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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 2:30 p.m.

Another San Bernardino County resident has died from the novel coronavirus and 143 more have tested positive, according to data released Thursday, June 4, by the public health department.

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1 of 3 A screenshot of San Bernardino County’s COVID-19 dashboard Thursday, June 4, 2020. (Courtesy of San Bernardino County) 

So far during the pandemic, 210 people in the county have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and 5,793 have tested positive, the county’s online dashboard shows. Deaths were up by .5%, while cases grew by 2.5% from Wednesday, June 3, according to the data.

An estimated 3,343 people have recovered from the disease, the county says. Recoveries are defined as cases in which 28 days have passed since patients were diagnosed with COVID-19, the day they started showing symptoms, when their specimen was collected, the day the case was received by public health officials or whichever of these happened earliest.

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Because recovery varies by person, severity of the disease and can be subjective, the public should be cautious in interpreting the recoveries, the county warns.

The time it takes for the virus to double in the community was 16.6 days, up from around five days reported in April.

Testing was up 5.2% from Wednesday. In the county of 2.1 RELATED LINKS million residents, 69,266 have been tested, of which 8.4%

were positive. San Bernardino County says 2,888 have recovered from coronavirus See a list of community-by-community cases here. Coronavirus in San Bernardino County: COVID-19 coverage from The Sun

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Demonstrators gather at the steps of San Bernardino Justice Center to protest the death of George Floyd at in San Bernardino on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) S

By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino Sun  PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 11:59 a.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 12:19 p.m.

San Bernardino lifted its curfew Thursday, June 4, after the executive director of Inland Congregations United for Change threatened legal action against the city for instituting the order in response to rioting and looting Sunday that overshadowed nonviolent demonstrations honoring George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody late last month in Minneapolis.

A video showed now-fired police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes before he died. Chauvin and three other now-former officers implicated in the case face criminal charges.

While the curfew has been rescinded, a local emergency still exists.

An 8 p.m. curfew originally was implemented Sunday in response to “outside agitators” sparking riots in the hours following what was a peaceful protest against police violence that started at City Hall. City officials on Monday moved the curfew up to 6 p.m. to quell any violence stemming from additional R demonstrations. By

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READ MORE Master Gardener: Is it too late to plant roses? On Wednesday, City Council members suggested pushing the curfew back to 8 p.m. to assuage business owners, many of whom are just now resuming operations as the state relaxes coronavirus- induced shopping restrictions, who say an early curfew hurts business.

The council subsequently voted to scale the curfew back to RELATED LINKS 8 p.m.

Hundreds of protesters gather and march In an email to city leaders Thursday morning, however, City in Highland to protest police violence Manager Teri Ledoux said Tom Dolan, a San Bernardino resident and executive director of the faith-based Inland Curfews don’t send all protesters home, Congregations United for Change, had joined the American but officials say they work Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit challenging curfews in San San Bernardino cleans up aftermath of Bernardino and Los Angeles County. ‘total mayhem’ following George Floyd protest Ledoux said city counsel would review the complaint Thursday. San Bernardino police order curfew after George Floyd protest Also Thursday, the Los Angeles County sheriff called off enforcement of the curfew there, a day after the ACLU filed its suit against Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and the city of San Bernardino. In the suit, the ACLU claims curfews enacted by local officials are a violation of the First Amendment because they restrict movement outside of working hours, a violation of the Constitution’s protection of freedom of movement.

Acting police Chief Eric McBride told council members Wednesday that authorities made 32 arrests during Sunday’s riot. A majority of those apprehended had addresses outside the city, McBride said.

“They were guerillas, guerilla warriors going to and taking advantage of a city that is really exposed at this particular time,” Councilman Henry Nickel said Wednesday. “I would like to see these individuals face justice.”

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S Protesters stand and chant in downtown Redlands on Thursday, June 4, 2020, in a call for justice for the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnepolis. (Photo by Jennifer Iyer, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

By JENNIFER IYER | [email protected] and ROBERT GUNDRAN | [email protected] | Redlands Daily  Facts PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 6:21 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 7:05 p.m.

A group of about 200 demonstrators — some hoisting signs and chanting “No justice, no peace, no [W racist police” — gathered outside the Redlands police annex late Thursday afternoon, June 4, to By protest police brutality following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd.

About 4 p.m., protesters began gathering outside the police annex on Cajon Street, signs reading “Hex White Supremacy,” “Love black people the way you love black culture” and “The system is not M broken, it was built this way” peppering the scene.

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Police Chief Travis Martinez told the group. “There’s no justifying (what happened to George Floyd) whatsoever.”

