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U.S. may Worry

be shut
out of
Europe
COVID metrics will
be key as continent
prepares to admit
visitors, officials say.
By Erik Kirschbaum
and Laura King
BERLIN — The headline
in a leading German news-
paper put it succinctly:
“Cuba yes, USA no.”
With the European Union
moving toward reopening
external borders on July 1,
travelers from the United
States could be among those
excluded over coronavirus
concerns, according to di-
plomats and documents
about the bloc’s decision-
making process.
Visitors from some less
developed countries that
have been more successful in
stemming their outbreaks
are expected to be welcomed
under the disease-control
metrics the 27-nation EU is
weighing.
No decision has yet been
made. But for the holders of
dark-blue American pass-
ports and even U.S. green
cards, such a restriction
would mark a humbling re-
versal — and to some, a sym-
bol of Washington’s slipping
prestige amid the pandemic.
In recent weeks, Europe-
ans have watched in fasci-
nated horror as the Trump
administration has faltered
in efforts to stem the spread
of the virus, which as of
Wednesday had claimed
more than 121,900 U.S. lives,
the world’s highest toll. After
trending downward for more
than six weeks, new U.S. co-
ronavirus cases hit two-
month highs this week,
bringing them back to levels
of an April peak early in the
outbreak.
“People are completely
shocked by the way the
United States has mishan-
dled the crisis,” said Thomas
Jaeger, a political scientist
[See Europe, A4]
A WOMAN adjusts her mask along Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach on Wednesday. Last week’s mask
order is a sign that the governor will need to constantly monitor California’s coronavirus strategy.
Newsom’s new juggling act
Three months after his stay-at-home order, governor faces a
test in reopening the state while monitoring virus caseload
By Taryn Luna
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin
Newsom stood in the state’s emer-
gency operations center March 19
and announced an executive order
that would change the course of Cali-
fornia history, requiring residents to
remain in their homes as the novel
coronavirus spread around the
world.
California became the first state
to tell all residents to stay at home
amid the pandemic. Newsom’s deci-
sion sparked some controversy and a
few lawsuits but has been credited
with slowing the spread of the virus
and allowing California to avoid
larger death tolls seen in states with
early outbreaks, such as New York
and New Jersey.
Now, three months later, the gov-
[See Newsom, A9]
over a
surge in
state’s
suburbs
Four Southland
counties fuel overall
rise in coronavirus
hospitalizations since
Memorial Day.
By Rong-Gong Lin II,
Iris Lee, Sean Greene
and Phil Willon
Four suburban Southern
California counties are
among those primarily re-
sponsible for a dangerous
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times rise in California’s corona-
virus hospitalizations, ac-
cording to a Los Angeles
Times data analysis. The
four counties have seen sig-
nificant upticks in hospital-
ized COVID-19 patients in re-
cent weeks.
Increases in Ventura, Or-
ange, San Bernardino and
Riverside counties have con-
tributed to an overall rise in
hospitalizations recorded
statewide that began after
Memorial Day, just as offi-
cials were rapidly reopening
the economy.
There are a variety of pos-
sible reasons for the spikes,
and health officials say one
of them is the return of social
gatherings. A barbecue at a
mobile home park in Oxnard
recently resulted in 19 people
testing positive for the virus,
and authorities are now
monitoring an additional 40
people who are close con-
tacts of those who are in-
fected.
Ventura County health
officials have urged resi-
dents to enjoy reopened
restaurants with members
of their household rather
than having parties or at-
tending crowded events
with people from different
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times living units.
PEET SAPSIN walks between Jennie Reynoso, left and Diane Gloor “It’s like we’re cheating
as they work out in plastic pods at Sapsin’s gym in Redondo Beach. on our diet, and angry or baf-
fled that we can’t lose
weight,” Dr. Robert Levin,
the Ventura County health

L.A. Times faces a

officer, said Tuesday.
“There’s all those times that
we’re not cheating. But [in]
the few times we do, all that

reckoning on race effort is for naught. So what

Editors are grilled on
coverage as well as a
lack of newsroom
diversity and respect.
By Meg James
and Daniel Hernandez
Two years after the Los
Angeles Times reverted to
local ownership, one of the
country’s largest metropoli-
Rafiq Maqbool Associated Press tan daily newspapers is fac-
IN DHARAVI , a densely populated labyrinth in the heart of Mumbai that was the ing a painful internal reckon-
setting for the film “Slumdog Millionaire,” health workers walk among residents. ing over glaring deficiencies
and missteps regarding race
and representation in its
pages and its staff.
On Wednesday, Execu-
tive Editor Norman Pearl-
stine heard from aggrieved
newsroom staff members
during a more than four-
hour meeting examining the
mistreatment of Black and
brown editorial staff mem-
bers past and present. He
acknowledged that the 138-
year-old paper had failed to
capitalize on an unprece-
dented opportunity to bet-
ter diversify its newsroom
since its 2018 purchase by
L.A. biotech billionaire Dr.
[See The Times, A7]
is the price we pay? Where
are we headed? More cases
of COVID-19. More people
hospitalized. More people in
our ICUs. More people
dead.”
While L.A. County saw an
average of 62 fewer hospital-
ized patients daily for con-
firmed or suspected cases of
COVID-19 between the week
of Memorial Day and last
week, Riverside County saw
an average daily increase of
85 patients; San Bernar-
dino, 70; Ventura, 33; and
Orange, 32, according to The
Times’ analysis.
In Ventura County, there
was a daily average of 85 peo-
ple hospitalized with ill-
nesses related to COVID-19
[See Surge, A9]

Indian slum is an unlikely GOP policing

COVID-19 success story bill blocked

Senate Democrats,
calling it inadequate,
deny the votes needed
to advance the reform
In a square mile where 1 million live, cases are falling measure. NATION, A8

MLB lays out

By Parth M.N.
and Shashank Bengali
MUMBAI, India — When
the first COVID-19 case was
detected in Dharavi, a
crammed labyrinth of one-
room shacks in the heart of
India’s financial capital, epi-
demiologists feared the dis-
ease would spiral out of con-
trol.
Inside one square mile
live nearly 1 million people,
many of whom survive on
daily wages and share public
bathrooms. Families sleep in
8-by-8-foot rooms. People
squeeze past one another in
alleys. Social distancing is
impossible.
But nearly three months
later, authorities in Mumbai
appear to have pulled off a
miracle — or at least found
an unexpected reprieve.
After recording 491
COVID-19 cases in April and
1,216 in May, Dharavi saw
only 274 cases and six deaths
in the first two weeks of June.
Epidemiologists say one of
Asia’s largest slums — best
known as the setting for the
Oscar-winning film “Slum-
dog Millionaire” — has con-
tained the virus even as it
surges elsewhere in Mumbai
and other parts of India.
How this happened — a
story of dogged legwork,
proactive thinking and even
bravery by officials, doctors
and volunteers — could offer
lessons in managing the co-
ronavirus for other poor,
densely packed communi-
ties around the world.
“Dharavi had put in place
excellent contact tracing,
isolation and quarantining
measures,” said Ramanan
[See India, A4]
plans for season
Operations Manual
addresses rules, proto-
cols and oddities in
midst of COVID-19
pandemic. SPORTS, B6
Weather
Low clouds, then sun.
L.A. Basin: 80/63. B8
Ben Margot Associated Press
Printed with soy inks on
partially recycled paper. R ACE, GENDER ON BALLOT
State voters in November will get a chance to
erase Proposition 209’s ban on affirmative action.
Above, students at UC Berkeley. CALIFORNIA, B1

BUSINESS INSIDE: Conservative business leaders embrace the call for racial justice. A10
A2 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
2020 rulings that will shape the U.S.
Conservative-leaning
Supreme Court has
big decisions coming
on abortion, Trump’s
tax returns and more.
By David G. Savage
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court is nearing
the end of its term and is
ready to release major deci-
sions on abortion, religion
and the separation of pow-
ers between the president
and Congress — specifically,
whether House Democrats
or a New York grand jury can
obtain President Trump’s
tax returns.
The court has already
handed down a pair of sur-
prises by extending the 1964
Civil Rights Act to protect
LGBTQ employees and by
blocking Trump’s repeal of
the Obama-era program
that protects the so-called
Dreamers, young immi-
grants who were brought to
this country illegally as chil-
dren. Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. voted with the
court’s four liberals in both
cases, triggering dismay and
dissent among his col-
leagues on the right.
The chief justice also fig-
ures to hold the deciding
vote in the biggest cases yet
to be decided. A Louisiana
dispute over doctors who
perform abortions has taken
on added significance be-
cause it will be the first abor-
tion ruling since Trump’s
two appointees took their
seats and because it will sig-
nal whether the more con-
servative court will stick
with its precedents on abor-
tion.
Trump is counting on the
court to protect him from
subpoenas issued by three
House committees and a
New York grand jury that
seek financial records held
by his accountant or by
Deutsche Bank, which made
large loans to his properties.
Trump sued to block the
subpoenas but lost in three
lower courts.
Usually, the court hands
down its final decisions by
the end of June and goes on
recess for the summer. But
the coronavirus shutdown
delayed arguments in sev-
eral cases, which could push
the decisions into early July.
Here’s a look at the major
cases still pending, and the
significant rulings:
Pending cases
Abortion and clinic doctors
May a state require that
all doctors who perform
abortions have admitting
privileges at a hospital
within 30 miles?
In states where few doc-
tors provide abortions, doc-
tors often travel from out of
state to perform them. Loui-
siana lawmakers say the rule
is a matter of health and
safety, ensuring that pa-
In Kosovo, war crimes charges born of a troubled past
associated press
BELGRADE, Serbia —
An international prosecutor
has indicted Kosovo’s
president and nine other for-
mer rebel fighters on
charges of war crimes and
crimes against humanity
during and after a 1998-99
armed conflict between the
ethnic Albanian separatists
and Serbia.
The charges were made
public Wednesday as both
the European Union and the
United States intensify ef-
forts to facilitate a durable
settlement to normalize re-
lations between Serbia and
Kosovo after decades of ten-
sions and thousands of lost
lives.
Kosovo declared inde-
pendence in 2008, but Serbia
has refused to formally relin-
quish its former province.
The issue remains the last
source of instability stem-
ming from the Balkan wars
of the 1990s.
Here is a look at Kosovo
and the history of the con-
flict:
Where is Kosovo?
Kosovo is a small land-
locked country in the west-
ern Balkans, surrounded by
Albania, North Macedonia,
Montenegro and Serbia.
The nation of 1.8 million is
predominantly ethnic Alba-
S L AT I M E S . C O M
“DREAMERS” and backers meet at MacArthur Park last week to celebrate the court’s rejection of President
Trump’s attempt to undo DACA, which protects thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
tients facing an emergency
can be admitted to a hospi-
tal quickly. Abortion rights
supporters say it is a sham
because it has no real health
benefits and would shut
down all but one of Louisi-
ana’s clinics. They also say it
conflicts with the court’s
2016 ruling on the same rule
in Texas.
Four years ago, the court
struck down a Texas law
that required abortion doc-
tors to have admitting privi-
leges at a local hospital. The
court decided then the harm
of this rule outweighed its
minor health benefits be-
cause it had the effect of
closing more than half of the
state’s abortion clinics. The
key vote was cast by Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy, who
retired in 2018 and was re-
placed by Justice Brett M.
Kavanaugh.
If it is upheld, the law is
expected to leave Louisiana
with only one abortion pro-
vider, in New Orleans. A doz-
en Republican-led states
have enacted limited or total
bans on abortions. All of
those laws are on hold, pend-
ing further rulings from the
high court. (June Medical
Center vs. Russo)
Trump and taxes
May a House committee
or a New York grand jury re-
quire the president’s ac-
countants and bankers to
turn over records revealing
his personal tax returns and
financial dealings?
Trump says his chief exe-
cutive status gives him “ab-
solute immunity” from such
demands, while House
Democrats say Congress
has a nearly unlimited right
to demand confidential in-
formation to carry out over-
sight and investigations.
And New York prosecutors
looking into Trump’s alleged
nian and includes ethnic
Serbs, Roma and smaller
minority groups.
Kosovo used to be an
autonomous province in
Serbia, and as such, part of
the former, communist-run
Yugoslavia. The ethnic
tensions that later fueled
the bloody breakup of the
multi-ethnic Yugoslav fed-
eration started during the
late 1980s in Kosovo but did
not explode into open con-
flict there until 1998.
When did it all start?
Disputes over the right
to claim the 4,203 square
miles that make up Kosovo
go back decades, if not
centuries.
Serbs view Kosovo as
their national heartland
and trace their presence to
the hundreds of medieval
Serbian Orthodox Church
monasteries dotting the
province. A 1389 battle that
Serbs lost against Ottoman
Turks is a key moment in
the nation’s collective his-
tory.
The majority Kosovo
Albanians insist they are
Kosovo’s oldest inhabitants.
First granted and then
stripped of self-governance
within Serbia and the for-
mer Yugoslavia, ethnic
Albanians claimed they
were oppressed by the Ser-
bian state before their
fighters launched a rebel-
PERSPECTIVES
hush-money payments said
grand juries have very broad
authority to subpoena re-
cords.
In the past, the court has
stood united against presi-
dents who claimed immuni-
ty when they faced charges
of wrongdoing. President
Nixon lost unanimously in
1974 when he tried to shield
the Watergate tapes from in-
vestigators, and President
Clinton lost unanimously in
1997 when he sought tempo-
rary immunity from re-
sponding to a sexual harass-
ment lawsuit.
But the justices did not
sound united during argu-
ments in May. Their ques-
tions and comments hinted
that they might hand down a
mixed decision or an opinion
that’s not a clear win for ei-
ther side. (Trump vs.
Mazars USA and Trump vs.
Vance)
Religion and schools
May a state exclude
church schools from a state-
sponsored tuition aid pro-
gram that supports stu-
dents in other private
schools, or does that
amount to unconstitutional
discrimination against reli-
gion?
The Montana Supreme
Court says its state constitu-
tion, like those in three-
fourths of the states, forbids
spending tax funds on
churches or religion.
But religious-liberty ad-
vocates say the state’s rule
violates the 1st Amend-
ment’s protection for the
free exercise of religion.
The Roberts court has
looked favorably on religious
liberty claims. Three years
ago, the chief justice said
Missouri’s refusal to give a
grant to a church to improve
the playground of its pre-
school amounted to “odi-
KOSOVO opposition leader Kadri Veseli, right, has been indicted on war crimes
charges, along with President Hashim Thaci and several other former rebels.
lion in 1998.
What happened during the
war?
After years of peaceful
resistance, ethnic Albani-
ans in Kosovo formed rebel
Kosovo Liberation Army
units and launched spo-
radic attacks on Serb police
and army divisions in 1998.
Serbia, led at the time by
nationalist strongman
Slobodan Milosevic, re-
sponded with a brutal
crackdown that triggered
ous” discrimination against
religion. (Espinoza vs. Mon-
tana)
President and agencies
Did Congress violate the
separation of powers and
the president’s executive au-
thority when it created the
Consumer Financial Protec-
tion Bureau in 2010 as an “in-
dependent bureau,” to be
led by a director who was ap-
pointed by the president
and could not be fired except
for “neglect of duty or
malfeasance in office.”
Business interests have
fought the CFPB from the
start, and the Trump ad-
ministration says the direc-
tor’s semi-independent stat-
us conflicts with the presi-
dent’s power over executive
agencies. They believe in so-
called “unitary executive”
theory, which holds the pres-
ident has the power to hire
and fire all top officials who
wield executive authority.
If the justices agree, the
independent agencies could
be deemed unconstitu-
tional.
Defenders of the CFPB
counter that Congress has
the authority to structure
the government, including
by giving a degree of inde-
pendence to agency heads.
(Seila Law vs. CFPB)
Religion and birth control
May the Trump adminis-
tration exempt employers
citing religious or moral ob-
jections from part of the Af-
fordable Care Act that re-
quires them to provide no-
cost contraceptives to em-
ployees?
Under President Obama,
the government exempted
churches and religious em-
ployers from the contracep-
tive requirement, but said
their health insurers could
provide the coverage. The
Zenel Zhinipotoku Associated Press
the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization’s intervention
in 1999.
More than 10,000 people,
mostly ethnic Albanians,
died during the war in
Kosovo and a million were
driven from their homes
before the NATO bombing
campaign forced Serbia to
pull its troops out of Kosovo
and cede control to the
United Nations and NATO.
Thousands of civilian Serbs
also fled with the Serbian
army and police. Those who
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
Trump administration
wants to shield more em-
ployers and not require in-
surers to provide the contra-
ceptives.
The Little Sisters of the
Poor, a Roman Catholic
charity, said that requiring
them to participate in any
way violated their right to re-
ligious liberty. Pennsylva-
nia’s attorney general sued,
and the Trump regulation
was put on hold. (Trump vs.
Pennsylvania and Little Sis-
ters of the Poor vs. Pennsyl-
vania)
Religion and teachers
Are Catholic schools in
Los Angeles entitled to a re-
ligious exemption from fed-
eral anti-discrimination
laws because the duties of
their elementary teachers
include teaching religion?
Two former teachers who
were fired filed lawsuits al-
leging discrimination, but
the church’s lawyers say
those suits should be tossed
out because the church has a
right to decide who teaches
the faith. One of the teachers
was fired after disclosing she
had breast cancer. She al-
leged discrimination based
on her illness.
Lawyers for the teachers
said they taught fifth-grade
classes that included just a
daily workbook exercise on
religion and therefore they
should not be exempt from
federal discrimination laws
in the same way a priest
would be.
Civil rights laws do not in-
clude a broad exemption for
employers in hospitals, col-
leges or schools that are affil-
iated with a church, but the
Supreme Court has recog-
nized a “ministerial excep-
tion,” which holds that the
government may not inter-
fere in the hiring or firing by
a church or religious body of
stayed behind later faced
revenge attacks.
Have there been war
crimes trials before?
A United Nations tri-
bunal for the former Yugo-
slavia tried a number of top
Serbian officials and army
and police commanders for
war crimes committed
against ethnic Albanian
civilians during the Kosovo
conflict. Milosevic also was
indicted over Kosovo atroc-
ities by the court in The
people who carry out its reli-
gious mission. (Our Lady of
Guadalupe vs. Morrissey-
Berru and St. James School
vs. Biel)
Electoral college and states
Can a state require ap-
pointed electors to cast their
presidential ballots in the
electoral college for the can-
didate with the most popu-
lar support in the state?
Under the Constitution,
the winner of the presidency
is the candidate with the
most electoral votes. Usually
electors cast their ballots for
the candidate who won the
popular vote in their state on
election day.
But last year, an appeals
court in Colorado ruled that
electors had a free-speech
right to defy the wishes of
their states and vote for an-
other candidate. Many
states have laws or rules that
require electors to vote as
their state wishes.
In a close election, “faith-
less electors” could tip the
balance if they voted as they
wished. (Chiafalo vs. Wash-
ington; Colorado vs. Baca)
Already decided
LGBTQ workplace rights
Do the federal civil rights
laws protect LGBTQ em-
ployees from discrimination
in the workplace?
Yes, the court said in a 6-3
ruling citing the words of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. It
says employers may not fire
or refuse to hire employees
based on race, religion, sex
or national origin. And the
court decided discrimi-
nation based on sexual ori-
entation or gender identity
amounts to discrimination
based on sex.
Trump-appointed Jus-
tice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote
the court’s opinion, saying
that lawmakers in 1964 may
not have intended to protect
gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-
gender or queer employees,
but that the court relies on
the words of the law, not the
aims of the lawmakers. (Bo-
stock vs. Clayton County)
Dreamers and immigration
Has Trump lawfully re-
pealed the Obama-era order
that shielded young immi-
grants brought illegally to
this country as children?
No, the court said in a 5-4
ruling written by Roberts.
He said while the president
had the authority to revoke
the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals, or
DACA, his administration
was required by the Admin-
istrative Procedure Act to
cite valid reasons for ending
the policy that encouraged
about 700,000 immigrants to
register with the govern-
ment to obtain work permits
and avoid deportation.
Trump’s aides had relied
on then-Atty. Gen. Jeff Ses-
sions and his claim that the
policy was illegal. (Depart-
ment of Homeland Security
vs. Regents of the University
of California)
Hague, but he died in 2006
while on trial.
While most of the atroc-
ities in Kosovo have been
blamed on the Serbs, top
rebel Kosovo Liberation
Army commanders, includ-
ing President Hashim
Thaci, were accused of
responsibility for kidnap-
pings, torture, unlawful
imprisonment and other
crimes against Serb civil-
ians and pro-Serb Albani-
ans.
The Kosovo specialist
prosecutor’s office that
indicted Thaci and others is
part of a separate court in
The Hague that was formed
in 2015 to investigate alleged
crimes by the rebel army, or
KLA. Judges are yet to
confirm the indictment,
which had long been ex-
pected.
Will it complicate normal-
ization talks?
It’s hard to tell.
Thaci has canceled a trip
to Washington to attend a
White House meeting on
Saturday aimed at bringing
Kosovo and Serbia closer,
but the prime minister will
still go.
The meeting was called
by President Trump’s spe-
cial envoy for Kosovo, Rich-
ard Grenell, who in the past
has mediated deals to re-
store air and railway links
between the two countries.
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U.N. meeting hears warnings about Israel

Plans to annex parts
of the West Bank
could be disastrous for
peace, the Security
Council is told.
associated press
UNITED NATIONS —
The head of the Arab League
warned a high-level U.N.
meeting Wednesday that Is-
rael’s annexation of parts of
the West Bank would in-
flame tensions and endan-
ger peace in the Middle East,
and could ignite “a religious
war in and beyond our re-
gion.”
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, sec-
retary-general of the 22-
member organization, said
annexation will also have
“broader ramifications on
the international security
around the world.”
“If implemented, Israeli
annexation plans would not
only be detrimental to the
chances of peace today but
will destroy any prospects
for peace in the future,” he
told the Security Council.
“Palestinians will lose faith
in a negotiated solution; I’m
afraid Arabs too will lose in-
terest in regional peace. A
new dark reality will set in
vis-a-vis this conflict and in
the region at large.”
The council meeting
came days before the July 1
date that Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
coalition deal allows an an-
nexation plan to be pre-
sented.
Israel captured the West
Bank from Jordan in the 1967
Middle East War and has
built dozens of settlements
that are now home to nearly
500,000 Israelis, but never
formally claimed it as an Is-
raeli territory due to stiff in-
ternational opposition.
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador
Danny Danon told the coun-
cil that “should Israel decide
to extend its sovereignty, it
would be doing so with re-
spect to areas over which it
U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres urged the U.S., the European Union and Russia to mediate
with Israel about its annexation plans. Israeli hard-liners have urged that the plans move ahead quickly.
has always maintained a le- of negotiations.”
gitimate historical and legal Guterres urged the
claim.” United States, the European
The Palestinians, with Union and Russia to swiftly
wide international backing, take up their mediation
seek the West Bank as the role along with the United
heartland of their future in- Nations as part of the so-
dependent state. Most of the called Quartet “and find a
international community mutually agreeable frame-
considers Israel’s West Bank work for the parties to reen-
settlements illegal under in- gage, without preconditions,
ternational law. with us and other key
U.N. Secretary-General states.”
Antonio Guterres opened He also urged Israeli and
the meeting with a call on Is- Palestinian leaders “to com-
rael to abandon its annex- mit to meaningful dialogue,
ation plans, an appeal ech- with the support of the inter-
oed by almost all other national community.” And
speakers, including half a he encouraged regional and
dozen ministers and deputy international supporters of
ministers. a two-state solution to help
The U.N. chief said an- bring the parties back to a
nexation “would constitute “path towards a negotiated,
a most serious violation of peaceful settlement.”
international law, grievously EU foreign policy chief
harm the prospect of a two- Josep Borrell backed Quar-
state solution and undercut tet action in a letter to the
the possibilities of a renewal Security Council obtained
by the AP that also said “uni-
lateral annexation would in-
evitably have legal conse-
quences for the interna-
tional community’s rela-
tions with Israel.” A joint
statement by six current
and incoming European
members of the Security
Council said “annexation
would have consequences
for our close relationship
with Israel and would not be
recognized by us.”
In response to the threat
of annexation, the Palestin-
ian leadership has declared
itself absolved of all agree-
ments and understandings
with Israel and the United
States and halted all con-
tacts. Nickolay Mladenov,
the U.N. special coordinator
for the Mideast peace proc-
ess, warned the council that
“this decision has had, and
will increasingly have, a
dramatic impact on all as-
the West Bank territory
under permanent Israeli
control while giving the Pal-
estinians expanded autono-
my in the rest of the area.
The Palestinians have re-
jected the plan, saying it is
unfairly biased toward Isra-
el.
With Trump’s reelection
prospects uncertain in No-
vember, Israeli hard-liners
have urged Netanyahu to
move ahead with annex-
ation quickly.
Maliki said deliberations
have been taking place in the
White House on the annex-
ation issue for the last two
days.
“Everybody knows that if
there is anyone who could
really stop Netanyahu from
annexation ... it’s the Trump
administration,” he said.
“We hope that the Trump
administration will give
clear instructions to Netan-
yahu not to go ahead with
annexation, and to open up
the opportunity for poten-
tial resumption of negotia-
tions between the Palestin-
ians and the Israelis.”
K.M. Chaudary Associated Press Senior Palestinian offi-
cials gathered Wednesday in
the Jordan Valley. The prime
minister appealed to the in-
pects of Palestinian daily ternational community and
life.” U.S. and Israeli officials with
Palestinian Authority “the loudest voice” to stop
Foreign Minister Riyad Ma- the Israeli plan.
liki said “we will stop acting “Some say partial annex-
as the Palestinian Author- ation. Some say full annex-
ity” the moment Netanyahu ation. We will not accept any
declares “the annexation of kind of annexation,” said
one centimeter or 30% of the Palestinian Authority Prime
West Bank.” Minister Mohammad Shtay-
That means that full re- yeh. “We will not concede
sponsibility for the well-be- one centimeter of its land.”
ing and services for 4.5 mil- U.S. Ambassador Kelly
lion Palestinians will be Craft said many council
turned back to Israel as the members “have concerns
occupying power according with this issue of the poten-
to the Geneva Conventions, tial extension of Israeli sov-
he told the council and a ereignty in the West Bank.”
news conference afterward. “At the same time, we ask
The U.S. is Israel’s closest that you also hold the Pal-
ally and President Trump’s estinian leadership account-
administration has taken a able for acts they are respon-
much softer line toward Is- sible for,” she said.
raeli settlements than its Craft urged Palestinian
predecessors. leaders to look closely at
Trump’s Mideast plan, Trump’s plan “and engage
unveiled in January, envi- us,” stressing that “it is an
sions leaving some 30% of opening offer.”

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India slum rallies to combat COVID

[India, from A1] slight symptoms send peo-
Laxminarayan, founder of ple rushing to their family
the Center for Disease Dy- doctor — a good sign,
namics, Economics & Policy Pachanekar said.
in Washington. “It is pos- “It means people are not
sible that the compact geog- afraid to come forward and
raphy enabled a greater level report,” he said.
of coordination than in other “When people start hid-
places. But it is still too early ing their illness, that is
to declare victory.” when you have to worry.
Dharavi has reported Particularly in a place like
more than 2,000 cases and 79 Dharavi.”
deaths overall, far lower per- Once someone tested
centages than the rest of positive, officials sealed off
Mumbai, a sprawling mega- the patient’s house and
city of some 20 million neighboring ones. Volunteer
people that has become the “COVID warriors” ensured
epicenter of the disease in the containment zones got
India. their supplies of essential
The coronavirus has groceries and medicine.
overwhelmed Mumbai’s “We also checked if the
public health system, with public toilets had been sani-
maxed-out hospitals forced tized properly,” said Simon
to turn away patients. In- Raja, a 34-year-old social
dia’s nearly half a million in- worker whose house also be-
fections represent the came a containment zone
fourth highest total in the when a man living across
world, increasing pressure from him tested positive
on Prime Minister Narendra in May.
Modi to stem the latest With India’s lockdown
outbreaks and further loos- easing, officials warn the
en lockdown restrictions to battle isn’t yet over. The on-
fix the virus-racked econo- set of the annual monsoon
my. rains poses fresh challenges,
After the first case in including possible out-
Dharavi was detected April Photographs by Rafiq Maqbool Associated Press breaks of malaria and
1, in a 56-year-old garment A WOMAN on her staircase in Dharavi, which has reported more than 2,000 cases and 79 deaths — a far dengue fever that could fur-
shop owner who died the lower percentage than the rest of Mumbai. City officials targeted the area early as a potential high-risk zone. ther strain the health sys-
same day, city officials ze- tem. And it remains to be
roed in on five zones that Dighavkar said. seen whether the control
they deemed high risk due to Around April 20, the measures can be sustained.
initial infections and pa- city stopped door-to-door “Test, trace, contain and
tients’ histories. The city as- screenings and asked 350 repeat” — those have been
signed 2,450 health workers private doctors to reopen the keys to Dharavi’s suc-
to Dharavi alone — about 30 their clinics. By then, the cess, Laxminarayan said.
of whom would eventually panic over the disease had “And clearly the lack of
test positive for COVID-19. subsided and people were ability to socially distance
Most of Mumbai’s private beginning to feel more com- didn’t come in the way of me-
clinics had closed because of fortable visiting doctors to dium-term success, al-
shortages of protective gear. be tested if they developed though the jury is still out on
But in Dharavi, the city symptoms. what the long-term situa-
teamed up with private doc- A line of patients formed tion will be.”
tors, who are the area’s main outside Pachanekar’s clinic Dighavkar said that the
healthcare providers and on a recent day as patients free screenings and quaran-
have long relationships with waited to be screened. tine centers would continue,
their patients, including mi- Lilavati, a 50-year-old wom- and that he was less worried
grant workers, laborers and an whose face was covered about the caseload rising
shopkeepers. by a mask, was anxious than about identifying infec-
“Instead of people re- about a pain in her stomach. tions early.
porting it, we started chas- She waited for about 20 “Our focus should be on
ing the virus,” said Kiran minutes until her name was treatment and mortality
Dighavkar, an assistant called, and Lilavati, who like rate, not the number of
commissioner of the Mum- many Indians has only one cases,” he said. “I don’t ask
bai ward that includes Dhar- name, grabbed a plastic bag my staff how many people
avi. filled with her previous med- tested positive today. I
About 100,000 migrant DOCTORS examine patients at a free medical camp in Dharavi. Health workers ical reports and walked into ask them if anyone died to-
workers and their families went door to door in April, quarantining people who tested positive for the virus. the office. day.”
had left Dharavi after a Ten minutes later, she
nationwide lockdown was sip water or take a [bath- sit at home.” quarantine facilities with emerged with a look of relief. Special correspondent
announced, thinning the room] break,” he said. “You In the meantime, city offi- food, regular checkups and Pachanekar had told her the Parth M.N. reported from
population somewhat. In sweat like never before.” cials began converting free healthcare and testing. ailment was minor, and un- Mumbai and Times staff
the second week of April, of- The workers also con- schools, marriage halls and In all, 9,500 people have been related to COVID-19. writer Bengali from
ficials and private doctors fronted paranoia surround- community centers into placed under quarantine, Times are such that even Singapore.
screened 47,500 people in the ing the disease.
high-risk zones. Of those “When we went around
who reported symptoms, Dharavi, we also started ed-
20% were found to have con- ucating people about it,” he
tracted COVID-19 and were
immediately quarantined.
“That gave us a head
start,” said Anil Pachane-
said. “We told them it is not a
crime to be tested positive
for coronavirus.”
For the 60-year-old
Europe may not let in Americans
kar, a private doctor and Pachanekar, who has prac-
head of a local physicians’ ticed in Dharavi for 35 years, [Europe, from A1] ized, threatens to put the failed to give European lead-
association. “If [those cases]
had slipped through, it
the grueling work also
brought risks for his family.
at Cologne University. “The
one nation they thought
U.S. in an unenviable catego-
ry — an informal club made
‘People are ers a heads-up about his
Oval Office announcement
would have wreaked havoc.” He lives with his wife and two they could always rely on for up of countries such as Rus- completely that most European trav-
Wearing full-body protec- adult sons, both of whom leadership and help isn’t sia and Brazil, where auto- elers would be kept out of the
tive kits in Mumbai’s relent- have undergone kidney even able to help itself.” cratic leaders sought to dis- shocked by the United States.
less heat and humidity, offi-
cials and doctors criss-
transplants because of con-
genital ailments, making
In European countries
long counted as among
miss the threat of the virus
and are now reaping the con-
way the United “We’ve been working with
countries all across the
crossed the narrow, crowded them more vulnerable to the America’s closest allies, the sequences in the form of rag- States has world, including our friends
lanes of Dharavi, knocking coronavirus. news of the U.S. potentially ing outbreaks. in Europe and the EU
on doors and testing people “I was scared of passing it being left off the travel list is Travelers originating mishandled the proper, to determine how it
in their houses starting at
9 a.m. every day.
on to them,” he said. “But I
did what I had to do. This is a
drawing mixed emotions —
sympathy and unease, hard-
from countries including In-
dia and Mexico, also suffer-
crisis.’ is we can safely reopen inter-
national travel,” Pompeo
“Once you wear the pro- war against coronavirus, nosed realism and, in some ing serious coronavirus — Thomas Jaeger, told a small group of report-
tective gear, you can’t even and we can’t win it if soldiers quarters, a touch of scorn. caseloads, would probably a political scientist at ers at the State Depart-
Many staunch supporters of face exclusion as well, at Cologne University ment, who were properly so-
transatlantic ties genuinely least for the time being. But cially distanced for safety.
mourn any fresh distancing some less developed coun- He said the administra-
from a country that is tries — Vietnam or Cuba, for tion did not want to see any
How to contact us warmly remembered for example — appear poised to ted visitors that leaves plan “that jeopardizes the
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THE NATION

