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Black Lives Matter Protests Continue For Third-Straight Day In Santa Clarita

As Los Angeles County enters its second day of curfew, protesters gathered in Valencia for the third-straight day to participate in a Black Lives Matter protest following the death of George Floyd last week.

On Monday, President Trump gave a speech from the Rose Garden in which he addressed the handling of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, declaring himself the “president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.”

“If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” he said.

It was this speech that prompted Patti Sulpizio, regional vice chair for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, to go out and join protestors at the corner of McBean Parkway and Valencia Boulevard in Valencia.

“I heard the president speak, and I saw the military police charging the peaceful protestors in D.C.,” Sulpizio said. “His speech was very militaristic, and even the newscasters were saying it sounded like a dictator. That moved me to get in the car and come out here.”

This protest was the third to take place at the Valencia intersection over the past three days, all of which have ended peacefully.

 “This is about systemic racism,” Sulpizio said. “We protest in the memory of George Floyd and all other people of color who have died at the hands of police.”

See Related: None Arrested, Injured In Saturday’s Black Lives Matter Protest

The first protest began on Saturday, when hundreds of people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died in police custody after being arrested in Minneapolis for allegedly attempting to purchase groceries with a counterfeit $20 bill.

“I’m here because as an African American I am tired of seeing this happen,” said protestor Kim Barnes at the time. “I don’t have the words to describe how I feel right now. I’m tired of us not being treated as human.”

Despite law enforcement later declaring the protest an “unlawful assembly” as protestors were blocking a major intersection in Valencia, no arrests or injuries were reported in connection with Saturday’s protest.

“Our deputies handled the situation very well and all was kept orderly,” said Shirley Miller, spokesperson for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. “We were prepared for whatever could have happened. We prepared for the worst case scenario, but thankfully all turned out okay.”

On Sunday, a significantly lower number of people returned to Valencia to continue their peaceful protest. Meanwhile, larger and more violent protests continued to break out across Los Angeles County, prompting Supervisor Kathryn Barger to declare a state of emergency for the county. 

“This emergency comes as we are in the midst of battling another emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This taxes our resources, but not our resolve,” Barger said in a statement at the time. “We will do everything in our power to keep our communities safe and protect lives and property. I continue to call on our residents to maintain calm and seek solutions productively, not destructively.”

See Related: Los Angeles County Curfew Still Set For 6 P.M. Start Despite False Emergency Alert

In response to the growing violence, Barger and L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva then instituted a county-wide curfew, requiring all residents to stay home between 6 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. That curfew was then extended to last 6 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday.

As of 6 p.m. Monday, all protests within the Santa Clarita Valley have remained peaceful since they began on Saturday morning. For her part, Sulpizio condemned the riots and looting that has occurred across the country over the past week.

“That’s not what this is about,” she added.

To read the full text of the current curfew order, click here.


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Black Lives Matter Protests Continue For Third-Straight Day In Santa Clarita

21 comments

  1. Make that the Protest Against Police Violence.

    • Agreed ,the whole black lives matter group is offensive to the rest of the races.it should be an against police brutality movement.

    • You still don’t get it and you probably never will. America is my country, my family history goes back to 1745, not Ellis Island..We came by way of France via Canada. That’s my Creole side, my father was born in 1910 his Grandmother was born in 1860 in Kentucky she was a slave. During this time a group of men is given badges to hunt for escaped slaves they are called the Slave Patrol who would later become police officers who are sent into the African AMERICAN communities to police them into submission.
      1865 Emancipation all is good..Right? ..Not… Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson was now president and he was a friend to the South. All of the protections the Republicans ( Lincoln Republicans not Trump ) set up for the freed slaves were under attack by the south and some in the north it was called Reconstruction Act but the former Slaves were now the enemy. The KKK was born and they came up against Grant. Who instituted the Klan Act, not allowing White Supremiscist to keep African AMERICANS from voting. 15th Amendment. 8171 African AMERICANS are elected to office, Freedman’s Bureau helps to establish business loans, schools, Universities. Then the South raises its ugly head again. The Klan acres blacks from coming out to vote and the Republicans lose and Dixiecrats take the house and senate. Black Codes and Jim Crow is instituted. Lynching scares off voting even more..2020 lynching still exist ask George Floyd.

      • Bull crap it’s all in your head now brainwashed by your parents, your race and the internet. You use your color as an excuse for every problem in your life. The real African from Africa is taught by their parents to come to the land of the free and the become doctor and dentists here, the American blacks are told by their parents they will get nowhere here because they are black so they never try and blame their crappy life on others, sad truth.