Protesters walked down State Street chanting “Black lives matter” — a refrain heard around the globe amid social unrest in response to Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Several intersections were blocked to traffic by police as the march proceeded through downtown Redlands.

In the middle of State Street at Sixth Street, more than 100 protesters formed a circle and took a knee, listening as black residents shared their experiences, some describing how officers have pointed guns at them during traffic stops and others how police were called on them in their own neighborhoods.

Protesters kneel in the intersection of State and Sixth streets in downtown Redlands on Thursday, June 4, 2020, in a call for justice for the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnepolis. (Photo by Jennifer Iyer, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG)

Twanna Jackson, a 20-year resident of Redlands, said she joined the protest because of injustices she has witnessed in the city. She was spit upon in middle school with no consequences for the aggressor, she said, and a year ago a swastika was painted on her street.

“We’re exhausted of fighting,” she said as demonstrators chanted “Black lives, they matter here.” “It’s good to see you guys out here, know that you care.”

The demonstration followed several peaceful protests held in the city Sunday.

In a letter to the community on Wednesday, police Chief Chris Catren said he was “shocked and saddened by the recorded police action that led to the needless death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.”

In the letter posted to the department’s Facebook page, RELATED LINKS Catren outlined some practices the department takes to

“prevent unlawful uses of force and bridge gaps between Curfews set Thursday night for Southern communities and those who police them.” California cities

The department hires based on character, trains its officers Three protests in Redlands remain in de-escalation techniques, and “vigorously” investigates peaceful, police chief reports all uses of force, Catren wrote. Hundreds of protesters gather and march in Highland to protest police violence “It all starts with developing and reinforcing a culture that

emphasizes and respects the value of human life,” he said. ‘Prayer is effective’ demonstrator says at Yucaipa protest of George Floyd’s death Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis officer recorded on video with his knee on Floyd’s neck before the Curfews don’t send all protesters home, man’s death, and three other former officers implicated in but officials say they work the case, all face criminal charges.

Protests and social unrest have followed the incident nationwide, even globally, with some peaceful protests giving way to rioting and looting, as San Bernardino witnessed Sunday evening. Many cities issued curfews to quell further outbreaks of violence, which local officials began to lift on Thursday. Redlands, which has not reported any major incidents of violence as a result of protests, has not implemented a curfew.

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Protesters Nikkia Kelly, of San Bernardino, and Heather Rush, of Fontana, peacefully protest at the corner of Cherry and Jurupa Avenues in the Southridge area of Fontana Thursday, June 4, 2020. Over 200 protesters gathered to protest the death of George Floyd last week at the hands of Minneapolis police. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] and JAVIER ROJAS | [email protected] | San Bernardino  Sun PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 4:51 p.m. | UPDATED: June 5, 2020 at 7:53 a.m.

A diverse crowd of about 400 people gathered Thursday, June 4, at Don Day Park in southwestern Fontana to honor George Floyd and other victims of police brutality and systemic racism.

Floyd, 46, died in Minneapolis police custody late last month, after now-former office Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, an incident captured on video. https://www.sbsun.com/...&utm_content=fb-sbsun&fbclid=IwAR3a9juIbiYvaDii6oHjeAq9ZbaKP9WWEnG4x_SGNn1bAdV0GFjljUzqVnA[6/5/2020 8:51:53 AM] Hundreds call for justice for George Floyd in Fontana protest – San Bernardino Sun

Chauvin and three other now-fired officers implicated in the case face criminal charges.

Shortly after assembling at the Fontana park, men and women peacefully marched to Jurupa and Cherry avenues carrying signs that read “Being black is not a crime” and “Black lives matter,” “Enough is enough,” “We hear you, we see you, we don’t understand, but we stand with you,” and “White silence is violence.”

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1 of 11 Protesters peacefully march up Cherry Avenue in the Southridge area of Fontana Thursday, June 4, 2020. Over 200 protesters gathered to protest  the death of George Floyd last week at the hands of Minneapolis police. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

The nonviolent demonstration was the latest in a series of them held this week across the Inland Empire. Extra emphasis has been added on protesting peacefully after rioting and looting broke out during demonstrations over the weekend.

Organizer Vanessa Ojeikere, 16, said Thursday she expected only 50 people to join her.

“I feel like I can’t do much from sitting at home,” the Fontana resident said. “So I had to get out here and be in the action. I want to make sure my city knows what’s going on.”

After chanting at the busy Fontana intersection for about 30 minutes, the crowd marched back to Don Day Park, where the group observed a moment of silence for Floyd, whose first memorial service was held Thursday at a sanctuary at North Central University in Minneapolis.

