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City Drops Curfew After Backlash Page 5 Vol. XLI, Number 35 Q June 5, 2020 City drops curfew after backlash Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.com Congratulations to the Class of 2020! See graduation photos and stories on pages 7, 17 and 29. QUpfront Retail, outdoor dining set to reopen Friday Page 5 QSpectrum Palo Alto needs social reform now Page 16 QLiving Well Rush is on to get masks to senior facilities Page 33 Designed to adapt. Ready for your emergency. We continue serving our community’s adults and children. As one of the most advanced trauma centers in the world, we are uniquely equipped to handle all cases at all times, even in unprecedented circumstances. No one anticipated COVID-19, but our systems have allowed us to adapt while maintaining the highest standards for safety. Our new infection control procedures include digital technology for triaging your condition, allowing for separate spaces for COVID-19 patients. Emergency teams use fresh personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as extra air filtering and cleaning methods to sterilize your exam room before and aft er your visit. We are ready for your emergency. stanfordhealthcare.org/emergencyready Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department Pediatric Emergency Department 1199 Welch Road • Stanford, CA 94304 900 Quarry Road Extension • Palo Alto, CA 94304 Page 2 • June 5, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 5, 2020 • Page 3 UPDATED SANTA CLARA COUNTY SHELTER IN PLACE ORDER What’s Open? Learn more at sccgov.org/coronavirus Subject to social distancing protocols and COVID-19 related safety requirements to protect workers, customers and the community. Business and Government Agencies Already Open Open June 5, 2020 • All healthcare services • Most manufacturing • Outdoor dining at restaurants • All essential governmental activities • Medically necessary pet grooming • In-store shopping at retail • All essential infrastructure, including • All retail stores, but for curbside and shopping centers internet/communications pickup only • Grocery stores, pharmacies, and similar • Real estate agents, escrow agents, • All manufacturing, warehousing, essential businesses notaries, and title companies and logistics • Agencies providing food/shelter/social • Plant nurseries and garden centers • House cleaning and other services • Laundromats, dry cleaners, no-contact in-home services • Newspapers, television, and radio and laundry services • Low contact/no contact service • Gas stations, auto-supply, • Restaurants, but only for delivery and auto-repair or carry out businesses including shoe repair, • Bicycle repair and supply shops • Airlines, taxis, rental cars, and rideshare watch repair, and other similar • Banks and related financial institutions services services • Hardware stores • Home-based care for seniors/ • Pet grooming and dog walking • Plumbers, electricians, exterminators, children/pets and other home repair services • Residential facilities and homeless • Mailing and shipping services shelters • Minimum Basic Operations for all • All businesses that deliver goods businesses, including offices to homes • Landscaping and gardening services Education, Childcare, and Children’s Activities Already Open Open June 5, 2020 • Educational institutions including • Summer camps and other educational • All childcare, summer camps, public and private K-12 schools, or recreational programs for children summer school, and all other colleges, and universities, but only of workers of allowable businesses educational or recreational for facilitating distance learning or in stable groups of 12 programs for all children in performing essential functions • Change of groups allowed every stable groups up to 12 children • Childcare establishments for children four weeks of workers of allowable businesses in • Change of group allowed every stable groups of 12 three weeks Outdoor Ceremonies, Outdoor Religious Gatherings, and Outdoor Recreation Already Open Open June 5, 2020 • Outdoor recreational activities with • Small outdoor ceremonies other household, including hiking, members of one’s own household and outdoor religious gatherings in tennis, Frisbee and golf • Parks and outdoor recreation areas groups no larger than 25 • Outdoor swimming pools • Outdoor museums, outdoor historical • All outdoor recreational activities that • Camping sites, and publicly accessible gardens do not involve physical contact, with • Drive-in theaters and other automobile- • Car parades social distancing and with up to one based gatherings Page 4 • June 5, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Outrage, frustration spill onto the streets Protesters march, take