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L.A. County Declares State Of Emergency After ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger declared a state of emergency in the County following a series of Black Lives Matter protests.

On Saturday, Barger, who represents the fifth district including Santa Clarita, declared a state of emergency.

“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. “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.”

Hundreds of demonstrators in Santa Clarita gathered to protest Saturday.

At the time, the Watch Commander on duty at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, Lt. Ethan Marquez, addressed the crowd of protesters outside the station just before noon, stating that there were “peaceful” protesters.

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The L.A. County state of emergency would allow the County to “mobilize local resources, coordinate interagency response, accelerate procurement of vital supplies, use of mutual aid, and allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments will be critical in successfully responding to this emergency.”

The state of emergency is set to last up to seven days, but it can be extended if ratified by the full County Board of Supervisors.

“This is a time for us to come together to stand against injustice in ways that will make us stronger as a County and as a nation,” Barger said. “If you are assembling to protest, please do so peacefully and with respect for all those who are suffering.

To read the full declaration of L.A. County’s state of emergency, visit here.


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L.A. County Declares State Of Emergency After ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests

22 comments

  1. It is sad that it has come to this, but not unsurprising after the rioting/looting/injuring of people and property. We were fortunate here in Santa Clarita to have a peaceful protest, but groups that take advantage of this to use the crowd as cover have caused this.

    • What is scary is there were about 100 out of towners staying at one Airb&b in Santa Clarita and they were made to leave. Thank God our real protesters did not follow their angry bate to riot and were there for the right reason.

  2. Black Lives Matter protests? Really? What we all witnessed yesterday were protests from people of all races, mostly the human race. We also saw the rats and roaches attack under cover of the mostly peaceful protesters of the murder of another human at the hands and knee of four cops sworn to protect. Words matter to lives. Let’s not blame one group for the bad behavior of a few. Thugs come in all colors, supervisor Barger.

    • Let’s not call it a protest let’s call it a riot. Organized by the black pride hate group. That bad cop is arrested the protesting should have ended there. These not white haters look for any excuse to blame their problems on someone else. The white ones out there were just college age kids that know nothing about life and the black ones rioting were only making the whole respectable black community look like thugs, so sad.

      • You’re trash and a racist uniformed puppet. That bad cop is a product of a system that targets and abuse people of color. The police system is broken and needs to be reformed. Racist cops abuse the power they hold to bully and inflict hate on blacks. Of course you’d make excuses for white protesters. Hopefully your racism is exposed and you lose your job.

        • Oh please the system lol, if you look like a thug act like a thug you will get treated like a thug no matter what color your skin is. Don’t be a racist yourself and don’t blame others for your crappy life .life is what”you” make it and nothing can stop you if you try.

  3. This nation was built on Genocide and Slavery. The sooner we admit guilt and truly make amends the sooner the unrest will begin to subside. Until then the racist mindset goes unpunished, enjoys tacit approval. The Twin Original Sins must be faced and reconciled. Good must vanquish creepy evil.

    • You are entirely correct and thanks for saying it.

    • The nation was built on freedom,yes Africa traded their own people for the goods that the English had to offer. Then the good Christian Republicans fought to end the slavery of people. Here we are a hundred years later and now it is used as excuse over and over again. I don’t even know or have even ever met one truly racist person in all my forty-five years. The cops hate us all equal and talk down to us all don’t take offense to it they are trained to be authoritive so they don’t get walked on.

      • Will: Well said on all three posts! Behavior is the bottom line! Looks similar to the Black LA riots of the Rodney King days. Chronic Black bad behavior.

      • Will, this nation was built on the backs of slaves; you can distort, deflect, deny and twist your perception of history, but the facts is, blacks in this country have never been treated fairly. There is no equality today in education, employment, housing, healthcare, income, justice and voting rights. I find it comical that you claim in 45 years you have never known or met a racist; please grab a mirror and look no further. Your tone deaf and historic inaccuracies expose a deep lack of understanding and grasp of reality.

        • This bull crap from you is comical. The education,housing and work really? What a load of crap they don’t ask your race on any of those applications. Sounds like another excuse for your crappy life. Try harder pull your pants up and act respectable. I didn’t see Obama making excuses. From the things I hear the black community say about white people and this white privilege put into their heads by their parents, the black community seems to be the most racist ones these days. I don’t care what color you are if you look like a thug or talk like a disrespectful thug you will get treated as one.

          • Touch a nerve did I? Mirror, mirror on the wall, Will is a racist, the biggest of all.

          • Will, Your blindness is exactly the root of the systematic problem causing this revolt. As a 46 year old white male, I have been pulled over 20 times for various infractions in my life. Never once, not one single time, did I consider that the police would physically harm me in any way, much less kill me. You know how many black men our age can say that? Wake up man. Stop talking, you’re embarrassing yourself.

        • It gets worse, Alice; he’s 45 and has been this way 40 years.

  4. Blaming Africans for slavery and overlooking extreme Christians telling “freedom-loving” Europeans that killing heathens was permitted does kinda sound a wee bit racist. The 1863 Republicans would not be allowed in Today’s GOP.

    • They sold or traded their own people, like it or not it’s the harsh truth. Don’t overlook that fact, the good god fearing new it Was not right and fought to end that practice now it is gone,over “history”. It’s time to move on as equal people need to stop using the phrase White privilege because there is no such thing any more. No more excuses for your crappy life, no more telling childen there is a White privilege in America because that only teaches white kids they might be superior and it teaches black kids they might get treated as inferior stop planting these seeds if destruction into a child’s head. teach them respect for all races teach them we can all accomplish our goals if we try hard enough and say NO to unsupervised internet for kids they don’t need it without you present and they sure don’t need social media. Don’t let the crazy internet people raise your kids and plant their ideas into your child’s growing learning brain.

  5. Will, simply by claiming you have never met or known a racist in your 45 years is NOT proof that racism doesn’t exist. That is the epitome of White privilege. So how many more black women, men and children must die at the hands of a racist cop or racist civilian “standing their ground” before you recognize racism is at the root of this problem. How many years (centuries) must a people suffer the dehumanizing affects of racism before you acknowledge racism exists? You are the problem Will, you and everyone like you who contemptuously ignores the painful history of our nation’s founding and denies the pain, anger, frustration and despair of a people crying out for justice, equality and the right to live freely as guaranteed by the Constitution. You Will, at the very minimum, need to acknowledge our past history was morally, legally, ethically wrong and begin to foster an understanding that your beliefs and very existence has been shaped by systemic and institutional racism; your own bias has blinded you to the truth.

    • Here-Here! ?
      +1 for that! How eloquently said!
      I think what Will was trying to say, is that he’s never met a person MORE RACIST than HIMSELF! And in that context, we don’t disagree! The guy is SO messed up in the head and he doesn’t even know it! Most of us here realize he’s the biggest loser that posts here! A lonely Troll with no life, who gets off on stirring up crap and arguing with everyone, to be sure!

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