Some in Fontana knelt during the moment of silence. Others rose a fist.

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READ MORE Curfews set Thursday night for Southern California The company also said it “expects additional phases of store closing sales will begin in the coming weeks. Store closing sales for the first round of store closures are expected to take 10-16 weeks to complete.”

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Like many old-line merchants, J.C. Penney has battled both long-running challenges to traditional department stores as well as business limitations and economic weakness due to the coronavirus.

“I am incredibly grateful to our talented associates for their ongoing dedication and their passion for meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations during this difficult and uncertain time. All impacted associates will be treated with the utmost consideration and respect,” said CEO Jill Soltau.

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By STAFF REPORT | |  PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 5:14 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 5:14 p.m.

The San Bernardino City Unified School District will continue during the summer to provide free grab- and-go meals to students at 11 sites, from June 8 to July 29.

All San Bernardino City Unified School District are eligible for free meals, according to a news release.

The meals are available for pickup 9-11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and students are provided with more than one meal at each distribution.

Families may walk, bike or drive to any of the meal distribution sites. Students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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READ MORE He opens wide and says ‘ahhh’ at coronavirus test The summer grab-and-go meals are available at the following San Bernardino sites:

• Cajon High School, 1200 W. Hill Drive

• Chavez Middle School, 6650 N. Magnolia Ave.

• Del Vallejo Leadership & STEAM Academy, 1885 E. Lynwood Drive

• Golden Valley Middle School, 3800 N. Waterman Ave.

• Indian Springs High School, 650 N. Del Rosa Drive M • Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 1250 Medical Center Drive

• Muscoy Elementary School, 2119 W. Blake St.

• Pacific High School, 1020 Pacific St.

• Richardson PREP HI Middle School, 455 S. K St.

• San Bernardino High School, 1850 N. E St.

• San Gorgonio High School, 2299 Pacific St.

For information, call 909-381-1224.

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Cliff Cummings, owner of Subaru of San Bernardino, recently presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities a check for $56,609.44, the proceeds of Subaru of San Bernardino’s 2019 Share the Love campaign.

The donation was to have been presented at an in-person event, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, the check was sent in the mail.

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Subaru of San Bernardino has been a consistent supporter through the years of the Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities, hosting Christmas events, donating to the Bids for Kids dinner and auction, underwriting advertising and naming the club as recipient of Cliff Cummings, owner of Subaru of San Bernardino, with the the Share the Love campaign funds, according presentation version of the $56,609.44 check he sent to the Boys to a news release. & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities, proceeds of Subaru of San Bernardino’s Share the Love campaign. (Courtesy of Cliff Cummings) Like other organizations, businesses and individuals, the Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities has had to adjust to restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The donation from Subaru of San Bernardino will help the Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities be ready to welcome kids back when it is possible to reopen.

The Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Communities, founded in 1995, has four sites in mountain communities including Crestline and Lake Arrowhead.

For information, go to mcbgc.org.

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A massive fire broke out Friday morning, June 5 at a distribution center on West Lugonia Avenue in Redlands which shuttered part of the 10 Freeway. (Photo courtesy of the Redlands Fire Department)

By ALMA FAUSTO | [email protected] | Orange County Register  PUBLISHED: June 5, 2020 at 7:47 a.m. | UPDATED: June 5, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.

Firefighters were battling a massive fire Friday morning that was tearing through a Redlands distribution warehouse building.

The blaze, on West Lugionia Avenue near California Street, was reported just before 5:30 a.m. and, Caltrans said, prompted the closure of both sides of the 10 Freeway.

Just before 7:30 a.m. the westbound part of the freeway was still closed, the Redlands Fire Department said.

Broadcast news showed Amazon big rig trucks on fire but authorities did not immediately say if the center belonged to the online retailer.

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Large clouds of smoke could be seen shooting from the building’s roof and into the sky.

It was not immediately known what caused the fire. It was unclear if there were any injuries.

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James “Stew” Stewart, seen in Old Town Temecula on Thursday, May 21, 2020, quit his post and the city council late Thursday, June 4, after an email he wrote stirred controversy and calls for his resignation. (File photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press- Enterprise/SCNG)

By STAFF REPORT | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 10:19 p.m. | UPDATED: June 5, 2020 at 6:50 a.m.

Temecula’s mayor quit the post and the city council late Thursday, June 4, after a day of criticism for an email in which he says he mistakenly wrote he didn’t “believe there’s ever been a good person of color killed by a police officer.”