a knee, block highway to turmoil and unrest set off by the “I felt like God was telling for her parents’ permission, she Rodney King beating — while for me: Use your voice and use the had already shared — from her show solidarity with Black Lives Matter younger residents, this week was attitude and power you have to phone, in her room, via her Ins- by Lloyd Lee, Kate Bradshaw and Sue Dremann the first time many had stepped protest for what things are right,” tagram account — a digital flyer forward to organize action against Stevenson said in an interview. “I that quickly went viral within her ith fists raised and signs George Floyd, who was killed injustice. don’t care if my parents said ‘no,’ community. held high, thousands while in Minneapolis police cus- A protest on Wednesday af- all respect to them, but I was still Menlo-Atherton’s Black Stu- W of protesters marched tody last week. ternoon that started at Jack Far- going to protest even if I had no dent Union club shared the post through Menlo Park, Palo Alto For some older residents, the rell Park in East Palo Alto and one behind me or if I had every- on its own social media plat- and East Palo Alto this week demonstrations recalled prior ended about a mile away at Bell one behind me.” forms as did Youth United for against police brutality and rac- ones — events they’d hoped to Street Park was the brainchild of By the time the Menlo-Ather- ism in the wake of the death of leave in the past, including the 15-year-old Alanna Stevenson. ton High School student asked (continued on page 10) CITY HALL Curfew dropped after backlash City manager said the decision was prompted by apparent threats to commercial districts by Gennady Sheyner ity Manager Ed Shikada’s sudden decision on Tues- C day to impose a curfew in Palo Alto until June 11 immedi- ately faced a backlash from resi- dents, civil rights advocates and former City Council members, who called the move a legally du- bious police “overreach” that will chill free speech. Magali Gauthier Magali The curfew took effect Tuesday night and prohibited residents from being out in public between 8:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. It was in- Protesters walk by a boarded-up Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto on June 1. tended to protect the city from organized rings of looters, whom police warned were targeting Palo of wood. Bloomingdale’s, North Alto’s Stanford Shopping Center, BUSINESS Face, Tommy Bahama and Free among other retail areas. People were among the upscale But after just one night, during mall’s risk takers that chose not which the city saw no violence Fearing looters, stores take to barricade their doors Tuesday or property damage, Shikada night. announced late Wednesday af- Keeping watch over the ternoon that he and Police Chief action to protect property shopping center, mall security Robert Jonsen would evaluate the guards were joined by a Palo status of the curfew on Thursday. Despite anticipated threats, no mass looting occurs Alto police unit. In recent days, He and Jonsen “hope to remove in the Midpeninsula on first night of curfew Palo Alto police have been par- the curfew, if circumstances war- ticularly concerned that looters rant, as of June 4,” the announce- by Lloyd Lee might target the outdoor mall. ment stated. They followed suit ith the Midpeninsula looting rings could strike their Burberry, the luxury fashion On May 31, police received on Thursday morning with an already stirred up businesses. brand, at Stanford Shopping information that looters were announcement that the curfew is W in recent days over Around 6 p.m., racing to beat Center. planning to come to the mall, officially over. the death of George Floyd at a newly instituted Palo Alto cur- By then, the entrances of Vic- and within an hour, between Shikada told this news orga- the hands of Minneapolis po- few of 8:30 p.m., two groups of toria’s Secret, Macy’s, Apple, 50-100 cars arrived and circled nization that the police had not lice, some local shops took contracted workers were sawing Banana Republic and Neiman the shopping center, a city press made any arrests related to resi- precautions Tuesday as warn- beams of wood as they board- Marcus, among others, were al- dents violating the curfew, which ings spread that organized ed up a Gap clothing store and ready bolstered with thick slabs (continued on page 37) (continued on page 37) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 5, 2020 • Page 5 Upfront 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306 QUOTE OF THE WEEK (650) 326-8210 995 Fictitious Name you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections PUBLISHER Statement with the court before the hearing. 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