Seattle artist makes plywood boards blossom

‘Never did I think I’d
get a canvas like this,’
says Malcolm Procter,
a painter and designer.
By Richard Read
SEATTLE — When most
people look at the thou-
sands of sheets of plywood
that encase storefront after
storefront in Seattle, they
see a city ravaged by co-
ronavirus lockdowns and
break-ins.
Malcolm Procter sees a
canvas.
Last week, the 32-year-
old street artist and clothing
designer dipped a brush in
white paint and considered
the plywood that covered a
shattered display window at
Nordstrom downtown de-
partment store.
Soon, Procter filled the
expanse — about the size of
a cinema screen — with lines
and squiggles. The distinc-
tive patterns matched
shapes bleached into Proc-
ter’s cap, coat and pants,
camouflaging the 6-foot-1
dreadlocked artist atop a
stepladder as a mural
emerged.
“Never did I think I’d get a
canvas like this,” he said.
“This is a dream spot for
sure. I’m going to bring my
grandma out.”
Procter has joined an as-
sortment of artists trying to
paint Seattle back to life.
Some of his works, in-
cluding the Nordstrom mu-
ral, are commissions that
come with stipulations — in
this case, no words or overt
political messages. Others
have been passion projects
on panels he claimed before
other artists could get their
brushes on them.
Thousands of boards are
still bare, but everyone from
graffiti taggers to would-be
Picassos are claiming loca-
tions fast.
“I’m trying to get as many
spots as I can,” Procter said.
“This kind of painting is di-
saster relief.”
His most coveted piece
“THIS KIND of painting is disaster relief,” says Procter, adding a flower to one of
his murals in the area that was dubbed the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
wraps around the corner of a
brick building in the Capitol
Hill district. He has labored
to defend it, first from tag-
gers and then from activists
known as Black Blocs. “The
first time those people hit it,
I found out who the dude
was, and he was cool,” he
said. “Next, the Black Blocs
tagged it. Some people call
them anarchists. But every-
one is quick to call every-
body anarchists.”
Braving tear gas, Procter
worked amid violent clashes
between protesters and riot
police, who struggled to
guard a precinct on the
same block before boarding
it up and leaving — yielding
six blocks that have been
dubbed the Capitol Hill Au-
tonomous Zone.
Television coverage of
the zone has included im-
ages of Procter’s shiny 8-
foot-tall mural. It features
his hallmark symbols in yel-
low, against broad horizon-
tal stripes of red, black and
green — the colors of the
Pan-African movement,
which seeks to strengthen
solidarity in the African di-
aspora.
Procter, who is African
American, rarely gets more
political than that. He said
he shared outrage at the
killing of George Floyd in
Minneapolis police custody
last month, but he has not
marched in the protests. On
Sunday, he returned to dab
white “struggle flowers” on
the mural in the renamed
Capitol Hill Organized Pro-
test zone, as protesters and
partiers milled about.
Murder indictments in killing of Arbery
associated press
ATLANTA — A prose-
cutor on Wednesday an-
nounced that three men
have been indicted on mur-
der charges in the killing of
Ahmaud Arbery in coastal
Georgia.
Speaking to reporters
outside the Glynn County
courthouse, prosecutor Joy-
ette Holmes said a grand
jury has indicted Travis
McMichael, Gregory Mc-
Michael and William “Rod-
die” Bryan Jr. on charges in-
cluding malice and felony
murder in the death of the
Richard Read Los Angeles Times
Born and raised in Seat-
tle — his mom a postal
carrier and his dad a Boeing
test-flight computer
programmer — Procter
found his artistic sensibil-
ities in graffiti, painting
bridges, buildings, train cars
and freeway ramps.
As a youth, he was caught
among a group carrying
African American man.
“This is another positive
step, another great step for
finding justice for Ahmaud,
for finding justice for this
family and the community
beyond,” Holmes said.
Lawyers for the Mc-
Michaels have cautioned
against a rush to judgment
and have said the full story
will come out in court. A law-
yer for Bryan has main-
tained that his client was
merely a witness.
Arbery was slain Feb. 23
when Gregory and Travis
McMichael, a white father
and son, armed themselves
and pursued the 25-year-old
spray cans and sentenced to Seattle Assn. Procter, a free
200 hours of community spirit accustomed to a casu-
service. al pace, was scrambling this
He fulfilled the obligation week to fulfill all his commit-
by signing up for the Wash- ments.
ington Bus Project, which There was his own
registers young voters, and boarded-up storefront to
then moved on to a variety of paint, primed in purple to
jobs. hold the spot.
After “live painting” over Fortune Garden restau-
the years by nightclub bands rant wanted him for a
and at private parties, he seafood-themed work
found his niche as a self- across from one of his first
styled artistic entrepreneur. plywood paintings, a non-
Last year he joined other commissioned four-panel
clothing designers opening a display bearing the phrase
store in the Chinatown dis- “We are alive” and “Ohana,”
trict, where he’s become a fa- a Hawaiian word meaning
miliar character as he works “family” in a broad sense.
on the sidewalk out front, Then there was the piece
bleaching patterns into he’d promised the Louisa
clothing. His shapes and Hotel apartments, a por-
symbols evoke African mud trait of Ernestine Anderson,
cloth, a style of dyed fabric the late jazz and blues singer
traditional in Mali. Paul whom his grandfather knew.
Nunn, projects lead at Ur- At the Nordstrom mural last
ban ArtWorks, a nonprofit week, Procter stepped back
organization underwriting to review his progress.
public works of art, said he He worked on as dark-
sees people wearing Proc- ness fell, spraying a gold
ter’s clothes around Seattle streak on each white symbol
and follows his works on surrounding the mountain.
Instagram. The spray paint glowed, illu-
“He’s totally found his minated from above by
mark,” said Nunn, who lights on a fractured plate-
chose Procter for the Nord- glass canopy. A golden circle
strom project as part of a stood out. Sun? Moon?
mural-painting initiative “I’m not sure yet,” he
funded by the Downtown said.
Black man running in their arrest warrant said he tried
neighborhood. Gregory Mc- “to confine and detain” Ar-
Michael told police he sus- bery without legal authority
pected Arbery was a burglar by “utilizing his vehicle on
and that Arbery attacked multiple occasions” before
his son before being shot. Arbery was shot.
Bryan lives nearby, just In addition to malice
outside the city of Bruns- murder and felony murder
wick. Bryan said he saw the charges, the McMichaels
McMichaels driving by and and Bryan each are charged
joined the chase, a Georgia with two counts of aggra-
Bureau of Investigation vated assault and one count
agent testified this month. each of false imprisonment
It wasn’t until May 7 — and criminal attempt to
two days after Bryan’s cell- commit false imprisonment.
phone video leaked online Holmes said a previously
and stirred a national outcry impaneled grand jury was
— that the McMichaels were called in despite restrictions
arrested. Bryan was that have severely limited
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L.A. Times faces a reckoning on race
[The Times, from A1]
Patrick Soon-Shiong and
his wife, Michele B. Chan.
Wednesday’s meeting
was conducted by Zoom vi-
deo conference because
staffers have been working
from home during the
COVID-19 pandemic. It
came three weeks into a raw
and deeply emotional self-
examination that has un-
folded on internal communi-
cations channels, a wide-
ranging debate about the
paper’s news coverage and
treatment of people of color.
Emboldened by The Times’
first newsroom union con-
tract, staff members have
openly chastised senior edi-
tors for allowing racial dis-
parities to persist.
Rank-and-file employees
demanded that manage-
ment do better.
“We all saw the river of
white people coming into
your office,” staff writer Es-
meralda Bermudez said in a
voice sometimes breaking
with emotion, while direct-
ing one of the strongest cri-
tiques at Pearlstine and his
hiring practices. Bermudez
and others said that The
Times missed chances to
hire or retain staff members
of color even as it embarked
on a hiring spree in the initial
period after Soon-Shiong’s
purchase.
“We have work to do to
convince you that this is just
the beginning,” Pearlstine
said. “It’s a great opportuni-
ty to fix things that have
been wrong for a long time.”
After the May 25 killing of
George Floyd, a Black man,
by a white police officer in
Minneapolis, journalists
around the country have en-
gaged in similar emotionally
wrenching discussions
about ingrained practices
that have marginalized peo-
ple of color.
At the New York Times,
more than 800 staff mem-
bers signed a petition pro-
testing the publication of an
opinion piece by Sen. Tom
Cotton (R-Ark.) calling for
the military to be sent into
U.S. cities at the height of
the protests sparked by
Floyd’s killing. At the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, the top ed-
itor resigned after a column
ran with the headline:
“Buildings Matter, Too.”
“Our entire industry is
going through this reckon-
ing: How do we root out the
anti-Black racism from our
organization and from our
coverage?” L.A. Times Dep-
uty Managing Editor Shani
Hilton said in an interview.
At The Times, years of
ownership turmoil, a revolv-
ing door of managers, hun-
dreds of staff cuts and a pro-
tracted bankruptcy process
a decade ago reinforced an
internal hierarchy that put
people of color at a disad-
vantage. It created a tiered
newsroom, where veteran
editors and reporters, who
are largely white, have relied
on a secondary class of pri-
marily younger, less-experi-
enced Latino, Asian and
Black reporters who are
paid significantly less than
older counterparts, internal
critics said.
During its bleakest days,
from 2014 to 2018, the paper
relied heavily on a long line of
young journalists of color to
fill its thinning ranks and re-
spond to major breaking
news events such as wild-
fires and mass shootings.
In 2018, The Times was
rescued by Soon-Shiong and
Chan. They paid $500 mil-
lion to buy The Times and
the San Diego Union-Trib-
une from Chicago-based
Tribune Publishing, which
was poised to close The
Times’ Washington bureau
and impose additional de-
bilitating cuts. The Times
went on an unprecedented
hiring spree, bringing on 110
additional journalists.
Today, The Times news-
room employs 502 journal-
ists, but it is 61% white, even
though Los Angeles Coun-
ty’s population is 26% white,
according to 2018 Census in-
formation. Latinos repre-
sent just 13% of the news-
room in a county where Lat-
inos make up nearly half of
the population. The paper’s
composition of Asian Ameri-
can journalists mirrors the
county’s population at
nearly 15%. But the paper
has just 26 Black journalists
— 5.2% of its staff — while
nearly 8% of county resi-
dents are Black.
And there is only one
Black reporter — Angel Jen-
nings — in local news, Metro,
the newsroom’s largest sec-
tion. For 18 months, Jen-
nings pleaded in vain with
editors for a raise. City Ed-
itor Hector Becerra went to
bat for her, saying that
boosting her compensation
was the “smart thing to do.”
But Pearlstine and other
EXECUTIVE Editor Norman Pearlstine acknowledges that the paper has fallen short in hiring diverse talent.
high-level editors declined,
saying the paper was in the
midst of negotiating its first
collective bargaining agree-
ment.
That contract was in-
tended to resolve pay inequi-
ties for dozens of staff mem-
bers. Management said it
didn’t want to do individual
salary negotiations during
contract talks (although re-
porters who were being re-
cruited by other organiza-
tions did get pay boosts).
It took 14 months to nego-
tiate the contract, meaning
that Jennings and other
staff members had to wait
more than a year to see their
salaries grow — sometimes
by as much as 60%.
“The last few years have
been so painful,” Jennings,
who covers Inglewood and
South L.A., said in an inter-
view. “Some days, I would
cry and ask the editors: ‘Why
am I being treated this way?’
It felt like what was happen-
ing to me was personal, but it
was just institutional.”
During this time, Jen-
nings’ coverage of the shoot-
ing death of rapper Nipsey
Hussle attracted huge audi-
ences that don’t normally
read the L.A. Times. Her
story was the third-most-
read on The Times’ website
in 2019. Among the stories
that had the best engage-
ment — the time that read-
ers spent reading a story —
her article was No. 1. (Jen-
nings was given a bonus for
her coverage.)
::
Soon-Shiong, a South Af-
rican of Chinese descent,
has personally felt the sting
of racism. When he was a
young doctor in South Africa
under apartheid, he fought
to be able to treat patients in
a whites-only hospital.
“You cannot understand
racial inequality until you’ve
truly lived it,” Soon-Shiong
said in an interview. “We can-
not and will not tolerate rac-
ism. More importantly, this
paper has an opportunity to
not only address it, but ad-
dress it in ways much more
deeply and more inspiring
than being accusatory. Peo-
ple of color should be given
an equal shot.”
Soon-Shiong, who has
been investing tens of mil-
lions of dollars more in sub-
sidizing the paper’s opera-
tions, noted that The Times
has the most diverse staff of
any major newsroom. For
example, the New York
Times newsroom is 68%
white, the Washington Post
editorial team is 71.2% white
and the Wall Street Journal
newsroom staff is 79.4%
white, according to a survey
pulled together by L.A.
Times editors.
Still, others have pointed
out glaring gaps: On Mon-
day, the paper’s newly
formed Black Caucus sent a
letter to Soon-Shiong, ask-
ing for a public apology and
for 18 additional Black jour-
nalists to be hired.
“We don’t have enough
Black journalists — or, more
broadly, journalists of color
— to cover our overwhelm-
ingly diverse city, state and
nation with appropriate in-
sight and sensitivity,” the
letter said. “And most of us
who do work here are often
ignored, marginalized,
under-valued and left to
drift along career paths that
leave little opportunity for
advancement.”
Anger spilled into the
open Tuesday in a union-or-
ganized effort to publicly
share Black reporters’ ac-
counts of mistreatment over
past decades under the
hashtag #BlackatLAT.
In addition, the Enter-
tainment & Arts staff sent a
letter to Deputy Managing
S T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 A7
20 years.”
The Times has commit-
ted to hiring a senior editor
to oversee recruiting, career
development, retention ef-
forts and the MetPro train-
ing program. Staff members
will undergo unconscious bi-
as training. The paper has
convened a diversity com-
mittee and promised to re-
view its coverage of the
Floyd protests to ensure
that all points of view were
represented. It promised
that it would add Black jour-
nalists to Metro and publish
annual diversity reports to
ensure transparency.
And, this month, in a
symbolic step, the paper be-
gan capitalizing Black when
referring to people who are
part of the African diaspora.
Other news outlets have fol-
lowed, including the Associ-
ated Press.
These efforts will be
weighed against other chal-
lenges and advancements
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times over time, said USC’s
Gutierrez. “They hired some
good people, but they
Editor Julia Turner, signed and the Watts uprising of 1984 to develop a pipeline of haven’t hired enough of
by 34 staff members, com- 1965. Through the 1990s its working journalists, includ- them,” he said. “And until
plaining that all of the edit- editorial page endorsed Pro- ing copy editors and photog- you get a critical mass, peo-
ing positions filled in the last position 187, which would raphers, from underrepre- ple who are good journalists
18 months have been with have denied public services sented groups. But many and know their communi-
white editors. to immigrants, and also young staffers complained ties, you’ll always fall short of
Pearlstine, in an inter- faced criticism for its cov- about how Metpro had been where you need to be.
view, said he focused his hir- erage of the 1992 Rodney mismanaged and abused. “The L.A. Times con-
ing decisions on the group of King riots or uprising. Staffers said a program that sciously lost touch with the
senior-most editors, known “How far back do you has produced world-class community in which it was
in newspaper-speak as the want to go?” said Felix journalists, including Pulit- located,” Gutierrez said.
“masthead.” Gutierrez, a professor zer Prize-winners and high- Matt Pearce, an organ-
In addition to Soon- emeritus at USC’s Annen- ranking editors, had turned izer with the newsroom
Shiong, in the 14-member berg School for Communica- into a “Survivor”-like com- guild, said The Times man-
leadership group there are tion and Journalism and a petitive culture where young agement must now directly
nine white editors, three veteran researcher of minor- journalists were pitted address the demands of its
Asian American editors, one ity voices in the news. “They against one another. Black Caucus. “Our mem-
Latino editor and one Black set on a path where we wer- Michelle Maltais, a Black bers know that it is our re-
editor. en’t their key audience; the editor who graduated from sponsibility to take the
But Pearlstine acknowl- things that happened in our The Times MetPro program struggles of their Black co-
edged he’d failed because his communities weren’t the in 1998 before rising up the workers and make them
deputies didn’t do an ade- things they wanted to see.” ranks to deputy director of their own,” he said.
quate job of hiring diverse Of particular concern has audience engagement, left Bermudez, who was born
talent. “I have replayed all been the paper’s inability to three years ago when she re- in El Salvador and has writ-
our hiring and coverage de- retain Black journalists. alized she would never have ten about raising a trilingual
cisions in my head, and I One award-winning Black the chance to be a manager, child, said the newspaper is
have been taking a hard look reporter, who was plucked with a staff, at The Times. at a historic inflection point.
in the mirror,” Pearlstine by a larger newspaper, re- She is now the consumer ed- “Ultimately who we hire
told the staff Wednesday. “I called his hurt when The itor at USA Today, manag- and choose to nurture in our
haven’t liked everything I Times showed little interest ing staff members and free- paper says a lot about how
have seen.” in keeping him. “They didn’t lancers. our leadership sees L.A. and
Editors took turns apolo- even put an offer on the ta- “I love the L.A. Times and about who we want the L.A.
gizing for missing a golden ble,” he said. I have no ax to grind,” Mal- Times to be for,” she said. “It
opportunity to make the One of the flashpoints in tais said. “But I ultimately is on our bosses to do the
newsroom more inclusive as the discussion has been Met- left because I felt the prom- work, to find Latino and
it added 110 journalists in the pro, or the Minority Editori- ise of being able to manage Black talent, to groom that
last two years. al Training Program, which people was never going to talent, and keep it real and
Turner said she recog- the paper has relied on since come to fruition. It hadn’t in reflect the face of the city.”
nizes how her hiring prac-
tices missed the mark, but
she thought she would have
opportunities to add more
people of color — but then
the paper imposed a hiring
freeze amid tumbling ad rev-
enue because of COVID-19
shutdowns. “I will do better,”
Turner said
Co-Managing Editor
Kimi Yoshino added: “I per-
sonally have been doing a lot
of self-assessment, and it’s
hard when you realize that
you have failed in some ways.
I’m sorry for that, and I am
pledging to do better.”
One reporter asked
whether Pearlstine would
step down.
“No, absolutely not,” he
said, noting that his con-
tract extends into next year.
“I feel that I still have work to
do, that I want to do, but the
revival of the Los Angeles
Times will be a longer-term
process.”
Soon-Shiong, for his
part, is critical of complaints
directed at Pearlstine, say-
ing the paper’s ambition has
been larger and the journal-
ism stronger under his lead-
ership.
“I want Norm to stay with
us as long as he wants,”
Soon-Shiong said. “The
changes in the paper — the
Pulitzer Prizes and the acco-
lades we received — speak
volumes.... But there’s no
question that we need to
strive to do better.”
More than 30 journalists
— former and current Times
staffers — were interviewed
about their experiences for
this article.
One veteran Latina ed-
itor related her anger after
learning that her two male
counterparts were paid sig-
nificantly more than she was
for performing the same
work. Another news editor
recalled her feelings on her
first day at The Times, when
she arrived wearing a new
blazer and pumps and car-
rying a brand-new briefcase.
She stepped into the eleva-
tor and a white male busi-
ness executive smiled and
asked: “So are you the new
cafeteria worker?” She
replied: “No, I’m a news ed-
itor on the Business desk.”
The newspaper’s history
offers a parade of racist,
slanted and dismissive cov-
erage of minority groups,
with much of it centered his-
torically on anti-Mexican,
anti-Chinese and anti-Black
sentiment dating from the
1880s. The Times was ac-
cused of inflaming racial
tensions during the so-
called Zoot Suit riots of 1943
A8 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
Republican police reform bill blocked
Senate Democrats,
calling it inadequate,
deny the 60 votes the
GOP needed to move
the measure along.
By Sarah D. Wire
WASHINGTON — Dem-
ocrats on Wednesday denied
Republicans the votes
needed to advance the Sen-
ate GOP’s policing reform
bill, casting doubt on the fu-
ture of the effort as thou-
sands of people continue to
protest over the death of
George Floyd, as well as po-
lice misconduct and exces-
sive use of force.
Sixty votes were needed
to bring the GOP-backed
Justice Act, sponsored by
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), up
for consideration. The
chamber’s 53 Republicans
needed support from at
least seven Democrats to
proceed.
Democratic Sens. Doug
Jones of Alabama and Joe
Manchin III of West Virginia
and independent Sen. An-
gus King of Maine voted with
Republicans, but it wasn’t
enough. The bill stalled with
a vote of 55 to 45.
Democrats have derided
the GOP bill, which focuses
heavily on data collection
and urging departments to
change standards on when
force is acceptable, as a wa-
tered-down version of their
own proposal, with Minority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) saying Wednesday
that Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell “wants to
show he’s doing something,
and get nothing done.”
“So much of the anger in
the country right now is di-
rected at the lack of account-
ability for police officers who
violate Americans’ rights,”
Schumer said. “As far as I
can tell, the Republican bill
does not even attempt one
significant reform — not one
— to bring more account-
ability to police officers who
are guilty of misconduct.”
A Minneapolis police offi-
cer has been charged with
murdering Floyd, an un-
armed, handcuffed Black
man, by kneeling on his neck
for more than eight minutes.
A look at differences in competing policing bills
A bipartisan deal still
appears possible,
given the impetus for
action amid protests.
By Sarah D. Wire
WASHINGTON — Con-
gress is moving to respond
to public calls for police re-
form as protests continue
across the country over the
death of George Floyd and
similar cases of excessive
force. A Minneapolis police
officer has been charged
with murder in killing Floyd,
a handcuffed, unarmed
Black man, by kneeling on
his neck for more than eight
minutes.
While Republican and
Democratic proposals differ,
lawmakers on Capitol Hill
seem to recognize that they
have an opportunity to make
real change through legisla-
tion.
But what they can do is
limited by the Constitution,
and their own political will.
Here’s a look at what
Congress has done before to
address police reform at the
local level, what the limits
are, and what is now being
proposed.
First off, does
Congress have the
power to tell local
police departments
what to do?
Kind of. It’s complicated.
The U.S. Constitution
doesn’t give the federal gov-
ernment power over local or
state police. And the 10th
Amendment says any au-
thority not specifically
granted in the Constitution
is left to the states, so Con-
gress has little direct au-
thority over state and local
police.
But what lawmakers do
have is control over money
the federal government
sends the states, and grants
from the Justice Depart-
ment are often a significant
chunk of local police
budgets.
So Congress can’t tell po-
lice what to do, but it can
withhold money unless po-
PROTESTERS rally May 30 in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd, which sparked widespread protests against police brutality.
Video of Floyd pleading with
the officer to move has
spurred a national demand
for police reform and ac-
countability that has Con-
gress racing to pass legisla-
tion.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-
Calif.) praised her Demo-
cratic colleagues for block-
ing a bill that she said didn’t
include “substantive solu-
tions.”
“I want to thank all of our
colleagues for their work to-
day, which is to not fall into a
political trap, to not take
crumbs on the table when
there is a hunger that Ameri-
ca has for real solutions to a
very real problem,” Harris
said.
Republicans have said
their bill and the Democrats’
proposal are very similar,
and argue that Democrats
are foregoing progress by
not approving the GOP bill.
THE CONSTITUTION doesn’t give Congress power over local or state police.
But lawmakers can withhold money to compel action by police departments.
lice departments act in a
certain way.
What has Congress
done before?
Congress hasn’t done
much to address the use of
force by local police or set
standards regarding local
law enforcement, said Barry
Friedman, director of New
York University School of
Law’s Policing Project.
Congress has placed con-
ditions on popular policing
grants such as Community
Oriented Policing Services,
or COPS, or the Edward
Byrne Memorial Justice As-
sistance Grant Program.
But the Justice Department
has been reluctant to use its
authority to enforce the re-
strictions Congress has
called for.
One of the most notable
examples is a 2014 law passed
by Congress requiring law
enforcement agencies to re-
port deaths that occur dur-
ing custody. But the Justice
Department still hasn’t
adopted procedures to col-
lect the data or penalized
any state for not complying.
Lawmakers could force a
police department to com-
ply by threatening to restrict
the Justice Department’s
budget or holding hearings
Democrats argue the bills
aren’t as similar as Republi-
cans say.
“Why wouldn’t you take
the 80% now, see if you can
win the election, and add on
the other 20%? You’ve got to
be kidding me,” Scott said
after the vote.
McConnell (R-Ky.) had
offered to allow senators to
offer whatever amendments
they wanted, and ques-
tioned why Democrats
didn’t try to modify the bill
rather than halt it.
“Nobody thought the
first offer from the Republi-
can side was going to be the
final product that traveled
out of the Senate,” McCon-
nell said. “What’s supposed
to happen in this body is that
we vote or agree to get onto a
bill. And then we discuss, de-
bate and amend it until at
least 60 senators are satis-
fied, or it goes nowhere.”
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
to increase public pressure,
Friedman said, but they
have not.
But beyond the legal and
logistic restraints faced by
Congress in regulating local
police, Friedman said,
there’s another reason law-
makers haven’t moved ag-
gressively: They haven’t
really wanted to.
“The problem here isn’t a
lack of a capability. It’s a lack
of political will,” he said.
“You’re only seeing the kind
of action you are seeing now
because people have so
loudly taken to the streets.”
So what does
Congress want to
do?
There are two competing
proposals at this point.
House Democrats’ bill
would ban federal officers
from using chokeholds, or
from using “no knock” war-
rants in drug cases. It would
establish national stand-
ards for police departments,
including requiring training
on racial, religious and dis-
criminatory profiling, and
make some federal funding
for state and local police
contingent on the passage of
state laws banning choke-
holds and no-knock war-
rants for drug cases.
Schumer and the Senate
sponsors of a Democratic
bill, Harris and Sen. Cory
Booker (D-N.J.), said too
many changes were needed.
They said bipartisan nego-
tiations are needed before a
bill comes to the Senate
floor.
“There should be biparti-
san discussions with the ob-
ject of coming together
around a constructive start-
ing point for police reform,”
Schumer said before the
vote.
The Senate’s next steps
aren’t clear.
The House is scheduled
to vote on the Democrats’
version of a policing reform
bill Thursday, a sweeping
measure that would make it
easier to prosecute officers
criminally and file civil law-
suits for misconduct.
Schumer said the Senate
bill’s failure Wednesday may
The bill also would limit
what military equipment
can be transferred to civilian
police departments, require
federal officers to use body
cameras and have cameras
on the dashboards of their
vehicles, and instruct local
departments to use federal
funds to do the same. It also
makes lynching a federal
crime and requires depart-
ments to report data on use
of force to a federal data-
base.
It would amend federal
statute to allow officers to be
prosecuted for “reckless”
rather than “willful” crimi-
nal conduct, a move spon-
sors say will make it easier to
successfully prosecute offi-
cers for criminal violations,
and also modify the “quali-
fied immunity” protection
for officers to make it easier
for citizens to press civil law-
suits against officers for vio-
lating their constitutional
rights.
The bill was sponsored
by Congressional Black
Caucus Chairwoman Rep.
Karen Bass (D-Los
Angeles).
Senate Republicans’ bill
would require greater dis-
closure of police use of force
and no-knock warrants and
mandate the collection of
data about how and when
open the door to new nego-
tiations.
“I believe that the Repub-
lican Party sees the hand-
writing on the wall. They see
what the American people
feel, and they know now that
while the House is going to
succeed in passing a bill, the
Senate won’t, and that falls
on McConnell’s shoulders.
He’s the Senate leader. He
knows how to pass the bill.
He set up something here so
it wouldn’t pass,” Schumer
said.
Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee Chairman Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.) ques-
tioned whether Congress
was missing its moment to
get something done on po-
lice reform.
“If we can’t do it now, I
don’t know when we’ll ever
do it,” he said.
He said the same dis-
agreements with the bill
force is used. It would pro-
hibit federal grant money to
departments unless they
have a policy banning the
“use of chokeholds except
when deadly force is author-
ized.”
The legislation includes
emergency grant programs
to increase the use of body
cameras on officers, would
make lynching a federal hate
crime and create a commis-
sion to study the social con-
ditions and discrimination
facing Black men and boys.
It was introduced by Sen.
Tim Scott (R-S.C.). and
could be considered as soon
as this week. But Democrats
signaled Tuesday that they
will block the bill.
What are the
chances of a
compromise?
Despite some inevitable
finger-pointing and brink-
manship, there are signs
that a deal could be reached.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-San Francisco) indi-
cated that she’d like a
chance to formally work out
the differences between the
bills. Some Senate Republi-
cans have proposed going
further than Scott’s version.
And some elements, includ-
ing making lynching a fed-
eral crime, are already in-
cluded in both versions.
Both sides are feeling
pressure to do something
from the mass protests that
have occurred in all 50
states, and neither can
count on escaping blame for
inaction.
What are the likely
sticking points?
It may well be the fight
over qualified immunity.
Many Republicans op-
pose ending it, saying offi-
cers shouldn’t have to sec-
ond-guess, or hesitate to act,
for fear of being sued. Scott
called it a poison pill, though
some Republicans have sig-
naled a willingness to con-
sider modifying it.
Democrats call it a non-
negotiable centerpiece of re-
form that is necessary to en-
sure people have some way
to hold police officers ac-
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would exist if it were brought
before the Judiciary Com-
mittee before McConnell
brought it to the Senate, as
Democrats have requested.
“It’s not a process as
much as it is a political calcu-
lation that they don’t want
to engage on this issue until
after the election,” Graham
said.
The Senate vote came
shortly after the Senate ap-
proved the 200th judge
nominated by President
Trump: Mississippi Appeals
Court Judge Cory T. Wilson,
to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 5th Circuit, serving
Texas, Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi.
“Following number 200,
when we depart this cham-
ber today, there will not be a
single circuit court vacancy
anywhere in the nation for
the first time in at least 40
years,” McConnell said.
countable for violating a
constitutional right.
Qualified immunity for
police officers is a doctrine
created by the courts.
It’s actually a fairly recent
interpretation of a nearly
150-year-old law passed by
Congress during the Recon-
struction period following
the Civil War.
Congress passed the Civ-
il Rights Act of 1871, also
known as the Ku Klux Klan
Act, to enforce the equal pro-
tection clause of the 14th
Amendment across the
South. It allows a person to
seek civil damages in court if
their constitutional rights
have been violated by a per-
son acting under state au-
thority — with no exception
for police. While other parts
of the act have been struck
down, this aspect still exists
as 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
It was largely ignored by
the courts until the 1960s,
when the U.S. Supreme
Court first introduced the
concept of “qualified immu-
nity,” which prevents police
officers from being success-
fully sued for abuse of power
or misconduct unless a prior
case has “clearly estab-
lished” that the specific
abuse or misconduct is il-
legal. In the last decade it
has been used to shield offi-
cers from being sued for us-
ing excessive force, includ-
ing brutal arrests and the
shooting of innocent people
in their homes.
Just this month the
Supreme Court declined a
chance to revisit the doc-
trine by turning down eight
qualified-immunity cases,
including one in which an of-
ficer unleashed his police
dog to attack an unarmed
Tennessee burglary suspect
who had sat on the ground
and surrendered.
Congress has the power
to essentially declare the
doctrine moot and assert its
need to address a nation-
wide problem — in this in-
stance improper use of force
by police — under Section 5
of the 14th Amendment,
which allows Congress to
legislate to enforce the
amendment.
The question remains
whether it will do so.
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ernor is in the middle of a
test that could prove even
more challenging than clos-
ing California: reopening it.
Newsom has given coun-
ties the green light to open
their business districts
again, with high-risk places
such as hair and nail salons,
gyms and bars opening their
doors with myriad safety
rules.
The pace of reopening
has drawn criticism from
some. But even as COVID-19
case numbers and hospitali-
zations soar, the Demo-
cratic governor and his
health team insist that the
data are in line with their ex-
pectations and the state is
equipped to handle new
cases.
“We are confident in our
capacity, in the short run, to
meet the needs of those
most in need in the state of
California,” Newsom said
Wednesday.
In a sign that Newsom
and his health advisors are
worried that residents aren’t
carefully stepping back into
the world, the administra-
tion ordered all Californians
to wear face coverings while
in public or high-risk
settings.
The move underscores
the fluid nature of reopening
and is a sign that the gover-
nor will need to constantly
monitor — and may need to
refine — California’s corona-
virus strategy as metrics
change and if new outbreaks
occur.
With many of the restric-
tions loosened, the state is at
another inflection point in
the crisis, with more difficult
decisions ahead.
“It absolutely worked,
there’s no question,” Dr.
Karen Smith, an infectious-
disease specialist and for-
mer director of the Califor-
nia Department of Public
Health, said of the gover-
nor’s stay-at-home order.
“Unfortunately and predic-
tably, as we release people to
go back to more of a normal
life, you’re starting to see in-
creases in cases.”
Newsom held fast to his
executive order for seven
weeks as the economy fal-
tered and political pressure
mounted for him to end
what critics described as a
draconian rule. But after
weeks of stable hospitali-
zations and growing push-
back against restrictions,
the governor altered his ap-
proach in May — issuing
more than a dozen changes
to his stay-at-home order
Four suburban counties fuel hospitalization spike
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last week; four weeks ago, it
was 52.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on
Wednesday highlighted
these concerns, saying
COVID-19 hospitalizations,
as well as the number of co-
ronavirus patients sent to
intensive care units, have
been rising significantly. He
said they are telltale signs
that “we are not out of the
first wave.”
“This virus is virulent.
This virus knows no bounda-
ries and it knows no age co-
hort. It is a deadly virus,”
Newsom said during a me-
dia briefing in Sacramento.
“That’s why it’s incumbent
upon all of us to step things
up to the extent we can, be
more vigilant.”
California has seen a 29%
increase in confirmed
COVID-19 hospitalizations
over the past 14 days and an
18% increase in virus pa-
tients being treated in ICUs,
Newsom said. The rate at
which coronavirus tests are
showing up positive over the
past 14 days is now 5.1%; two
weeks ago, it was 4.6%.
Even with the rises, the
governor said “we are confi-
dent in our capacity, in the
short run” for hospital
space.
He warned, however, that
counties that fail to abide by
the state’s COVID-19 guide-
lines, including the mandate
that Californians must wear
face coverings while in pub-
lic, could face cuts in state
funding targeting the co-
ronavirus outbreak.
The eight-county San
Joaquin Valley is also an area
of concern, recording 160 ad-
ditional patients over the
same period, as is Santa
Barbara County, with 25
more patients.
And there are other signs
of trouble in the state: Or-
ange County recently re-
corded its deadliest week in
the pandemic, with 48
deaths reported in the sev-
en-day period that ended
THOUSANDS OF protesters rally at the intersection of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway in Hunting-
ton Beach in May to call on Gov. Newsom to reopen the beaches and relax the state's stay-at-home order.
and guidance allowing busi-
nesses to reopen with safety
modifications and county
approval.
Newsom’s original two-
page executive order from
March required state resi-
dents to heed the directives
of the California Depart-
ment of Public Health and
stay home unless they
worked in one of 16 critical
sectors outlined by the fed-
eral government.
Californians were al-
lowed to go out for food, pre-
scriptions and healthcare
but were told to maintain a
distance of at least six feet
from one another.
“The California Depart-
ment of Public Health looks
to establish consistency
across the state in order to
ensure that we mitigate the
impact of COVID-19,” the or-
der said. “Our goal is simple,
we want to bend the curve
and disrupt the spread of
the virus.”
At the time, Newsom ex-
pressed confidence that
Californians would “meet
the moment” and stay home
to protect public health.
Health experts say the
order succeeded in allowing
the state to avoid an imme-
diate surge of COVID-19 pa-
tients, buying enough time
to purchase more personal
protective equipment and
prepare the healthcare sys-
tem.
But that success came
with an economic cost: More
Sunday. The county has
seen three consecutive
weeks in which the death toll
has been higher than the
previous week’s.
The Bay Area’s third
most populous county, Con-
tra Costa County, saw its
weekly death toll shoot up to
18 last week, its worst since
the week of April 13, when
nine people were reported to
have died.
The pandemic also con-
tinues to ravage rural coun-
ties, which are critical for the
nation’s food supply.
Imperial County record-
ed 21 deaths last week, its
highest weekly death toll,
and more than double the
previous week’s 10. Kings
County, where a coronavirus
outbreak occurred at a
meatpacking plant, record-
ed 10 deaths among its resi-
dents last week, more than
doubling its previous cumu-
lative death toll.
San Quentin State Pris-
on in Marin County is now
the site of an outbreak that
has infected 456 people —
more than all of the resi-
dents of Santa Cruz County
who have been diagnosed
with COVID-19.
The outbreak occurred
after 121 inmates were
transferred from the Califor-
nia Institution for Men in
Chino.
“The fact that 121 men
were transferred to San
Quentin from Chino without
being tested is stunning,”
state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-
San Francisco) said in a
statement.
There also are troubling
signs that hospitalizations
may be starting to rise again
in both L.A. County and
Santa Clara County, North-
ern California’s most popu-
lous county, centered in Sili-
con Valley.
L.A. County on June 13
logged its lowest daily co-
ronavirus hospitalization
numbers since April — 1,768
for patients with confirmed
or suspected infections —
than 5.5 million Californians
have filed for unemployment
benefits, and the most re-
cent state data show a job-
less rate of 16.3% in May.
As political pressure
grew, the Newsom adminis-
tration on April 14 intro-
duced six indicators that the
state would need to meet be-
fore beginning to loosen the
order. Two weeks later, on
April 28, the governor un-
veiled a four-stage reopen-
ing plan that would allow
certain businesses deemed a
lower risk for transmission
to open first.
Then, on May 8, without
a detailed accounting of
how the administration’s
criteria had been met, the
governor began implement-
ing his plan and easing
the restrictions. Bookstores,
music stores, toy stores,
florists, sporting goods
stores and other retailers
opened for pickup, and retail
manufacturing and logistics
were allowed to resume op-
erations statewide.
Amid protests in Orange
County and the state Capi-
tol and open revolt in several
rural communities, the gov-
ernor also gave more power
back to counties, allowing
areas that had met certain
guidelines for testing capac-
ity and slower growth in pos-
itive cases to reopen more
quickly.
The decision to allow
counties to move at their
own pace once they met
Coronavirus hospitalizations
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with confirmed or suspected infections in recent weeks.
Daily average by week
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increases in average daily hospitalizations between the weeks
of May 25 and June 15.
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Stanislaus
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following weeks of consecu-
tive declines. But by Tues-
day, there were 2,259 people
hospitalized, a 28% increase.
Some of that rise might
be caused by more wide-
spread testing.
But officials say the jump
in the number of cases is also
caused by greater transmis-
sion of the disease in recent
benchmarks set by the state
rapidly sped up the reopen-
ing process in May. Ten days
after implementing the orig-
inal criteria for counties to
reopen, the governor loos-
ened the rules to let most
counties in the state qualify
to open restaurant dining
rooms, shopping malls and
other businesses.
By the end of May, at least
47 of 58 California counties
had met the state’s stand-
ards and began transition-
ing to the third stage of the
governor’s reopening plans,
with the return of hair sa-
lons, barbershops and
church services. In the sec-
ond week of June, gyms, day
camps, bars and some pro-
fessional sports were re-
opening across California.
When Newsom adopted
the stay-at-home order in
March, the state health de-
partment reported 675 pos-
itive cases and 16 COVID-19
deaths in California. On
Wednesday, state officials
reported more than 190,000
confirmed coronavirus
cases and 5,632 deaths.
Newsom last week of-
fered a full-throated defense
of his decision-making.
“Localism is determina-
tive,” Newsom reiterated, a
line frequently used at his
news conferences on the co-
ronavirus to emphasize his
position that counties — and
not the state — should deter-
mine when it’s safe to re-
open.
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weeks, in part caused by the
wider reopening of the econ-
omy and increased gather-
ings, whether they be social
or a result of political pro-
tests.
“The numbers do tell us
that we’re seeing an increase
in community transmis-
sion,” L.A. County’s public
health director, Barbara
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“We have to recognize you
can’t be in a permanent
state where people are
locked away — for months
and months and months
and months on end — to see
lives and livelihoods com-
pletely destroyed, without
considering the health im-
pact of those decisions as
well,” Newsom said.
Newsom has frequently
compared reopening busi-
nesses to gradually lighting
a room with a dimmer
switch. He has also talked
about how the state may
need to “toggle back” but
has not provided details on
what would happen if prob-
lems persisted in particular
counties.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, secre-
tary of California’s Health
and Human Services
Agency, said Monday that
the Newsom administration
is working with Los Angeles
and 10 other counties that
are experiencing increases
in cases, running low on in-
tensive care unit beds or oth-
erwise failing to meet some
of the regional criteria set by
the state to reopen busi-
nesses and address the
pandemic. Ghaly said the
administration is offering
state support, such as addi-
tional healthcare workers or
ventilators.
During an appearance
last week on “The Late Late
Show with James Corden,”
Newsom was asked what it
would take for him to con-
Ferrer, said this week. Nearly
two weeks ago, only 5.8% of
coronavirus tests were com-
ing back positive over the
previous week in L.A.
County. But on Monday,
that number had risen to
8.4%.
The latest projections
from the University of Wash-
ington’s Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation say
that California could see
more than 11,600 deaths by
Oct. 1, more than double the
current death toll, which
was more than 5,700 as of
Wednesday night.
Nationwide, the institute
projects more than 179,000
47% increase from the cur-
rent death toll of more than
121,000.
Santa Clara County has
done much better in control-
ling the spread of the virus
than L.A. County. It has 8 co-
ronavirus deaths per 100,000
residents, while L.A. County
has 32 deaths per 100,000
residents. Part of that suc-
cess is related to the North-
ern California county’s earli-
er implementation of a re-
gional stay-at-home order,
which is credited with saving
many lives.
Yet even Santa Clara
County is starting to see a re-
bound in cases as the econo-
my reopens.
On Tuesday, Santa Clara
County recorded its highest
number of cases amid the
pandemic — 121 — after
spending much of last
month with a seven-day av-
erage of new daily cases hov-
ering around 25. An addi-
tional 105 cases were record-
ed Wednesday.
Dr. Sara Cody, the health
officer for Santa Clara
County, said the increase in
cases was “worrisome.”
Although there are fewer
cases associated with nurs-
ing homes and other long-
term care facilities since
May, there are now more
outbreaks associated with
workplaces or in the com-
A9
sider reinstating his stay-at-
home order. He pointed to
spikes in the state’s data.
“I think to start seeing a
sharp increase in the positiv-
ity rates, the percentage of
people that are testing pos-
itive, to see a big spike in hos-
pitalizations and in ICUs,”
Newsom said. “California is
very well prepared at the
moment. But again, if we
start to see spikes over a con-
sistent period of time, that’s
when we’ll start putting that
dimmer switch [on] and
start pulling back.”
As Newsom has shifted
responsibility for reopening
to local leaders, state Sen.
Steve Glazer (D-Orinda)
said he believes it’s the
state’s responsibility to im-
prove its data to quickly and
accurately pinpoint out-
breaks and stop the spread
of the virus.
“I don’t believe you can
count on positivity rates
based on just counting
tests,” Glazer said. “The
state should know the rate of
infection and changes, and
the state should know where
the spread is coming from.
Today, 90 days in, a positiv-
ity rate on a test that one
chooses to take is not com-
munity surveillance by any
means.”
The Bay Area lawmaker
also said hospitalization
data do not help officials
take action to immediately
contain outbreaks because
patients are sometimes
hospitalized weeks after be-
ing infected. Glazer com-
mended the governor’s work
but said the lack of data at
the state level makes him
worried that California
could be reopening too
quickly.
Smith questioned
whether residents will abide
by stay-at-home orders
again if cases spike, or if local
leaders will have the political
willpower to force people in-
doors again without New-
som leading the way. Pro-
testers have targeted local
health officials, sometimes
rallying outside their homes,
in an effort to push back
against coronavirus restric-
tions.
“In the next couple of
weeks, things are either go-
ing to start to get better or
we’re going to reach a tip-
ping point,” Smith said.
“If we do need to reinsti-
tute, even at county levels,
we need that strong leader-
ship, that consistent mes-
sage coming from the gover-
nor. He can’t just not be pre-
sent.”
munity, Cody said.
Workplace outbreaks
started being detected a
week after the county al-
lowed construction firms to
get back to work, according
to Cody.
Of 89 worksites that have
reported at least one co-
ronavirus infection, 34 of
them have been in construc-
tion, 10 in food service or
restaurants, eight in retail
stores and businesses and
six in food processing
plants.
In outbreaks with three
or more cases with expo-
sures in the workplace, 54%
of them have occurred at
construction work sites, but
the largest outbreaks have
occurred at food processing
centers.
The coronavirus pan-
demic is like a wildfire, Cody
said. “If you contain it when
it’s small, you can keep it
under control. But once
COVID transmission begins
to accelerate, it is very, very
difficult to contain and to
slow down,” she said.
In Ventura County, offi-
cials are increasingly wor-
ried about gatherings as
hospitalization numbers
rise to record levels. Levin,
the health officer, said he
was dismayed over the week-
end seeing people packed
shoulder to shoulder watch-
ing a skateboard competi-
tion.
Besides additional infec-
tions in long-term care facili-
ties, “we believe that there’s
also increased community
transmission going on ...
causing individuals to get
sick enough that they war-
rant being admitted to the
hospital for acute care, and
that is very concerning,”
said Rigoberto Vargas, the
Ventura County public
health director.
Lin reported from San
Francisco, Lee and Greene
from Southern California,
and Willon from
Sacramento.
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Business leaders back protests
Billionaire Rick
Caruso, Chick-fil-A
and NFL have joined
calls for racial justice.
By Roger Vincent
Billionaire hotel devel-
oper and shopping center
magnate Rick Caruso is one
of Los Angeles’ most promi-
nent voices of pro-business
centrism, known for build-
ing luxury outdoor shopping
malls and leading the
boards of public institutions
such as the Department of
Water and Power and the Po-
lice Commission.
He demanded a new
headquarters for the LAPD
that was later built and has
been a prominent fundraiser
for Republican candidates,
including Mitt Romney and
John Kasich.
Now Caruso has joined
the voices declaring that
Black lives matter.
Caruso is among the in-
creasing number of centrist
and conservative-leaning
corporate leaders calling for
racial justice as overwhelm-
ingly peaceful protests have
swept the country since
George Floyd died while in
Minneapolis police custody.
“For all lives to matter,
Black lives must matter,”
Caruso said. At the same
time, the perennially re-
garded mayoral candidate
unloaded criticism on un-
specified Los Angeles offi-
cials who failed to prevent vi-
olence during some of the
protests, including one that
led to damage of Caruso’s
best-known mall, the Grove.
The response to Floyd’s
death has spread beyond
the nation’s streets to the
executive suites of big opera-
tions, including Home De-
pot and NASCAR.
Corporations such as
Chick-fil-A and the NFL
have come out on the side of
protesters decrying sys-
temic racism and promised
to support charities that
serve Black constituents.
Quaker Oats Co. last week
announced that it will
change the name and image
of its Aunt Jemima brand,
which is based on a racial
stereotype.
The chief executive of the
manufacturer of Taser elec-
tronic weapons, Rick Smith,
said, “All lives cannot mat-
ter, until Black lives matter.”
He vowed that his company
Axon will “create tools that
will enable meaningful and
systematic change.”
This is a rare moment of
social change when histori-
cally conservative business
interests are making state-
ments that might have been
seen as leftist a year ago.
It’s not the first time busi-
nesses have promised to
mend their ways in mo-
ments of social upheaval,
but USC economist Richard
Green sees signs that
changes may be more last-
ing this time because many
bosses have been deeply af-
fected emotionally — or at
least realize that clinging to
old patterns now widely seen
Disneyland delays reopening past July 17
The park, including
California Adventure,
will wait on the state
to specify a new time.
By Todd Martens
Disneyland’s reopening
will be delayed beyond July
17, Walt Disney Co. an-
nounced Wednesday, saying
it will wait for state guide-
lines before specifying a new
target date.
The Anaheim destina-
tion, along with sister park
Disney California Adven-
ture, has been closed since
mid-March amid the
COVID-19 pandemic. Before
the newly announced delay,
it was slated to reopen
in time for its 65th anniver-
sary.
But coronavirus infec-
tions have been rising, and
park employees have
pushed back against the
mid-July date, citing safety
concerns.
“California has now indi-
cated that it will not issue
theme park reopening
RICK CARUSO, a prominent L.A. hotel developer and shopping center magnate, is among a growing number
of centrist and conservative business leaders embracing the Black Lives Matter message of racial justice.
as toxic will hurt their bot-
tom lines.
“It’s a combination of see-
ing the light and seeing the
money,” Green said.
Though the nation has
erupted in outrage many
times over the treatment of
Black Americans by police,
the horrifying video of
Floyd’s slow death in police
custody “made a whole lot of
people aware of a problem
they had really not preferred
to think about before,” he
said.
Many in corporate
America had the same awak-
ening, Green said, “that
Black Americans really have
to put up with things that
other people don’t.”
Black Lives Matter has
gone from a nascent move-
ment with a “net negative” in
public opinion polls in 2016,
when 49ers quarterback
Colin Kaepernick first
kneeled during the national
anthem to protest police vi-
olence, to having majority
support in America today,
the economist said, and
businesses will try to keep
pace with their customers’
changing viewpoints.
“My only skepticism is
whether it’s permanent or
not,” Green said.
Other business leaders
sometimes linked with con-
servative stances have also
made a point in recent days
of supporting the change
movement sweeping the
country.
NASCAR this month
banned Confederate flags at
its events at the urging of
Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’S
only Black full-time driver.
In a public letter, Chick-
fil-A Chief Executive Dan
Cathy called the killings of
George Floyd and many
other Black men “horrify-
ing” and outrageous. He
said the company — which
last fall promised to stop do-
nating to charities with his-
tories of opposing same-sex
DISNEYLAND visitors in February. Unions for Dis-
ney workers had said reopening would be unsafe.
guidelines until sometime
after July 4,” the company
said. That would not give the
company enough time to re-
call staffers and prepare the
parks to reopen by mid-July,
it said.
Disney’s Grand Califor-
nian Hotel & Spa and Dis-
ney’s Paradise Pier Hotel,
which had been slated to re-
open July 23, will also be
closed indefinitely.
The Downtown Disney
shopping and restaurant
BUSINESS
marriage — had bolstered
its financial investments in
the redevelopment of the
Westside of its home city of
Atlanta, and supports non-
profit services serving the
Black community, including
historic Morehouse College.
Home Depot Chief Exe-
cutive Craig Menear called
the recent killings part of a
pattern of racism that re-
flects “the harsh reality that
as a nation we are much too
far from fulfilling the prom-
ise of equal justice for all.”
Home Depot is contributing
$1 million to the Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law, he said.
Home Depot has sought
to distance itself from bil-
lionaire co-founder Bernie
Marcus after he pledged to
back President Trump’s bid
for reelection in 2020, NPR
reported. Marcus also con-
tributed to Trump’s 2016
election campaign.
NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell released a
minute-long video on social
media June 5 saying the
league was “wrong” for not
listening to players earlier
about inequality and police
misconduct, and encourag-
ing “all to speak out and
peacefully protest.”
He added, “We, the Na-
tional Football League, be-
lieve Black lives matter.”
Like other business lead-
ers, Caruso made a point of
supporting the cause of
demonstrators who have
been marching in the streets
to protest racism. In a letter
to residents of Los Angeles
that was published in The
Times, Caruso said he is “an-
guished by the brutal death
of George Floyd” and that
the country has failed to live
up to its ideals of equality.
“The fundamental truth
of human equality is de-
stroyed by a racism that is
woven into the fabric of this
country: in order for all lives
to matter, Black lives must
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
district adjacent to the
parks is still slated to reopen
July 9.
Disney reopened Shang-
hai Disneyland on May 11
and the shopping and dining
district in Orlando, Fla.,
known as Disney Springs
on May 20. Hong Kong
Disneyland reopened last
week. Theme parks at the
Walt Disney World resort in
Florida are set to open July
11.
The postponement for
matter,” he said. “People of
color face systemic chal-
lenges to fair application of
the law, equal pay, housing
and healthcare in this coun-
try.”
Caruso’s statements on
the protest movement carve
out a cautious perspective.
He praises the ideas behind
it while excoriating un-
named public officials in
charge when the Fairfax dis-
trict was the site of property
damage May 30, including
hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of damage at
the Grove, which saw
smashed windows, burglar-
ized stores and a police kiosk
set on fire.
Caruso declined to iden-
tify the public leaders he
said failed in their duties but
said he has made his judg-
ment known to them.
“Their overwhelming
statement that was made to
me was, ‘I am doing the best
I can do.’ And my response
was, ‘If this is the best you
can do, you should not be in
office. The city deserves bet-
ter.
“You had a sacred duty to
protect the residents of this
city and you failed. And you
had a sacred duty to protect
the protesters and you
failed. You had a sacred duty
to protect the Black commu-
nity and you failed.”
Caruso said he does not
support calls to “defund” the
police, which he called “pan-
dering on the part of leader-
ship, and it will only hurt the
Black community.” Mayor
Eric Garcetti has said he will
seek up to $150 million in cuts
to the LAPD budget.
Caruso, who registered
to vote with no party prefer-
ence, said a little more than
half of the 1,000-plus employ-
ees at his company are not
white, and that 41% of man-
agers are not white. About
half of his employees are
women.
The developer and land-
the Anaheim parks comes as
California and other parts of
the nation are seeing signifi-
cant increases in COVID-19
cases. A dozen unions that
represent about 17,000 Dis-
neyland employees sent a
letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom
last week, saying that be-
cause of the coronavirus,
opening the park would be
unsafe. Disney’s Wednesday
announcement alluded to
the union apprehensions
and said the company has
reached accords that cover
more than 11,000 of its work-
ers.
Newsom’s office ex-
pressed support for the de-
lay.
“The governor appreci-
ates Disney’s responsive-
ness to his concerns about
reopening amid the recent
increases in COVID-19 infec-
tions across many Southern
California counties,”
spokesperson Nathan Click
said in a statement. “The
state and our public health
experts continue to be in
contact with the company
and their workers — as well
as other theme parks in
the state — as we track and
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times
lord, who is also chairman of
the USC Board of Trustees,
said he will contribute $5
million over the next three
years to educational pro-
grams for students he has
been supporting in southern
Los Angeles through Opera-
tion Progress L.A. and SCS
Noonan Scholars.
He said he will also form a
coalition of leaders “to de-
mand a social justice reform
bill that will forever trans-
form our state.” Among
those he has consulted so far
are civil rights lawyer Connie
Rice and Los Angeles Urban
League President Michael
Lawson.
Lawson said in an inter-
view that now “is a time to
take a hard look at the insti-
tutions that have been really
the vestiges of oppression,”
such as the police force,
schools and healthcare.
“The list is long,” Lawson
said.
He also prodded com-
pany leaders to do better,
even as many known for con-
servative stances in the past
voice support for the goals of
the Black Lives Matter
movement.
“The business communi-
ty has to understand that
looking only at your bottom
line is not sufficient,”
Lawson said. “There needs
to be a comprehensive reori-
entation of our values.”
Green said he hoped de-
cision-makers in business
can muster the sustained
will to make meaningful
changes by bringing more
people of color into senior
ranks and making sure they
can buy homes and busi-
nesses.
“We have had a long his-
tory of making it harder to
own things for Black people
than other people,” Green
said. “This country has such
a short attention span. I just
hope we keep this in front of
us until it’s fixed, and it’s go-
ing to be a long time.”
combat the spread of the
virus.”
Andrea Zinder, president
of the United Food and Com-
mercial Workers union Local
324, which represents Dis-
ney’s front-line retail work-
ers, said Wednesday that al-
though the group has agreed
to Disney’s recall process,
the company has yet to ad-
dress many of its concerns.
“We have indicated sev-
eral times that we are not
convinced that adequate
safety measures have been
completely put in place,”
Zinder said. “There’s more
work to be done. We think
this is a good sign, that Dis-
ney is willing to reconsider
and look broader at some of
the things we have sug-
gested.”
Chief among the union’s
requests are on-premise
COVID-19 testing for em-
ployees who are in regular
contact with guests and ad-
ditional paid time off in case
a staffer must self-quaran-
tine.
Times staff writer John
Myers contributed to this
report.
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Tesla is
last in
new J.D.
Power
survey
Unofficially, owners of
its cars reported more
problems than other
brands. Dodge and
Kia take top honors.
By Russ Mitchell
Tesla has finally been
added to the annual J.D.
Power survey of new car buy-
er satisfaction — unoffi-
cially.
The maker of electric
cars did not do well. Out of 33
automobile brands mea-
sured, Tesla came in rock
bottom.
The results are “unoffi-
cial,” J.D. Power said, be-
cause Tesla did not cooper-
ate with the market research
company, whose surveys
draw intense interest among
auto industry executives
and car buyers.
Tesla “has consistently
refused to grant J.D. Power
permission to survey owners
in 15 states, a requirement to
participate,” said the com-
pany, which has conducted
the quality survey for 34
years.
Nonetheless, J.D. Power
surveyed 1,200 Tesla owners
without the company’s co-
operation, and Dave Sar-
gent, vice president of auto-
motive quality, said he’s
highly confident of the re-
sults’ accuracy.
Most customer com-
plaints, Sargent said, did not
involve batteries and elec-
tric motors.
“The challenge Tesla
faces is with the sort of basic
manufacturing of the vehi-
cle,” Sargent said in a state-
ment. “They’re fairly new to
volume manufacturing, and
it’s not easy.”
Many of the flaws re-
ported in the survey were
“things that other automak-
ers would have had maybe 10
years ago, but have solved,”
such as faulty exterior parts,
Sargent said.
The survey, released
Wednesday, comes on the
heels of widespread com-
plaints about quality in the
company’s new Model Y, a
hatchback version of the
Model 3 sedan. Those
complaints include un-
aligned body parts, seats
not attached to the base,
bumpers falling off in the
rain, water leaks in the cab-
in, and door seals that allow
dirt particles to get inside
and coat the interior.
Also on Wednesday, Busi-
ness Insider, quoting inter-
nal Tesla emails, revealed
that Tesla may have know-
ingly installed defective
cooling tubes prone to leak-
age in Model S sedans. The
issue involves model years
2012 through at least 2016.
The story noted that glycol
coolant that comes into con-
tact with a hot battery can
result in fire.
The Times has also re-
viewed internal Tesla emails
that show Tesla employees
discussing the tube leakage
problem.
Tesla did not respond to a
request for comment.
Dodge tied with Kia for
first place on the quality list,
the first domestic brand to
reach the top spot. The
Dodge models surveyed in-
clude the Challenger, Char-
ger, Journey, Grand Caravan
and Durango.
The fact that these cars
have not been redesigned for
many years helped, Sargent
said, but “they’ve done a
really good job of improving
their quality.
“It’s not a fluke that they
did well.”
The survey polled 87,282
buyers and lessees of new
2020 models. Quality prob-
lems were tallied and ran-
ked. Dodge had 166 prob-
lems per 100 vehicles and Kia
had 136 problems. Tesla had
250.
More problems were re-
ported for all models
this year, J.D. Power said,
mainly because more ques-
tions were asked about
issues with infotainment
systems and other technolo-
gies.
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GETTING PAST the legal drama has been a top priority for Bayer CEO Werner Baumann, shown in Le-
verkusen, Germany, in February. The company says there are still about 30,000 cases yet to be settled.
Bayer to settle thousands of
Roundup suits for billions
The lawsuits and
other woes inherited
from Monsanto will
cost $12 billion.
bloomberg
Bayer has agreed to
spend more than $12 billion
to resolve thousands of U.S.
lawsuits and deal with future
claims, taking its biggest
step so far in resolving head-
aches the German chemical
giant inherited in its acquisi-
tion of Monsanto Co.
Agreements were
reached on about 95,000
claims filed over Roundup,
part of a Bayer plan to spend
about $11 billion to settle all
litigation over the widely
used herbicide, the com-
pany said Wednesday. Bayer
also will pay as much as $820
million to settle toxic-pollu-
tion claims and make a $400-
million payment for farmers
whose crops were damaged
by its herbicide based on the
chemical dicamba.
Taken together, the ac-
cords resolve a trio of major
litigation risks that tagged
along with Bayer’s $63-bil-
lion purchase of Monsanto
in 2018. Roundup claims —
the biggest liability — surged
after big U.S. court losses,
and the share decline wiped
tens of billions of dollars off
Bayer’s market value. Get-
ting past the legal drama is a
top priority for Chief Execu-
tive Werner Baumann.
Bayer’s American depos-
itary receipts climbed on the
settlement news, gaining as
much as as 5%. The ADRs,
which represent one-quar-
ter of a regular share, rose 15
cents to $20.54 in New York.
Though a Roundup set-
tlement had been expected,
Sebastian Bray, an analyst
at Berenberg, said deals cov-
ering other litigation at a
cost most investors will find
reasonable were a pleasant
surprise. It’s a “big relief ”
and “should allow investors
to draw a line under the saga
of the last two years,” Bray
said via email.
The Roundup agree-
ments will resolve 75% of
about 125,000 claims that
Uber taking heat from drivers, prosecutors in state
Atty. Gen. Becerra
takes step aimed at
making gig firms treat
workers as employees.
By Dave Lee
California’s top prose-
cutor has taken his most ag-
gressive step yet in his at-
tempt to force Uber and
other gig economy compa-
nies to treat their workers as
employees.
State Atty. Gen. Xavier
Becerra, backed by city at-
torneys in San Francisco,
Los Angeles and San Diego,
on Wednesday filed a re-
quest for a preliminary in-
junction in their lawsuit
against the gig companies.
If granted, it would mean
the companies must reclas-
sify their workers in a matter
of weeks.
The motion will be dis-
cussed at a hearing set for
Haven Daley Associated Press
BAYER MAY continue selling Roundup in the U.S.
for backyards and farms without any safety warning.
have either been filed or its large debt load from the
were set to be filed, the Le- Monsanto transaction re-
verkusen, Germany, com- mains a “high priority.” Pay-
pany said in a statement. ments can be funded with
Bayer said it will pay $10.1 bil- cash on hand, future free-
lion to $10.9 billion to resolve cash flow, the sale of Bayer’s
all current lawsuits, includ- animal-health unit and po-
ing $1.25 billion set aside for tentially by issuing bonds,
future claims handled as company officials said.
part of a class action lawsuit. Still, the cost of resolving
Separately, Bayer agreed most of the litigation will
after about nine months of slow the company’s ability to
settlement talks to resolve pay down debt, Moritz Mels-
most claims by cities and bach, an analyst for
ports over contamination by Moody’s, said in a state-
polychlorinated biphenyls, ment.
or PCBs, a chemical solely Under the terms of the
made by Monsanto that is Roundup settlement, Bayer
used as a cooling agent in will set up a $1.25-billion fund
heavy equipment. The set- to cover future cancer
tlement came on the eve of a claims. That money will also
trial in Spokane, Wash. be used to provide financial
Bayer officials also assistance to struggling can-
agreed to pay $400 million to cer patients and support re-
resolve claims that its search into whether
dicamba herbicide drifted glyphosate — the weedkill-
onto the fields of neighbor- er’s active ingredient — is a
ing farmers and damaged carcinogen, the company
their crops. No lawsuits are said.
required for the payouts, but Individual payouts may
farmers must show proof of range from several hundred
crop damage or reduced thousand dollars per case to
yields tied to dicamba con- less than $50,000.
tamination, the company The accord allows Bayer
said. to continue selling Roundup
“We believe the settle- in the U.S. for use in back-
ment will be sufficient to re- yards and farms without any
solve all legitimate claims in safety warning, and plain-
this litigation,” Don Down- tiffs’ attorneys who settled
ing, one of the plaintiffs’ law- their case inventories
yers leading the Missouri- agreed to stop taking new
based dicamba cases, said in Roundup clients.
an interview. It estimated there are
In the Roundup settle- still about 30,000 current
ments, Bayer executives cases yet to be settled. The
said the deal shouldn’t affect company also is refusing to
its credit rating or dividend settle the three damage ver-
policy and that paying down dicts totaling more than $191
Mark Lennihan Associated Press
UBER CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been the target
of a protest by workers demanding employee benefits.
Aug. 6. equipment during the
The request came as COVID-19 pandemic.
about 50 Uber drivers in San “I’ve got a 90-year-old
Francisco blocked the street mother and a wife who has
outside the home of the com- cancer,” said Vernon, a 73-
pany’s chief executive, Dara year-old driver, who at-
Khosrowshahi, demanding tended the protest and
employee benefits and bet- would give only his first
ter provisions for protective name. “I need money.”
Martin Meissner Associated Press
million, which are on appeal.
Bayer is doing the same
thing in dicamba, pressing
efforts to have a $265-million
verdict on behalf of a Mis-
souri peach farmer tossed.
Former users of Round-
up blame glyphosate for
their non-Hodgkin’s lym-
phoma and other cancers.
The company denies
glyphosate is a carcinogen, a
position backed by the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency. A federal judge
ruled this week that Califor-
nia officials can’t force com-
panies to place warning la-
bels on glyphosate-based
products.
Lawyers representing
some of the Roundup users
who declined to settle their
claims vowed Wednesday to
continue bringing cases to
trial. Three California juries
in a row ruled against the
company and ordered it to
pay damages to former
Roundup users. The next
cases could be brought in
state court in St. Louis.
“The remaining cases are
in the hands of lawyers who
know how to litigate, so we’re
going to see some more
Roundup trials in the fu-
ture,” said Fletch Trammell,
a Texas lawyer who held his
roughly 5,000 cases out of the
settlement. “This litigation
is far from over.”
Bayer faced a surge in
new lawsuits last year after it
lost the U.S. jury trials, and
investors issued a rare re-
buke to Baumann last
spring. Some, including Elli-
ott Management Corp.,
urged the company to seek a
comprehensive settlement.
Since last summer, Bau-
mann has kept Bayer out of
more trials while engaging in
high-stakes mediation talks.
In April, he won the annual
confidence vote from 93% of
shareholders amid signs
that Bayer might soon reach
a resolution.
Still, given the Roundup
settlement’s hefty price tag,
investors may continue to
question whether the Mon-
santo takeover will ever be
worth what Bayer paid,
Markus Mayer, an analyst at
Baader Bank, said via email.
And, he said, Bayer’s man-
agement may not be safe.
Drivers said the effect of
COVID-19 had pushed them
to the financial brink, unable
to meet rent or mortgage ob-
ligations. Organizers said re-
cent pledges by Khosrow-
shahi to support the Black
Lives Matters movement
were disingenuous, given
that so many of the compa-
ny’s drivers, many of them
from minority backgrounds,
were not being treated “with
dignity and respect.”
“I’ve come here to protest
an injustice,” said Alex, 56,
who also would give only his
first name. “This company
has become [very] rich on
the hands of workers.”
The dramatic drop in
ride-hailing because of co-
ronavirus lockdowns has
brought the issue of gig
workers’ rights to the fore-
front of Californian politics,
where most of the largest
companies are based.
A new law, California As-
sembly Bill 5 came into force
at the beginning of the year.
T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
MARKET ROUNDUP
Stocks slide as
virus case surge
snuffs out hopes
associated press
Wall Street’s rally hit a
snag Wednesday as new
COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
climbed to the highest level
in two months, dimming in-
vestors’ hopes for a rela-
tively quick economic turn-
around.
The Standard & Poor’s
500 index skidded 2.6%,
shedding its gains for the
week and leaving it nearly in
the red for the month. The
sell-off, which followed steep
drops in European markets,
accelerated on news that
New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut will require visi-
tors from states with high in-
fection rates to quarantine
for 14 days.
Technology companies,
which have been leading the
market higher as it bounced
back from a plunge in March,
accounted for the biggest
slice of the pullback. Finan-
cial, healthcare, communi-
cation services and indus-
trial stocks also took heavy
losses. Energy stocks fell the
most as the price of oil
dropped sharply.
Markets have been rally-
ing recently on hopes that
U.S. states and regions
around the world could con-
tinue to lift the spring shut-
downs put in place to slow
the spread of the co-
ronavirus. Economic data
have been positive, helping
fuel the cautious optimism.
But the rise in new infections
is stoking worries that the
reopening of businesses may
have to be curtailed again.
“We’ve created this opti-
mistic trade over the last few
weeks,” said J.J. Kinahan,
chief strategist at TD Ameri-
trade. “Are we going to be
able to get back to business
as fast as it has been priced
into equities?”
Cruise lines, which would
stand to suffer greatly if trav-
el restrictions are extended,
were among Wednesday’s
biggest losers in the S&P
500. Norwegian Cruise Line,
Carnival and Royal Caribbe-
an Cruises all fell more than
11%. Traders also hammered
casino operators. Wynn Re-
sorts sank 11% and MGM Re-
sorts International fell 8.3%.
Shares in airlines slumped
too. Delta Air Lines slid 7.8%.
The S&P 500 index
dropped 80.96 points to
3,050.33. But it’s still on pace
for its best quarter since the
fourth quarter of 1998.
The Dow Jones industrial
average declined 710.16
points, or 2.7%, to 25,445.94.
The Nasdaq, which was
coming off its second all-
time high this week, fell
222.20 points, or 2.2%, to
9,909.17. Smaller-company
stocks fared worse than the
rest of the market. The Rus-
Major stock indexes
Index Close
Dow industrials 25,445.94
S&P 500 3,050.33
Nasdaq composite 9,909.17
S&P 400 1,731.48
Russell 2000 1,389.74
EuroStoxx 50 2,974.28
Nikkei (Japan) 22,534.32
Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 24,781.58
Associated Press
It codified a Supreme Court
ruling that set out criteria
for treating workers as em-
ployees rather than inde-
pendent contractors. The
law is now being used to take
the gig economy companies
to court.
Uber warned that an in-
junction would immediately
put more than 150,000 of its
drivers in California out of
work and result in price in-
creases of 25% to 111%, with
less densely populated areas
most affected.
“The vast majority of
drivers want to work inde-
pendently,” the company
said in a statement Wednes-
day.
“We’ve already made sig-
nificant changes to our app
to ensure that remains the
case under California law.
When over 3 million Califor-
nians are without a job, our
elected leaders should be fo-
cused on creating work, not
trying to shut down an entire
industry.”
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sell 2000 index dropped 49.60
points, or 3.4%, to 1,389.74.
The market has been
mostly in rally mode since
April as investors focused on
the prospects for an econo-
mic turnaround as broad
areas of the economy re-
opened. Recently, some
economic reports helped lift
expectations that the re-
opening of businesses in the
United States and elsewhere
could pull the economy out
of a deep recession sooner
rather than later.
But the recent surge in
new infections is undercut-
ting some of that optimism.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
and caseloads have hit new
highs in more than half a
dozen U.S. states. New cases
nationwide are back near
their peak level of two
months ago.
While early hot spots
such as New York and New
Jersey have seen cases
steadily decrease, the virus
has been hitting the South
and West. Several states set
single-day records Tuesday,
including Arizona, Califor-
nia, Mississippi, Nevada and
Texas.
On Tuesday, federal
health officials told Con-
gress to brace for a second
wave of coronavirus infec-
tions this fall and winter.
“There’s the possibility of
shutdowns, but probably
more realistically delays in
reopening,” Kinahan said.
“This puts doubt on how
comfortable people will be
getting on a plane or staying
in hotels.”
Wednesday’s sell-off may
also reflect traders taking
the opportunity to unload
some stocks that have been
big winners in the market’s
recent rally, said Tracie
McMillion, head of global as-
set allocation strategy for
Wells Fargo Investment In-
stitute.
She expects the second
half of the year to remain vol-
atile for the market, citing
the virus and uncertainty
ahead of the U.S. election in
November.
“Another concern is that
we’re getting closer to earn-
ings season,” McMillion
said. “Investors might start
to get nervous that earnings
and guidance could disap-
point.”
The yield on the 10-year
Treasury note fell to 0.68%
from 0.70%. It tends to move
with investors’ expectations
for the economy and infla-
tion.
In energy trading, bench-
mark U.S. crude oil slid 5.8%
to $38.01 a barrel. Brent
crude, the international
standard, fell 5.4% to $40.31 a
barrel.
Major stock indexes in
Europe fell broadly. Markets
in Asia closed mostly higher.
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change change change
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-80.96 -2.59 -5.59
-222.20 -2.19 +10.44
-60.99 -3.40 -16.07
-49.60 -3.45 -16.71
-83.91 -2.74 -12.60
-14.73 -0.07 -4.74
-125.76 -0.50 -12.09
Lyft, Uber’s biggest com-
petitor in the U.S., said: “If
the courts were to grant the
attorney general’s request, it
would have a devastating ef-
fect on millions of Califor-
nians at the worst possible
time.
“We believe the courts
should let the voters decide.”
Uber, Lyft and similar
companies have thrown
more than $100 million be-
hind a proposed November
ballot measure that would in
effect make workers for app-
based services exempt from
AB 5. The coalition main-
tains that its alternative
measure would provide
workers some protections,
such as a minimum earnings
level.
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Don’t pull back on virus tests