Earlier in the day, James “Stew” Stewart, who said he dictates messages because he has dyslexia, said the word “good” accidentally got added to an email he dictated Tuesday to a resident asking what the city was doing about police violence and racism against blacks. S

That email was posted on social media and led to an outcry online, calls for his resignation from

L residents and at least one organization and plans for a protest march Friday, June 5. Stewart said Thursday afternoon he was considering stepping down and would decide Friday. By

Instead, after 9:30 p.m., the city issued a news release saying he would immediately leave the city council. The release contained his apology to residents and colleagues. M

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“City of Temecula, I hear you, I agree with you, and I am deeply sorry,” his statement began.

“You have every right to be hurt and offended. My typos and off-the-cuff response to an email on a serious topic added pain at a time where our community, and our country, is suffering. I may not be the best writer and I sometimes misspeak, but I am not racist.”

“I understand that even my sincerest apologies cannot remedy this situation. Because actions speak louder than words, I will step down as your Mayor and City Council Member effective immediately.”

Earlier Thursday, Stewart said his email referred to police actions in Temecula and the surrounding area, and that he “absolutely” did not say the word “good” when preparing the message. As he composed the email late at night after a long day’s work, Stewart said he could not remember a Temecula-area example of police fatally shooting a black person.

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Hundreds call for justice for George Floyd See More in Fontana protest Stewart, who moved to Temecula in 1991 from Illinois, 500 in Riverside protest racial violence, owns barber shops and was elected to a four-year term in call for reform November 2016.

‘Get your knee off our necks!’: Floyd The controversy arose during a week marked by protests mourned in Minneapolis — including in Temecula — and vigils in the Inland Empire and beyond sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where police officers have been charged in his death.

In the release, Mayor Pro Tem Maryann Edwards said the city accepted his resignation and called Stewart “a hard-working and honest man.”

“Temecula is poised to close this chapter, and continue our long-term commitment to denounce and prevent racial injustice in any form,” Edwards said in the release.

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La County Sheriff’s deputies stand guard in front of the Walgreens as demonstrators protest at the intersection of Hacienda Blvd and Amar Road after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis in La Puente on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

By OLGA GRIGORYANTS | [email protected] | Los Angeles Daily News  PUBLISHED: June 4, 2020 at 9:58 a.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2020 at 10:02 a.m.

Los Angeles County officials are calling Wednesday, June 4, for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the county’s 46 local police departments to update their use of force policies, aiming to reduce the number of people killed by police.

The policies have been introduced by Campaign Zero, an advocacy group led by DeRay Mckesson, Samuel Sinyangwe, and Brittany N. Packnett Cunningham, which focuses on developing data-driven policies to end police brutality.

In a motion authored by Los Angeles County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Mark Ridley-Thomas, the S officials are calling the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department other police departments in the county to include the following eight policies outlined by Campaign Zero: In https://www.dailybulletin.com/...?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin[6/4/2020 4:33:41 PM] 2 LA supervisors urge police agencies to shake up use-of-force policies – Daily Bulletin

Requiring officers to intervene to stop another officer from using excessive force By Restricting, or prohibiting, the use of chokeholds, strangleholds, and carotid restraints Requiring officers to de-escalate situations, when possible, before using force Using a Force Continuum or Matrix that defines and limits the types of force that can be used to M respond to specific types of resistance Requiring officers to give a verbal warning before using deadly force Prohibiting officers from shooting at people in moving vehicles unless the person poses a deadly threat by means other than the vehicle Requiring officers to exhaust all other reasonable alternatives before resorting to using deadly force Requiring comprehensive reporting that includes both uses of force and threats of force

“The people are demanding change,” Supervisor Hahn said RELATED ARTICLES in a statement. “These are eight steps that can be taken

Burbank protest draws hundreds, exceeds right now by all of our law enforcement departments that organizers’ expectations are proven effective in reducing the number of people killed by police and sheriff’s deputies. Most of the police Hundreds of protesters return to Santa departments in L.A. County have already implemented one Monica; peaceful so far or two of these policies, but no one has implemented all `Get your knee off our necks!’: Floyd eight. I am calling on our Sheriff and all of our local police mourned in Minneapolis chiefs to update their use of force policies to include these important restrictions to use of force. We cannot wait any San Bernardino lifts curfew enacted after protests gave way to riots and looting longer.”

Judge: $750,000 bail for 3 ex-officers Supervisor Ridley-Thomas said that “the killing of George accused in Floyd’s death Floyd once again exposes the harsh reality that the African- American community has to endure in our country. We will not accept this injustice.”

