedule as part of the plan unveiled by the CDCR on Tuesday. Earlier, officials had announced the expedited parole of about 3,500 inmates in April. State prisons have also halted non-essential visits and the intake of inmates from county jails. The overall population at CDCR facilities throughout California has shrunk by more than 8,000 inmates since mid-March, prison officials said.

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California spent $38.2 million on CHP officers at George Floyd protests

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-16/california-deployment-of-chp-officers-to-protests-cost-38-2-million[6/17/2020 8:52:35 AM] California paid $38 million for CHP officers at Floyd protests - Los Angeles Times

Protesters crowd around a CHP vehicle during a Black Lives Matter protest at LAPD headquarters in downtown L.A. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By PATRICK MCGREEVY | STAFF WRITER

JUNE 16, 2020 | 3:47 PM

SACRAMENTO — The California Highway Patrol incurred $38.2 million in overtime costs policing the recent fiery protests in this state that were in response to the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota, state officials said Tuesday.

The costs include more than $6 million in CHP overtime costs for deployment in the city and county of Los Angeles, according to a letter to lawmakers by state Finance Director Keely Bosler.

The CHP costs are in addition to the nearly $25 million it cost the state to deploy 8,000 National Guard soldiers throughout California to help local law enforcement quell violence.

Previously, since April 1, the state had incurred $987,092 in overtime costs for CHP officers to respond to protests at the Capitol seeking the lifting of the governor’s stay-at-home order, the agency said.

Mass protests erupted in cities all over the globe in response to the videotaped death of Floyd, a Black man who died May 25 after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for Los Angeles city and county on May 30 to assist local law enforcement agencies in their response to widespread civil disturbances, Bosler wrote to lawmakers.

The action was in response to a request by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for

state aid, including National Guard

troops, to help the Los Angeles Police CALIFORNIA Department respond to property Protesters, law enforcement clash in downtown L.A. during protest over George damage and thefts in the city. Floyd’s death

May 27, 2020 It marked the third time in more than half a century that the state sent troops to respond to unrest in the city over violence against a Black person in police custody.

“You’ve lost patience,” Newsom said to protesters in announcing the deployment. “So have I. You are right to feel wronged. You are right to feel the way you are feeling.”

The costs of 431,454 hours of unanticipated overtime for CHP officers will be covered by the state budget under the emergency order and other action being taken by the Department of Finance.

Money is being transferred from the general fund “in support of the state’s efforts to mitigate civil unrest in Los Angeles City and County,” Bosler wrote.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-16/california-deployment-of-chp-officers-to-protests-cost-38-2-million[6/17/2020 8:52:35 AM] Michael Hiltzik: The coronavirus is winning, coast to coast - Los Angeles Times

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Column: How the coronavirus has made chumps out of governors coast- to-coast

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-17/coronavirus-chumps-governors[6/17/2020 8:29:42 AM] Michael Hiltzik: The coronavirus is winning, coast to coast - Los Angeles Times

A blustering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims on May 20 to have defeated COVID-19. But new cases in his state broke records a few weeks later. (CSPAN)

By MICHAEL HILTZIK | BUSINESS COLUMNIST

JUNE 17, 2020 | 7:02 AM

On May 20, during a joint press conference with Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a truculent defense of his management of the coronavirus pandemic in his state.

DeSantis groused about having been the target of a “typical partisan narrative” forecasting a surge in disease cases tied to a purportedly premature reopening of Florida by commercial businesses and recreation areas.

He complained that the media had “waxed poetic for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York.”

It’s spreading like wildfire.

REP. GREG STANTON, D-ARIZ., ABOUT HIS STATE’S SURGE IN COVID-19 CASES

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Instead, he said, Florida’s death rate was better than that of the Northeast, Midwest and other Southern states. “We’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative.”

Not so fast, governor.

At 14 deaths per 100,000 residents, Florida ranks 26th in its death rate -- much better than New York’s nation-leading rate of 158 but about even with California and worse than Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Texas -- according to the authoritative Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

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May 14, 2020

More to the point, Florida’s rate of positive COVID-19 tests has been rising steadily since mid-May; its seven-day moving average of positive tests rose to 5.6% this week -- and its one-day rate hit 8.3% -- compared with a seven-day average of 2.6% around the time of DeSantis’s display of braggadocio.

Over the last several days, Florida has reported a string of record highs in new coronavirus cases, including 2,783 new cases reported Tuesday. Whatever the state can claim, having “succeeded” in its battle with the pandemic isn’t high on the list.