ment encounters.”
Police don’t seem overly
concerned about poten-
tially negative outcomes
ter what Trump thinks about it. At a cam- during enforcement en-
counters when they pro-
This is absolutely the wrong time paign rally in Tusla, Okla., on Saturday,
tect the jobs of officers with
Trump said that he had asked aides to slow
to reduce the federal government’s down testing to keep cases low. Later his
long histories of using
excessive force, but they
support for COVID-19 testing. handlers explained it as a joke, but Trump
balk when faced with the
contradicted them, saying, “I don’t kid” —
apparently daunting task
and later continued to voice his displeasure of asking people to wear a
he U.S. stumbled badly at the with testing, tweeting: “Cases up only be-

T
mask.
beginning of the COVID-19 pan- cause of our big number testing. Mortality These sheriffs have left
demic when it came to testing. rate way down!!!” the job of mask enforce-
So few test kits were available, Well, no, cases don’t go up just because Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times ment (and the risk of nega-
officials couldn’t keep up with you confirm their existence with a test. Not COUNCILMAN Jose Huizar, shown in 2018 at City tive outcomes) to the gen-
the infections emerging across their com- looking for cases just makes it harder for Hall, was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday. eral public and shown,
munities. And with no way of knowing public health officials to target resources. In once again, that they have
where or how much the virus was spreading
in their states, governors were forced to take
drastic measures, most notably ordering
fact, not testing people is a great way to en-
sure many more cases by leaving infectious
but undiagnosed people out in their com-
An arrest isn’t reform less concern for public
safety than protecting
their worst-behaving offi-
people to stay home lest individuals with munities. cers.
Re “Councilman Jose Huizar charged with corruption,”
the disease overwhelm the healthcare sys- Trump is not wrong about the nation’s By refusing to enforce
June 24
tem and die in numbers not seen since the mortality continuing to decline, but that’s the state order, these law
1918 flu pandemic. not dispositive. It can take several weeks for enforcement officials have
For the last four years, the 14th Los Angeles City (unwittingly, I’d assume)
The devastating consequences of those an infection to result in death, so a surge in Council District has seen an abundance of developers helped to support the case
decisions will reverberate for years. And ev- confirmed cases this month could mean a submitting applications to build. These developers for shifting our massive
eryone agrees that we cannot afford to re- surge in deaths next month. simply said this was an up-and-coming area, but it is now public safety investments
turn to such a dark time. But as COVID-19 Granted, the decision to pull funding for apparent why the district was so hot: Councilman Jose to more effective uses, also
roars back in record numbers, that’s start- the testing sites doesn’t seem to be the re- Huizar was selling out the district to any developer with known as “defunding the
ing to seem like a very real, and terrifying, sult of the president’s recent complaints. money. police.”
possibility. Federal officials have been planning for a According to federal investigators, Huizar Morgan Martin
So it’s bewildering that the federal gov- while to shift more of the cost of testing onto orchestrated an elaborate pay-to-play scheme that Santa Monica
ernment would even consider pulling fund- states and private parties. Nevertheless, it enriched him and his wife by extorting money from
ing and support for 13 federally financed highlights how the Trump administration developers and strong-arming anyone who opposed him.
COVID-19 testing sites in five states next
week. The U.S. Department of Health and
has continually failed to lead during the
pandemic, leaving states largely on their
Their fiefdom was allegedly fortified by willing and
unwilling city employees who helped establish them as
A culture that
Human Services said Wednesday that it was
planning to do just that at the end of June.
own to protect their residents.
What the federal and state governments
the oligarchs of the 14th Council District and made them pushes obesity
power players on citywide land-use issues.
Have we already forgotten the initial testing should be doing is investing more dollars — Re “Losing pounds by the
Now is the time for Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City
debacle after just a few months? millions, if not billions, more — into testing, ’grams,” Column One, June
Council to grow a backbone and reform the system that
The news broke about the testing sites tracing and isolation programs, while also 20
allegedly allowed Huizar and his enterprise to enrich
even as a resurgence of coronavirus cases putting into place a national pandemic himself. If they could take a knee for the protesters, then
has raised alarms across the Southern and strategy that moves away from trying to It is inspiring to read
they should be able to stand up for their constituents and sports columnist Arash
Western United States. On Wednesday, the stamp out COVID-19 outbreaks after they fight corruption at City Hall. Markazi’s personal ac-
U.S. recorded the third-highest total of new flare up and instead seeks to prevent indi- Ken Walsh count of how he changed
COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, vidual infections from blossoming into Los Angeles his lifestyle and greatly
and several states, including California, are large-scale outbreaks in the first place. That
improved his health by
seeing record levels of new infections. way we might be able to get ahead of the losing more than 100
Things are particularly grim in Arizona virus until there’s a vaccine and better treat-
(which hosted a rally for President Trump ments widely available.
As long as the political
class has the arbitrary Don’t threaten pounds.
However, American
on Tuesday in which hundreds of unmasked Yes, it will be expensive, but continuing
people sat side by side yelling support), to lose the fight against COVID-19 costs or-
power to veto what people
do with their property, the
health officials culture promotes obesity.
Diets and supplements are
Florida and Texas. ders of magnitude more in economic activ- corruption allegedly prac- Re “Official gets death a mega-industry, and some
Seven of the testing sites scheduled to ity and in lives. More than 45 million Ameri- ticed by Huizar and its threats over county’s virus basic facts don’t get
lose funding are in Texas, which is experienc- cans have lost their jobs during the pan- consequences on housing rules,” June 23 through all the messaging,
ing what Gov. Greg Abbott — no coronavirus demic and more than 120,000 Americans shortages will remain such as:
alarmist — termed a “massive outbreak of have died from COVID-19. And we know uncontrollable. I am unclear on why 8 Sugar and white flour
COVID-19.” Things have gotten so bad there, testing pays off. The countries that have If owners could decide many Americans are so up sensitivity can create insa-
Abbott urged Texans to stay home. Two of contained their own coronavirus outbreaks, how to develop their own in arms in this fight against tiable cravings and drive
those seven sites are in Houston, where so such as New Zealand, Iceland and South properties, perhaps the COVID-19 when it comes to overeating.
many people infected with COVID-19 have Korea, were aggressive and strategic on affordable housing crisis wearing a mask. This dis- 8 You need to incorpo-
been hospitalized that the city has almost no testing, tracing and isolating in a way in would be solved because ease has killed many more rate resistance training
intensive care beds available for others who which the U.S. has not been. builders could more easily people than the 9/11 terror- into your exercise regimen
undertake larger projects. ist attacks, after which to build muscle and in-
desperately need care. They rest of the test- Indeed, instead of pulling back on test-
But the NIMBY power rules were put into place crease your metabolism.
ing sites are in Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey ing, the nation needs to double down on it.
to block development is that we continue to ob- 8 When you eat matters.
and Pennsylvania. This is how we beat the “invisible enemy” of
based on allowing arbi- serve today. Generally, it is not good to
It should be obvious that now is not the which the president speaks. Not by covering trary decision making by We did not threaten the eat right before bedtime,
time to hamper testing in any way, no mat- our eyes and pretending it isn’t there. the political class and its lives of Transportation and many experts recom-
regulatory minions in Security Administration mend some intermittent
government. agents because we did not fasting.
I may not want a 20- like the changes. Rather, 8 One should not aim to