While there are law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County that have made significant steps toward reform, no local law enforcement department has adopted all eight of these policies, officials said.

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department does not include chokeholds in their training practices. However, chokeholds, strangleholds, carotid restraints, and the knee-on-neck hold that killed George Floyd are not explicitly prohibited in department policy.

Additionally, requiring the reporting of threats of use of

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reduction in police killings, but neither the LASD or Los Curfews scaled back in Southern Angeles Police Department requires this type of California as protests remain peaceful comprehensive reporting. Garcetti, LA city leaders call for cutting In addition to the reforms put forward by Campaign Zero, police funding amid protests against police brutality the Civilian Oversight Commission of the Sheriff’s

Department created an Ad Hoc Committee that has, over Thousands march to LA County’s Hall of the past several months, been reviewing and analyzing the Justice to confront DA Jackie Lacey Sheriff’s use of force policies in order to make recommendations on how to strengthen these policies. The commission is set to issue these recommendations in the coming weeks.

The new motion also directs the commission to report back to the Board of Supervisors in 15 days with their recommendations on strengthening LASD’s use of force policies and practices.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-04/california-lawmakers-rules-police-rubber-bullets[6/5/2020 8:51:23 AM] California lawmakers promise to set rules for rubber bullets - Los Angeles Times

A protester runs for safety after being shot with a foam round by LAPD officers at 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles on Saturday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

By PATRICK MCGREEVY | STAFF WRITER

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SACRAMENTO — Alarmed at numerous reports that protesters in recent days have been seriously injured by rubber bullets fired by police officers, a group of California lawmakers said Thursday they will introduce legislation to set clear standards for when the projectiles can be used.

Four lawmakers proposed revising current policy on use of the projectiles in response to incidents reported throughout the country by those who have been protesting the death of George Floyd, who was killed when a Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground.

Injured protesters include a Dallas man who said he lost his left eye after being hit by a so-called less- lethal projectile, according to the Dallas Morning News.

In California, protesters have been bloodied and bruised when hit with rubber bullets. This week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he had directed the LAPD to minimize the use of projectiles when dealing with peaceful protesters.

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“No one who is simply exercising their right to protest should face possible injury or death because

officers are indiscriminately firing rubber bullets into a crowd,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), who was joined in announcing the legislation by Democratic Assembly members Shirley Weber of San Diego and Ash Kalra of San Jose, along with state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).

Although the legislation has not yet been drafted, comments by lawmakers indicated their goal is to

curb the use of rubber bullets for crowd control against peaceful protesters and those breaking city- imposed curfews.

Gonzalez cited a 2017 study by researchers from schools including UC Berkeley that indicated 15% of people hit by rubber bullets were seriously injured, and some injuries were fatal.

The legislators said current regulations do not require manufacturers to keep records on injuries from their products in development, field trials or actual use. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-04/california-lawmakers-rules-police-rubber-bullets[6/5/2020 8:51:23 AM] California lawmakers promise to set rules for rubber bullets - Los Angeles Times

The legislation, which has not yet been introduced, would also address lawmakers’ concerns that the state does not currently require law enforcement to collect data on injuries from rubber bullets or document their use of such projectiles, both issues that will be addressed in the legislation.

Currently, the state leaves it up to individual law enforcement agencies on whether to use rubber bullets or not, said Meagan Catafi, a spokeswoman for the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

The commission does have recommendations on crowd-control strategies, but they are general and cite court rulings, advising: “In all situations, the force used must be objectively reasonable under the totality of the circumstances.”

The California Police Chiefs Assn. has asked for the bill language when it is developed and will review it then, said Leslie McGill, executive director of the organization.

“Agencies should have policies guiding the use of such types of less-lethal force,” McGill said.

The lawmakers said they are developing the bill language based on what they are learning from the last week of protests.

“As lawmakers, we cannot stand by idly while people are being brutalized as they are exercising their

free speech,” Kalra said. “Rubber bullets should not be used to suppress freedom of assembly, peaceful protest or to facilitate curfews and disperse people demonstrating.”

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CALIFORNIA California coronavirus cases surpass 120,000; protests, closed testing sites worry health officials

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Protesters walk through a residential neighborhood in Hollywood on Wednesday after encountering an LAPD skirmish line. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

By CINDY CARCAMO, SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA, PHIL WILLON

JUNE 4, 2020 | 12:40 PM UPDATED 4:35 PM

With protests across California decrying the death of George Floyd in their seventh day, health officials continue to sound the alarm that such close gatherings are likely to contribute to the spread of the coronavirus.