DeSantis has pointed out that a preponderance of hospitalizations and deaths occurs among certain high-risk populations -- he mentioned prisons and nursing homes. That may be true, but it offers Floridians the false impression that everyone else is virtually immune; as long as they stay out of jail and nursing homes, they can party like it’s 2019.

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Data show that Florida’s COVID-19 test positivity rate has been rising since mid-May. (Johns Hopkins)

We don’t mean to pick on DeSantis. He’s not alone in standing accused of reopening his state too early. That’s a charge that can fairly be laid on more than a score of other governors, including California’s Gavin Newsom. California and Florida are both among 10 states that reached new highs for hospitalized patients over the weekend, according to a Washington Post database.

What the numbers do show, however, is that the novel coronavirus is winning almost everywhere in the country.

In part that’s a reflection of how political leaders from President Trump on down to the local level have turned sensible social measures such as wearing masks outdoors into partisan litmus tests or symbols of macho invulnerability, which reduce the public’s acceptance of those measures.

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June 16, 2020

As we’ve observed before, political leadership would have gone a long way toward encouraging Americans to accept rather more personal sacrifice in the interest of defeating the virus. But that leadership has been in short supply. For a uniquely

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opportunistic pathogen such as this virus, that political recklessness has been a godsend.

Matters have not been helped by efforts to paper over governmental shortcomings by withholding or distorting statistics.

Florida’s DeSantis is embroiled in one such controversy involving Rebekah Jones, a Health Department website manager who says she was fired for refusing to post inaccurate numbers on the state’s public web portal. Jones has since launched her own portal, which reports more dire figures than the state’s official site.

In early May, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, dismantled a team of university experts who had developed a model projecting the course of infection in that state, given reopening scenarios. Their projections called on stay-at-home policies to remain in effect through the end of May, but Ducey launched a reopening on May 8.

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COVID-19 Hospitalizations are rising in the South but declining in states that saw earlier infection surges. (Pantheon Macroeconomics)

At the moment, Arizona is a leading hot-spot of coronavirus infection nationally. Its test positivity rate has soared to 12.7% from 7.7% just two weeks ago, its hospitals are warning of capacity overload, and Rep. Greg Stanton, a Democrat from the Phoenix area, says the state’s per capita infection rate is now more than three times higher than New York state’s.

“It’s spreading like wildfire,” Stanton tweeted. The state’s former health director, Will Humble, predicted that the trend would place Arizona on “a railroad track to field

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hospitals and/or another stay-at-home order.”

Ducey and DeSantis are following the lead of the Trump administration, which appears to think that the virus can be defeated by neglect and misdirection. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal appearing under his name Tuesday, Pence asserted that “the media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way” about the pandemic.

Except that government scientists have been warning about the scale of the disaster since January, and the authoritative Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker places the number of U.S. deaths as of Wednesday at 116,963.

Pence reportedly urged governors on a conference call Monday to ascribe any increase in COVID-19 to “the magnitude of the increase in testing,” which isn’t the case in many states.

That’s Trump’s position. He tweeted Monday that “without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases,” adding that testing “makes us look bad.”

Premature reopenings and relaxed behavior despite the coronavirus’s proven implacability aren’t restricted to red states. As my colleague Phil Willon reports, California Gov. Newsom, a Democrat, has ceded the decision on reopenings to county officials.

That’s despite clear indications that most counties are inclined to reopen despite failing to meet infection prevalence standards he established, and despite his having taken the lead in issuing the nation’s first stay-at-home to combat the coronavirus’s spread in mid- March.

Newsom’s action reflects political rather than epidemiological conditions: He’s reluctant to fight back against a loud clique demanding a relaxation of the rules even as polls show that most Americans still favor social distancing, practice it themselves and prefer a measured reopening over hasty and premature moves.

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June 8, 2020

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But he’s not alone in California. The Orange County Board of Supervisors cravenly capitulated last week by pressuring the county’s health officer to rescind a rule imposed by his predecessor, mandating the wearing of masks in public where social distancing wasn’t possible. The county replaced the mandate with a “strong recommendation” in favor of wearing masks.

The turnabout came after the prior health officer was hectored into resigning, even prompting the Sheriff’s Department to provide the officer with a security detail after she received an apparent death threat.

What the science indicates is that masks and other social distancing measures work to slow the spread of COVID-19. Political blustering and the manipulation of statistics don’t work. America is currently living through a halcyon moment in which it imagines that it has beaten the pandemic and things will get only better from here.

That sort of complacency is tantamount to tempting the virus gods. We have not won, and we are not in a “second wave.” We are still in the first wave, and the prospect is for it to get much worse.

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