Rethinking safety on Metro story complex next door,

but I don’t own the proper-
ty, I am not paying the
taxes on the property, and
we understood the new
rules were necessary to
prevent another attack.
We are now fighting a
eliminate healthy fats from
the diet, such as nuts and
avocados, which help you
feel full.
our years ago, Metro was facing a public safety, from mental health crises to

F
if more housing availability different war against an 8 The biochemistry of
serious problem. Voters over- subway fare evaders. Now, there’s a broader decreases rents in my area, invisible threat, and when being overweight can
whelmingly passed the Measure M recognition that the mere presence of an it’s good for society. health officials ask us to aggravate depression,
sales tax measure to expand tran- armed law enforcement officer can inflame Dallas Weaver wear a mask as an easy way which can fuel overeating.
sit service, and the agency hoped a situation or turn it deadly. Huntington Beach for us to wield a weapon Sasha Kildare
to triple ridership. But the number of people But Metro has a particular challenge. against COVID-19, we Long Beach
actually riding the buses and trains was fall- The success of public transit — and the will- :: should thank them, not
ing. And in surveys and forums, passengers ingness of people to ride a bus or train — de- threaten their lives. ::
and would-be passengers repeatedly ex- pends on passengers feeling safe and secure. It’s about time. Al- This disease is killing
pressed the same concern: They were Several years ago, almost 30% of the former though I don’t know us, putting strain on our I have always enjoyed
scared to ride public transit. riders surveyed said they left the system be- Huizar, that was my reac- healthcare system and Markazi’s sports columns.
In response, Metro’s governing board cause they did not feel safe. Respondents tion to his arrest. weakening our economy — To read about his weight-
Don’t many politicians all effects that our enemies loss journey, which in-
voted to dramatically increase spending on said the lack of security was a bigger deter-
partake in unlawful or would surely celebrate. cluded surprise acknowl-
policing, splitting the responsibilities rent to using transit than speed, reliability
unethical practices? As When we don’t wear masks, edgment and praise from
among the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s De- and accessibility.
one honest member of the we contribute to our de- former Gov. Arnold
partment and the Los Angeles and Long The fear was particularly strong among Los Angeles City Council feat. Schwarzenegger, reminded
Beach police departments. That move women, and for good reason. Nearly 30% of revealed to me more than No one is asking anyone me about the importance
nearly doubled the number of armed offi- women passengers surveyed said they had 20 years ago (before I re- to pick a political party or of people supporting each
cers on the system. experienced sexual harassment on the sys- tired as an attorney) when go to war. Just wear a other and spreading kind-
Today, however, there’s a very different tem. Just 20% said they felt safe riding Met- she apologized for voting mask. ness at all levels of human-
conversation happening at Los Angeles ro at night. Last year, in a report on how against me, you can’t get Christina Rodriguez ity.
County’s transportation agency. Following women use the transit system, more than anything done for your Highland Georgette Rieck
weeks of protests over police brutality and half of the women surveyed said there were constituents unless you Santa Monica
racial injustice, Metro’s governing board will not enough officers patrolling the system. agree to play along. ::
vote Thursday on a proposal to begin re- Metro leaders said violent and serious In fact, about that same
placing law enforcement officers with home-
lessness outreach workers, mental health
crime on the system has decreased 17% since
the agency ramped up the police presence
time, your newspaper
published a few opinion
Is it just a coincidence
that the health officers of
It’s not your
professionals, transit “ambassadors” and and hired more security guards. At the same pieces I wrote about the
corrupt practices of our
Los Angeles County and
Orange County who re-
teacher’s union
other unarmed service providers. time, Metro leaders argue they’ve tried to
If approved, Metro would be expected to adopt a less confrontational, more commu- Los Angeles City Council ceived threats — the latter Re “Fraternities, not labor
develop a new approach to public safety be- nity-oriented policing model, including hav- members. of whom was intimidated unions,” letters, June 24
Harriet Kremer into resigning — are both
fore 2022, when the current contracts with ing unarmed guards — not police officers —
Bilford women? I think not. One letter writer’s claim
police agencies expire. check fares and issue $75 administrative ci-
Reseda This is ignorant, selfish that public employee
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike tations rather than misdemeanor charges.
and misogynistic. unions are a bigger prob-
Bonin said the proposal is partly a response The agency has also contracted with so- :: Darlene Moses lem than police unions is a
to long-standing complaints of racial bias in cial service agencies to have homelessness, Olympius ridiculous diversion from
the policing of the system, particularly from mental health and substance abuse special- In a sordid episode, two Yorba Linda the real issue at hand.
young Black and Latino riders. They often ists respond to nonviolent incidents. That’s powerful council members I am a public school
have a very different perception of and rela- a good model, and it should be expanded. (one former and the other :: teacher and as such am
tionship with law enforcement, and they Metro cannot and should not eliminate current) may go to jail for part of a union. I wouldn’t
may not feel safer when an armed officer law enforcement officers from its transit accepting bribes. But what The ostriches have expect my union to come to
steps on their bus or train. system. There are still violent incidents on will really change at a City struck again. my defense if I shot a stu-
The proposal is also part of a now- the region’s buses and trains, and you need Hall that is corrupt as an Put your head in the dent. And I wouldn’t ex-
nationwide effort by Black Lives Matter and a cop on the scene quickly in a dangerous institution? sand and the virus will go pect my union members to
other activists to force government agencies situation. Every week there are two to three When I testified against away. Kill the messenger protest any discipline that
— from city councils to school boards to assaults on bus drivers, from getting spat on digital billboards, no one and the virus will go away. I may receive. And I
transit agencies — to rethink public safety. to punched, the agency says. listened. The unions, the Worship the president and wouldn’t expect there to be
It’s an overdue assessment. But Metro, like all agencies, should use campaign contributors the virus will go away. any public debate about
For years, police have been the default this moment to rethink how it ensures pub- and the business lobbyists Death threats to our whether or not my actions
solution to any public safety issue. But even lic safety. It’s clear that riders want security had fixed the outcome in public health officers? were appropriate.
advance. Depraved! The problems with
many police officers would agree that they on transit. The questions are who should
And they had done it Disbelieve science? police unions exist inde-
are not the right people to respond to soci- provide it and how Metro can make all pas-
legally. Stupid! pendently and need to be
etal issues that aren’t primarily matters of sengers feel safer.
I commend the FBI for Ignore the threat? addressed regardless of the
its investigation and strong Double stupid! problems in other unions.
action, but the problem is Jean Brandt After all, police unions are
far deeper. Encino the only ones where the
Dan Silver problems involve innocent
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L.A. needs new corruption-fighting tools
One crucial step would be appointing a fearless and independent inspector general
By Michael Woo
uesday’s arrest of
T L.A. Councilman Jose
Huizar marks a long-
awaited milestone in a
multiyear federal inves-
tigation of corruption in L.A. City
Hall. Now the question is whether
the city’s leaders will dismiss it as an
aberration, or have the guts and vi-
sion to finally curb the corrupting
influence of money in politics.
The assistant director in charge
of the FBI’s L.A. field office de-
scribed Huizar’s operation as a
“criminal enterprise [that] sold
the city to the highest bidder be-
hind the backs of taxpayers.” The
former chair of the City Council’s
planning committee, Huizar
stands accused of pressuring real
estate developers for hundreds of
thousands of dollars in cash bribes,
political donations and assorted
favors in exchange for helping ex-
pedite their projects.
And it wasn’t just Huizar. Earli-
er, his former council colleague
Mitch Englander pleaded guilty to
accepting $15,000 in illegal cash
gifts, female escorts and expensive
food and drinks in out-of-town ca-
sinos and resorts.
Most of the city’s elected offi-
cials — and most of those seeking
FIREFIGHTERS, shown facing a 2019 San Bernardino fire, will be vulnerable to COVID-19 this year.
Heroes deserve healthcare
Wildland firefighters should be provided year-round coverage
By James F. Puerini
and Gerald Torres
he 2020 wildfire season
T is expected to be like none
in recent memory. Above-
average high-intensity fire
risks are expected
throughout the Pacific Northwest
and Northern California; crews are al-
ready being dispatched. This sum-
mer, in the middle of the coronavirus
pandemic, our nation’s wildland fire-
fighters will be asked to expose their
lungs and immune systems to gru-
eling days working in fire, smoke and
soot to protect public lands.
Without significant shifts in the
way fires are managed and an imme-
diate expansion of healthcare cov-
erage options, wildland firefighters
— despite their generally young age
— will be disproportionately vulner-
able to COVID-19-related complica-
tions and hospitalization. Mean-
while, their prolonged exposure to
smoke and other health-compromis-
ing working conditions already puts
them at a higher risk for chronic
heart problems, respiratory issues
and their associated illnesses.
Banging on cans and cheering
firefighters as heroes is a poor substi-
tute for what they should clearly earn
— year-round healthcare coverage.
Most federally employed wildland
fire personnel are classified as “tem-
porary seasonals.” These firefighters
are typically hired to fight fires in the
summer. They earn money primarily
when assigned to a fire. Their jobs
end with the fire season, and they are
laid off in the winter months.
While working, they are eligible to
enroll in the federal healthcare
marketplace. After they are laid off for
the off-season, typically from around
November through May, firefighters
lose access to subsidized premiums
and wind up paying 70% to 75% more
to maintain their coverage. Federal
firefighters earn a modest and unpre-
dictable income that varies season to
season. Unable to afford the pre-
mium, many defer healthcare during
the off-season. This means many if
not most federal firefighters had to
bear the risks of COVID-19 during the
off-season this year without access to
an affordable healthcare option.
The federal government has
promised full coverage to wildland
firefighters who contract COVID-19
while dispatched to a fire in federal
permits from the city — have not
been implicated in the schemes to
date. But that’s the problem with
corruption. The whiff of it emanat-
ing from L.A. City Hall taints every-
one who represents or interacts
with city government. And it rein-
forces public cynicism about both
politicians and the businesses that
seek city approvals.
L.A. corruption is, sadly, noth-
ing new. During the early 20th cen-
tury, the city earned a reputation
as one of the most crooked cities in
the country. Madams, gamblers,
bootleggers and gangsters paid off
the whole chain of command, in-
cluding at times the mayor, City
Council members, the district at-
torney, county supervisors and
LAPD Vice Squad officers. The ab-
solute low point may have been
during the term of Mayor Frank L.
Shaw, where anything and every-
thing was for sale. Disgusted, vot-
ers revolted in 1938 and forced
Shaw out of office in the city’s only
successful recall of a sitting official.
About 50 years later, another
mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Brad-
ley, became ensnared in a scandal
involving consulting fees he was
paid by a local bank. Bradley was
arguably the most consequential
mayor in L.A. history, responsible
for many tangible advances that
jurisdiction. Veteran firefighters will
tell you that determining liability on
a forest fire is fraught with complica-
tions burdened with layers of bu-
reaucracy. Minor injuries go unre-
ported. Firefighters say they are
often encouraged to “rub some dirt
on it,” to avoid triggering an adminis-
trative investigation.
The promise of coverage is more
illusory than real. A typical fire dis-
patch, or “tour,” lasts between one
and 16 days, but it can take up to 14
days for COVID-19 symptoms to ap-
pear after exposure to the virus.
These tours regularly include travel
across state lines, and often involve
work on different fires across several
jurisdictions. In a complicated net-
work of underfunded bureaucracies,
with people coming and going and in-
visible infection risks, it will be nearly
impossible to determine the source
of infection and the liable party.
The healthcare landscape for
those employed as contractors on
the hundreds of private for-profit fire
crews is even worse. Despite working
primarily on state or federal land and
absorbing the same risks as govern-
ment crews, there is no federal code
mandating coverage for temporary
seasonal contract firefighters.
At the state level, the almost 2,600
California Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection (CalFire) tem-
porary seasonal workers trained for
mixed structural and wildland fire
positions will receive healthcare ben-
efits this year but lose them in the off-
season, as their federally employed
counterparts do. The CalFire em-
ployees typically have a longer work-
ing season than most federal- and
contract-employed seasonal fire per-
sonnel in roles designed primarily for
structure protection. But few Cal-
Fire seasonal workers have off-sea-
son options for healthcare coverage.
On Tuesday, Covered California
announced it is extending its
COVID-19 special open enrollment
through July. The program is work-
ing to enroll Californians who have
lost healthcare coverage due to the
disease. This year’s fire season is ex-
pected to last well past July, so more
extensions would be needed for the
state’s seasonal firefighters to apply
once they are laid off.
Additionally, more than 2,000
prisoners are dispatched yearly by
the state to fight fires alongside sea-
sonal and full-time employees and
OP-ED
shaped 21st century L.A. And his
handling of the 1989 incident was
very different from Shaw’s. Bradley
stepped out in front of the crisis,
initiating a process to come up
with a solution.
The mayor reached outside City
Hall to appoint an independent,
blue-ribbon commission to pro-
pose ethics reforms. He tapped
Geoffrey Cowan, a former chair of
California Common Cause, to head
the commission, and put other
civic leaders in supporting roles in-
cluding then-Cardinal Roger Ma-
hony and Clinton-era Secretary of
State Warren Christopher.
After deliberating for six
months, the Cowan Commission
agreed on a bold strategy that
reached far beyond the conflict-of-
interest case that had triggered the
process. The group’s report called
for a pioneering voluntary system
of public financing of campaigns
and for campaign spending limits
to reduce the need of candidates to
constantly raise private donations
(frequently from donors doing
business with the city).
I served on the City Council at
the time, chairing a new ad hoc
committee on ethics reform, and it
fell to me to try to round up the
council votes for the reform pack-
age. I learned a bitter lesson about
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times
are only paid between $2.90 and $5.20
a day, plus the possibility of an addi-
tional $1 per hour while working di-
rectly on the fire line — but they are
eligible for healthcare year-round.
Regional teams are developing
plans for social distancing and strat-
egies to minimize direct smoke expo-
sure for firefighters to reduce the
COVID-19 risk. Wildfire crews crowd
into dense camps across the U.S.
where flu or summer cold viruses are
widespread. Outdated federal guide-
lines on preparing for infectious dis-
ease and pandemic response have
been updated after more than a dec-
ade on the shelf. Several U.S. sena-
tors have pressured fire officials to
fund forestry-based treatments to re-
duce catastrophic fire risks and out-
fit firefighters with personal protec-
tive equipment in the COVID-19 era.
Tens of thousands of wildland
firefighters in California and across
the country face the invisible risk of a
COVID-19 outbreak this fire season.
Many are priced out of an overbur-
dened and underfunded federal
healthcare system or essentially
have no healthcare options. These
workers should not be made to sacri-
fice more than they already do. Dig-
nity on the front lines should mean
that their service will be supported
by dependable healthcare.
Congress can make this happen
by passing legislation, the COVID-19
as a Presumptive Disease in Wild-
land Firefighters Act. Introduced
last week, it would ensure coverage
through workers’ compensation for
wildland fighters by assuming those
who test positive for COVID this
summer did so while on the fire line.
State and federal lawmakers
should also provide mandated insur-
ance coverage for all those who fight
fire or support fire operations on gov-
ernment land and extend the subsi-
dized options through the off-season.
Give off-duty heroes what they
deserve — affordable healthcare.
James F. Puerini, a former federal
wildland firefighter, is pursuing a
master’s of forestry degree with an
emphasis on forest ecology in
fire-dependent ecosystems at Yale
School of the Environment.
Gerald Torres is a professor of
environmental justice at Yale School
of the Environment and Yale Law
School and is coauthor of “The
Miner’s Canary.”
T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
what happens when you ask a po-
litical body to reform itself.
Many council members found
something to object to. Some ques-
tioned why rules for council mem-
bers should change when it was the
mayor who took questionable pay-
ments. When the reform package
came up for a vote the first time, it
fell short of a majority and was pro-
nounced dead. But we kept at it,
carefully crafting a few amend-
ments. Another vote was sched-
uled, and in a dramatic turnaround
we cobbled together a majority to
put the reforms package on the
ballot. Subsequent approval by the
voters gave the city the furthest-
reaching municipal ethics and
campaign law in the country.
Now City Hall is beset with a
new generation of unethical con-
duct. Corruption is an ever-present
threat wherever power and money
converge, adapting like a virus to
changes in a host cell. But that
doesn’t mean the people of Los An-
geles are helpless to control it.
The city needs once again to get
ahead of the corruption. One cru-
cial step would be appointing an in-
spector general — a fearless enforc-
er who would be politically inde-
pendent (not relying upon the
mayor or the City Council for a job
or operating budget), uninterested
Trump is in full
demagogue mode
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
President
Trump was
particularly
repugnant on
Tuesday, as he
set forth the
themes of his
2020 campaign
to supporters in
Phoenix. It was also a terrify-
ing signal of how he intends to
divide the country further to
try to hold on to his job.
We’re engaged, he said, in a
tremendous “struggle for the
future of our country.” It’s the
struggle against “an oppres-
sive left-wing ideology that is
driven by hate and seeks to
purge all dissent” — and which
will take over the country if Joe
Biden is elected president.
Trump sounded like many
fearmongering demagogues
before him, but he sounded
like no one so much as Sen. Joe
McCarthy — fighting, exhort-
ing, fulminating against a
monolithic, un-American
enemy. Trump’s words came
from a playbook that has
worked well in the past:
They’re coming for you, his
words implied. For your towns,
your homes and your freedom.
I can protect you.
“The radical left, they hate
our history, they hate our
values, and they hate every-
thing we prize as Americans,”
he said in Arizona. “The left-
wing mob is trying to demolish
our heritage so they can re-
place it with a new repressive
regime that they alone control.
They’re tearing down statues,
desecrating monuments and
purging dissenters. It’s not the
behavior of a peaceful political
movement; it’s the behavior of
totalitarians and tyrants and
people that don’t love our
country. They don’t love our
country.”
And who would allow this to
happen? Joe Biden, the left’s
“helpless puppet.”
“If Joe Biden were to be-
come president, an embold-
ened left will launch a full-scale
assault on American life,”
Trump said in Tulsa,
Okla.,over the weekend. “You
know that. They’ll expel any-
one who disagrees with them.”
In Tulsa and Phoenix,
Trump painted a picture of an
America where people would
demolish monuments and
attack churches and seize city
streets and set fire to build-
ings. The “bedlam in Seattle,”
he said, “will come to every city
near you, every suburb and
community in America, if the
radical-left Democrats are put
in charge.”
This is Trump at his most
hysterical, but it’s hardly sur-
prising. With his poll numbers
dropping, the coronavirus
failing to recede and the very
real possibility of double-digit
unemployment on election
day, fear is his ally. And so he’s
growing increasingly desper-
ate and his rhetoric is growing
more feverish — and danger-
ous.
With a straight face, he has
tied Biden — a moderate,
experienced, distinguished
Democrat by any measure — to
A13
in acceptance by “the city family,”
and empowered to initiate criminal
investigations. At the federal level,
President Trump’s recent firings of
five inspectors general are an unin-
tended testament to the power of
independent watchdogs to shine a
spotlight on corruption and waste.
Council member David Ryu,
who started calling for a ban on
campaign contributions from de-
velopers before he was elected four
years ago, has introduced two new
reform proposals. One would em-
power an investigator/auditor who
could become City Hall’s inspector
general. The other would take
away the power of the City Council
to override decisions of the L.A.
City Planning Commission.
Reformers should seize upon
the current infection of City Hall’s
body politic to embrace these ini-
tiatives and come up with others.
And if the elected officials fail to act
decisively, let’s use the power of the
ballot box to replace them with
leaders who will. The ensuing de-
bate on cleaning up City Hall could
set the reform agenda for the next
mayor and council members to be
elected in 2022.
Michael Woo was a member of
the Los Angeles City Council from
1985 to 1993.
anarchists and supposed “an-
tifa” activists. He has conflated
peaceful protesters against
police brutality and lawbreak-
ers, mixing them all up into one
big pot of marauding, violent
revolutionists. He has confused
campus political debates with
totalitarianism. In his telling,
it’s all the same. These enemies
of freedom want to “defund and
abolish.” They want to tear
down statues of George Wash-
ington and Thomas Jefferson.
They want to “demolish our
heritage.” They want “bedlam.”
They’re “rioters.”
“In Joe Biden’s America,
rioters, looters and criminal
aliens have more rights than
law-abiding citizens,” Trump
said in Tulsa.
Behind it all, of course,
lurks the issue of race. This is a
president speaking to the
overwhelmingly white voters
who make up his base, and
who just a few days ago inexpli-
cably accused Barack Obama,
the first Black president of the
United States, of “treason.”
He’s divided the country into
us-versus-them from his earli-
est days in politics, because he
is an expert manipulator of the
His poll numbers
dropping, Trump
sees fear as his ally.
His rhetoric is
growing more
feverish — and
dangerous.
politics of grievance and re-
sentment. When he talks about
“hoodlums,” it’s not hard to
hear the dog whistle.
And who are the people on
his side? Americans who
choose to be warriors for “faith
and family, God, country and
freedom.”
Of course, the titanic strug-
gle against the radical left was
only a piece of what Trump
talked about in Phoenix. He
again used offensive terms for
COVID-19. He talked about his
success at building the wall. He
accused Democrats of encour-
aging noncitizens to vote. He
repeatedly suggested that
Biden has dementia. (“Joe
Biden doesn’t know where the
hell he is,” he said. And “Sleepy
Joe has lost it.”) Expect him to
keep hitting on these themes in
the months to come.
The campaign is now
underway in earnest, and it is
clear Trump will say anything
in his desperation to win. Hav-
ing attacked the media and
discredited the experts and
undermined facts and science
and truth for four years, he
now will present his alternative
version of reality to anyone
credulous enough to listen.
Americans must rise to the
occasion, open their eyes and
reject his demagoguery. It is
time to undo the mistake we
made in 2016 and end this failed
presidency.
@Nick_Goldberg
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Stung
by the
fall of
Huizar
‘Just mind-blowing,’
says an Eastsider who
used to respect the
indicted councilman.
By David Zahniser
and Ruben Vives
As she watched the TV
coverage of the FBI arrest of
Los Angeles City Council-
man Jose Huizar, Isela Gra-
cian felt her heart sink.
Gracian, a former execu-
tive with the nonprofit East
Los Angeles Community
Corp., spent a decade work-
ing with Huizar on efforts to
build affordable housing,
adopt antipollution mea-
sures and make life better for
sidewalk vendors. On Tues-
day, Spanish-language Uni-
RACE,
GENDER
GO ON
STATE
BALLOT
Voters in November
will get a chance to
erase Prop. 209’s ban
on affirmative action.
By John Myers
SACRAMENTO — Cali-
fornia could allow college ad-
missions and government
contracting decisions with a
focus on race and gender di-
versity under a measure
placed on the November bal-
Francine Orr Los Angeles Times lot Wednesday, a decision
JONATHAN ABARCA, left, and Celina Abarca, both cousins of Andres Guardado, the man shot by a that would reverse strict
sheriff’s deputy last week, attend a rally Wednesday at the Hall of Justice in downtown L.A. limits imposed by voters in
1996.
The ballot measure,

Oversight bodies say

vision was talking about
bribes and showing stacks of
cash seized from the council-
man’s home.
“I can’t find a deeper
word than disappointed,”
she said. “It’s just mind-
blowing — the depth and ex-
tent of it.”
Federal prosecutors
charged Huizar on Tuesday
with felony racketeering, al-
leging that he wrested cash
bribes, lavish casino trips
and five-figure campaign
donations from business-
men who needed his help at
City Hall. Huizar has yet to
enter a plea, and so far his
lawyers have said little, argu-
ing that allegations should
be discussed in court, not in
the media.
But for some, the federal
corruption case has dealt a
crippling blow to the reputa-
tion of a politician whose life
story had been an inspira-
tion, not just on the Eastside
but across the city.
Huizar, 51, came to the
United States as a boy from
Zacatecas, Mexico, grew up
in the working-class neigh-
borhood of Boyle Heights
and made his way through a
series of top-tier colleges —
UC Berkeley, then Princeton
sheriff isn’t cooperating
Inspector general and
civilian commission
complain department
is stonewalling.
By Alene Tchekmedyian
The independent moni-
tors for the Los Angeles
County Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment were brought in for
moments like these.
The law enforcement
agency is facing outrage
from the community and
questions about back-to-
back shootings that left two
men dead as well as its han-
dling of the death of Robert
Fuller, 24, who was found
hanging from a tree near
Palmdale City Hall.
But the two institutions
which won final approval
from the state Senate, could
become a centerpiece in the
national reckoning over rac-
ism and systemic inequities.
The measure, an amend-
ment to the California Con-
stitution, was approved two
weeks ago by the state
Assembly and now moves to
the Nov. 3 ballot.
Proposition 209, an in-
tensely debated and contro-
versial ballot measure ap-
proved by voters 24 years
ago, said that government
agencies “shall not discrimi-
nate against, or grant prefer-
ential treatment to, any indi-
vidual or group on the basis
of race, sex, color, ethnicity,
or national origin.” Its pro-
hibition on affirmative ac-
tion policies extends to col-
leges and universities, the
awarding of public contracts
and decisions in hiring gov-
ernment employees.
Like the earlier debate in
the Assembly, Wednesday’s
discussion was personal for
many lawmakers. Black and
Latino senators said the
1996 ballot measure had not
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times lived up to its backers’ prom-
COUNCILMAN HERB WESSON JR. said now is the moment to re- ises of creating a level
form LAPD. “I say let’s embrace” what’s going on in this country, he said. playing field for millions of
Californians who no longer

Officials, activists agree it’s

University and finally UCLA
School of Law.
“To achieve all that, com-
ing from the neighborhood,
is really hard,” said Raquel
Zamora, owner of Zamora
Bros. restaurant on Cesar
Chavez Avenue and a former
council candidate herself. “It
was like — wow, we can do
this. Anybody here can go to
college, go to a big university,
and come back here and give
back” to their community.
Zamora, who lives in
Boyle Heights, said Huizar’s
life story helped spur her to
enroll at USC. Now, follow-
ing months of allegations
about illicit payments, she
says she feels let down.
“At one point,” she said,
“he was good.”
Huizar was elected to the
school board in 2001. Four
years later, he won a council
[See Huizar, B4]
tasked with overseeing in-
vestigations of deputies’ use
of force — the Sheriff Civilian
Oversight Commission and
its investigative arm, the Of-
fice of Inspector General —
say they are running into
roadblocks.
Inspector General Max
Huntsman said his office on
Monday asked the Sheriff ’s
Department for reports,
documents and video relat-
ing to the shooting death of
18-year-old Andres
Guardado, who was killed by
a deputy near an auto body
shop in Gardena. Huntsman
said he hasn’t received a re-
sponse.
The office also requested
the report that detailed
events surrounding the
death of Fuller’s half-
brother, Terron Boone, who
was killed in a shootout with
[See Sheriff, B2]
time to ‘reimagine’ LAPD
But they continue to spar over the extent of police reforms
By Kevin Rector
Convening the Los Angeles City
Council’s special committee on police
reform Wednesday, Councilman Herb
Wesson Jr. cited the ongoing national
movement for enhanced police
accountability as an opportunity to re-
shape the Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment.
“Instead of us dismissing or denying
what’s going on in this country, I say let’s
embrace it. Let’s let it take us as far as it
can take us,” Wesson said. “If we are se-
rious about being impactful, if we are se-
rious about making real change, then
represent a minority of the
state’s population.
“I challenge my white col-
leagues: I bet you can count
on one hand the number of
times that you’ve walked
into a room, walked into an
organization, and you’re the
only one that looks like you,”
said state Sen. Steven Brad-
this is our moment.” [See Ballot, B5]
Then, for the next hour, Wesson and
the rest of the committee listened as
members of the public called in to say
that the committee wasn’t going far
enough with the slate of reform mea- Transit police
sures before them and should instead
focus on defunding and abolishing the costs prompt
police force altogether. call for change
Most callers said they backed a mo-
tion by Wesson and others to limit police Activists and commu-
responses on incidents involving people nity groups say Metro
experiencing mental health crises, but could better spend the
only as one step toward removing police money on free fares
from the streets entirely. They said po- and better service. B2
lice actions during recent protests must Lottery ...................... B5
[See LAPD, B2]

For many white Americans,

racism talk no longer taboo
Protests over police
brutality spark family
conversations once
considered off-limits.
By Laura Newberry
One night in late May,
Wendy Bohon and her mom
were piecing together a puz-
zle at the dining room table
when they heard from the
living room a news anchor’s
somber voice, prepping his
audience for what they were
about to see.
Bohon knew the general
details of George Floyd’s
death in Minneapolis, the
way his neck was pinned to
the pavement by a white po-
lice officer for nearly nine
minutes. But she hadn’t yet
watched the video that
would soon ignite a national
uprising. And she didn’t
know what her mom, a fifth-
generation Virginian, might
say about it.
The mother and daugh-
ter got up from the table,
stood behind Bohon’s dad in
his rocking chair, and
watched.
Her mom’s reaction was
immediate and visceral.
“They murdered that man,”
she said, tears filling her
eyes.
“For me, that was like,
OK,” said Bohon, a 44-year-
old geologist who lives in
Washington. “I see that
we’re on the same page.
You’re seeing what I’m see-
ing.”
That moment led to
weeks of conversation be-
tween Bohon and her con- Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times
servative-leaning family WENDY BOHON , shown in Maryland on a Zoom call with relatives in Virginia,
[See Racism, B5] said the death of George Floyd led to weeks of family discussions about racism.