      • Wow! That was the first time I have heard someone put down all the dominoes for what is going on today! I agree, this isn’t something that began with one unfortunate death. It began a long while back. Are white people to blame? No. There were a lot of white abolishionists. Any individual that has seen injustice and hate and has allowed it to continue is complicit in this. We all need to wake up to the fact that this hate still exists. We need to do more to change it even after the protesters and rioters go home. Let’s not allow recontruction era mentality to continue. It’s all our problem to fix. The Government won’t. We need to do it as iur legacy of love for our kids, and their kids. Things need to change. We need to treat EVERYONE the same, blk,wht,brwn,etc. And we can’t give up on it. Great points!

      • Yes, you are entirely correct. I was speaking to the broader scope of issues intertwined in all that is happening now. We are at an historical moment in this country. The murder of George Floyd by the police was the flash point that ignited a much overdue awakening of America to racial injustice as practiced.
        This at a time in which we are trying to deal with CV-19e have wealth inequity, divisive politics, failed leadership from the top. systemic racism, white nationalism, domestic terrorism and hate groups on the rise, our government evolving into fascism before our eyes to the drumbeat of the right-wing noise machine.
        This is the perfect storm; a confluence of major events all hitting us at once.
        Let’s hang on and hang in, together. We are a composite image made from different reference points but only if we use them to build.

  2. And, make it against chronic Black violence! Neither should be excused! The devastation of Black violence, etc. far outweighs that of the police! It’s all about BEHAVIOR!

  3. The President’s statement: “If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents,…”

    It was this speech that prompted Patti Sulpizio, regional vice chair for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, to go out and join protestors.

    In a previous comment, she (Sulpizio) said the party would be better served by focusing its energies on getting Democrats elected, starting with Smith on May 12 and again in November but also George Gascón for district attorney.

    George Gascon advocates that looting and theft from private stores is not a criminal offense.

  4. More cities degradation by Liberals from Seattle to San Diego! Thanks Liberals like Gascon for authoring Prop. 47 & 57 and AB 109 which reduces felonies to misdemeanors & lets filthy criminals out of jail early! Demons!

  5. Kim Barnes sounds like an idiot brainwashed by her own race, family and most likely the Internet. We are all hated equally by the cops in America. If you don’t break any laws you never have to deal with them. Remember if you dress like a thug, act like a thug and talk like a disrespectful thug you will get treated as one. Don’t let the color of your skin be your excuse for your problems in life, life is what you make it in America and no one can stop you from your positive goals.

  6. Blacks are much more likely to die at the hands of other blacks than the police

  7. How about ALL lives matter?

  8. @Will – all races are treated equally and the same here in America? Are you serious right now? Dude what planet are you from?

    • Dude not the same boo hoo planet your on that’s for sure. Maybe pull your pants up and look respectable no matter what color you are if you like a thug you will get treated as one. These rioting looting idiots destroying America in the name of blm are destroying the image of the whole respectable black community

      • As Will said, one wears the uniform of a thug, others perceive them as a thug! One wears the uniform of a Boy Scout, health care, cop, fire, nerd, one perceives them as good guys! Why don’t Japanese,Chinese, Korean, Filipinos have constant trouble with LE and live in general!?

  9. How about we pass a new law that anyone protesting in the street gets their drivers license suspended or delayed if a minor for 3 years. People have places to go and emergency
    Vehicles need to use these streets. These brainwashed morons can protest elsewhere preferably out in the middle of the desert where we won’t have to see or hear them.

  10. Black lives matter ONLY matters when it’s taken by a white cop. It wouldn’t even make it to the news if the cop was black. pfffttt… and we all know it

  11. I cannot believe some of the things Will and a few others are saying! Bottom line – Europeans came to North America, stole the land from Native Americans, and then brought over slaves to build a new nation. We as a nation and people have never fully addressed our original sin, and anyone who doesn’t want to admit that in many of our institutions equality has not been fully realized is ignorant. I am embarrassed and ashamed and pity those of you that can spew forth such racist bigotry and hate! You are part of the problem certainly not the solution. And to generalize Democrats as “tax loving unproud Americans“? Is that even a word? My disdain for the president is due to his narcissistic personality disorder, misogynist views, general ineptitude etc. Not because he is a puppet Republican (funny enough years ago he was a registered Democrat)! And the way he is hijacking religion for political reasons is shameful! We need a leader that will acknowledge the insidious racism in our institutions and work to correct it, and not throw fuel on the fire with his self centered rants and juvenile tweets.

  12. Can’t we all just get along? Someone pass the peace pipe up in here.

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Michael Brown has lived in Santa Clarita his whole life. Graduating from Saugus High School in 2016, he continued to stay local by attending The Master’s University, where he achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Communication. Michael joined KHTS in January of 2018 as a news intern, and has since gone on to become the News Director for the KHTS Newsroom. Since joining KHTS, Michael has covered many breaking news stories (both on scene and on air), interviewed dozens of prominent state and federal political figures, and interacted with hundreds of residents from Santa Clarita. When he is not working, Michael enjoys spending time with his family, as well as reading any comic book he can get his hands on.