The number of confirmed cases in California surpassed 120,000 on Thursday, with the death toll reaching more than 4,400.

The long-standing anger over killings like that of Floyd — who was pinned to the ground as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck — and the newer threat of the COVID-19 outbreak have become a joint crisis. The virus has been especially devastating to black communities,

where a disproportionate share of COVID-19 deaths have occurred.

But people motivated to demonstrate against systemic racism now must weigh the risks of protesting during the pandemic. Many say it’s worth it.

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Health officials, however, are troubled and continue to warn that the virus has not changed, despite

eased restrictions allowing some businesses to reopen.

The Public Policy Institute of California on Wednesday released a new poll showing that most Californians were wary of reopening too quickly amid the continuing pandemic.

The poll found widespread support for current statewide restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the virus. Some even want tougher safeguards, and many remain fearful about contracting COVID- 19 and ending up in the hospital.

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The virus remains of great concern to Californians. Of those polled, 36% said it was the most important issue facing the state today, compared with 23% who said they believed jobs and the economy were the top concerns.

“They were concerned about their own well-being, and they wanted to see restrictions put in place for their public safety. They are comfortable with maintaining those restrictions rather than loosening them,” said Mark Baldassare, the institute’s president and chief executive. “The anxiety is substantial.”

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But massive protests across the nation have sparked fears of a second wave, as thousands of demonstrators shout and hold hands — potentially amplifying the transmission of the virus.

The unrest has led to less testing in Los Angeles County, as many sites were closed or operated under restricted hours during local protests.

The city has kept Dodger Stadium — its largest coronavirus testing site — open since Monday, and more sites have reopened each day since being closed amid a weekend of unrest. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that all eight city-run testing sites would reopen Friday.

“Los Angeles County is in the midst of fighting an unprecedented pandemic while also facing a state of emergency that impacts public safety,” Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of the county’s Department of Health Services, said in a statement.

“We need to ensure our testing sites are safe for both patients and staff.”

The number of people who have tested positive for the virus — and the number of deaths linked to the virus — continue to rise in the county, though at a much less rapid clip.

As of Thursday, there were more than 59,000 confirmed cases and more than 2,500 deaths.

Over the last week, the county has averaged 1,405 new cases and 41.6 new deaths per day.

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Cindy Carcamo covers immigration issues for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was Arizona bureau chief and a national correspondent for The Times, focusing on border and immigration issues in the Southwest. A Los Angeles native, she has reported in Argentina and Mexico during her time as an Inter American Press Assn. scholar and as a reporter for the Orange County Register. She’s also reported from Guatemala and Honduras where her coverage was part of a team Overseas Press Club Award. She is also the recipient of the French-American Foundation’s 2012 Immigration Journalism Award and was a finalist for the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Journalism and 2011 Livingston Award.

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CALIFORNIA A coronavirus mystery: How many people in L.A. actually have COVID-19?

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Masked Uber customers wait for a ride at Los Angeles International Airport. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

By RONG-GONG LIN II | STAFF WRITER

JUNE 5, 2020 | 5 AM

One of the most pressing questions public health officials are trying to answer about the coronavirus is how many people actually have been infected by it.

Have a relatively significant portion of Californians been infected with the virus but survived without much problem?

Or has the virus touched only a tiny sliver of California, suggesting the chances of serious illness are greater if you’re infected?

In April, controversial studies out of Stanford University and USC suggested the coronavirus has circulated much more widely than previously thought in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles County.

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Almost immediately, there have been questions from other epidemiologists around the country about whether those estimates were too high.

To figure out how many people in L.A. County had evidence of past infection to the coronavirus, researchers aimed to test a representative sample of the county’s 7.9 million adults to see if they had antibodies to the virus. The presence of antibodies indicates that the body has been infected with the coronavirus before, and that the body’s immune system responded to it.

The original study of 863 adults tested in L.A. County between April 10 and April 14 found that 4.1% tested positive for coronavirus antibodies. That’s equivalent to about 322,000 L.A. County adults. When factoring in false positives and negatives and adjusting for demographics — because those tested were disproportionately more white and higher-income than the actual demographics of the

county — scientists estimated that 4.65% of L.A. County residents tested positive for the antibodies.

Then in May, the same researchers from USC and L.A. County repeated the study with different people at different sites.

The new study’s results were dramatically different: Only 2.1% tested positive for antibodies. This time, 1,014 adults were tested in the county between May 8 and 12.

The results suggest that only about 165,000 L.A. County adults have antibodies to the coronavirus — an estimate nearly 50% lower than the first study’s results.