SPORTS INSIDE: NBA players with medical conditions taking heed as league restarts. B7
B2 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
Metro rethinks police role on trains, buses
Activists want funds
redirected to service
improvements and
outreach workers.
By Laura J. Nelson
As calls to defund police
have grown into a chorus in
the wake of the George Floyd
protests, some Los Angeles
County activists are turning
their attention to the sprawl-
ing transit system.
The cost to police the
Metropolitan Transporta-
tion Authority’s 1,433-mile
service area, including 93 rail
stations and nearly 14,000
bus stops, is nearly $650 mil-
lion over five years.
Activists and community
groups argue that, on a sys-
tem where violent crime is
relatively low, the money
could be better spent: on free
fares, on better and more fre-
quent service, on homeless
outreach workers.
“When we ask for these
improvements, Metro says
money is tight,” said Oscar
Zarate, an organizer with
the community advocacy
group SAJE. “We say, ‘Well, if
the budget is tight, we know
where you can look.’ ”
Since 2017, Metro has split
policing duties between the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment, which patrols buses,
trains and stations in the
city of L.A.; the Long Beach
police, who work at eight
Blue Line stations; and the
L.A. County Sheriff ’s De-
partment, which patrols the
rest of the system. The con-
tracts expire in 2022.
Metro’s directors will
PROTESTERS rally in Gardena over the shooting death of Andres Guardado by a
sheriff’s deputy last week. The department has not fully explained the shooting.
Officials, activists spar over L.A. police reform
[LAPD, from B1]
be examined but that a mo-
tion leaving that review to
the LAPD itself was outra-
geous.
“This is not good enough.
We need to defund the po-
lice,” said one caller.
“Defund the police, or
you will get voted out,” said
another.
The exchanges mirrored
others between the civilian-
run Police Commission and
local residents during a
meeting of that panel on
Tuesday, where LAPD com-
manders walked commis-
sioners through a plan to in-
crease officer training — in-
cluding by providing addi-
tional de-escalation and
anti-bias instruction — be-
fore callers castigated the
commanders and the com-
mission for pushing costly
new measures instead of
meeting protesters’ de-
mands to cut police ex-
penses.
“We expect you to defund
police, not spend more mon-
ey to train them,” said one
caller.
Both meetings continued
a broader trend in govern-
ment locally and across the
country in which officials
have increasingly offered up
police reforms, even ones
long sought and never won
before, and activists have
THE COST OF POLICING Metro’s 1,433-mile service area, including 93 rail
stations and some 14,000 bus stops, is nearly $650 million over five years.
consider this week whether
to move toward a “communi-
ty-based approach” to polic-
ing, including no longer
sending sworn officers to re-
spond to nonviolent crimes.
Los Angeles City Coun-
cilman and Metro Director
Mike Bonin, who introduced
the motion, said Thursday
that he hears routinely
“from young people, particu-
larly young people of color,
that they feel that they are
treated differently on the
system.”
Directors will also con-
sider asking Metro officials
to evaluate use-of-force poli-
cies and to make recom-
mendations on further re-
form, including spending
more on homeless outreach.
The policy would be a
first step toward rethinking
pushed back to demand
more. At the national level,
Democrats and Republi-
cans in the Senate are spar-
ring over which police re-
forms to advance.
On Monday, the City
Council’s Budget and Fi-
nance Committee agreed to
cut more than $133 million
from the LAPD budget, an
amount that would have
stunned longtime city ob-
servers a month before. Ac-
tivists who pushed a sepa-
rate “People’s Budget,”
which would slash the
LAPD’s roughly $3 billion
annual budget by about
90%, said the cut fell far
short.
Callers into Wednesday’s
police reform committee
meeting repeatedly raised
the People’s Budget as their
preferred option for “re-
imagining” public safety in
the city as well.
The same term was used
during a special meeting
earlier this month between
criminal justice reform ad-
vocates and council mem-
bers to discuss the People’s
Budget, where Melina Ab-
dullah, co-founder of Black
Lives Matter-L.A., told offi-
cials that the public is saying
“defund the police” but also
“reimagine public safety.”
“They’re saying we don’t
want a system of policing
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
policing, said Metro Director
and county Supervisor Jan-
ice Hahn, who introduced
the motion. But, she said,
Metro will “probably always
have a layer of law enforce-
ment or police that may be
armed.”
The push for police re-
form at Metro comes as
other transit agencies in the
U.S. have made changes to
their policing practices.
Transit officials in Port-
land, Ore., trimmed the po-
licing budget by $1.8 million.
Boston’s transit police de-
partment banned the use of
chokeholds. And in Wash-
ington, D.C., officials said
they are developing a plan to
address systemic racism on
the subway, including long-
standing complaints that of-
ficers checking fares target
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
that puts targets on the
backs of Black people espe-
cially, but also is a regular as-
sailant and traumatizer of
our entire community,”
Abdullah said at the June 15
meeting.
Instead of revisiting the
People’s Budget, however,
the committee on Wednes-
day pushed forward with the
more modest measures its
members and other council
members had advanced.
One motion would have
the LAPD work with other
city and county agencies
that handle health and
homelessness issues to “de-
velop an unarmed model of
crisis response that would
divert non-violent calls for
service away from LAPD to
the appropriate non-law en-
forcement agencies and re-
lated matters.”
Shifting responsibilities
for responding to calls for
service away from police and
to other agencies is a key
concept behind the “Defund
Police” movement, but ac-
tivists took issue Wednesday
with any involvement of the
LAPD in overseeing that
shift.
Several other motions
called for reviews of the
LAPD’s response to recent
protests, including one that
directs the LAPD to report
back to the council on how it
Black teenagers.
In L.A., police officers pa-
trol the system, work with
homeless outreach teams,
and help security guards
perform fare checks, Metro
spokesman Dave Sotero
said. Were Metro to make
cuts and “remove these el-
ements, we do not see where
we could continue to provide
these services,” he said in an
email.
Metro’s policing con-
tracts pay for 11 LAPD offi-
cers, 11 sheriff ’s deputies and
three Long Beach officers
who do homeless outreach,
Sotero said. That work rep-
resents $18.4 million of the
$645.7-million cost.
Metro also spends about
$5 million annually for eight
teams of social workers who
help assist homeless riders.
‘We need a willing partner’
[Sheriff, from B1]
undercover detectives, to
“analyze the underlying rea-
son for the manner in which
the arrest was conducted,”
Huntsman said. “But they
refused to give it to us.”
The watchdogs’ func-
tions were centerpieces
of reforms enacted at the
Sheriff ’s Department in the
wake of a corruption and
brutality scandal in the jails
that led to indictments of
several sheriff ’s deputies
and high-ranking com-
manders, including former
Sheriff Lee Baca. But the
agencies have increasingly
complained that the admin-
istration of Sheriff Alex Vil-
lanueva is refusing to share
information and stone-
walling efforts to provide
true oversight.
And it is set against the
backdrop of a national
movement stemming from
the death in Minneapolis po-
lice custody of George Floyd
that is demanding greater
transparency and a radical
change of course in policing
to combat police brutality
and other systemic racial in-
justices.
“We can’t make recom-
mendations if we don’t get
information from them. So
our work can be stymied
when there’s not co-
operation and collabora-
will investigate allegations of
misconduct and what disci-
pline will be imposed on offi-
cers who used excessive
force against protesters.
Another motion would
require more officers to wear
body cameras, which critics
questioned for its potential
cost. Another would make it
illegal to use the 911 system
for frivolous or false emer-
gency claims based on racial
bias.
The panel voted to push
all of the motions to the full
council. On Tuesday, the Po-
lice Commission took the
LAPD’s new plan for officer
training through 2020 under
review but did not approve
it.
The decision to table the
plan came after Commis-
sioner Dale Bonner raised
concerns about approving a
large, multifaceted training
program at a time when the
city is considering a funda-
mental change of course
around policing and how it is
funded.
“There are going to be
questions about how this fits
into that broader paradi-
gm,” Bonner said. “I just
want to make sure that we
are all grounding this con-
versation not only in reality
but that we are setting our-
selves and the whole process
up for success and are doing
Over a 10-month period end-
ing April 30, they helped
1,645 people find temporary
housing, and 250 people
move in to permanent hous-
ing, Metro said.
A rethinking of Metro’s
police deployment could
free up money for a “tremen-
dous increase” in homeless
outreach workers, to ad-
dress the most pressing is-
sue on the system, said Bart
Reed, executive director of
the Transit Coalition.
The biggest threat to bus
riders is rarely a robbery or a
shooting, he said, but some-
one with a mental illness
who is yelling, harassing or
attacking the bus driver,
other passengers or them-
selves. The best way to help
that person is not by putting
them in handcuffs, he said.
“The whole city is becom-
ing unglued, and we aren’t
really reacting to help ad-
dress the worst of the prob-
lems,” Reed said. “With all
that going on, do we need
three or four cops standing
in a group at the 7th Street
Metro station?”
How Metro would ad-
dress violent crimes such as
rape, robbery and assault
without a police force is still
being discussed, activists
said. But, Zarate said, “we
cannot let those things stifle
our imaginations around
what safety can look like.”
Metro’s decision to hire
multiple police agencies fol-
lowed a blistering audit in
2014 which found that as-
saults, robberies and other
violent crimes had soared
while the sheriff ’s depart-
ment had sole oversight of
the transit system.
Assaults on bus drivers
tion,” said Patti Giggans,
chair of the oversight com-
mission. “We need a willing
partner in the sheriff.”
The dispute over access
to sheriff ’s records
prompted the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervi-
sors in January to grant the
Civilian Oversight Commis-
sion subpoena power at a
time of heightened tensions
between the law enforce-
ment agency and those who
oversee it. The oversight
agencies said they were not
given access to information
about the agency’s internal
discipline system and hiring
process, as well as docu-
ments related to secret dep-
uty cliques with matching
tattoos that have been ac-
cused of misconduct.
The Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment said at the time that
increasing the inspector
general’s power could harm
investigations and would pit
county departments against
one another.
On Wednesday, Vil-
lanueva declined to discuss
the Guardado shooting, say-
ing he would supply infor-
mation when he could.
“We’re not gonna piece-
meal it,” he said.
He did not answer a ques-
tion about whether the dep-
uties involved in the Gar-
dena incident have been in-
what the community is de-
manding we do.”
At the meetings Tuesday
and Wednesday, officials
said that they know a new
day has come and that they
are doing their best to usher
in changes — including a di-
minished role for police in
non-violent incidents.
But they also at times
pushed back against the no-
tion that police should play
no role in the city’s future.
Councilman John Lee
said the LAPD has made a
lot of improvements over the
years, but there is still a need
to “reshape and reimagine
how we respond to certain
non-violent issues in the
city.”
Councilman Paul Koretz,
who sits on the police reform
committee, said he sup-
ported all of the reform mea-
sures before the committee
but believes efforts to de-
fund or abolish the police
would be “a step too far.”
“If we did what is being
asked to do and we defunded
the police, and in a week they
were gone, I think that
would be the worst decision
the city council has ever
made,” Koretz said. “I think
the city would look a little bit
like the movie ‘Purge.’”
Koretz said he believes
many citizens who don’t call
into meetings feel the same.
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and complaints of sexual
harassment were surging
while ridership plummeted.
In a survey in 2016, 29% of for-
mer riders said they left Met-
ro because they felt unsafe
or uncomfortable.
“We’ve heard from our
transit riders loud and clear
that they want and expect
improved safety and securi-
ty on our system,” Sotero
said in an email.
The new policing con-
tracts nearly doubled the
number of armed officers.
Metro also spent more than
$100 million on private secu-
rity guards. That approach
has led to a nearly 23% de-
cline in reported violent
crime between 2015 and 2019,
Sotero said.
Metro also shifted fare-
checking duties from police
officers to Metro guards who
issue $75 administrative ci-
tations, not misdemeanor
charges.
Seeing police officers and
fare checkers on the Gold
Line “does not imply safety
to me,” said Leticia An-
drade, a Metro rider who
lives in Boyle Heights. Fare
checkers can single out and
harass young Latino and
Black riders, she said, and
seeing their weapons makes
her nervous.
Thurmon Green, 29, a
bus rider in Mid-City, said he
has seen passengers tense
up when an LAPD officer
boards.
If police have to play a
role on transit, he said, “it
should be a very, very small
one — minuscule.”
“The presence of a gun, it
transforms the space,”
Green said. “It does not
make people feel safer.”
terviewed yet by investiga-
tors. Villanueva said
ongoing witness interviews
prompted the Sheriff ’s De-
partment to place a “securi-
ty hold” on the results of
Guardado’s autopsy, but he
did not identify the wit-
nesses.
“If you’re still interview-
ing witnesses, you don’t re-
lease information that’s
gonna prejudice the testi-
mony of the witness,” he
said.
The tight-lipped re-
sponses come as Villanueva
reached a tentative agree-
ment this week with local
law enforcement leaders to
have all police killings inves-
tigated by a special task
force. Members would be
prohibited from investigat-
ing officers or deputies from
their own agencies.
The Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment has said little about
what led up to the Gardena
shooting, which has sparked
large protests and wide-
spread demands for an-
swers. Villanueva asked
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra to
monitor the investigations
of Guardado and Fuller, cit-
ing the public outcry.
“The current nationwide
political climate, lends itself
to a public demand for police
accountability, and the pro-
pensity of antagonists to
assemble large amounts
of people in a short amount
of time in protest to any
perception of impropriety,”
he wrote in a letter to
Becerra.
The attorney general’s of-
fice has taken on an over-
sight role in Fuller’s case,
but has not said whether it
would accept Villanueva’s
request to review the
Guardado shooting.
“Our office is aware of the
matters you reference. How-
ever, to protect its integrity,
we are unable to comment
on a potential or ongoing in-
vestigation,” the attorney
general’s office said in a
statement.
Guardado was speaking
with someone in a car that
was blocking the entrance to
an auto body shop when
deputies from the Compton
sheriff ’s station pulled up at
about 6 p.m. on June 18, said
Capt. Kent Wegener of the
homicide bureau.
Guardado “produced a
handgun” and ran away, and
two deputies chased him on
foot, Wegener said. When
the deputies caught up, one
of them fired six rounds at
Guardado, killing him, the
department said.
Authorities said they did
not know whether Guar-
dado pointed his weapon at
the deputy, and said they
“don’t believe” Guardado
fired any shots.
Guardado’s family said
he had worked as a security
guard for Street Dynamic
Auto Body, close to where he
was shot.
L AT I M E S . C O M
PEOPLE make bets at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court cleared the way for states to
legalize sports betting in 2018, but California has yet to do so. The state has been stalled by political squabbles.
Lawmakers postpone effort
to legalize sports betting
Native American
tribes and card clubs
clash over access to
California market.
By Patrick McGreevy
SACRAMENTO — Two
years after the U.S. Supreme
Court opened the door for
states to allow sports
betting, political squabbles
between rival gambling in-
terests have left California
stalemated on the issue,
with the latest effort fizzling
this week in the state Legis-
lature.
While betting on sports
has been legalized in nearly
two dozen other states, in-
cluding New York, New Jer-
sey and Oregon, efforts have
bogged down in California,
where influential Native
American tribes that op-
erate more than 60 casinos
have clashed with compet-
ing card clubs over how to
share the nation’s largest
gambling market.
Advisers to Gov. Gavin
Newsom have tried to broker
a compromise, but this
week, state Sen. Bill Dodd
(D-Napa) said there was not
enough time to finish the
complicated negotiations to
get a sports betting measure
on the November ballot. So
he is shelving legislation for
the year.
“Given the deadlines for
getting a measure on the No-
vember ballot and the im-
pact of COVID-19 on the pub-
lic’s ability to weigh in, we
were not able to get the bill
across the finish line this
year,” Dodd said in a state-
ment. “It remains important
Woman hurt in shooting files claim
Injured when deputies
killed Terron Boone,
she alleges a violation
of her civil rights.
By Matthew Ormseth
A woman injured in the
shooting of Terron Boone, a
Black man who was killed
last week by Los Angeles
County sheriff ’s deputies,
has filed a legal claim
against the county, alleging
the officers should have
known that Boone, whose
half-brother’s body was
found a week earlier hanging
from a tree, was agitated and
fearful when they attempted
to arrest him for alleged do-
mestic violence.
A judge had authorized
an arrest warrant for Boone,
who was charged with beat-
ing, threatening and holding
a woman against her will for
six days, and sheriff ’s de-
tectives had been shad-
owing the 31-year-old in un-
marked cars when they tried
to take him into custody
near an apartment complex
in Rosamond, a Kern
County community about 20
miles north of Palmdale.
When detectives tried to
pull over an SUV carrying
Boone, he was killed in what
that we lift this widespread
practice out of the shadows
to make it safer and to gener-
ate money for the people of
California.”
Dodd’s constitutional
amendment needed a two-
thirds vote of both houses of
the Legislature by Thursday
to make the ballot this year,
but the Assembly will not be
back in session until Friday.
The senator said he
would try again next year
with the aim of putting a
measure on the 2022 ballot,
noting his legalization pro-
posal would generate up to
$700 million a year in tax rev-
enue for state coffers.
The deadlock in Califor-
nia is not surprising to Chris
Grove, a gambling industry
analyst and partner with
Eilers and Krejcik Gaming,
which has advised the Legis-
lature on the issue.
“The bottom line in Cali-
fornia is that too many
stakeholders in the state’s
gambling industry have too
many existing high-stakes
conflicts to allow sports bet-
ting to move forward,” Grove
said Tuesday.
Newsom said Friday that
his office had been involved
in working with legislators
and the various gambling in-
terests for almost a year.
“It’s more complicated
than it appears because
there’s so many different
players,” the governor said.
“And we’ve got to accommo-
date for those concerns —
card rooms, tribal interests
— [and] obviously address
all those issues together.”
Dodd’s bill was opposed
by a coalition of 25 Native
American tribes that argue
that the legislation would al-
low competing card clubs to
TERRON BOONE was with Shellondra Thomas
when he was killed by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies.
the Sheriff ’s Department
has described as a shootout:
Boone, they said, stepped
out of the car’s passenger
side and fired at least five
shots at the detectives, strik-
ing their car. They returned
fire and hit Boone in the
chest, killing him, the de-
partment said. Detectives
recovered a semiautomatic
handgun at the scene.
Shellondra Thomas, who
was driving the car carrying
Boone, suffered a graze
wound to the head and was
struck by shrapnel in the
chest, her attorney, Bradley
Gage, said Wednesday. Her
7-year-old daughter, who
was in the car’s backseat,
was not injured in the shoot-
CITY & STATE
continue offering card
games that the tribes say
violate their exclusive com-
pacts with the state. The
tribes objected that the bill
would offer online sports
betting, which members
were concerned could take
business away from brick-
and-mortar tribal casinos.
“We appreciate that leg-
islators saw through the
smoke and mirrors and
stopped SCA 6 — the effort
to break yet another agree-
ment between California
and Native American Tribes
and expand Nevada-style
games to card rooms,” said a
statement by the tribal
group, the Coalition to Au-
thorize Regulated Sports
Wagering.
The coalition has pro-
posed its own ballot mea-
sure, which would limit
sports betting to tribal ca-
sinos and horse-racing
tracks, but the coronavirus
pandemic forced it to stop
collecting signatures before
it reached the 997,139 needed
to make the 2020 ballot. The
initiative would also expand
the tribal gaming compact
to allow craps and roulette
at tribal casinos and pay for
state enforcement of sports
betting with a 10% tax on
sports gaming revenue at
the racetracks.
The tribes say they too
are now aiming to get a mea-
sure on the 2022 ballot, and
they are awaiting a court de-
cision on their request for an
extension of a July 20 dead-
line to add to the 971,373 sig-
natures they had collected
by mid-March. A court hear-
ing has been set for July 2.
The tribal initiative is op-
posed by card clubs, which
have formed a political com-
Nyki Walker
ing, but Gage said she was
subsequently held at a sher-
iff ’s station for 12 hours and
“grilled” by investigators.
Thomas’ claim against
the county seeks unspecified
damages for negligence, bat-
tery and a violation of her
civil rights. Through her at-
torney, she alleged that sher-
iff ’s detectives used flawed,
shortsighted tactics that
turned a volatile situation
deadly. Gage said the de-
tectives did not use lights or
sirens to initiate the traffic
stop, choosing instead to
hem in Thomas’ car with un-
marked vehicles.
Citing the litigation, the
Sheriff ’s Department de-
clined to comment.
John Locher Associated Press
mittee called “No on the
Gambling Power Grab.” The
card clubs said Dodd’s bill
could have provided hun-
dreds of millions of dollars to
avoid cuts in state programs
caused by reduced revenues
amid California’s pandemic-
triggered recession.
“Yet, the will of a few rich
tribes with Vegas-style ca-
sinos, that don’t pay taxes,
have prevailed in the Legis-
lature in preventing a des-
perately needed new source
of revenue from flowing to
the state,” said Steven Mav-
iglio, a spokesman for the
card club committee.
The tribal initiative, by
barring online sports bet-
ting, “incentivizes the online
black market to continue,”
Maviglio said, adding, “Cali-
fornians should know their
interests in this time of crisis
have been spoiled by power-
ful special interests.”
Native American tribes
have long been major play-
ers in Sacramento. Five of
the biggest tribal donors
pushing the initiative spent
a total of $2.1 million on polit-
ical contributions last year,
as well as $1.1 million on lob-
bying state government.
Dodd’s bill had support
from some cities, law en-
forcement groups and pro-
fessional sports leagues,
and card clubs plan to con-
tinue pushing for the legisla-
tion, according to Kyle Kirk-
land, president of the clubs’
California Gaming Assn.
“The failure to pass this
legislation is the loss of the
opportunity for the state to
generate billions in revenues
that are desperately needed
for housing, homeless,
health care and emergency
services,” Kirkland said.
Gage, who said he has in-
terviewed unidentified wit-
nesses from the apartment
complex, contested the
sheriff ’s account that Boone
shot first. “But even assum-
ing that’s true,” he said, “I
don’t think he would have
fired anything if the deputies
had identified themselves.”
Sheriff ’s homicide de-
tectives are investigating
Boone’s death, along with
the death of his brother,
Robert Fuller, 24, whose
body was found hanging
from a tree near Palmdale
City Hall on June 10. Al-
though the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment deemed it a suicide,
many residents doubted the
finding, citing a long history
of racism in the Antelope
Valley, and voiced suspi-
cions that Fuller was
lynched. The FBI and Cali-
fornia Atty. Gen. Xavier Be-
cerra’s office are monitoring
the sheriff ’s investigation of
Fuller’s death.
Gage, Thomas’ attorney,
said sheriff ’s detectives
should have understood
that the uncertainty and
fear surrounding Fuller’s
death had created a “highly
volatile situation” when they
tried to arrest Boone.
“They had to have seen
the connection between
Robert Fuller and Terron
Boone,” he said.
T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
Board declares
racism a public
health crisis
San Bernardino
County supervisors
vote unanimously to
call out injustice.
By Andrew J. Campa
While the COVID-19 pan-
demic has topped more than
10,000 confirmed cases in
San Bernardino County, the
Board of Supervisors on
Tuesday declared it was the
first California county to ac-
tively recognize another
public health crisis: racism.
By a 5-0 vote Tuesday, the
board adopted a resolution
“affirming that racism [is] a
public health crisis that re-
sults in disparities in family
stability, health and mental
wellness, education, em-
ployment, economic devel-
opment, public safety, crimi-
nal justice and housing.”
“This is historic for San
Bernardino County in tak-
ing the first step,” said
Board Chairman Curt Hag-
man. “We’re probably the
only county we have in Cali-
fornia, so far, doing this, and
this is the beginning of what
we’re doing. This is not the
end result.”
The resolution identified
racism resulting in the
“structuring of opportunity
and assigning of value based
solely on skin color and
other physical characteris-
tics, which creates unfair
disadvantages to some indi-
viduals and communities
and unfair advantages to
other individuals and com-
munities, therefore prevent-
ing societies as a whole from
achieving their full poten-
tial.”
The resolution recog-
nizes several problems San
Bernardino County’s Black
community faces, including
an infant mortality rate
more than double the coun-
ty’s average.
The U.S. Census lists the
Black population at 9.4% in
the county, but according to
the resolution, about 19% of
the county’s prison popula-
tion is Black, along with 38%
of those booked at juvenile
detention centers and more
than 21% of the county’s
homeless population.
The resolution says the
county will dismantle rac-
ism by several means, in-
cluding enhancing diversity
Police chief has
Upland wondering
Darren Goodman is
on leave, but no one is
saying why he’s absent
or if he’s returning.
By Andrew J. Campa
Upland officials continue
to send mixed messages a
day after their police chief of
nearly two years was placed
on leave despite some of
those members singing his
praises.
There are differing an-
swers as to whether Darren
Goodman, 54, is on paid
leave and no response as to
why he is not in the office,
whether he can come back
or even if an active investiga-
tion is underway.
Upland City Manager
Rosemary Hoerning con-
firmed in an emailed state-
ment Tuesday that Good-
man “is on leave” as of Mon-
day, but she did not specify if
the absence was a paid leave.
This followed a message
Hoerning sent Inland Em-
pire journalist Alex Vasquez
on Monday: “Chief Good-
man has done a very fine job
for the city of Upland. He’s
been a very good chief for us.
He continues to be our chief
of police and right now he’s
just on a leave of absence
and we’ll see where that
goes.”
When asked for clarity
Tuesday, Hoerning said:
“Whenever an employee
goes on leave it is a confiden-
tial, personnel matter. I can-
not provide any more infor-
mation.”
Hoerning added that
Goodman was replaced, on
an interim basis, by Capt.
B3
in the county workforce, and
studying existing policies
and practices “through a
lens of racial equality” to
promote and support efforts
that prioritize health for
people of color.
There are also plans for
more collaboration between
the county’s law enforce-
ment and justice agencies to
boost public confidence,
along with the creation of an
“Equity Element Group” to
identify and research public
concerns related to law en-
forcement.
The group is expected to
include county experts in
such fields as education and
health along with members
of the community.
“You have begun the
process of reconciliation and
restoration,” said Samuel
Casey, senior pastor of the
New Life Christian Church
of Fontana. “That’s just the
first step.”
He added, in regards to
the Equity Element Group,
“It is vitally important that
we’re at the table lifting our
voices and speaking for our-
selves and claiming for our-
selves.”
Hagman thanked fellow
Supervisor Josie Gonzales
for spearheading much of
the work in crafting the reso-
lution.
Gonzales, for her part,
encouraged the county’s
residents to think big.
“I want to thank everyone
who has been a part of this
moment in time,” she said.
“We all want to do something
different, something good,
something that will be re-
membered. That’s part of
who we are and what we
work for.”
Mabel Morris-Dugbartey
of Fontana was one of sev-
eral speakers during the
public comment period. She
said she looked forward to a
world where she didn’t have
to worry about being har-
assed by a racist person
while doing errands by her-
self or be concerned about
her brother being racially
profiled because they are
both Black.
“It’s a beautiful thing to
feel change happening in full
effect, meaning there is hope
for humanity and for the fu-
ture, where my peers and I
won’t fear bringing our chil-
dren into such a dangerous
world that will just dehu-
manize them,” she said.
Cliff Matthews.
“The Upland Police De-
partment provides excellent
services to our community,”
Hoerning said. “I have full
confidence in the acting
chief and know that the Up-
land Police Department will
continue to serve our city
with the same level of serv-
ices.”
Goodman spent 27 years
with the San Bernardino
County Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment, beginning as a deputy
in 1991 before retiring at the
rank of captain.
He was hired as Upland’s
chief and sworn in on July 16,
2018.
A call to a cellphone num-
ber listed for Goodman was
not returned.
Upland Councilman Bill
Velto announced the move
at a council meeting late
Monday.
“Upland is now faced
with another challenge,”
said Velto, who took a five-
second break before adding:
“One of our biggest chal-
lenges. Our chief of police
has been placed on paid ad-
ministrative leave.”
Velto added that he
asked “our residents please
be respectful” of Goodman,
“our city manager and this
council as we allow this un-
fortunate process to be com-
pleted.”
Velto did not respond to
an email for more informa-
tion, nor did Upland Mayor
Debbie Stone.
But Councilwoman Jan-
ice Elliot, who also said
Goodman was on paid leave,
offered her backing for the
chief in an emailed state-
ment, saying he “has the
strong support of his staff
and of our community.”
B4 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 L AT I M E S . C O M

Disappointment in a councilman who inspired pride

[Huizar, from B1] Boyle Heights field office at
seat with major backing 1st and Chicago streets.
from then-Mayor Antonio “He’s an embarrassment to
Villaraigosa. His career tra- the community,” she added.
jectory meant something to Atanacio Simiano, 82,
the district’s immigrant seated on a nearby bus
families, said political con- bench, agreed that the alle-
sultant Javier Gonzalez, a gations against Huizar were
consultant on a number of terrible. But he said he is re-
political campaigns on serving judgment.
L.A.’s Eastside. “We’re just going to have
Gonzalez said that in re- to be patient about deter-
cent years, he occasionally mining if he truly did commit
walked with Huizar to a taco a crime,” said the Boyle
truck on Cesar Chavez Ave- Heights resident.
nue, not far from the council- Huizar, whose district
man’s home. On those eve- takes in such neighborhoods
nings, Huizar’s constituents as downtown, Eagle Rock
would shout out his name, and El Sereno, has spoken
greet him on the street and regularly of his humble ori-
sometimes pepper him with gins. He has discussed his
questions, Gonzalez said. mother’s job at a meatpack-
“You know when some- ing firm and how his father,
body has status in a commu- after a regular workweek,
nity,” he said. “You can tell.” would head to the straw-
For some Huizar sup- berry fields in Orange
porters, that status has been County to pick fruit.
diminished. Boyle Heights In one video interview
resident Frances Sandoval conducted by the Immi-
said she voted for the coun- grant Archive Project,
cilman in each of his elec- Huizar said he made sure to
tions and now, she’s angry. remember what it meant to
“We trusted him,” she said. lack the money to pay for ba-
Sandoval said city work- sic life necessities.
ers should move quickly to “I try not to forget how
remove the sign that bears [easy] it was to join gangs
Huizar’s name in front of his when I was growing up, how
ACTIVISTS with the group Defend Boyle Heights
taped a notice on Councilman Jose Huizar’s garage
door after his arrest on corruption charges.
easy it was to get into a life of
crime, how easy it would
have been to get involved in
things that would have a
negative long-lasting effect
on our lives,” he said in the
interview.
In federal filings, prose-
cutors have portrayed
Huizar as the head of a crim-
inal enterprise, the recipient
of about $1.5 million in im-
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
proper financial benefits in a
scheme involving devel-
opers and other business-
men.
In one instance, they
said, a Chinese billionaire
provided $600,000 in finan-
cial assistance to help the
councilman settle a sexual
harassment lawsuit.
Some who know Huizar
personally have struggled to
reconcile the sordid allega-
tions with their own experi-
ences.
Margarita Amador, a
former member of the
Boyle Heights Neighbor-
hood Council, said the
Huizar she knows checked
in on her regularly while she
was battling cancer. The
Huizar she knows visited an-
other community activist af-
ter she became terminally ill.
Amador said Huizar
made the neighborhood
cleaner and safer, reno-
vating parks, adding more
low-income housing and
constructing a new police
station on 1st Street. No
matter what happens in
court, the case is “not going
to change my perception of
who he is,” she said.
“I’m still going to be there
for him and support his fam-
ily,” she said.
As the alleged corruption
progressed, Huizar’s influ-
ence at City Hall has steadily
waned.
After FBI agents search-
ed his home, he was removed
from several council com-
mittees, including the pow-
erful panel that reviews and
approves major real estate
projects.
Huizar stopped attend-
ing council meetings in re-
cent weeks, following calls
for his resignation from his
colleagues. And on Tuesday,
while he was still in custody,
the council unanimously
suspended him, opening the
door to the selection of a
temporary replacement.
Residents of Huizar’s
14th District have not had a
council member casting
votes as L.A.’s political lead-
ers debate budget cuts, relief
for renters and strategies for
ending police brutality.
Some in the district have
voiced alarm over that situa-
tion, saying they are being
denied representation.
Others have greeted
Huizar’s arrest as a cause for
celebration.
On the day of his arrest,
one group of activists gath-
ered outside the council-
man’s Boyle Heights home,
taping an eviction notice to
his garage door.
“The community won’t
forgive, they won’t forget”
said the anti-gentrification
group known as Defend
Boyle Heights, in a message
on Twitter.

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authorization. Upon learning of the incident, Eagle
The County of Los
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CITY OF LOS ANGELES NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
Angeles, Department ENVIRONMENTAL NOTICES (AVISO AL DEMANDADO):
ing is growing in the LA area ing by securing the email account to prevent further
of Public Social and is looking for self-moti- access and began an initial, internal investigation into Notice is hereby given to the general public of the Diego Armando Magdaleno; Does 1-100
Services (DPSS) is vated, ambitious individuals the incident. Eagle CCU also hired a leading forensic availability for public review and comment on the
seeking qualified to sell subscriptions to the security firm to further investigate and confirm secu- following environmental documents. Please call the YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
LA Times. This opportunity rity of its email and computer systems. The security telephone number listed in each particular item for (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
proposers to provide involves sales door to door Interinsurance Exchange of the Auto Club
Armed and Unarmed and at retail locations. It can
firm’s investigation showed no internal wrongdoing information regarding the location where the document
Security Guard be a full time position for the and verified the security of Eagle CCU’s computer sys- is available for the review and where written comments
tems and network. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide
Services at DPSS right person or part time if must be addressed. CD indicates the City Council against you without your being heard unless you
you’re looking to supple- District. The publication is intended to serve as our
office locations Eagle CCU has no reason to believe that any personal respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
ment your income. Evenings Notice of Intent to adopt the following Proposed You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons
throughout the County and weekend availability is information in the affected email accounts has been
to provide a safe a must. This is a great part misused to commit fraud or identity theft and has Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) or Negative and legal papers are served on you to file a written
environment for time position or second no indication that personal information was actually Declaration (ND). response at this court and have a copy served on the
job to supplement income. viewed or acquired by the third party. Nonetheless, MND-20-001-BE: Mitigated Negative Declaration/ plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.
employees and the
Looking for individuals with Eagle CCU reviewed the contents of the email ac- Initial Study for the Los Angeles River and Arroyo Your written response must be in proper legal form if
participants served. sales experience but willing you want the court to hear your case. There may be
The Request for to train the right person. Bi- count and determined it contained personal informa- Seco Low Flow Diversion project. The City is
tion that included, depending on the individual, their a court form that you can use for your response. You
Proposal (RFP) is lingual speaking is a plus proposing to construct five Low Flow Diversion (LFD) can find these court forms and more information at
Typical Income: $150 to name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, systems: two LFD systems to divert dry-weather flows
targeted for release on
credit card number, financial account number, and/or the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.
$500 per day. We direct de- which would discharge to the Arroyo Seco and three courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or
or about June 24, posit bi-weekly. Interviews digitized signature.
LFD systems to divert the dry-weather flows which the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fil-
2020. The RFP will be will be conducted over the
posted and available phone or with Zoom If inter- On June 23, 2020, Eagle CCU sent written notification would discharge to Reach 2 of the Los Angeles River. ing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you
for downloading on the ested please contact BLUE to all individuals whose information was contained in The Project would capture dry-weather flows from do not file your response on time, you may lose the
L.A. County "Doing WATERS MARKETING with the email accounts for whom it has contact informa- prioritized stormwater outfalls before discharge into case by default, and your wages, money, and property
a resume or questions Job
tion. Individuals should refer to the notice they will may be taken without further warning from the court.
Business with Us" Types: Part-time, Commis- adjacent water bodies and divert the dry-weather flows
receive in the mail regarding steps they can take to There are other legal requirements. You may
website at: sion Job Type: Commission to sanitary sewers for treatment at the Hyperion Water want to call an attorney right away. If you do not
http://camisvr.co.la.ca. Derrick Davis protect themselves. Individuals who believe that they Reclamation Plant (HWRP). Project proposes to install
may have been affected by this incident, or have ques- know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney
p: 646.932.0377 storm drain diversions and pipelines, trash collection referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you
us/lacobids/ e: davis0579@gmail.com tions regarding this incident can call (844) 958-2774
The solicitation will also structures, maintenance holes, junction structures, may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit
be posted on the DPSS
from 6 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Pacific, Monday through Friday.
diversion structures with weirs, pretreatment units, legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit
website at: pump stations, pressurized pipes, valve and meter groups at the California Legal Services Web Site (www.
vaults, power supplies for pump stations, and lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online
http://dpss.lacounty.go
control/monitoring instrumentation. Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or
v/wps/portal/dpss/main/ by contacting your local court or county bar associa-
business/contract- HOW TO PLACE AN AD The intent of the Project is to help improve water
quality and help meet total maximum daily load
tion. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived
opportunities fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award
A Mandatory (TMDLs) requirements of the Los Angeles River and of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must
Proposers' its tributaries (including the Arroyo Seco) by removing be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
Conference to discuss Self-service 24/7: the dry-weather flows, which have been identified to іAVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde
the RFP is scheduled have high levels of bacteria. Construction is anticipated dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su
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https://ladpss.webex.co to the Sycamore Grove Park at the southeast corner of presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y
Contact us by phone 24/7: N. Figueroa Street and S. Avenue 49 in Highland Park.
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6163b7b3a030364fd9d 800-234-4444 on Via Marisol between Monterey Road and the State respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal
b8f Route 110 in Highland Park. 3) The “Rose Street LFD” correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es
All Proposers must is in the public right-of-way on 2nd Street between posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar
Alameda Street and Rose Street in the Arts District area para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios
attend this conference. ADVERTISING POLICIES de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda
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who attend the LFD” is in the public right-of-way on Mission Road la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte
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Conference may freeway ramps in Boyle Heights. 5) The “Palmetto de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le
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submit proposals. All de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si
attendees must register Santa Fe Avenue within the public right-of-way in the no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el
for the conference. Arts District. caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su
Although registration The proposed project Initial Study/Mitigated Negative sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Declaration will be circulated for a twenty (20) day
will be accepted up The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y
until the time of the public review period, beginning on June 25, 2020 and
Proposer's Conference, ending on July 14, 2020.
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we strongly encourage A hard copy of the IS/MND is available to review, by 111 North Hill St.
all interested potential appointment only, at City of Los Angeles, Department Los Angeles, CA 90012
proposers to register of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, EMG, 1149
early. S. Broadway, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90015. The name, address, and telephone number of
Please contact Lauren Rhodes of the Bureau of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an at-
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accessed at County Engineering at lauren.rhodes@lacity.org to schedule an
appointment. Also, the document can be viewed on the de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del
libraries. demandante que no tiene abogado, es):
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Protests help break silence on discussing racism
[Racism, from B1]
members about how racism
still plagues innumerable in-
stitutions in the United
States, 400 years after Afri-
cans were first brought to its
shores. As thousands have
taken to the streets to de-
mand accountability for po-
lice violence and rampant
racial injustice, many non-
Black Americans such as
Bohon are for the first time
investigating the ways in
which they directly contrib-
ute to racism and how they
might actively fight against
it.
They are realizing that
there is complicity in their si-
lence around race issues. So
now, they are breaking it.
And they’re starting with
family.
“Absent these kinds of
conversations, the status
quo wins,” said Patricia Dev-
ine, psychology professor
and director of the Prejudice
Lab at the University of Wis-
consin-Madison. “And the
status quo is being revealed
to us to be unacceptable in
terms of costing people their
lives only because of the col-
or of their skin. That can’t
stand.”
Frannie Kelley, a free-
lance radio journalist in New
York, has been offering sup-
port and information to her
white Instagram followers
who are initiating such con-
versations in their own cir-
cles.
“Most of what I’m hear-
ing about is people making
sudden progress after years
of incremental change,” she
wrote in an email. “A friend
of mine told me this weekend
that her parents are finally
hearing her, after a decade
at least of saying the same
things.”
It’s been reminiscent of
the start of the #MeToo
movement, she said, “where
we were simply believed for a
moment.”
Bohon could count on
one hand the number of
times she’d spoken with her
parents about race. To keep
the peace, they avoided top-
ics that touched on an as-
sumed chasm in perspec-
tives (she and her sister,
Angie, had fostered prog-
ressive ideals since they
PROTESTERS JOIN hands in Santa Ana’s civic center in 1996 to oppose the recently passed Prop. 209. In the
decades since, the measure has been a flashpoint for debate about the fairness of university admission policies.
Voters get a chance to
restore affirmative action
[Ballot, from B1]
ford (D-Gardena), who is
Black. “I know about dis-
crimination. I live it every
day.”
No Democrat in the Sen-
ate voted against the mea-
sure, Assembly Constitu-
tional Amendment 5. All but
one Republican — state Sen.
Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita)
— voted against putting the
proposal on the ballot this
fall.
GOP lawmakers who
spoke during the long floor
debate echoed some of the
messages used to support
Proposition 209 almost a
quarter-century ago.
“The problem with ACA 5
is that it takes the position
that we must fight discrimi-
nation with more discrimi-
nation,” state Sen. Ling Ling
Chang (R-Diamond Bar)
said. “Preferences for any
purpose are anathema to
the very process of democ-
racy.”
While Proposition 209 im-
posed a ban on race and gen-
der considerations across a
wide swath of government
decisions, it has been a flash-
point for decades about the
fairness of admission poli-
cies at California’s colleges
and universities. While the
were teenagers).
And Southern propriety
meant you didn’t talk about
money and politics. “They
saw those issues as politics,”
Bohon said. “So I never
really knew where they
stood.”
There was a “real ele-
ment of racism in my life
growing up,” said Bohon,
whose ancestors were slave-
holders. Her grandfather
wouldn’t let her watch the
“Cosby Show” in his home
because he believed that a
well-educated, upwardly
mobile Black family wasn’t
realistic. Her parents were
more tolerant, but they still
had their prejudices, Bohon
said.
Bohon, her husband and
three kids were quarantin-
ing at her parents’ farm in
southern Virginia when
George Floyd was killed. Her
aunts and uncles live nearby,
too, and were often around.
The adults watched the
news together, and Bohon,
who had spoken freely with
friends and colleagues
about racial justice, for the
first time let her family know
how she felt about police
brutality.
To her surprise, she said,
they were open to hearing
her out. They talked about
the skewed rhetoric around
property damage during
protests, and the vital role
that Black Lives Matter has
played in shaping the dis-
course around race since
2013. She sent her parents ar-
ticles and social media posts
about racism and what to do
about it; in turn, they passed
those resources on to their
siblings.
As Bohon sat in the back-
yard with her mom and two
aunts one afternoon, the
conversation flowed from
George Floyd to former NFL
quarterback Colin
Kaepernick.
“Now maybe you see why
him taking a knee wasn’t a
problem,” Bohon said of
Kaepernick’s choice to kneel
during the national anthem
in protest of how Black peo-
ple are treated in the U.S.
“I thought it was disre-
spectful, actually,” her aunt
replied, reminding Bohon
that her own father and
topic was a key point in
Wednesday’s debate, Demo-
cratic lawmakers said dis-
crimination begins much
earlier for some students.
“When I was in high
school, I went to my college
counselor to say that I
wanted to go to college,”
state Sen. Susan Rubio (D-
Baldwin Park) said. “And I
was told that that’s not a
place for me — that Latinas,
that I wasn’t college materi-
al.”
Other Democrats said
that standardized testing
used during the college ad-
missions process failed to
provide an equal opportuni-
ty for many students who
didn’t grow up in white or af-
fluent communities. Repub-
licans, on the other hand, in-
sisted state officials have
done little to ensure quality
teachers and school choices
for K-12 students who come
from disadvantaged com-
munities.
Senate GOP Leader
Shannon Grove (R-Bakers-
field) said that Black and
Latino supporters of charter
schools, for example, have
been stymied by Democrats
who have imposed strict lim-
its on the expansion of those
schools.
‘There’s a genuine
curiosity and
interest and care to
remedy structural
inequality that
didn’t feel as
urgent.’
— Aliza Luft,
UCLA sociology professor
grandfather were veterans.
Bohon took a deep
breath. To her, it was obvi-
ous what Kaepernick was
doing — it was peaceful re-
sistance, the highest form of
patriotism. She acknowl-
edged that there are differ-
ences in the way older gen-
erations tend to interpret
the meaning of the flag.
“He was making the
point that what the flag
stands for isn’t actually be-
ing delivered upon to mil-
lions of Americans,” she told
the women. “And he did it at
great risk.”
“I never thought about it
that way,” Bohon’s aunt
said.
White America, which in
many ways benefits from
systemic racism, has by and
large chosen to look away
from it. But the series of bru-
tal killings of Black Ameri-
cans in relatively quick suc-
cession — Ahmaud Arbery,
Breonna Taylor and Floyd —
has made it “undeniable
that there’s a problem white
people have to solve,” said
Devine, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison psy-
chologist.
A Civiqs survey showed a
15-point gain in support for
Black Lives Matter among
white people in just the last
few weeks, reflecting the
first time in the three-year
survey that a majority of
white respondents sup-
ported the movement.
Jason Hanasik, a 38-year-
old documentary filmmaker
in San Francisco, said his
mom in Virginia can now be
counted among the vocal
supporters of the movement
after he engaged her in many
“We need to start at the
level of K-12 and giving par-
ents the opportunity to be
able to choose the best
school for their children and
not make them stay in the
ZIP Codes in which they are
living in,” she said.
Wednesday’s vote to send
the issue to California voters
marked a sharp change from
just six years ago. At that
time, a similar effort in the
state Capitol stalled after
Asian American advocacy
groups warned that re-
instatement of any kind of
affirmative action policy
would limit college admis-
sions for Asian American
students.
State Sen. Holly Mitchell
(D-Los Angeles), who is
Black, said the long floor de-
bate between lawmakers
hinted at a larger problem
that is reflected in the con-
versation now playing out
across the nation.
“I think perhaps we don’t
have enough opportunity to
have these kinds of conver-
sations and clearly don’t
have enough opportunity to
have conversations about
race because that’s the real
crux of the problem with our
country,” she said. “So we
really have work to do.”
difficult conversations
about race.
In a recent Facebook
post imploring his friends to
talk to their families about
racial justice, Hanasik
pointed out that many peo-
ple in his family are racist,
xenophobic and homopho-
bic.
“Family gatherings dur-
ing childhood could be
straight up hellholes for me
and my queer sister and
then exhausting when we
were old enough ... and
started fighting back,” wrote
Hanasik, who is gay.
So Hanasik saw an op-
portunity when he noticed
that his mom was upset by
Floyd’s death.
“I let her really get into
her anger and sadness of
what she saw, and I said, ‘If
you’re upset, here’s a way to
direct the anger,’ ” Hanasik
recalled. He pointed her to a
phone tree where she could
leave messages for elected
officials in Minneapolis to
demand justice for Floyd.
She called the numbers that
night.
“I’ve noticed you haven’t
posted anything online,”
Hanasik told her later that
week. “You know mom, you
live in Virginia, if you posted
something it could change
some hearts.... Also, frankly,
your silence is deafening
right now.”
She was initially resist-
ant, and the conversation
got tense. Hanasik felt de-
feated.
Two days later, Hanasik’s
mom sent him a draft of a
Facebook post in which she
planned to declare that
Black Lives Matter. “If you
have a problem with that
truth, delete me as a friend,”
she wrote. “This truth is
nonnegotiable.”
Aliza Luft, a sociology
professor at UCLA who
studies social movements
and state violence, has been
talking to her family about
racism for many years, often
bringing it up following her
participation in Black Lives
Matter protests, which she
started attending after
Trayvon Martin was killed in
2012. Recently, however, her
family members have made
a concerted effort to initiate
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the conversations and ask
questions.
“I find that there’s a genu-
ine curiosity and interest
and care to remedy structur-
al inequality that didn’t feel
as urgent in the past,” she
said.
Bohon is on that journey
herself. She’s reading “How
to Be an Antiracist” by histo-
rian Ibram X. Kendi, which
has become a best-selling
book on Amazon since
Floyd’s death. In the text,
Kendi explains that an-
tiracists express “the idea
that racial groups are equals
and none needs developing,”
and they support policy that
reduces racial inequality.
The principles of antirac-
ism call for action beyond
posting a black square on In-
stagram. And talking to
family and friends about
their own racism is one of the
most effective ways to shift
public opinion, according to
scholars.
Luft pointed to the
LGBTQ rights movement as
an example of how change
can be created within fam-
ilies. Queer people have al-
ways been part of family sys-
tems and communities
made up of mostly hetero-
sexual people. Attitudes
toward the group evolved, in
part, because so many peo-
ple cared about someone
who had come out.
Racial discrimination
works differently because
Black and white people usu-
ally don’t have deep overlap-
ping networks. So white peo-
ple may be less likely to con-
front their biases except
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She never forgot where she
was from. She grew up in Kekaha,
a plantation town in Kauai and
graduated from Waimea High School
in 1948. She earned a Regents
Scholarship from the University of
Hawaii, graduating in 1952 with a
degree in teaching. She worked her
way through college as an au pair for
a prominent doctor in Honolulu and
left for California after graduating
from UH. She lived in California for
the rest of her life -- she married Fred
Ichinaga, raised a family, earned a
Masters degree in Education from
UCLA, and had a successful career as an
educator. She taught in public schools
throughout California and worked as a
school psychologist.
She became principal of Bennett-
Kew Elementary School in Inglewood,
California where she served for
over 25 years. She worked tirelessly
-- and successfully -- to improve the
quality of education for her students,
primarily students of color with whom
she identified. Her schools consistently
scored in the top percentiles in reading
and math, matching, and often
exceeding, their more affluent peers,
and she gained national prominence
Amount as an innovative and effective
educator. She was appointed to the
of prize(s)
California State Board of Education by
Governor Gray Davis. She was loved
— by her family, students, teachers, and
staff.
$415 Nancy is survived by her three
$196 children, Jon Ichinaga, Loraine
$9 Shimada, and Ann Gushurst and their
$10 spouses, five grandsons, Grant, Russell,
Ryan, Noah, and Will, sister Sue
$4
Gerrish, brothers Roger, Douglas, and
$2
David Miyashiro, relatives in Okinawa
and Brazil, and several nieces and
nephews and their families.
Due to the pandemic, a memorial
service cannot be held until later. The
family requests memorial donations,
if any, be made to the Japanese
American National Museum.
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through conversations with
their loved ones.
Such was the case for Pa-
tricia Hamilton, Bohon’s 68-
year-old aunt. Until recently,
she perceived more equity
among the races than ineq-
uity, and she thought the ral-
lying cry “Black Lives Mat-
ter” was divisive. Her daugh-
ter called her out for prefer-
ring “All Lives Matter.”
“Now I understand that
it’s not something you
should say because it’s rac-
ist, it’s ignoring the issues at
hand,” she said in an inter-
view.
After many long talks
with Bohon and her daugh-
ter, Hamilton now believes
that reforming police de-
partments and taking away
some of their responsibili-
ties — such as mental health
checks — is necessary, in-
cluding in her hometown.
She emailed Chesapeake,
Va., Mayor Rick West to ask
what’s been done to improve
relations between the police
and community.
“If he gives me a canned
letter,” she said, “he’s going
to get another one.”
Hamilton still has a lot to
learn, she said, and she’s
willing and excited to do so.
She wanted to attend a local
Black Lives Matter protest
in early June, but her family,
worried about her vulnera-
bility to COVID-19, stopped
her.
But Hamilton said she’ll
be marching in the streets
when it’s once again safe to
do so. She knows that the fu-
ture of the U.S. depends on
people like her showing up.
KRANTHER, Helen “Honey
Lou” Fox
July 3, 1928 - June 20, 2020
Helen Kranther, known
affectionately by her childhood
nickname Honey Lou, passed away
peacefully on June 20, 2020, two
weeks shy of her 92nd birthday.
Born July 3, 1928, in San Francisco,
California, and raised in Omaha,
Nebraska, she was the daughter of
George and Beverly Sherman. Honey
Lou graduated from Central High
School in Omaha and attended the
University of Oklahoma.
She married Lester Fox in 1947,
whom she met at a cousin’s wedding
(Lester was the brother of the groom,
so her cousin became her sister-in-law
as well).They lived in Omaha, and soon
after the birth of their first child, moved
to California, where they settled in the
Los Angeles suburb of Westchester and
had two more children. After Lester
passed away, Honey Lou found love
again with Sol Kranther; they married
in 1975.
When her father lost his eyesight,
Honey Lou started volunteering as
a braille transcriber at the Braille
Institute in Los Angeles. She turned
that volunteer opportunity into a
fulfilling 20+ year career with the
LA Unified School District as the
braille transcriber at Frances Blend
School for the Visually Impaired.
When she retired in 1992, she truly
was irreplaceable, as there were no
transcribers to take her place!
Honey Lou loved people and made
friends with everyone, anywhere,
anytime. She saw the best in everyone
and always put others first. She was
active in B’nai B’rith and the Jewish
community. Her very close group of
girlfriends were known as the Golden
Girls; they were inseparable and
always looked out for each other.
She loved her weekly Mah Jongg and
Pan games, which she played regularly
well into her 80s. She was a voracious
reader, an avid crossword puzzle solver
(always in ink), and theater and movie
lover who was always up for a night
out. Her other great joy was shopping,
which she lovingly passed on to her
daughters. They learned from the best!
The keeper of family lore, Honey
Lou knew the long, intertwined family
history for both the Sherman and Fox
families. She made it a point to stay
in touch with everyone and had a
drawer filled with greeting cards to
acknowledge any occasion or just to
say hello.
Honey Lou is survived by her son
Michael Fox (Lynette), daughters
Andrea Fox and Judi Caluya (Ron),
grandson Matthew Fox, and
many nieces and nephews. She is
predeceased by first husband Lester
Fox (1973), second husband Sol
Kranther (1989), sister Harriet Morris,
and brothers Mel and Arnie Sherman.
The family extends its gratitude to
her two personal caregivers, Ariella
and Olivia from JFS Care, and all the
staff in the Sunrise Sterling Canyon
Reminiscence Unit who treated her
with such loving care.
LAWRENCE, Vera
June 11, 2020 Beloved wife, sister
and devoted friend, Vera Lawrence
(née Suzi Oxley) passed away after a
long illness at home in Albuquerque,
NM. Vera, 73, left Sherman Oaks, CA
last year to return to Albuquerque
where she and husband Steve
Lawrence (dec. January 16, 2018) co-
published Albuquerque’s Crosswinds
Weekly. They also spent periods living
and working in New York City, Toronto,
Dallas and the D.C. area. A master chef,
massage therapist, and healer, Vera
started out in the music business as a
publicist, including a stint on national
tour with The Rolling Stones. She is
survived by her brother, Bob Oxley, and
a community of loving friends.
SCHNYDER, Gloria
Gloria Schnyder was a mom, a
grandma, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a
lover of i love lucy and superman. She
adored her dog, Lucy. Gloria was the
most thoughtful, generous, kind, and
talkative person you have ever met.
She will forever be in the hearts of her
loved ones.
B6 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 L AT I M E S . C O M

SPORTS
Maddon, 66,
readies for
restart, buoys
his defenses
By Maria Torres

Angels manager Joe Maddon became com-

fortable with being inconvenienced during the
coronavirus pandemic. He took advantage of
his newfound freedom to pedal his bike around,
reset his sleep schedule and overhaul his health
habits.
Maddon is 66 years old — “The new 46, by
the way,” he joked — but he has bolstered his
defenses. He does not consider himself to be
unusually vulnerable to the disease that has
contributed to the deaths of more than 87,000
people in the U.S. over age 65, according to the
latest data from the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
So when asked if he were uncomfortable
risking his health and safety for the sake of Ma-
jor League Baseball’s impending return next
month, he did not hesitate to answer, “No.”
“What I’ve done is try to prepare mentally,
physically, been as diligent regarding my own
personal workout program,” Maddon said in a
conference call Wednesday. “I can’t even say I
was this diligent back when I played. In my
mind, I’m prepared from that perspective.
“Taking supplements, eating, sleeping. So
no, I’m not concerned. If I had not prepared
myself, I’d be more concerned. I’m not above
anything, but I want to manage, I want to be
there and I want to be part of the solution to
what’s going on right now.”
Maddon wants players and coaches who are
preparing to return to a full baseball workload
for the first time in three months to adopt a
mind-set like his. He believes the quicker they
become used to the guidelines being imple-
mented to prevent a coronavirus outbreak —
ranging from the mundane (eliminating high-
fives) to the complicated ( behaving responsi-
bly off the field to avoid exposure) — the more
success the Angels will have.
Maybe the fact that two Angels players are
among the 40 MLB players and staff members
who tested positive for the coronavirus last
week will be enough of a wakeup call.
“I don’t see anything as being too difficult,”
Maddon said. “Inconvenient and uncomfort-
able, right? Just know that, accept that, wear
that every day, and you’ll be able to deal with it.
If you want to come in expecting the norms that
we’re usually accustomed to, then you’re going
to be frustrated constantly, and you can’t per-
mit that to happen.
“Can’t emphasize enough those two words
[inconvenient and uncomfortable], and if we’re
able to accept that, we’ll be fine.”
But Maddon’s optimism for staging a full
training camp, which begins July 1, and com-
pleting a 60-game season by the end of Septem-
ber, means little in the broader picture. The ef-
fects of the coronavirus are worsening in many
areas the Angels are expected to begin playing
in next month.
Within the 10-team Western Region, hospi-
talizations related to COVID-19 infections have
skyrocketed. The virus has taxed hospital ca-
pacity in Arizona, home of the Diamondbacks,
and in the Texas counties of Tarrant and Har-
ris, where the Rangers and Houston Astros
play, respectively. Texas Children’s Hospital
began admitting adult patients this week.
In California counties where hospitals have
fewer coronavirus patients now than in early
May, the number of positive COVID-19 cases
are still rising. Experts link the trend to the
virus affecting more people under 40, many of
whom aren’t at risk of becoming seriously ill,
now that states have reopened certain parts of
their economies.
Given the dangers, MLB granted players
the right to opt-out of the season. Individuals
at high risk of experiencing complications from
the virus can sit out without losing full prorated
salaries or service time. Teams can also choose
to pay anyone who decides not to play because
he lives with a high-risk individual. Three-time
MVP Mike Trout, whose wife is pregnant with
their first child, could be in the latter group.
Maddon said he hadn’t heard if Trout or any
other Angels were considering staying home.
“I haven’t heard hesitancy from anybody,”
Maddon said. “I would guess if there was any, I
would imagine them calling me separately to
voice their concerns. I haven’t had that yet.”
THE DODGERS, who have won seven consecutive National League West titles, will remain in their division for the 60-
game season but will play interleague games against only American League West teams, including the Houston Astros.
How will this MLB season work?
Operations Manual lays out the rules, protocols and oddities for spring
training and 60-game regular season in midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Jorge Castillo
It took three months of public negotia-
tions over millions of dollars during a global
pandemic, but Major League Baseball in-
tends on staging a 2020 season. Starting it,
let alone completing it, remains a colossal
challenge as COVID-19 cases rise around
the country.
To avoid a stoppage and rendering the
terrible optics of the negotiations for
naught, the sides agreed on substantial
protocols to ensure health and safety. The
details were jammed into a 101-page Opera-
tions Manual. Below is an outline featuring
the most noteworthy and eyebrow-raising
parts.
First, the basics.
Spring — or is it summer? — training is
scheduled to start July 1. The Dodgers and
Angels, like most other teams, will train at
their home ballparks.
There will be three phases. First will
come individual and small workouts for
pitchers and catchers, followed by larger
and full-team workouts with intrasquad
games, followed by a handful of exhibition
games against other teams.
The 60-game regular season, during
which players will receive full prorated sala-
ries, is scheduled to start July 23 or 24 and
end in late September before a standard
postseason is played.
The usual six divisions will remain intact
and interleague play will be limited to the
corresponding geographical division in the
other league (i.e. National League West vs.
American League West). So, yes, that
means the Dodgers will face the Houston
Astros.
Now, onto the more granular details. ...
What happens if people test
positive for the coronavirus?
Those people aren’t allowed to travel,
access the facility or have contact with oth-
ers once they test positive.
To return, those people must test nega-
tive twice in a row, have no fever for at least
72 hours, possibly pass a cardiac exam, and
be deemed by doctors and MLB to present
no risk to others.
If a player tests positive, he will be placed
on the COVID-19 injured list. The list
doesn’t have a minimum or maximum
length. Players would still be paid their full
prorated salaries and earn service time.
A player can go on the list without a pos-
itive test if he’s showing symptoms or had
confirmed exposure to the virus.
Can players not play if they
don’t feel safe?
Any player is free to opt out of the sea-
son, but only players medically certified as
“high risk” would receive their full prorated
salaries and service time. Other players
would not be paid or receive service time.
Safety protocols
8 Players are required to watch a safety
video before reporting to spring training
and watch it again upon arrival.
8 Players and staff will fill out question-
naires for prescreening a day or two before
intake screening.
8 Intake screening, done 48 to 72 hours
before the person reports to training, will
include a temperature check, body fluid
sample and blood collection for antibodies.
The people will self-quarantine until the re-
sults are known within the following 48
hours.
8 Players will be tested for the virus every
other day during the regular season. The
tests will be run on saliva collections,
though there may be instances in which na-
sal or oral swabs could be used for collec-
tions. Players and staff will undergo symp-
tom screens and temperature checks at
least twice a day during the season. People
will be given a thermometer to check their
temperatures every morning. The temper-
ature threshold is 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
8 Everyone who enters a stadium must
fill out a questionnaire and have tempera-
tures checked.
8 Players and staff will undergo antibody
testing about once a month.
8 Free diagnostic and antibody tests will
be offered to household members and
healthcare workers in the clubs’ home cit-
ies.
8 There are no official restrictions on
what players are allowed to do away from
stadiums, but MLB says individuals must
“ensure they all act responsibly.”
8 Everyone must wear a face covering at
stadiums and facilities unless they’re
playing, practicing or working out. Players
and members of coaching staff aren’t re-
quired to wear masks during games but can
wear one.
On-field safety rules
8 No high-fives, fist bumps, hugs, etc.
8 No fighting.
8 No arguing with umpires or the oppos-
ing team in close proximity.
8 No lineup card exchange between the
managers before the game (there’s an app
for that).
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
8 Pitchers are allowed to carry a wet rag
to avoid licking their fingers for moisture.
8 Players are “strongly discouraged”
from throwing the ball around the infield af-
ter an out.
8 Players not expected to play in the
game shouldn’t sit in the dugout.
8 Lockers must be at least six feet apart.
8 Mascots are allowed in stadiums, but
not on the field.
Other on-field rules changes
8 The designated hitter will be used in
both leagues.
8 Extra innings will start with a runner
on second base.
8 Position players can pitch at any point
in the game.
8 The three-batter rule for pitchers will
be in effect.
Personnel rules
8 People with access to stadiums and fa-
cilities will be divided into three tiers.
8 Tier 1 includes players (60 max),
coaches (12), bullpen catchers (2), team
physicians (6), athletic trainers (2), phys-
ical therapists (2), strength and condition-
ing coaches (2), translator for non-English
and non-Spanish speakers (1).
8 Tier 2 includes other essential person-
nel, capped at 38. Tier 3 will be others who
don’t require contact with Tier 1.
8 Opening day rosters can include up to
30 players with a minimum of 25. Rosters
then shrink to 28 on the 15th day of the sea-
son and to 26 on the 29th day of the season.
8 There isn’t a limit on pitchers.
8 Teams can add a player for double-
headers once rosters shrink to 26.
8 Teams can carry a taxi squad of up to
three players on the road. One must be a
catcher.
8 Taxi squad members will get paid their
minor league salaries, but receive the
standard MLB allowance of $108.50 per
day).
8 Teams can have up to 20 players sta-
tioned at an alternate training site. MLB re-
quires the site be close enough to travel to
and from without flying commercial.
Other off-field rules changes
8 The trade deadline is scheduled for
Aug. 31.
8 Players must be on rosters by Sept. 15
to be eligible for the postseason.
8 The standard injured list for all players
will be 10 days (the league had implemented
a 15-day IL for pitchers).
8 The 60-day IL has been cut to a 45-day
IL.

Women’s pro soccer sees value in being first league back

By Kevin Baxter
The National Women’s
Soccer League understood
that being the first profes-
sional sports league in the
U.S. to return to play during
the COVID-19 pandemic
would have its ups and
downs.
The ups were obvious.
For a league long starved for
attention, the chance to be
on the field alone in a nation
desperate for live sports
meant the spotlight finally
would shine on the NWSL
and its World Cup-winning
stars. And it worked, with
CBS making Saturday’s
game between the North
Carolina Courage and Port-
land Thorns the first wom-
en’s club game to be shown
live on a national broadcast
network.
But the downs were just
as obvious. The newfound
attention meant any slip-
ups heading into the month-
long Challenge Cup in Utah
also would play out on a na-
tional stage. That, too, came
to pass when the Orlando
Pride was forced to
withdraw from the tourna-
ment Monday after six play-
ers and four staff members
tested positive for the
unique coronavirus.
The teams hadn’t even
left for Salt Lake City and al-
ready the tournament was
off track, with Orlando’s ab-
sence meaning the event
would go on without Brazil-
ian superstar Marta, a six-
time FIFA world player of
the year. The news got worse
Tuesday when the remain-
ing eight teams released
tournament rosters that did
not include national team
stars Megan Rapinoe, Tobin
Heath and Christen Press,
who opted out because of
COVID-19 concerns, and
U.S. teammates Carli Lloyd
and Mallory Pugh, who are
injured.
U.S. captain Alex Morgan
is also out after giving birth
to her first child last month.
Women who don’t
participate in the tourna-
out of the tournament less
than six days before the first
game, the NWSL had to redo
the schedule.
The Challenge Cup will
begin with each team
playing three first-round
games to determine seeding
for the elimination stages.
All eight teams advance to
the quarterfinals.
The championship game
will be played July 26 and will
be broadcast on CBS.
The NWSL was sched-
uled to kick off its eighth sea-
son April 18, riding a wave of
momentum after the U.S.
Don Ryan Associated Press won a second consecutive
ALEX MORGAN , left, and Megan Rapinoe will skip Women’s World Cup in
the National Women’s Soccer League’s tournament. France last summer. All 23
players from that national
ment will still get paid, ac- opportunity to get a lot of team play in the NWSL and
cording to the labor deal the people to follow women’s the league, which relies al-
league and its players’ union soccer in the U.S. most entirely on sponsor-
negotiated last month. “It’s exciting on one end ships and gate receipts for
“Being the first league and on another end, I guess, its revenue, was anticipating
doing this, if something goes big risk, big reward. If we’re a breakout year.
wrong, other sports or going to be the only tourna- Those plans were scrap-
leagues can learn from this,” ment, hopefully it makes the ped when play was sus-
Portland midfielder Rocky league grow.” pended because of the
Rodríguez said. “But at the The first lesson: Be flex- COVID-19 pandemic in early
same time I think it’s a great ible. When the Pride pulled March, just hours after the
NWSL finished negotiating
its landmark broadcast deal
with CBS. However, the
league and Lisa Baird, its
first-year commissioner,
were the first to come up
with a return-to-play plan,
with its May 27 announce-
ment of the Challenge Cup
beating MLS and the NBA
by a week.
“We were able to get to
this timing for two reasons,”
Baird said in an interview
with National Public Radio.
“The first and the most im-
portant was we worked
quite extensively to develop
the right medical and safety
protocols. We got to the
point where we said, ‘OK,
we’re ready to go.’ And then
we began a phased-in ap-
proach to training.”
The league will quaran-
tine its teams in an “NWSL
Village” where players, offi-
cials and staff will undergo
frequent COVID-19 testing.
The 23-game tournament
will be played behind closed
doors and teams will have
rosters of 28 players.
L AT I M E S . C O M
AVERY BRADLEY of the Lakers guards Golden State’s Stephen Curry during a
game in October. Bradley will not rejoin the team for the NBA restart in Florida.
Lakers have big hole
to fill without Bradley
The guard, who opted
out of restart, played a
key role in the team’s
success this season.
By Tania Ganguli
There is no sense in dis-
counting the power of mo-
mentum in sports, and when
the NBA suspended its sea-
son in early March, Avery
Bradley had it.
“He’s been hot the last
five, six weeks or so,” Lakers
coach Frank Vogel said on
March 8, after the Lakers
beat the Clippers for the first
time this season. Bradley
made six of 12 three-point at-
tempts that day.
“He was spectacular,” Le-
Bron James said. “We know
what we were going to get
from him defensively, but
what he gave us offensively
tonight was gigantic.”
The Lakers had momen-
tum then too. That weekend,
in addition to beating the
Clippers, they beat the
league-leading Milwaukee
Bucks and were staring at
the franchise’s first playoff
berth since 2013. The two
main reasons for their ren-
aissance were James and
Anthony Davis, of course,
but the Lakers built an ad-
mirable supporting cast for
their two stars, and Brad-
ley’s contributions were
growing more critical.
But basketball has been
far from the only consider-
ation for the league and its
players during the last three
months.
Because of that, the Lak-
ers face an unprecedented
THE DAY IN SPORTS
Iginla leads Hockey Hall class
staff and wire reports
Classy winger Jarome
Iginla, who wrapped up his
impressive career by briefly
playing for the Kings, leads
the six-member Hockey Hall
of Fame class that was an-
nounced Wednesday. The
induction ceremony is
scheduled for Nov. 16 in To-
ronto, but that’s subject to
change because of the far-
reaching effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic and its
effect on the NHL schedule
and events.
Also elected in the play-
ers’ category were three-
time Stanley Cup champion
Marian Hossa; defenseman
Kevin Lowe, who won six
championships with the Ed-
monton Oilers and New
York Rangers; defenseman
Doug Wilson, and three-
time Olympic women’s
hockey gold medalist Kim
St-Pierre. Ken Holland,
who guided the Detroit Red
Wings to four Cup titles as
their assistant general man-
ager and general manager,
was elected in the builders’
category.
— Helene Elliott
ETC.
Mt. SAC a host
for track meet
Southern California will
serve as one of eight loca-
tions for an international
track meet featuring world-
class athletes who will com-
pete by way of synchronized
video from around the globe.
playoff scenario, months re-
moved from most of their
regular season, during a
global pandemic at a time
when COVID-19 cases and
hospitalizations are rising
sharply in Florida.
And they’ll face it without
Bradley, a key role player.
Bradley announced Tues-
day that he would not join
his team in Florida because
of concerns about his family
and his young son, who has a
respiratory condition.
The Lakers guards now
include Kentavious Cald-
well-Pope, Alex Caruso,
Dion Waiters, Rajon Rondo,
Quinn Cook and rookie
Talen Horton-Tucker. Cald-
well-Pope is the most likely
to slide into Bradley’s start-
ing role as he did while Brad-
ley was injured during the
regular season, with Caruso
the next in line.
Both players have been
solid defensively for the Lak-
ers. Caruso averages 5.4
points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.8 as-
sists and one steal per game,
while Caldwell-Pope aver-
ages 9.5 points, 2.1 rebounds,
1.7 assists and 0.8 steals per
game.
After signing Waiters on
March 6, the Lakers had
been easing him into their
system, with plans to play
him in mid-March. Waiters
worked out the same day
that the Lakers got a look at
JR Smith, who also played
well in his audition. Accord-
ing to people familiar with
their plans, the Lakers have
had some conversations
about adding Smith now
that Bradley has opted not
to play.
From the very beginning
of Lakers training camp,
The Inspiration Games,
scheduled for July 9, will in-
clude U.S. Olympic champi-
ons Allyson Felix and
Dalilah Muhammad and
world champion Noah Lyles
running at Mt. San Antonio
College in Walnut. Other
medalists such as Omar
McLeod of Jamaica and
Dafne Schippers of the
Netherlands will be at for-
eign venues.
— David Wharton
Brooks Koepka and
Webb Simpson were among
five players who withdrew
from the Travelers Champi-
onship, four of them out of a
chain-reaction abundance
of caution over the co-
ronavirus that put the PGA
Tour on notice.
The tour released results
that showed three positive
tests at the TPC River High-
lands in Connecticut —
Cameron Champ and the
caddies for Koepka and
Graeme McDowell, who
also withdrew.
Chase Koepka also with-
drew from the tournament.
A meeting Tuesday be-
tween leaders of the NBA
and the players’ union
closed with an in-principle
agreement that “the goal of
the season restart in Or-
lando, Fla., will be to take
collective action to combat
systemic racism and pro-
mote social justice,” both
sides announced in a joint
news release.
The meeting was at-
tended by NBA Commis-
sioner Adam Silver, players
union executive director
Michele Roberts, union
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Bradley, a two-time All-NBA
defensive player, made his
presence known.
He was a pest on defense
and Vogel quickly made him
a starter. The Lakers soon
became one of the best de-
fensive teams in the NBA. In
their 10 games with Bradley
to start the season, they held
opponents under 100 points
five times.
“He’s a dog,” teammate
Dwight Howard said of
Bradley during the season.
“He gets out there, he
guards the best perimeter
player on the other team. He
doesn’t let them breathe,
and I really like what he
brings to our team, the in-
tensity on the defensive end.
Then on the offensive end,
he’s a silent killer.”
Then they lost Bradley to
a hairline fracture in his
right leg that caused him to
miss 13 games. In their first
seven games without Brad-
ley, they held only one oppo-
nent under 100 points.
That’s when Vogel imple-
mented the Avery Chal-
lenge.
“Ever since Avery went
out, our defense took a hit a
little bit,” Davis said Dec. 6.
“The last two games we’ve
been able to be the No. 1
team in defensive rating and
we want to get there every
time.
“We lay our hats on de-
fense knowing it’ll fuel our of-
fense.”
The Lakers weren’t help-
less without Bradley, but
they did take some time to
recover from the shock of
losing him. They’ll have
about six weeks now to de-
termine how they’ll recover
this time.
president and Oklahoma
City guard Chris Paul and
vice president and Miami
guard Andre Iguodala,
among others, with the pur-
pose of advancing the
league’s response to social
justice issues.
— Andrew Greif
Clippers guard Lou
Williams is still undecided
about playing in July when
the NBA season resumes,
according to his agent, Wal-
lace Prather. Wednesday
was the deadline to notify
teams and the players’ union
if you were opting out for an
absence to be considered ex-
cused and be eligible for pay.
A final decision is needed by
July 1, when rosters and each
team’s 35-person travel
party is set.
— Andrew Greif
All-Star outfielder Char-
lie Blackmon of the Col-
orado Rockies became the
first Major League Baseball
player known to test positive
for the coronavirus. A per-
son familiar with Black-
mon’s situation confirmed
the test result to AP on con-
dition of anonymity because
there was no official an-
nouncement.
Seattle Mariners general
manager Jerry Dipoto said
a few players tested positive
but declined to specify the
number or whether they are
part of Seattle’s 40-man ros-
ter. And several Toronto
Blue Jays players and staff
members have tested pos-
itive, according to a person
who confirmed the test re-
sults to the AP on condition
of anonymity because there
Health concerns front
and center for players
As NBA gets closer to
restart, those with
existing medical
conditions take heed.
By Dan Woike
and Tania Ganguli
When the Lakers an-
nounced in March that two
of their players had tested
positive for COVID-19, many
people worried about center
JaVale McGee. People he
knew shared their concern
with him. People he didn’t
know speculated about him
on Twitter.
Their apprehension
stemmed from the fact Mc-
Gee has asthma, a respira-
tory condition that could
make a person at higher risk
for developing complica-
tions like pneumonia from
COVID-19, which is a respi-
ratory illness. McGee had
pneumonia in December
2018 that led to a three-day
hospital stay as he recov-
ered.
“Yeah I mean everybody
was worried about me,” Mc-
Gee said earlier this month.
“But nothing happened so
…”
McGee said he was not
one of the two Lakers who
tested positive — their iden-
tities remain unknown —
and the incident didn’t scare
him. He said he has not tried
to dramatically change his
lifestyle during the pan-
demic because he was a
homebody already.
He never had qualms
about returning to play in
Florida when the NBA re-
sumes the season with
games beginning July 30.
“I’m definitely comfort-
able,” McGee said. “We’ve
been away for a while now
and we’ve been COVID free
for this long. I definitely
think we’ll be OK as long as
we take the necessary pre-
cautions.”
It might not be McGee’s
choice.
According to sources, in-
cluding the NBA’s health
and safety manual that The
Times reviewed, Lakers
doctors could “protect” Mc-
Gee and any other players
they deem to be at high risk.
A week ago, players had to
complete a three-page med-
ical questionnaire and team
doctors must evaluate them
by Thursday.
Among the questions for
players and traveling staff
was whether the person has
or had suffered from moder-
ate to severe asthma.
Houston’s James Harden
and Brooklyn’s DeAndre
Jordan are among the other
NBA players who have
asthma.
was no official announce-
ment but did not specify a
number.
The New York City Mara-
thon, the world’s largest
marathon, was canceled be-
cause of the coronavirus
pandemic, with organizers
and city officials deciding
that holding the race on Nov.
1 would be too risky. This
year’s Berlin Marathon also
was canceled because of the
pandemic. That race, one of
the fastest marathons in the
world, had been scheduled
for Sept. 27.
The Washington Red-
skins are removing former
owner George Preston Mar-
shall from their Ring of
Fame and striking all refer-
ences to him on their web-
site.
Novak Djokovic’s par-
ents defended their son and
blamed Grigor Dimitrov for
spreading the coronavirus
at a series of exhibition
matches hosted by the top-
ranked player.
Dimitrov was one of the
three other players to test
positive in the last few days.
There is no evidence to sug-
gest Dimitrov spread the
virus to others.
University of Connecti-
cut President Thomas Kat-
souleas said the school will
eliminate its men’s cross-
country, men’s swimming
and diving, men’s tennis and
women’s rowing teams as it
deals with an expected
budget deficit driven by is-
sues related to the co-
ronavirus pandemic.
T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
DESPITE having asthma, JaVale McGee is comfort-
able with the NBA’s plans to finish the season.
‘I definitely think
we’ll be OK as
long as we take
the necessary
precautions.’
— JaVale McGee,
Lakers center
Testing for coronavirus
and antibodies began Tues-
day around the league, with
both Lakers and Clippers
staff undergoing the pro-
cedures.
Teams must determine
whether any players’ medi-
cal histories should prohibit
them from traveling to Or-
lando in early July to com-
pete in the league’s resumed
2019-20 season at the Disney
World sports complex.
Asthma is not the only
factor that could cause peo-
ple to be considered “high
risk” for COVID-19 in the
eyes of the league. Other fac-
tors include chronic lung
disease, heart conditions,
immune disorders, diabetes
and severe obesity.
If a team rules a player or
staff member shouldn’t be
included once the season re-
starts, they can appeal that
decision to a panel of three
doctors.
Conversely, players can
also elect to opt out of the re-
sumption of play for medical
reasons, and upon receiving
approval from a panel of
three doctors those players
would not have their pay af-
fected. That decision can
also be appealed to an arbi-
MLS sets schedule
for its July 8 return
LAFC will play
Galaxy in group-play
round of tournament.
By Kevin Baxter
LAFC will open next
month’s MLS Is Back
tournament on July 13
against the Houston
Dynamo while the Galaxy
will play the Portland Tim-
bers in their group-play
opener on the same day.
The 54-match tourna-
ment, which kicks off July 8,
will be played entirely be-
hind closed doors at ESPN’s
Wide World of Sports com-
plex in Orlando, Fla., and
will make MLS the first
men’s professional league to
return to play since the
COVID-19 pandemic shut
down sports in the U.S. in
early March.
MLS teams were two
games into their 34-game
schedules when play was
halted. LAFC was unbeaten
with a win and a draw while
the Galaxy, at 0-1-1, are win-
less.
The Galaxy and LAFC
will face each other in their
second group-play match on
July 18 before finishing the
first round five days later,
the Galaxy playing Houston
and LAFC meeting Port-
land. The LAFC-Portland
game will be the final match
of the 39-game opening
stage.
Under the competition
format, each team will play
three group-play games that
will count in the regular-sea-
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trator.
The NBA is requiring
teams to finalize their 35-
person travel parties by July
1, and it doesn’t prohibit
those travel parties from in-
cluding people deemed
“high risk” as long as they
have a physician’s approval.
McGee has pushed back
against the idea of his vul-
nerability because of past
respiratory problems. Dur-
ing his first season with the
Lakers, he pushed back
when a reporter suggested
that his asthma might im-
pact the number of consecu-
tive minutes he could play in
a game.
“Stop bringing that up
like I’m out here wheezing
and having asthma at-
tacks,” McGee said. “I’ve ne-
ver had an asthma attack in
my life. I feel like that’s defi-
nitely lowered my value as a
basketball player. People
say, ‘Oh he only can play 20
minutes because he has
asthma.’ No. There’s a lot of
people with asthma in the
league.”
Stigmas about age were a
concern for some coaches
when the subject of “at-risk”
people being separated was
first raised by NBA Com-
missioner Adam Silver dur-
ing a television interview.
The CDC does say “older
people” are at a higher risk
for complications, but none
of the NBA’s protocols are
dependent strictly on age.
But with coronavirus in-
fections surging in Florida,
NBA and team physicians
have to decide whether
those medical issues could
end up having a much great-
er cost.
son standings. The top two
teams in each of the six
groups, plus the four best
third-place teams, will ad-
vance to the knockout
stages culminating in an
Aug. 11 championship. At
stake is $1.1 million in prize
money and a berth in the
2021 CONCACAF Champi-
ons League for the winner.
Teams are required to ar-
rive in Florida at least a week
before their first game,
meaning the Galaxy and
LAFC will have to break
training camp in Southern
California by July 5. All 26
MLS teams will be quaran-
tined at Disney’s Swan and
Dolphin resort in Orlando,
where they will undergo a
COVID-19 testing protocol.
The San Jose Earth-
quakes, who have not been
able to train at home be-
cause of local COVID-19 re-
strictions, were the first
team to arrive, entering the
protective bubble Wednes-
day. If the Earthquakes
reach the tournament final,
their players and staff will be
quarantined for seven
weeks.
The run-up to the compe-
tition comes at a time when
Florida is dealing with a se-
vere spike in COVID cases.
The state reported a record
5,511 positive tests Wednes-
day and is one of seven
states with more than
100,000 infections.
In the past two weeks,
Orange County, where Or-
lando is located, has had
2,561 people test positive for
the coronavirus, more than
40% of them between the
ages of 20 and 29.
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clearing for sunshine and seasonal afternoon temperatures, while the valleys are mostly sunny. A weak upper wind, will break out over parts of the Rockies and northern Plains.
trough will cross the area later tonight and Friday and could result in thinner late-night and morning clouds Heavy storms will also again affect areas from Texas through the South-
along the coastal plain for the weekend; otherwise, conditions will be mostly seasonable. east. Dry weather will span the Northwest and the central Plains.
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Monday Mostly cloudy 72/59 Mostly cloudy 72/56 Mostly cloudy 70/58 Mostly sunny 64/33 Sunny 93/67

Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available
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BARBARA CO. Santa Paula 86/60 Hesperia 80/58
Santa Ojai 80/59 LOS ANGELES CO. 93/60 New York
Barbara 82/58 Simi Valley Las Vegas 85/70
Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO.
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winds west-southwest at 10 knots Beach Newport Irvine 92/58 Springs High 119 in Death Valley, Calif.
today. Wind waves a foot. West and 74/63 Beach 75/62 108/79 Low 31 in Angel Fire, N.M.
south-southwest swells at 1-4 feet. Mission Viejo
71/63 Temecula Wednesday Today Wednesday Today
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S.B., O.C. and S.D. county beaches 72/63 Clemente Albuquerque 94 63 Tr 97 68 Su Tampa 93 81 -- 95 79 Su
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Moon 10:08a/11:56p 10:07a/11:54p 10:12a/none Poway
San Diego 2-4’ 14 sec SW 68 Burlington, Vt. 83 69 .33 82 62 Pc Athens 82 70 -- 86 73 Ts
75/62 Charleston, S.C. 92 71 .05 84 72 Pc Bangkok 95 81 .08 94 79 Ts
Charlotte 88 70 Tr 84 65 Pc Barcelona 79 68 -- 80 69 Su
Tides San Diego Chicago 81 61 .04 84 65 Pc Berlin 75 54 -- 81 62 Pc
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 72/64 Cincinnati 81 62 -- 82 63 Pc Cabo San Lucas 93 72 -- 88 70 Su
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TODAY ON THE AIR

OC Vibe? ‘L.A. Live on steroids’ TIME
BASEBALL
EVENT ON THE AIR

9 a.m. 2006, NLCS, Game 2, St. Louis at N.Y. Mets TV: MLB Network
3 p.m. 1989, World Series, Game 4, Oakland at San TV: MLB Network
The 115-acre site would Francisco
offer shopping, dining, 7 p.m. 2019, Angels at Tampa Bay TV: FSW
9 p.m. 2014, San Diego at San Francisco TV: MLB Network
and other amenities BASKETBALL
near Honda Center. 7 p.m. 2020, Miami at Clippers TV: Prime
BOXING
By Bill Shaikin 5 p.m. Bantamweights, Jason Moloney vs. Leonardo Baez TV: ESPN, ESPND
GOLF
As Anaheim envisioned a Noon Travelers Championship, first round TV: Golf
colossal sports and enter- 3 p.m. Korn Ferry Tour, Utah Championship, first round TV: Golf
tainment fun zone that HORSE RACING
would stretch across a free- Noon America’s Day at the Races TV: Prime
way and cover hundreds of 8 p.m. International Racing, Australia TV: TVG
acres, anchored by an arena
SOCCER
at one end and a ballpark at
10:30 a.m. Spain, Eibar vs. Valencia TV: bein1, beinES
the other, a city official
summed up the plan in four Courtesy of OC Vibe 12:15 p.m. England, Chelsea vs. Manchester City TV: NBCSN, Unvso
words, easily understood by AN ARTIST RENDERS the proposed site outside of Anaheim’s Honda Center, 12:30 p.m. Spain, Real Betis vs. Espanyol TV: bein1, beinES
Southern Californians: “L.A. which is planned as part of a massive sports and entertainment fun zone. 1 p.m. Portugal, Braga vs. Vitoria TV: GOLTV
Live on steroids.” TENNIS
As the Ducks’ owners by a food hall, beer garden, The Angels on Tuesday and entertainment devel- 5 a.m. Battle of the Brits, round-robin TV: Tennis
toured the country, check- restaurants, clubs and a announced a similar live/ opment, Ryan said he has 1 p.m. Credit One Bank Invitational, Day 3 TV: Tennis, FSW
ing out sporting venues that 6,000-seat theater. The pro- work/play project for the An- heard it before.
have mushroomed into year- ject includes two hotels, four gel Stadium parking lot, tar- Orange County wasn’t
round entertainment cen- parking structures, and a re- geted for completion in 2050, supposed to be able to sup-
ters, they paid particular at- designed Katella Avenue off- with double the residents port a hockey team, he said,
JUNE 25 IN SPORTS
tention to L.A. Live. On ramp from the 57 Freeway and triple the office space or a major concert venue so
Wednesday, the Ducks un- that would lead directly into the Ducks proposed for OC close to Los Angeles.
veiled what they call “OC
Vibe,” layering a community
feel atop a district that in-
the Angel Stadium parking
area, or into one of the
Honda Center parking
Vibe.
Young said the two teams
had worked with one anoth-
“For 25 years, we have
said what is the absolute
truth: With the 3 million peo-
UCLA wins CWS title
vites visitors to eat, drink structures. er to avoid duplicating de- ple in Orange County and
and shop before and after The project was submit- velopment, with the Ducks’ millions more just outside By John Sheibe
events. ted to the city Wednesday for project focused more on live our borders, we have our
“We wanted to make this various approvals, with the entertainment. Even with- own great market,” Ryan UCLA completed a special season when the Bruins won
as much fun on Saturday start of construction tar- out the proposed concert said. “Orange County really their first national championship in baseball on this date in
morning as it will be on Sat- geted for 2024 and the com- hall, the Honda Center plays does want its own entertain- 2013 with an 8-0 shutout at the College World Series over
urday night,” said Dan pletion for 2028, when the host to about 160 events in a ment district.” Mississippi State at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.
Young, the master planner Honda Center is scheduled nonpandemic year. The An- And just how does this Nick Vander Tuig limited the powerful Mississippi State
for the project and former to host Olympic volleyball gels’ project is centered district compare to L.A. lineup to five hits and a walk over eight innings. He improved
president of community de- competition. around a larger neighbor- Live? his record to 14-4. In five CWS games, Bruins pitchers com-
velopment for the Irvine Henry and Susan Samu- hood feel. “We certainly wanted to bined for a 0.80 earned-run average, a record low in the alu-
Company. eli, the Ducks’ owners, plan “We’re very compatible match all of the success minum bat era.
The OC Vibe, if you will, to maintain sole ownership and synergistic in that way,” they’ve had there,” Young Eric Filia had five runs batted in on a sacrifice fly, a sacri-
skews mellow by day and en- of the project and finance its Young said. “We are very ex- said. “L.A. Live built all of the fice bunt, a grounder up the middle and two on a single to
ergetic by night. estimated $3-billion cost, cited about what they’re do- fun, and all of the restau- right field.
The project would inte- Young said. He added that ing over there. It will be a rants, and all of the concert “We are not going to hit a bunch of home runs, but we
grate 2,800 apartments, in- the Samuelis would not seek great complement.” facilities.” grind out at-bats, work counts, fight off good pitches, hit
cluding 15% reserved for af- to tap the city’s general fund Even at the conservative What L.A. Live did not pitches we can hit,” Filia said. “The whole time that’s what
fordable housing, and office or ask for hotel tax rebates count of two people per resi- do, he said, is secure enough we did, and we did a great job of it.”
space into a 115-acre site that but could pursue govern- dence, the Angels and Ducks land to “plan a district in as
focuses on public transit, en- ment funding reserved for projects combined would walkable a fashion as you see ::
courages the use of trains parks, transportation or in- add about 16,000 residents to here.” The limited space, he
and shared rides, and fun- frastructure improvements. the area. The projects also said, made it impossible to Other memorable games and outstanding sports per-
nels cars to the margins of Tim Ryan, who runs the could draw from the crowds integrate a residential com- formances on this date:
the property. The site flows Ducks and the Honda Cen- gathered a few blocks away ponent with an entertain- 8 1926 — Bobby Jones is the first amateur since Harold
from the Anaheim train sta- ter, said the Samuelis would at the Disney parks and at ment component as Hilton in 1897 to win the British Open. Jones finishes with a
tion into one of three public continue to invest in the the Anaheim Convention smoothly as the Anaheim four-round total of 291 for a two-stroke victory over Al Wa-
parks, leading to a pedestri- arena as well. He said all the Center. In 2019, about 24 mil- projects propose to do. trous at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in England.
an bridge across Katella Av- seats have been recently re- lion tourists visited Ana- “As you move around the It is Jones’ first of three British Open titles and also the first
enue, a 1.5-mile footpath, placed and the Ducks’ locker heim, according to Charles country, most of the ones time an admission fee is charged to the tournament’s specta-
and a “wellness park” in room has been refurbished, Harris, chief marketing offi- that have had success — and tors.
which yoga and meditation with additional renovations cer of Visit Anaheim. LA Live is an example — are 8 2012 — Five-time champion Venus Williams loses in the
could be offered. expected to be announced L.A. Live covers about 23 already in an established ur- opening round at Wimbledon for the first time since 1997,
The Honda Center would within three months. acres. The Angels and Ducks ban fabric,” Young said. falling in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 to Elena Vesnina of Russia.
be enhanced with a grand “The Honda Center will projects total 268 acres. And, “They haven’t had [this Williams, who has trouble establishing her serve, hadn’t lost
entrance plaza that could be be as good as new, and in to those who might scoff at many] acres to draw this in the first round at any Grand Slam tournament in 6½
used for watch parties or many cases better, than the notion that Orange much master planning into a years.
holiday ice skating, and the when it opened in 1993,” he County can support such an site. That is the ‘on steroids’
arena would be surrounded said. ambitious scale of sports portion of this.” Sources: The Times, Associated Press
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CALENDAR T H U R S D A Y , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R

Europe
leads
way in
music’s
revival
With Zubin Mehta,
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
conducting, orchestras
show how it’s done.
MARK SWED
MUSIC CRITIC

Summer, when it comes

to the performing arts in
America, was already over
by mid-spring. All major fes-
tivals and nearly all events
had been canceled. Last
week brought depressing
daily reports of fall closures.
In New York, there will be
no business for the rest of
the year at Carnegie Hall or
Lincoln Center. Esa-Pekka
Salonen will not get to begin
his first season as music
director of the San Fran-
cisco Symphony until next
year, and there won’t be
opera across the street be-
fore April at the earliest. The
stories are similar in Chi-
cago and at Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C. Center
Theatre Group has canceled
productions until April, and
other companies across
most of the country may
well follow if they haven’t
already made the move.
So just what kind of alter-
nate universe was it that
allowed me to click on my
Daniel McFadden Focus Features computer and watch Mirga
STEVE CARELL stars as an urbane Democratic strategist who travels to rural Wisconsin in this ill-timed and off-key film. Grazinyte-Tyla recently
conduct a concert in Dort-
mund, Germany? Or watch
MOVIE REVIEW the 84-year-old Zubin Mehta
— having only a couple days

Faking political hay

earlier flown to Florence, It-
aly, from his home in Brent-
wood — last week conduct
the opening concert of the
[See Concerts, E2]

Jon Stewart’s satire ‘Irresistible’ rings so false it’s easy to resist

BY JUSTIN CHANG FILM CRITIC >>> Like a lot of movies
set in an alternate political reality, Jon Stewart’s “Irresist-
ible” is a satire that feels closer to science fiction — and not
the dystopian kind. It was shot last year and thus unfolds in
an America untouched by pandemic or visible signs of pro-
test. Bitter partisan invective certainly exists, though it
has been stripped of any real outrage and given a slick
screwball sheen. The tone is cautiously optimistic; the
cynical Beltway insights come wrapped in an upbeat smile.
The story may take place some time after President
Trump’s 2017 inauguration but in tone and spirit, it feels
like the product of an earlier, less contentious era.
You could place that era sometime around 2015, when
Stewart stopped hosting “The Daily Show.” At the time,
many of us lamented that one of our most incisive com-
mentators wouldn’t be around to give the 2016 election
season the rigorous scrutiny it deserved. Stewart has
hardly been silent in the years since, as his political advo-
cacy and appearances with his friend Stephen Colbert on
“The Late Show” have made clear. But “Irresistible,” the
first movie he’s written and directed since his 2014 drama,
Beowulf Sheehan
“Rosewater,” has little interest in treating the current ad-
ministration as a satirical target. A reckoning
From a wry opening montage of Trump, Hillary Clin- in U.S. theater
ton, Barack Obama and other presidential candidates on “Pass Over” author
the campaign trail, chowing down with locals in diners Antoinette Nwandu,
above, hopes for deep,
while Bob Seger croons “Still the Same,” it’s clear that the structural change. E3
movie means to indict not an individual but a more gener-
Comics ................... E4-5
alized state of political inertia. “Irresistible” styles itself as What’s on TV .......... E6
a bipartisan call to arms. It asks [See ‘Irresistible,’ E2]