What to make of the changes is the subject of much debate.

The new results also may mean that the coronavirus might be deadlier than previously suggested by the first survey in L.A. County, said Neeraj Sood, the L.A. County study’s leader and a professor at

USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

Sood said the average of the two results MORE COVERAGE ON CORONAVIRUS IN would lead him to guess that roughly 3% of CALIFORNIA L.A. County adults, or 236,000 people, have been infected with the coronavirus.

The findings underscore that many more studies are needed before we better understand how widely the disease has spread.

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Scientists in L.A. County and at USC said there were a number of reasons for the differing results. The latest study made an effort to include Mandarin and Spanish speakers, which was not done in the prior survey, and there was a concerted effort to test more blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans. Different testing sites were also chosen.

Random chance could also be a reason. “If you toss a coin 10 times, you don’t always get five heads. Sometimes you might get one head and sometimes you might get all 10 as a head,” said Sood, who is also an author of the Stanford report, at a recent press conference.

“Some of this random variation and outcomes could also explain differences in testing positive,” Sood said.

There’s another reason, although it is highly speculative: People are seeing antibodies to the coronavirus decline in the months after recovering from infection.

“Antibody levels may have waned amongst persons who had been infected early in the pandemic prior to the safer-at-home order,” said Barbara Ferrer, director of public health in L.A. County. The order was implemented March 19.

“I want to emphasize that this is completely speculative at this time. We haven’t fully investigated this issue, but this is something we will look at,” Sood said. “This is right now just a potential explanation. It doesn’t mean that we think this is a likely explanation.”

While lab tests can detect antibody levels at lower amounts, the tests the scientists used for the study detect a specific amount of antibodies only above a certain arbitrary threshold, Sood said in an interview.

Ferrer said it’ll be important to do more surveys with more people in the coming months, and also test other populations not represented in the survey, like those experiencing homelessness and living without shelter or those living in jails and nursing homes.

“The survey may also not have captured the experiences of those who live in extreme poverty. So plans are underway to do special studies for high-risk populations,” Ferrer said. Children will also be tested in a later survey.

It’s also possible the first L.A. County study was simply problematic. The first studies of antibody

prevalence in L.A. and Santa Clara counties came under criticism by other epidemiologists, who thought it was an overestimate.

The simplest answer is that the first L.A. County study had too many false positives, said Dr. George Rutherford, epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at UC San Francisco. " I suspect what was really going on was ... they overestimated to start with and now they’re coming out with probably a closer estimate.”

Rutherford said he thought losing antibodies to the coronavirus is the least likely explanation for the difference in results between the two studies.

When a disease is quite rare in the general population, there’s a well-known risk that a study will find too many false positives, Rutherford said.

To deal with that risk, you don’t release the first study’s results immediately; you run a second test using a different technique on the first set of lab specimens, Rutherford said. The second test would try to identify the existence of the antibody that’s related to a different part of the coronavirus.

“Then if you have both of those positive ... it’s a lot closer to being a true positive than doing a single test,” Rutherford said.

Rutherford said across California, he suspects that 1% of residents have been infected with the coronavirus at some point. It could be higher in Los Angeles County, but Rutherford said he thought even a 2% prevalence rate for L.A. County may be slightly high.

Rutherford also suspects the estimate that 21% of New York City residents have been infected with the coronavirus is too high, and he could see it perhaps being 10%.

Rutherford is embarking on a study of 1,200 people who have previously tested negative for the coronavirus in six counties of the San Francisco Bay Area to determine the number of new cases per person over time. He said he suspects 1% to 1.5% of the people he’s studying will become positive, and it could rise if the outbreak gets worse.

Sood defended the methodology of the first study, which he said did account for the risk of finding too many false positives. Sood said the goal of the study was to generate the results quickly and within a budget, and as a result, the lab specimens were tested only once before they were made public.

Sood also said the test his team used, sold by Minneapolis-based Premier Biotech, was informally evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for accuracy and had good results: The FDA found a 0% false positive rate and a 7% false negative rate, Sood said. The FDA has allowed Premier Biotech’s coronavirus antibody test to be used for research purposes but not yet for clinical purposes.

Finally, Sood said his study’s results are consistent with what he says is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s best guess of the case-fatality rate. Of everyone infected by the virus, an

estimated 0.26% will die, according to calculations Sood did based on data on the CDC’s website.

That case-fatality rate matches what actually happened in L.A. County by April 24, when a cumulative 850 deaths had been recorded, and Sood’s estimate of 324,000 having been infected three weeks prior to that date.

It can take roughly three weeks from exposure to the virus to die from COVID-19, according to CDC estimates.

There remains uncertainty over how deadly the coronavirus is for those who are infected by it. Other experts have said they suspect that 1% of people who are infected with the virus will die, a rate four times as large as the figure Sood calculated based on CDC data.

One thing is clear: The vast majority of L.A. County residents have not been infected and are susceptible to getting sick.

It means L.A. County’s stay-at-home order has been effective at curbing the spread of disease. But it also means L.A. County is nowhere near most of its population being immune to the virus, and the region will have to think of policies that can protect the population in the next two years or so before a vaccine might become widely available.

If you take the average of the two study results, “that still means we probably have 97% of the people still susceptible,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

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POLITICS May jobless rate falls to 13.3%, likely marking the bottom of coronavirus-related economic slump

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Maria Mora visits the state’s Employment Development Department about her jobless claim. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

By DON LEE | STAFF WRITER

JUNE 5, 2020 | 5:38 AM UPDATED 7:52 AM

WASHINGTON — The government reported Friday that the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3% last month after soaring to 14.7% in April, an unexpectedly positive turn that suggests the pandemic- induced recession may have hit bottom.

Most analysts had expected the rate would keep rising, perhaps as high as 20%.

But instead employers also added 2.5 million jobs in May after shedding a record-smashing 20.7 million positions the prior month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“We’re going to be back and we’re opening our country,” President Trump said in a hastily arranged appearance Friday in the White House Rose Garden. He urged states to continue loosening coronavirus restrictions.

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Democrats noted that the nation is still suffering from the biggest unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.

“And Trump says he is joyous?” said Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “Families are struggling. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Businesses have shut down for good. And Americans are dying every day — all of this was preventable.’’

California’s unemployment and jobs statistics for May will be released in two weeks and are likely to trail the nation’s rebound, largely because of the mix of its industries and the fact that it has been

slower to lift lockdowns and restrictions on businesses. The state’s jobless rate in April was 15.5%.

The improvement reflects the reopening of businesses in many parts of the country, and it came as a huge surprise to analysts.

Economists on average were expecting another loss of about 7.5 million jobs in May, according to Moody’s Analytics.

Moody’s labor economist Sophia Koropeckyj noted that the collection rates for both the household and payroll jobs surveys — from which the unemployment and job numbers are derived — were lower than normal.

And government statisticians said the actual unemployment rate in May may have been 3 percentage points higher because many people may have misclassified themselves by saying they were absent from work, even though they were laid off and should have been counted as unemployed.

Although the report provided a glimmer of good news, most mainstream economists fear that

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recovery will be long and slow.

“The bounce-back started earlier than most expected, but don’t get too excited about this one month of data,” said Nick Bunker, research director at Indeed Hiring Lab. “Job growth rising by 2.5 million and the unemployment rate dropping by over a percentage point are positive developments. But it’s not clear how enduring this will be. Furthermore, the labor market is still in a terrible spot with employment only 87% of where it was before the coronavirus crisis began.”

No matter how quickly or completely America opens the doors for business again, many analysts said, full recovery is expected to take at least three to five years. If a second large wave of infections occurs in the fall, as epidemiologists say it could in at least some parts of the country, the outlook could be even darker.

“The hole we’re in is just so deep,” said Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department and now with the Economic Policy Institute. “Even if you get a fast bounce-back, it could still be bad. I do think it’s going to be a long haul.”

Before Friday’s report, David Shulman, a senior UCLA economist, said he was expecting May to be the low point of the recession. “It now looks like April was the bottom,” he said.

Shulman said he and his colleagues at the UCLA Anderson Forecast were now likely to revise their outlook, to be released June 24. Earlier he said unemployment for both the state and the nation was likely to remain in double digits through 2022. “That’s probably off the table,” he said.

At the same time, Shulman and other economists said the latest jobs report appeared to be inconsistent with government data showing more than 31 million people received jobless benefits in May. “So are 10 million people getting paychecks from employers and collecting unemployment benefits too?” asked Christopher Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Bank in New York.

What’s more, the past week’s nationwide protests only complicated matters, with economic uncertainties created by damage to businesses and the potential increase in COVID-19 infections as a result of people abandoning social distancing in mass demonstrations.

Stephen Moore, a member of President Trump’s economic task force, also foresees added economic pain as a result of the protests: “These riots put a new twist on everything. It’s bad from an economic perspective. Just at a time when businesses were starting to reopen and we’re starting to make a little

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progress — then boom! — we get hit with this.”

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