A soundtrack for an uprising Long Beach gets

Run the Jewels discuss
rap, rebellion and why
new album ‘RTJ4’ is
tailor-made for now.
By August Brown
No one knew what to ex-
pect when Killer Mike, activ-
ist and one half of Run the
Jewels, appeared at a news
conference with Atlanta
Mayor Keisha Lance Bot-
toms on May 29 — least of all
Killer Mike. But his wrench-
ing speech about why pro-
tests against police brutality
had boiled over — and his
mixed emotions as the son of
an Atlanta police officer —
became a defining moment
in the protests.
“I watched a white police
officer assassinate a Black
man, and I know that tore
your heart out,” he said. “ I
woke up wanting to see the
world burn down yesterday,
[See Run the Jewels, E6]
a new arts venue
Compound, with a
Scripps connection,
opens in September.
LAXArt leader hired.
By Deborah Vankin
The coronavirus has
shuttered cultural institu-
tions across California,
some permanently, but in
Long Beach, a new arts ven-
ue with an emphasis on well-
ness is forging ahead with
plans to open this fall.
Compound, a 15,000-
square-foot complex with
two exhibition spaces,
restaurant and outdoor
courtyard and sculpture
garden, plans to open in late
September in the city’s Zafe-
ria district. The nonprofit
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times was founded by philan-
KILLER MIKE, left, and El-P of the acclaimed Run the Jewels speak about the thropist and interior de-
police, politics and protests in their respective cities of Atlanta and New York. signer Megan Tagliaferri,
who will serve as creative di-
rector, and will feature con-
temporary art exhibitions as
well as immersive installa-
tions.
Lauri Firstenberg, for-
mer director of the noted
Los Angeles exhibition
space LAXArt, will serve as
Compound’s curator and ar-
tistic director.
The project has been in
the works for more than five
years and was in the final
stages of construction in
March when the COVID-19
pandemic hit. But Taglia-
ferri didn’t consider pulling
the plug, she said.
“We’re so deeply commit-
ted to this work and our
community, that wasn’t
even an option,” she said.
“Of course, learning about
COVID and safety was on
our mind. But this moment
we’re in, it just deepened our
purpose as a space for peo-
[See Compound, E6]
E2 T H U R S DAY , J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 2 0
ZUBIN MEHTA conducts the opening concert of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival in Florence, Italy.
Europe leads the way
on revival of concerts
[Concerts, from E1]
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
festival?
A full-sized Vienna Phil-
harmonic is back in business
in its golden Musikverein.
On Sunday, Riccardo Muti
inaugurated the 30th anni-
versary of his Ravenna Fes-
tival in Italy with a Mozart
orchestral program. Run-
ning through the end of July,
that festival will have more
than 40 events, including or-
chestral concerts, chamber
music, solo recitals and the-
atrical events. A Handel ora-
torio with vocal soloists and
chorus is promised.
That’s nothing compared
to the Salzburg Festival,
which will be up and running
all August. Reduced, for
sure, from its initially ambi-
tious 100th anniversary line-
up, the Austrian festival will
nonetheless feature orches-
tra concerts, two full opera
productions and a host of
chamber music and solo
recital programs. The lineup
is typically Salzburg starry,
Gustavo Dudamel included,
conducting the Vienna Phil-
harmonic.
Britain remains wary.
So does France, so far. But
Spain — like Italy, another
coronavirus hot spot — is
gingerly experimenting with
live concerts. Prague too. In
Asia, Seoul never fully closed
down all its theaters.
Having lived virtually for
three months, I approached
this early opening-up on the
other side of the pond with
skepticism. Germany and
Austria, in particular, have
obviously managed the pan-
demic far more successfully
than we have, but even so,
risk remains.
Nor could I see the ap-
peal. There were any num-
ber of necessary precau-
tions. All venues have elabo-
rate instructions about en-
tering and exiting, limiting
contact. Temperature is tak-
en. Concerts are typically
an hour and never more
than 90 minutes. No inter-
mission. No amenities.
Seats are blocked off to keep
you away from others.
Masks are required coming
and going but can come off
during the performance.
Although there have
been amusing ways of deal-
ing with the sad sight of a
barren hall, such as placing
manikins or potted plants in
empty seats, it all feels very
uptight.
Social aspects
The programs, thus far,
have been conventional.
There is an elitism over who
will get seats. The social as-
pects of a concert are not
permissible. Traveling to
festivals, staying in hotels
and all the rest — the proc-
ess is not only full of risk but
also requires unpleasant
regimenting.
Moreover, watching con-
certs with distanced players
streamed from theaters
without audiences, as the
Berlin Philharmonic has
been doing, is also dispirit-
ing. What are we to do
other than wait for the real
thing to return?
A CONCERTGOER has his temperature taken to attend the music festival in
Florence, among precautions that are being taken as concerts resume in Europe.
But, wait. Mirga and
Mehta proved the real, and
astonishingly stirring, thing.
Some of that had to do
with the moment, which was
genuinely moving. Much of
it, however, had to do with
seeing two conductors close
to Angelenos’ hearts.
The Los Angeles Philhar-
monic launched one of the
world’s great conducting ca-
reers when Mehta became
music director in 1962 at the
tender age of 26.
Exactly 50 years later and
at the same age, Grazinyte-
Tyla began as a Dudamel fel-
low of the orchestra, and
nothing could be clearer
than her Dortmund concert
on June 7 that hers will
surely be one of the world’s
great conducting careers
as well.
First off, neither con-
ductor looked as expected.
Grazinyte-Tyla, who hap-
pens to be eight months’
pregnant with her second
child, now sports a boyish
haircut almost identical to
that of Salonen in 1992
when he became music di-
rector of the L.A. Phil at age
34. She might as well have
been his twin.
The main thing, though,
was that this terrific con-
cert, which can be viewed for
a fee on the German classi-
cal music site takt1.com,
didn’t seem uptight at all.
The Konzerthaus Dort-
mund began streaming live
chamber music without an
audience on March 15 and
seems to have its act very
much together.
Concert halls in Berlin
are still closed to audiences,
however, so members of
the Konzerthausorchester
Berlin took the train (a 3½-
hour journey). Players had
to be tested for the novel co-
ronavirus and wore masks
coming and going from the
stage. Brass and winds
(there weren’t many) were
seated far in the back and
behind plastic shields to
protect the strings from
spray.
Grazinyte-Tyla, who is
music director of the City of
Birmingham Symphony Or-
chestra, was asked to sub-
stitute for the orchestra’s
music director, Christoph
Eschenbach, who wasn’t
able to leave his Paris apart-
ment and at age 80 is at
higher risk. Grazinyte-Tyla
tested positive for COVID-19
in March and recovered.
The program
The program began with
a darkly soulful piece for
strings, “De Profundis,” by
Grazinyte-Tyla’s fellow Lith-
uanian, Raminta Serksynte,
that suited these intense
times. The spirited young
cellist Kian Soltani was the
intensely lyrical soloist in
Haydn’s First Cello Con-
certo. Grazinyte-Tyla con-
cluded with a tightly organ-
ized performance of Beetho-
ven’s Fourth Symphony
with fervor felt in every bar.
Mehta also has changed.
When last seen at the begin-
ning of the year leading
the L.A. Phil in magisterial
performances of Mahler’s
Second Symphony, he still
appeared frail after cancer
treatments and hip surgery.
But last week, he was much
more his robust old self. He’s
put some weight back on,
and he walked with a re-
newed stateliness without
assistance or a cane.
This concert was broad-
cast live and only archived
for 24 hours via the stream-
ing service Idagio, but
Mehta has more concerts in
the Maggio Musicale festi-
val, which also will include
programs led by Valery
Gergiev and Daniele Gatti.
Tickets can be purchased
to watch them online.
Given the terrible out-
break of the coronavirus in
Italy, the festival was given
the green light only five
days earlier, and the sense
of being back was palpable
even on a computer screen.
A little too palpable for
my taste. A full-size and ex-
cellent festival orchestra
Photographs by Michele Monasta
was not distanced, although
the brass and winds did
sit apart and behind shields.
Unlike Grazinyte-Tyla, Meh-
ta walked onstage through
the orchestra. He shook
hands with his soloist, vio-
linist Leonidas Kavakos,
and had to stop himself
from touching orchestra
players. Old habits die hard.
Again, this was an excep-
tional concert. Mehta led a
taut performance of Schu-
bert’s “Tragic” Symphony,
and Kavakos gave a gripping
account of Berg’s Violin
Concerto. Both pieces met
the need for acknowledging
anguish with a renewed, but
somber, vigor. For this oc-
casion, the audience was
kept to around 100.
Whether these were
merely special, unrepeat-
able events or indicators
of a new concertgoing mo-
mentum remains to be seen.
Crowd size is expected to
grow quickly. The Arena di
Verona this summer will
stage opera galas, a recital
by Plácido Domingo and
Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,”
allowing a maximum audi-
ence of 1,000 in its 15,000-
seat ancient Roman amphi-
theater.
One super-spreader con-
cert, however, could shut
everything down every-
where. Then again, things
may go just fine, and a fall
season of some sort will be
possible in some places.
But not here. Even if we
had the testing, tracing and
collective social behavior
necessary to control the
pandemic, we’d lack another
crucial factor. Germany and
Austria are among the coun-
tries that consider artists to
be essential workers and
that have a long tradition of
government support of the
arts. In America, there is a
deadly economic risk along
with the health concerns.
Our performing arts institu-
tions can’t possibly stay
afloat with halls filled to a
fraction of capacity.
Pray for a vaccine.
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
‘Irresistible’ is
anything but
[‘Irresistible,’ from E1]
us to direct our rage not
against one another but
against the structure by
which we elect our leaders —
a cash-clogged, ego-driven
two-party system that has
proved dispiritingly out of
touch with working-class vot-
er concerns.
It’s a fair point, and a hard
one to argue with. But I found
myself arguing a lot with “Ir-
resistible,” whose attempts to
soothe our national tensions
strike me as dodgy and disin-
genuous, and whose narra-
tive priorities feel bizarrely
misjudged. Some of this is
surely due to unfortunate
timing; it’s not easy to sell a
high-minded comedy at a
moment that cries out for a
seething polemic. But timing
alone doesn’t account for it. If
this misleadingly titled movie
is meant to be a whimsical
Capra-esque fantasy, as the
production notes suggest,
then why does it make such a
show of its relevance? If it’s
meant to lay bare the realities
of the system, as the produc-
tion notes also suggest, then
why does it feel so toothless
and inconsequential?
The movie, to be fair,
wants to show that seemingly
inconsequential matters can
have enormous impact. Or so
believes Gary Zimmer (Steve
Carell), a veteran Democratic
strategist who is introduced
banging the drum for Clinton
in 2016. Months after that
stinging defeat, he’s ready to
leap back into the fray by
turning one Col. Jack Has-
tings (Chris Cooper) into the
future face of his beleaguered
party. A dairy farmer and
Marine vet from a sleepy, eco-
nomically blighted Wisconsin
town called Deerlaken, Jack
is no one’s idea of a liberal
poster child, which is why
Gary finds him so promising.
A video of the colonel pas-
sionately defending the
town’s undocumented work-
ers has gone sufficiently viral
to persuade Gary to make his
way to Deerlaken. Some
amusing if obvious fish-out-
of-water comedy ensues as
Gary, who travels by private
jet and exudes jittery D.C.-in-
sider energy, draws suspi-
cious glances from the locals,
though also a few friendly
smiles. In time he persuades
Jack to run as a Democrat
against the town’s Republi-
can mayor, Braun (Brent
Sexton), as part of a plan to
woo heartland voters left-
ward and demolish the idea
that conservatives have a
monopoly on family values,
military heroism and love of
country.
Gary’s tactics have their
desired impact, and before
long camera crews and data-
crunching consultants have
descended on Deerlaken,
some of them at the com-
mand of Gary’s ruthless Re-
publican nemesis, Faith (a
wickedly funny Rose Byrne).
The ensuing hullabaloo, al-
though packed with twists,
setbacks and a bizarrely un-
funny cameo by Bill Irwin,
has its roots in reality. (Jack
Hastings was partially in-
spired by Jon Ossoff, the up-
start Georgia Democrat who
almost flipped a conservative
House district in 2017 and is
now challenging David Per-
due, his state’s senior Repub-
lican senator.) But Stewart is
also riffing on the durable
populist-humanist tradition
of Frank Capra, whose small-
town Everyman parables af-
firmed America’s ability to
live up to its greatest demo-
cratic ideals.
At the same time, those
films were curiously reluctant
to get too specific about what
those ideals should be. Mov-
ies like Capra’s “Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington” — and
some of its latter-day descen-
dants, such as “Swing Vote”
(2008) — are political come-
dies notably scrubbed of any
real politics. The same can’t
quite be said of “Irresistible,”
which sometimes steals a
glance in the direction of
sharper, more cynical enter-
tainments like “The Candi-
date.” In that 1972 film,
Robert Redford plays a
Democratic senatorial hope-
ful who actually has views on
ROSE BYRNE and Steve Carell play rival political
strategists in a comedy that seems of a different time.
‘Irresistible’
Rating: R, for language
including sexual
references
Running time: 1 hour, 42
minutes
Playing: Available Friday
via VOD
things like welfare, abortion
and workers’ rights but who
learns to couch those views in
the media-savvy language of
euphemism and spin.
Stewart can deconstruct
and satirize that language as
well as anyone. He demon-
strated this on “The Daily
Show” and occasionally dem-
onstrates it here, mainly
through Gary and Faith’s es-
calating stunts and outland-
ish TV spots. While it may be
superficially on Gary’s side,
“Irresistible” views their glee-
ful one-upmanship with sly
detachment. Faith, resem-
bling some unholy mashup of
Kellyanne Conway and
Kayleigh McEnany, is an un-
scrupulous operator. But as
Jack’s sharp-witted daugh-
ter, Diana (a very good Mac-
kenzie Davis), rightly points
out, Gary is no better, with his
ignorant condescension
toward the rural Americans
he’s ostensibly fighting for.
It’s all just a game to Gary,
whom Carell plays like a dis-
tant cousin to “The Office’s”
Michael Scott — slicker and
more calculating, to be sure,
but fundamentally just as
clueless. He works for a politi-
cal apparatus that ignores is-
sues, weaponizes dissent,
mines scandal for entertain-
ment, funds campaigns
rather than solutions and ul-
timately serves no end be-
yond its own survival. Jack,
played by Cooper with the
perfect note of aw-shucks
gravitas, succinctly lays this
all out when he speaks at a
fancy New York fundraiser at-
tended by Democratic power
players. It’s ridiculous that he
has to be there, he tells them.
It’s ridiculous that they have
to be there too.
Again, it’s a fair point. It
also feels like a cop-out, a way
to absolve Jack and the movie
of any need to advance any
coherent or substantive polit-
ical views of their own. If
everything is smoke and mir-
rors and no one cares about
the issues, we don’t need to
care either, right? That blasé
attitude becomes jarringly
clear whenever the story
briefly jokes about — and
then abruptly pulls away
from — the subject of race, as
when Gary gently ribs the li-
beral East Coast crowd for
neglecting white rural folks
like Jack and getting too cozy
in their “ideological bubbles”
(cue tittering people-of-color
reaction shots).
Can a movie really satirize
a person’s cluelessness when
it seems to share it? How a di-
vided political party should
direct its energy and focus is
an endlessly debated subject
that might have yielded its
own razor-sharp comedy, es-
pecially in an election year.
“Irresistible,” for all its showy
both-sides-ism, makes its
thoughts on the matter quite
clear. The hardworking,
mostly right-leaning white
citizens of Deerlaken are giv-
en narrative pride of place,
and played by some excellent
actors (among them Will
Sasso, Will McLaughlin and
Blair Sims). Curiously, they
also emerge as something
rather less than fully imag-
ined characters; their ideo-
logical views, personal histo-
ries and individual hopes and
dreams are left unexamined
for reasons that become clear
as the story progresses.
As a conservative-seeking
olive branch, then, “Irresist-
ible” doesn’t quite rise to the
level of those soul-searching
news stories that proliferated
in the wake of Trump’s elec-
tion, scouring rural outposts
for the weary soul of an
America that time forgot. As
a liberal self-critique, it feels
almost surreally divorced
from present-day reality. I
guess that’s one form of bi-
partisanship.
Daniel McFadden Focus Features
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
She wishes her play were obsolete
The story of Trayvon
Martin that inspired
Antoinette Nwandu
is still of the moment.
By Makeda Easter
For playwright Antoinette
Nwandu, recent conversa-
tions about systemic racism
in the wake of social uprisings
have felt all too familiar.
Nwandu grew up in Los
Angeles and started attend-
ing West L.A.’s elite Brent-
wood School in the fall after
the 1992 L.A. riots, which be-
gan when four police officers
were acquitted in the violent
beating of Rodney King.
Her award-winning play
“Pass Over” — centered on
two young black men, Moses
and Kitch, struggling to sur-
vive and thrive — was partly
inspired by the 2012 death of
Trayvon Martin. Mixing el-
ements from Samuel Beck-
ett’s “Waiting for Godot” and
the biblical Exodus saga,
Nwandu wrote the play as a
mirror to the effects of white
privilege and police brutality
on Black lives.
The play forced difficult
conversations about race and
bias in theater.
Chicago’s theater commu-
nity rallied around Nwandu
after the play’s 2017 premiere
at Steppenwolf Theatre,
partly because of a Chicago
Sun-Times review that said
Nwandu’s portrayal of a
white officer was “wrong-
headed and self-defeating”
and that much of the violence
in the Black community “is
perpetrated within the com-
munity itself.”
Just one day before the
play’s California premiere
last year, the Echo Theater in
L.A. canceled “Pass Over” be-
cause of a contentious rela-
tionship between the direc-
tor, who is Black, and the L.A.
theater’s white producers.
Nwandu, now based in
Brooklyn, recently joined
hundreds of other prominent
theater-makers of color in
signing the “We See You,
White American Theater”
protest statement calling out
institutional racism in reac-
tion to civil unrest.
In the past, the vicious cy-
cle of Black pain was a sign to
start working. Now, Nwandu
is prioritizing rest.
“After the rehearsals, and
the openings, and the inter-
views and the parties, when
you’re just sitting alone with
yourself, the trauma is still
present,” she said. “After my
After royal exit,
BOOK REVIEW
‘The Lightness’ is a cut above they raise voices
By Leslie Pariseau
The Lightness
Emily Temple
William Morrow
“You should not, under
any circumstances, expect
me to be the hero of this
story,” says Olivia, the back-
ward-looking narrator of
Emily Temple’s debut novel,
“The Lightness.” In fact, in
the end, there is no hero of
Olivia’s story at all. There is
only a memory that may or
may not be true.
Set at the Levitation Cen-
ter, “a panspiritual contem-
plative community,” high up
in the mountains somewhere
in America, where the air is
thin and the world a distant
memory, “The Lightness”
refers to the Latin root for
levitation, “levitas,” i.e.,
“lightness itself.” The legend
is that the land on which the
center is built holds some
sort of spiritual energy that
enables magical upward mo-
tion for those special few with
the innate potential to rise.
Olivia arrives for other
reasons; she has run away
from her abusive sculptress
mother to retrace the path
her Buddhist dentist father
walked before disappearing
from her life. She enrolls in a
summer-long “special teen
retreat” she describes as
“Buddhist Boot Camp for
Bad Girls.” And, of course,
she falls in with the bad girls:
brooding Janet, who excels at
Zen archery; willowy, button-
sucking Laurel; and beguil-
ing ringleader Serena, who is
obsessed with learning the
dangerous art of levitation.
“You’re one of us,” Serena
says when Olivia demon-
strates her knowledge of
Buddhism. “We can smell our
own,” she says later on, effec-
tively inducting Olivia into
the witchy little group she’s
been warned about. The set-
up immediately reminded
“PASS OVER,” here starring Aaron Joseph and Samuel Isaiah Hunter, was canceled by L.A.’s Echo Theater.
Beowulf Sheehan
“THE TRAUMA is still
present,” says playwright
Antoinette Nwandu.
work on ‘Pass Over’ was
done, the ache was still
there.”
This interview has been
lightly edited for length and
clarity.
You’ve talked about your
feelings around the death of
Trayvon Martin while writ-
ing “Pass Over.” How do
you feel now, and how have
you been processing every-
thing going on?
I feel deep mourning and
sadness and a sense that the
lives — George Floyd‘s life,
Breonna Taylor‘s life — their
lives are individually and
beautifully, uniquely impor-
tant.
As far as my life goes, I
was able to alkalize those
feelings into something I
thought I could put out into
the world to make change,
and now I don’t know. It feels
like Groundhog Day, be-
cause people are like, “Oh,
Nina Subin
LEVITATION is the coin
of the realm in Emily
Temple’s new novel.
me of stories like “The Craft,”
Donna Tartt‘s “The Secret
History” and Emma Cline’s
“The Girls,” wherein the pur-
suit of dark knowledge
threatens to break hearts
and destroy lives. And almost
from the outset, the narrator
floats just over the reader’s
shoulder, warning us that no
good will come of this, that we
are only moving toward a bad
thing — poking us over and
over to remind us it’s coming.
Who knew that an act of nar-
rative levitation could be, at
times, so suffocating?
The girls dabble in the rit-
uals of teenage sleepovers —
light-as-a-feather, shivery
ASMR exercises, ecstatic hy-
perventilating, tantric yoga,
whiskey drinking, fasting on
nettle tea — all to get closer to
the lightness. But they also
play at being adults, dis-
cussing the virtues of Tibet-
an yogi Milarepa, Thomas
Aquinas, Saint Teresa and
the Chinese Empress Con-
sort Wu Zetian. They say im-
plausibly erudite things like,
“This is a nonsense interpre-
tation of the notion of inter-
connectedness” and “Neither
ugliness nor beauty exists on
an absolute level.” (At one
point Olivia, who seems to
have a bit of an oral fixation,
dreams of Rasputin sticking
his fingers in her mouth.)
And of course they are
also consumed with a boy — a
the play is still relevant.”
There’s that constant fight
between the part of me that’s
like, “I want people to see my
play; I want people to see this
art,” and like, “Oh, God, I
hate that people see this play
and that it’s still relevant.”
The thing that makes it
successful is the continued
pain and the continued
violence against individual
Black people by this white
supremacist police state.
I would love this play to
fade away and not be rele-
vant anymore — when peo-
ple are like, “Oh, that relic of
the past.”
And then creatively, what
do I do this time? How do I
meet this moment with my
creative fire this time? Be-
cause the problems are still
here.
How are you practicing
self-care during this time?
Through stepping back
from social media. And
doing some personal work,
setting up an altar in my
house and literally just like a
sanctuary of healing and
rest.
Many theaters have been
putting out statements of
solidarity with the Black
Lives Matter movement or
justice for George Floyd on
social media. How have you
felt about this outpouring of
support?
That’s one of the things
that caused me to step back.
I keep coming back to that
sense of ambivalence. Be-
William Morrow
supposed prodigy with the
ability to levitate. Luke, the
center’s beautiful 20-some-
thing gardener, has a pen-
chant for seducing every girl
and woman on the premises,
including the retreat’s direc-
tor. He closes his eyes when
he puts his hands in the dirt,
and tells Olivia her hands are
like the Buddha’s; he re-
minds her of her father. As
they must, each of the girls
has daddy issues.
Temple is an excellent
writer. A senior editor at
LitHub, she has written pro-
lifically on everything from
one-star Amazon reviews to
the enduring allure of Mary
Gaitskill’s “Bad Behavior.”
Clearly an omnivorous
reader and researcher, Tem-
ple has stitched together a
textured patchwork of spir-
itual myths, enlightenment
allegories, anecdotes of
saints and levitation theo-
ries. She swings between
Olivia’s arc and these magpie
nests of ideas like an acrobat
leaping from one trapeze to
another. Sometimes these di-
gressions foreshadow; other
times they function as par-
ables, pointing out religion’s
absurdity and false promises.
Often, I found myself more
interested in these stories
than the main narrative, see-
ing them through Temple’s
lens as interpreted by a wom-
an wounded by the futility of
cause on one hand, I’m
deeply hopeful. But on the
other hand, we are all per-
formers. My hope is that the
performance in the moment
does not dissipate, does not
evaporate from our collective
consciousness.
And that it is the first step
of deep structural change,
which includes everything
from certain people vacating
posts of leadership, ground-
level financial redistribution
of wealth and finances, redis-
tribution of time.
I accept the emotion of
the moment, but I hope that
the emotion of the moment is
fuel to continue change.
Could you talk about your
own experience as a Black
woman who has made it in
theater?
On one hand, I’m grateful
for the success of “Pass
Over.” When I think about my
experience and when I think
about where I am as far as my
relationship with my artistic
self, I still see that I have so
much to learn. This is a mo-
ment where I’m stepping
back and letting the people
who I look to as successes
lead me and teach me.
What has it been like for you
in theater? What challenges
have you faced within the
institution of theater?
I will go to the hopeful
side. My experience of myself
as a Black woman in the
theater feels so deeply inter-
twined and interconnected
with my Black female peers.
seeking.
For a certain kind of
reader (raised perhaps on
Tartt, Temple’s more plot-
forward forebear), this struc-
tural experiment may prove
tedious, backgrounding what
purports to be a thrilling nar-
rative in favor of a rich medi-
tation on the nature of desire
and belonging, on what is lost
while chasing illusions and on
the scars of growing up a girl.
To paraphrase another cliché
of the seeker, the journey is far
more interesting than the
destination.
Despite the improbability
of Olivia’s circumstances —
practicing ikebana (contem-
plative flower arranging) and
oryoki (mindful eating);
spending unsupervised days
eating chocolates in Serena’s
glamped-out tent; plucking
cigarettes from a silver case
and discussing the mechan-
ics of desire and suffering —
the story of four wayward
girls attempting magic is a di-
verting one, especially when
woven through with Temple’s
sensually wrought land-
scapes and delicious impres-
sions of adolescent hunger.
At times, “The Lightness” is
overwritten, concerned with
the shape of itself in a way
that derails the locomotion of
the narrative (like the occa-
sionally self-indulgent Tartt),
but it’s also a promising qual-
ity in a debut novelist.
Of course, when the bad
thing in this novel does come,
we already know what it is —
but more absorbing than the
inevitable tragedy is the way
Olivia analyzes it, casting the
event through a kaleidoscope
of interpretations, attempt-
ing to reason through what it
might mean. In the end, it
isn’t the lightness she was af-
ter but the desire to find
something beyond herself,
beyond the self; and desire, as
she reminds us, is the root of
all suffering.
Pariseau is a writer and
editor in New Orleans.
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Darrett Sanders
And so, my growth is deeply,
deeply connected to the
growth of other Black women
playwrights like Katori Hall,
like Dominique [Morisseau],
like Lynn Nottage, like Aziza
Barnes, like C.A. Johnson.
Yes, I have faced institu-
tional racism. Yes, I have felt
like I’m knocking on a wall
that doesn’t even have a door.
But I never feel like I’m doing
that by myself, in this mo-
ment, in real time.
Whereas when I look to
some of my ancestors and
some of the women that I
learned from one, two gen-
erations back, it feels like
their reporting on what they
faced was so much more
isolated and singular. I’m
thinking of people like Adri-
enne Kennedy. I’m thinking
of people like Seret Scott; —
I’ve worked with her now.
I have to lead with grati-
tude if I’m going to have a
good evening. And part of my
gratitude is I never feel like
I’m fighting alone.
Are there any experiences
that you’ve found particu-
larly uplifting?
Everything that hap-
pened at Steppenwolf was
uplifting. The way the Chi-
TAC [Chicago Theater Ac-
countability Coalition] com-
munity lifted me up. I felt
seen and taken care of by
people who were strangers to
me. And I still have connec-
tions and relationships with
people where it’s again the
sense that you’re not fighting
alone.
By Anousha Sakoui
Look who’s talking!
The Duke and Duchess of
Sussex, who are settling into
life in Los Angeles, have
signed on with the New York-
based Harry Walker Agency
for speaking engagements,
according to a person famil-
iar with their plans.
The couple, whose profes-
sional interests and every
move have been scrutinized,
will be engaging in moder-
ated discussions and keynote
speeches with trade associa-
tions, corporations and com-
munity forums, said the per-
son, who declined to be iden-
tified.
They will focus on social
issues such as racial justice,
gender equity and environ-
mental concerns. They will
also speak on mental health;
Prince Harry has shared his
own struggles with grief and
has championed emotional
health initiatives and organi-
zations in recent years. The
appointment of Harry
Walker, tasked with fielding
and sourcing speaking op-
portunities, heralds the cou-
ple’s return to public plat-
forms as they seek to pro-
mote their philanthropic
foundation Archewell.
Fans and critics alike have
been waiting to see how the
couple will deploy their sig-
MEGHAN and Harry’s next move is signing with the
high-profile speaking agency Harry Walker Agency.
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When we share those
stories, when we collectivize,
it becomes a more socialist
model. A model where
phrases that seemed crazy,
like the redistribution of
wealth or universal health-
care, can actually become
realistic.
What kind of specific and
actionable changes would
you like to see theater gate-
keepers make to move the
culture forward, past the
social media posts?
The complete upheaval of
leadership at institutions of
every size. The redistribu-
tion of institutional money
and the transparency of how
that money is spent. A radi-
cal reimagining of the audi-
ences in these institutions —
so who are we spending the
money on? And who are we
spending the money for so
that the artistic offerings
themselves are attractive
across class, race, gender
narratives. I think all of those
are intertwined, because
when leadership changes,
vision changes, hiring prac-
tices change. Every decision
point changes.
Is there anyone who is doing
this kind of work now or
institutions already on the
path toward this model?
I think about Nataki
Garrett at Oregon Shakes
[Oregon Shakespeare Festi-
val]. I think about Stephanie
Ybarra at Baltimore Center
Stage. I think we were in the
precursor conversation
about this. And now, be-
cause of the combination of
pandemic plus everybody
has the time, plus deep
unrest, I think those begin-
ning steps are now maybe
not enough.
What are you working on
now and what’s next for
you?
I am right now going back
to square one in doing the
personal work so that when I
do begin to write again for
the stage, I will know myself
and I will have divested
myself of some of my own
internalized, institutional
racism and the wounds that
I’ve had. And then for paying
my bills, I’m working on TV,
film stuff.
If I could write the perfect
play to heal the world — but
I’m not, I can’t do it by my-
self. That’s the thing, the
hope and the cynicism are
there but I’m investing in the
hope. What a moment —
how do people create things
right now? I don’t know.
nificant cultural capital and
which causes they will sup-
port since stepping back
from front-line royal duties in
the U.K.
Since leaving the U.K, the
couple’s appearances have
largely been in private. Prince
Harry spoke at a private JP
Morgan event in Miami —
where he reportedly dis-
cussed mental health — and
both he and his wife have par-
ticipated in video calls with
charities they support. As the
coronavirus health crisis
moves into a new phase, with
the reopening of many as-
pects of public life, the couple
could now return to speaking
on stages.
But don’t expect them to
be spilling the beans on the
inner workings of Harry’s
family; there are no plans to
accept any speaking engage-
ments about the royal life
they have left behind.
By choosing the Harry
Walker Agency to represent
them, they join an A list of
Hollywood entertainers as
well a s some of the world’s
most sought-after Demo-
cratic politicos: Michelle and
Barack Obama, Hillary and
Bill Clinton and rising party
star Stacey Abrams.
It’s a high-profile signing
for for the speaking agency,
which was acquired by last
year by Endeavor, the parent
company of WME.
Chris Jackson AP
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SUDOKU
KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Body, mind and soul are in-
terconnected, and the fit-
ness of one will be communi-
cated through the other two.
Breathe energy into your
weaker modality.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): You will either commit
completely or pretend you
are completely committed to
the task, recognizing how
important it is to the team
that you appear unified.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
When someone asks you to
do something, you naturally
default to “yes.” This agree-
ableness will be the start of
an adventure.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Emotional stability can be
exercised and built, giving
you a core of strength that is
even more attractive than a
six-pack of abs.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You’ve known both introver-
sion and extroversion and
CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Joe Deeney
ACROSS
1 Text
5 Nutmeg spice
9 Newton trio
13 Bahrain bigwig
14 Norse god
15 Out of the wind
16 Fur wrap
17 Log flume, e.g.
19 Husky hello
20 Whitman’s “When Lilacs
Last in the Dooryard
Bloom’d,” e.g.
22 Odds alternative
23 Connection need at
some coffee shops
25 Classic 1953 western
26 Charge
27 Telluride automaker
28 Direction opp. 8-Down
30 “Avatar” actress
Saldana
32 Parking ticket holder,
perhaps
36 Iraqi money
38 Cricket club
39 That’s a wrap!
40 Cut into
43 “The Last Jedi” heroine
44 Cholesterol letters
45 Kid
46 Alias letters
48 Like proofed dough
50 Late 19th-century
smoking establishment
55 Ached (for)
56 Nearly boil
57 Wt. units
58 Start to turn mushy,
maybe
60 Artifact
62 Part of CPA: Abbr.
63 Map line
64 With 67-Across, doctor’s 21 Movie mogul Marcus
order ... and a hint to
40-, 50- and 58-Across
65 Olympus neighbor
66 Sicilian volcano
67 With 64-Across,
like a town lacking
restrictions ... and a hint 30 Old storage devices
to 17-, 23- and 32-Across 31 Quips
DOWN
1 Lab glassware eponym
2 “Gotta go!”
3 Zilch
4 Aegean country
5 Worked in the yard
6 “Opposites attract,” for
one
are now an “ambivert,” as
situations may make you feel
outgoing or closed up.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
What the others want may
not be desirable, possible or
convenient to you, but you’ll
hear them out anyway.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Little in life is more valuable
than a true friend’s uncondi-
tional support. You’ll experi-
ence the pure love of an ex-
change without motive.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
In uncertain circumstances,
it is only human to rely on as-
sumptions. Be superhuman
instead. Let go of what you
know and reserve judgment
as you absorb the truth.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): Not knowing where
to start leads to procrastina-
tion. You’ll have the oppor-
tunity of leading the way.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Too many choices can be
overwhelming; not enough,
boring. You’ll find your sweet
spot of options, but don’t as-
sume it’s the same for all.
7 Highway alternative
8 Direction opp.
28-Across
9 Insect stage
10 Dell gaming brand
whose name was
inspired by “The
X-Files”
11 Camel’s favorite time?
12 Has eyes on
16 Toothed tool
18 Fixes up
24 “My concern is ... ”
25 Elton John’s title
27 __ diet: high-fat, low-
carb regimen
29 Former Chinese
Premier __ Jiabao
33 “As if!”
34 Legal __
35 Calif. NFLer
36 Cry from Homer
37 Not family-friendly
41 Large load
42 __ salon
47 “Web Therapy” actress
Lisa
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6/25/20
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Some thought patterns
are like riptides. Fighting
them head-on can be futile.
Relax and be carried. Wait
for the break — it’s coming —
and you can swim to shore.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): Relax your expectations
and accept that your best is
always relative to the mo-
ment. You can push yourself,
but be kind about it.
Today’s birthday (June
25): Spiritual investigation
and development lead you to
make practical improve-
ments. In the next 10 weeks,
your interests shift and
friendship circle widens.
The influence of new people
leads to lifestyle upgrades.
2021’s start has a romantic
feel. Big projects bring big
money. Pisces and Sagittari-
us adore you. Your lucky
numbers: 9, 40, 22, 17, 30.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
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49 Sleeping
giant
50 Heist mastermind of
film
51 Bamboo eater
52 Meted (out)
53 Internet issue
54 Foreign policy
advisory gp.
55 Slightly, in scores
56 Difficult position
59 Fury
61 Prefix with center
ANSWER TO
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BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
“I’ll never forget the first
time I saw a universal re-
mote. I thought, ‘This
changes everything.’ ” —
graffiti
At today’s four spades,
South finessed with dum-
my’s queen on the first dia-
mond, and East won and led
the jack of clubs: king, ace.
West took the queen and led
a third club.
South ruffed and needed
the rest of the tricks. He
went to the ace of diamonds
and let the jack of hearts
ride, and the finesse won.
South continued with the 10
... and it won.
“One-half of all finesses
are supposed to win,” South
mumbled. “I was out of luck
in both minor suits, so fi-
nesses in both majors
ASK AMY
Rewrite the abusive script
Dear Amy: My father was
judgmental, critical, mean
to my mother, and generally
lacking in empathy or love. I
can’t remember him ever
saying “I love you” to any of
us. He would start fights
with Mom that made every-
one uncomfortable.
My mother died in 2007.
She modeled good parent-
ing, and we never ques-
tioned her love for us.
I’m now married (12
years, second time). I con-
sciously vowed never to be
like my dad.
I recently visited my
brother and his wife. During
my visit, I immediately rec-
ognized the behavior I de-
tested in my dad, coming
from my brother. He con-
stantly belittled his wife, and
was impatient and critical.
Recently, I started recog-
nizing my father in me! Inno-
cent little arguments with
my wife became big ridicu-
lous fights (usually dragged
on by me). I started using my
dad’s (and brother’s) same
belittling language and an-
gry tendencies when talking
to my young children.
I have tried so hard to
model what I remember
from my mother’s loving and
gracious behavior — I tell my
kids and wife I love them all
the time. I intentionally do
everything I can do to be a
caring, loving husband and
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn
BLISS By Harry Bliss
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
should win.”
So South next led a spade
to his jack, and West took the
queen. Down one.
South’s percentage play
in spades was to finesse, but
East’s defense changed
everything. If East had Q-
x-x in trumps — a finesse
would win — East would
have covered the 10 of hearts,
preventing the finesse.
South should take the A-K of
trumps. The fall of the queen
sees him home.
Question: You hold: ♠ A
K J 9 6 ♥ A K 9 4 ♦ 4 3 ♣ K 9.
The dealer, at your right,
opens one club. You double,
and your partner bids one
diamond. What do you say?
Answer: You have a fine
hand, but your partner may
have zilch. He had to re-
spond to your double de-
spite no points and a ragged
diamond suit. Bid one
father. But I am now recog-
nizing these demons from
my father and I’m scared.
Is this normal? Is there a
way to quash this behavior?
I want my kids and family to
love me and remember me
for being a loving father, not
an angry, belittling jerk.
Scared in Denver
Dear Scared: You are not
consigned to behave as your
father did. You have every
advantage — you have your
mother’s good example, and
you possess both awareness
and the desire to change.
Stress will bring out
these very old scripts, but
you can intentionally rewrite
them, with your wife’s help.
Sit with her during a calm
moment and talk about how
you escalate these argu-
ments. Use “I” statements
and never “you” statements.
So — “YOU are a so-and-so”
becomes “I feel angry/upset/
out of control right now.”
Many “I love yous” do not
erase one “You’re worth-
less.” Always apologize, and
be specific about what you
are apologizing for. To your
kids: “I’m so sorry I said that
to you. I’m not being a good
dad to you when I talk that
way. My dad acted like that
and I know how scary it is to
be yelled at and called
names. I’m going to remind
myself to take a deep breath,
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
spade. When you double be-
fore bidding a suit, you
promise at least 17 points. If
partner has anything, you
will hear from him again.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable
NORTH
♠843
♥ J 10 5
♦AQ75
♣764
WEST EAST
♠Q2 ♠ 10 7 5
♥87 ♥Q632
♦ J 10 9 2 ♦K86
♣AQ853 ♣ J 10 2
SOUTH
♠AKJ96
♥AK94
♦43
♣K9
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1♠ Pass 2♠ Pass
4♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ J
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count to 10 and stop myself
from saying hurtful things
that I don’t mean.”
Dear Amy: When I was re-
cently widowed, there were
many depressing chores to
get through, but some of the
financial surprises could
have been avoided.
My husband had sub-
scribed to some businesses
that were directly billed to
our credit cards. I only be-
came aware of them as deliv-
eries were made, some of
which had no return address
or contact number.
Unscrambling them was
a nasty, time-consuming job.
To compound matters,
one credit card vendor I con-
tacted to report my hus-
band’s death summarily
canceled MY card, despite
our spotless credit record.
My advice is: Be sure you
share with your partner ALL
of your account information.
It will spare them so much
heartache and stress.
Not a Financial Wizard
Dear Wizard: Thank you
for this lesson. Now that so
many have automatic billing
and don’t see a paper bill,
sorting this out could be a
challenge at a tough time.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.
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Multiuse arts venue is readied
[Compound, from E1]
ple to heal and come to-
gether.”
That the complex has
multiple outdoor spaces — to
be used for yoga, meditation
and gardening classes as well
as artist talks, live music and
film screenings — will help
address safety concerns,
Tagliaferri said. Exhibitions
will be free and visitors can
walk in off the street.
Like other culture venues
reopening after novel co-
ronavirus closures, Com-
pound will follow public safe-
ty protocols such as providing
hand sanitizer and social dis-
tancing markers.
Tagliaferri, a member of
the Scripps media family —
her great-great grandfather
was Edward Willis Scripps,
who founded the E.W. Scripps
Co. — funded the $1.2-million
adaptive reuse project, which
she designed in conjunction
with BOA Architecture of
Long Beach. Compound will
rely on revenue from chef Ja-
son Witzl’s restaurant Ellie’s,
a farm-to-table Italian deli,
plus a gift shop and public
programming grants to stay
afloat. “And I’m committing
my resources, over time,”
Tagliaferri said.
Tagliaferri looked to other
venues for inspiration, noting
the indoor-outdoor flow of
Hauser & Wirth in downtown
L.A., the “sense of community
and service and warmth” of
the Underground Museum in
L.A.’s Arlington Heights
neighborhood and the artist
commissions taking place at
Ballroom Marfa in Texas.
Compound’s exhibitions
will be in two warehouse-
turned-gallery spaces joined
by the courtyard. One space
will be dedicated to rotating,
thematic exhibitions. The in-
augural “Chaos to Cosmos”
will include paintings, sculp-
ture and photography along
with video and film installa-
tions by artists such as Helen
Pashgian, Gisela Colon,
Billy Al Bengston, Lita
Albuquerque, Fred Eversley
and Eamon Ore-Giron — all
works from Tagliaferri’s per-
sonal collection.
Made a soundtrack fit for an uprising
[Run the Jewels, from E1]
because I’m tired of seeing
black men die.”
But he also said, “I am
duty-bound to be here to sim-
ply say that it is your duty not
to burn your own house down
for anger with an enemy. It is
your duty to fortify your own
house, so that you may be a
house of refuge in times of or-
ganization.”
Not long after, he and Run
the Jewels partner El-P put
out “RTJ4,” their fourth stu-
dio album, which predated
the uprisings but feels like a
flash-bang grenade thrown
back at the systemic failures
that got us to this moment.
Tracks like “Walking in the
Show” and “The Yankee and
the Brave” foresaw the fury
over cops killing unarmed
Black men and women and
the measures people might
take to stop them.
But before any could take
place, the June 12 killing of
Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta
police once again threw the
city into turmoil. Was any
place actually a refuge? Could
all this momentum for
change actually stick?
Between the release of
“RTJ4” and Brooks’ killing,
Killer Mike (Mike Render)
and El-P (Jaime Meline)
spoke with The Times about
why cities were burning,
what’s worth building on and
how to make sense of this
overwhelming moment in
American history.
Did the uprising change
how you saw this record in
the world?
El-P: We wrote the record
in 2019, and we wanted to put
it out in April, but then the
industry fell apart. For me,
and I’m sure for Mike, the
context in which this drops
and what everyone’s tuned
into now has been over-
whelming. It’s not a victory
that people have been feeling
this pain, but it’s powerful
because people are moved by
what we’re doing. We know
the second our records aren’t
relevant is when we inch
toward a utopian society. I for
one am willing to make that
sacrifice if I can be a dodder-
ing old paranoid dude.
How do you feel about how
the music industry is or isn’t
meeting the demands of this
moment? What should
Black artists be demanding
from the business now?
Killer Mike: We deserve
ownership as artists. People
who made you tons of money
COMPOUND , a $1.2-million adaptive reuse project, will house art, with music and film planned for outdoors.
That exhibition, Firsten-
berg said, was planned years
ago but feels timely in that it
deals with notions of peace
and the sublime and offers
hope.
“It’s looking at intergener-
ational artists, and the inten-
tion was to create an acces-
sible, cultural oasis,” Firsten-
berg said. “We’re not shifting
gears and responding to this
time, but the work we have in
place will resonate — looking
to the light at the end of the
tunnel of this moment.”
Compound’s other exhib-
ition space, called the Labo-
ratory, will have rotating im-
mersive and interactive in-
stallations, all commissioned
works, that will stay on view
for six to eight months. For
now, to aid with social dis-
tancing, only one individual
at a time will be allowed in-
side the immersive exhib-
itions, and timed, online res-
ervations are needed.
The inaugural showing,
“Tidepools” by L.A. artist
RUN THE JEWELS’ Killer Mike, left, and El-P perform at the Regent in L.A. in
2015. Their touring plans for this year were halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
20 years ago, they deserve to
be in. Be hiring from the
people you’re pulling talent
from — they shouldn’t have a
white boss to answer to.
Getting rid of your “urban
music” department serves
what purpose? Black music
is already marginal com-
pared to other art. You make
it for cheaper and sell it for
more. I haven’t often seen the
industry do the right thing.
I’d like to see the people who
made the music have jobs
and make sure the actual
culture is there, not just
empty well wishes.
El-P: There’s no longer a
vise grip on the output of
music. But at the same time,
there’s no political perfect
solution for every artist.
There are really simple
solutions, but people are
tired of symbolic ones. How
come every time there’s s—
going down, someone brings
up “Gone With the Wind,”
like every redneck is watch-
ing that on weekends? I’m
convinced people use that
simply to distract from the
fundamental conversation.
On Twitter, you let the world
know you’re a good person,
but that’s not where it ends.
Like, “I wanna thank every-
one for tweeting, that really
turned the tide.”
“Walking in the Snow” is
sadly prescient for the
current uprising about
police brutality. Do you
think people are ready to
reckon with this?
Killer Mike: This mo-
ment literally brought people
into the streets to rage
against systems. It’s just ripe
Glenn Kaino, consists of two
installations and a sound
bath. The first installation is
a “cloud chamber” that
Kaino collaborated on with
friends at NASA’s Jet Propul-
sion Laboratory. Firstenberg
described it as “a dream-like
environment,” at once sculp-
tural and immaterial. The
second installation is a wish-
ing well; it incorporates ex-
periments with biolumines-
cent algae that Kaino con-
ducted with consulting scien-
tist Dean Sauer. Visitors toss
coins into the well, and seem-
ingly magical effects play
with our concepts of visibility
and invisibility.
“When we hear of experi-
ential installations, we think
of spectacle,” Firstenberg
said. “This is really the oppo-
site impulse, it’s really about
intimacy. He’s thinking
about what an art of hope
looks like.”
The commissions pro-
gram is central to Com-
pound, Firstenberg said.
to call bull—. What was radi-
cal was not that they burned
Targets, but they burned
down police stations. That’s
how we let government know
we’re fed up with this. Even
now, people are strategizing,
mobilizing, and you’ve al-
ready seen laws change on
the ground. Nothing would
have happened in a legisla-
ture. People aren’t talking
about getting rid of police
departments, it’s about
getting rid of militarizing.
Do police need a tank full
of riot gear? When people
hear “defund police,” we’re
talking about radically
changing the way people see
police.
El-P: In N.Y.C., there are
$6 billion annually for the
NYPD, so it’s logical to say,
“Hey, wouldn’t that money
reduce crime and reduce
poverty? Isn’t it a rejection of
a functioning society, trying
to roll a tank through it?”
Everyone’s going to latch
onto semantics, but no, I just
don’t think police should
have an aircraft carrier. Y’all
can barely get your own rules
right. Chokeholds have been
banned forever. When Eric
Garner was killed, that was a
lethal force that was already
banned, yet we have a mayor
who was so much of a coward
that he can’t even bring
himself to admit his job is to
enforce current laws.
“Yankee and the Brave”
sounds like it was inspired
by Christopher Dorner, the
ex-LAPD officer who went
on a killing spree to take
revenge on the department
that fired him. Was it?
Works include a neon text in-
stallation on the facade by
New York-based Tavares
Strachan that reads “You Be-
long Here” and a series of
site-specific, abstract ce-
ramic works by L.A. artist
Anna Sew Hoy in the sculp-
ture garden that Firstenberg
describes as “serene, medita-
tive, discreet.” The next site-
specific commission will be
by New York artist Leslie
Hewitt.
Ultimately, Tagliaferri
said, Compound aims to be a
destination where “culture
shifts consciousness.” Given
the urgency of the times —
the COVID-19 crisis, the econ-
omic uncertainty and the
anti-racism protests taking
place across the country —
Compound is launching two
initiatives before September,
“a way we can get content to
people immediately,” she
said.
The online journal Com-
pound-ed is set to launch
Thursday with essays and in-
Lawrence K. Ho Los Angeles Times
Killer Mike: It wasn’t. It’s
just a fantasy for every Black
dude who has been harassed
by cops. It’s what you wish
could happen to the bad
guys. I remember Tupac’s
“Souljas Story.” I used to
bump the hell out of that
record. I loved it because it
represented the possibility of
what could have been. I don’t
want to sacrifice myself to be
a martyr, but I want to say
this, and there’s something
freeing about saying it.
El-P: That song is an
action movie about crooked
cops. Why is everyone in the
streets right now? Because
when a police officer hurts
and kills, it’s the biggest
betrayal. You’re the biggest
villain you can be, because
you have a sacrosanct honor
to protect people. If you
don’t want to be the villain in
a RTJ song, there’s a pretty
easy way not to be one.
Mike, you’ve been speaking
on these ideas for years, but
did you struggle with how to
frame all this, especially for
people in Atlanta?
Killer Mike: I got a call
from the mayor’s office
asking to help. I didn’t real-
ize cops had been ready to
push in, and the mayor was
holding them off. People
were rioting, and rightfully
so. I refused for an hour. I
wanted to stand in solidarity
with my friends. But I’ve got
cousins who are police offi-
cers, officers I know to be of
integrity. I was speaking on
the dilemma they were in. I
had no idea what I was going
to say, I just told the truth.
There’s a framework in
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
CH Design Studio
terviews with artists. Com-
pound has also partnered
with the COVID-relief initia-
tive Artist Relief to produce
weekly artist-made wellness
videos, such as meditations
and poetry readings, posted
on YouTube and Instagram
every Monday.
Next up: a 2021 exhibition
and talk series focusing on
the intersection of art and ac-
tivism. Strachan, along with
community organizer and
2014 MacArthur fellow Rick
Lowe and the late Under-
ground Museum cofounder
Noah Davis are among the
artists who will be featured.
“While we’re going
through this difficult trans-
formational time, we will
need to come back together,
to stimulate empathy and
growth,” Tagliaferri said. “I
just wanted a space where
people can be in community
and be nurtured. There’s a lot
of healing that is needed, and
we are that warm, open
space.”
Atlanta, an American experi-
ment that has often worked
for people who looked like
me. The police department
that my father represented
— not that it’s worked to
perfection, but for 45 years of
life, I’ve seen nothing but
Black leadership, and been
patrolled by black officers.
All my heroes and villains
looked like me. I got to judge
people on the content of their
character and not their skin.
Economically, socially,
Atlanta is a fortress in the
war against white suprema-
cy, and we shouldn’t burn our
fortress down. If we can’t
plan, if we can’t strategize
and organize in a city like
Atlanta, we’re lost. I’d like to
see more Black enclaves, I
don’t want to burn them
down. I come from the com-
munity T.I. comes from, that
[Mayor] Keisha Bottoms
comes from — the west side
of Atlanta. We were raised by
salt-of-the-earth Black peo-
ple, and what I’m doing is no
different than what [civil
rights leader] Hosea
Williams did, or my grand-
parents did.
Jaime, what’s been your
thinking about the best
ways for white people to
actually help right now?
El-P: The foundation of
why I can be on these records
without blinking is because I
know I’m real and genuine
about this. Particularly for
white, liberal empathetic
people who think they’re
good guys, there’s gonna be
no victory until you put your
heart in. It’s gotta become
part of your fiber, that of-
fense to another human —
Black, Native, trans, whoever
it may be — you have to feel
that. You have to be as of-
fended and outraged as you
would for someone in your
own family.
You can imagine you’re a
good person, but now imag-
ine giving up that life to be a
good person. It’s scary. Peo-
ple like being a good person,
but also are like, “Ehhh, I’m
not ready to give this up that
I didn’t earn.” And that’s how
they get you.
Killer Mike: My grand-
mother would tell me, “The
world will show you.” It
seemed we didn’t care about
police brutality, but now it’s
in all our faces, it’s non-nego-
tiable.
I appreciate people taking
to the streets, and I hope we
take that into November and
into next year.
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SHE’S IN
DEEP NOW
Laura Linney’s ‘Ozark’ character can’t seem
to avoid trouble, and the stakes keep rising
BY GREGORY ELLWOOD
O
VER THREE
seasons, the charac-
ter of Wendy Byrde
on Netflix’s buzz-
worthy drama
“Ozark” has shown
increasingly ques-
tionable scruples. She’s dramati-
cally transformed from a stay-at-
home mom in suburban Chicago
to a shady riverboat casino op-
erator in the Ozarks to finding
herself in deep with a drug king-
pin. Yet you often can’t help
rooting for her to, if not succeed
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
at her schemes, then to at least
survive each new predicament,
thanks to Laura Linney’s consis-
tently compelling performance.
And if you ever wonder if Lin-
ney’s having a blast playing her,
well, of course she is.
“She’s tremendously fun to
play,” Linney says enthusiasti-
cally. “It’s actually pretty far
away from who I am on a daily
basis. So to be able to play some-
one who just acts and moves and
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reacts in a sort of primal way and
follows a very deep instinct
instantly without even thinking
about it is pretty fun.”
The third season of the
Emmy-nominated drama found
Wendy and her husband, Marty
( Jason Bateman), increasingly at
odds with each other over their
ever more precarious status as
money launderers for the fic-
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tional Navarro drug cartel. Com-
plicating matters was the unex-
pected arrival of Wendy’s brother
Ben (Tom Pelphrey), a bipolar
loner who becomes an increasing
liability, and the fact that Helen
Pierce (Janet McTeer), Navarro’s
U.S.-based lawyer, relocates to
S4
the Ozarks to keep a close watch
THE CONTENDERS
over the the Byrdes.
For longtime fans, it’s obvious
Wendy’s actions in the third
season become more manipula-
tive and riskier than ever before.
Many actors who play “bad”
characters have to put that aside
for context, but in Linney’s eyes
that conflict is a key element in
her portrayal.
“She knows she’s a mess and I
think she’s racked with guilt and
she just doesn’t know how to
handle herself,” Linney suggests.
“She’s an extremely impulsive,
instinctive person. She’s reactive
but she’s not mature, and she’s
smart but not wise. She is not an
upstanding citizen, that’s for
sure.”
That might also make you
wonder why Wendy and her
husband keep putting their
teenage children in mortal dan-
ger. Linney states the obvious,
noting, “A lot of horrible people
love their children.” And the idea
of just trying to get out of the
nefarious business operation
before it’s too late? That’s not an
option for her, at least in Linney’s
mind.
“She sees the only way out is
to go further in, or she wants to
go further in for whatever uncon-
scious decisions she makes
there,” Linney says.
Without spoiling too much of
Wendy’s arc for the third season,
it should be noted that a number
of the later episodes showcase
some of Linney’s best work on
the series. It may have been an
emotionally grueling shoot for
her, but from the four-time
Emmy winner’s perspective, it
was tough for the entire crew.
“I mean, you really do have to
be all in. You have to really show
up and really be ready to go and
not waste time and be precise and
yet free and flexible,” Linney
says. “But we were all tired at the
end of the season. Actually, Tom
Pelphrey reminded me of this.
One of our last few days of film-
ing [found everyone battling
something]. Someone’s back was
out, someone had insomnia,
someone had a rash, someone had
a twitch in their eyes. Like we
were all really, really tired. It was
a good tired, but it was physically
more challenging than normal.”
Linney credits showrunner
Chris Mundy and a crew that’s
been constant since the begin-
ning of the series for usually
keeping the days “pretty easy.”
“I always say, and it’s really
true, that when things are run-
ning well, the work is easy to do,
no matter what the content is,”
she adds of the series that shoots
largely in the Atlanta area. “But I
do have to say that those episodes
were tough. They were emotion-
ally draining. You have to be very
focused.”
The veteran of “Tales of the
City,” “John Adams” and “The Big
C” says it also helps that “Ozark”
is one of the best jobs she’s ever
Steve Dietl Netf lix
had and its crew is “by far” the ON “OZARK,”
best she’s worked with. She a onetime stay-
knows how rare it is to have such at-home mom
a great production around a played by Laura
series as acclaimed and popular Linney is now in
as this one. That simply doesn’t cahoots with a
happen very often. drug kingpin.
“A lot of times you’ll hear The arrival
about extremely popular shows of her troubled
and people hate each other and brother isn’t
it’s miserable and they’re really helping things.
unhappy,” Linney says. “And this
is not that situation, so I’m just
enjoying every second I can get.”
Netflix reported in its first
quarter results at the end of April
that it expected 29 million mem-
bers to watch the third season of
“Ozark” within its first four
weeks. That would be a dramatic
jump from its already solid Sea-
son 2 results. At the time of our
discussion in early spring, how-
ever, a fourth season still hadn’t
been greenlighted. But perhaps,
as Linney notes, it’s because of
real-world concerns.
“I mean, I have no idea how
we’re all going to go back to
work. I really don’t,” Linney says
of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I
don’t know what that’s going to
look like. Until there’s a vaccine, I
don’t know how that happens,
but they’ll figure it out.” 8
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H E T I T L E of Elisabeth
Moss’ and Yvonne Stra-
hovski’s Hulu series is
“The Handmaid’s Tale,”
but as fans of the show
(which went on hiatus
after filming several epi-
sodes of its fourth season due to the co-
ronavirus quarantine) know, it’s as much
about Wife Serena (Strahovski) as Hand-
maid June (Moss), who have a love-hate
magnetic relationship that threatens to end
in mutually assured destruction.
The two chatted on a video call from
Los Angeles (Strahovski) and New York
(Moss) mid-quarantine. And though the
conversation was well before the police
killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis,
each spoke strongly against injustice of
all kinds.
Serena and June didn’t cross over much
during Season 3, but are you friendly
during production? Or do you keep that
love-hate relationship going in real
time?
Strahovski: We hate each other.
Moss: Every time we cross paths, she
throws me up against a wall. It’s very awk-
ward for everybody in hair and makeup.
[Laughs] No, no … I mean, Yvonne and I
haven’t really gotten a chance to do a lot of
interviews about that relationship.
Strahovski: I don’t think we’ve ever had
an interview together. It’s crazy because the
Serena-June relationship is so pivotal.
Moss: I think that they are these two
sorts of titans that they’re so powerful and
interesting alone. And so when they cross
paths, it’s just this incredible explosion.
Are they destined to be each other’s
antagonists?
Moss: We talked last season a lot about
their love story. We felt like that D.C. me-
morial scene was a breakup. I get chills
talking about it because they did become
friends. And they do have so much in com-
mon. That scene was so heartbreaking
because it felt like a breakup between
friends.
Strahovski: They had come together
after going through all this tumultuous back
and forth, had come to some kind of middle
ground, only to realize that it was never
going to work.
Were either one of you familiar with
the other’s work prior to coming to
“Handmaid’s”?
Strahovski: I’ve watched a little “Mad
Men.”
Moss: When you work with someone,
the last thing you want to do is go home
and watch them in another show. Wouldn’t
it be amazing if I had never told you, “I am a
huge ‘Chuck’ fan,” and it turns out that was
the reason that you were on the show? It’s
like, [costar] Alexis [Bledel] when I finally
watched “Gilmore Girls.” I still don’t think
I’ve told her. It’s just too embarrassing to be
like, “I’ve seen all the episodes of your
show.”
We left Serena and June both in very
extreme circumstances behind enemy
lines at the end of Season 3. Do you
think they’ll always run in parallel
opposition?
Moss: I see them as so similar. That’s
what’s so tragic about them. They’re like
these two people who are in the same place,
but obviously it ends in the fight. United
they would be unstoppable, but they just
can’t quite get there.
Strahovski: Serena takes June’s bait all
the time because it’s nice for someone to
believe in Serena, it’s nice for someone like
June to look at Serena and see a good per-
son. That’s not something Serena gets every
day. So I think she loves it.
Do you think making “Handmaid’s” has
affected the way you personally per-
ceive the real world?
Moss: For sure. I’ve always considered
myself a feminist, but you can’t work on
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
something like this and not develop a larger
awareness of what’s going on around you.
Given current circumstances, we’re paying
a lot more attention.
Strahovski: It is impossible to ignore
what you’re a part of and how aligned it is.
The majority of the conversations I feel like
that we have outside of our “Handmaid’s”
family, it always steers right back to the
current issues of the world and whatever
Sophie Giraud Hulu it’s sparked within that person who’s
watched our show.
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How do you respond to people who
The tale within might say, “With everything going on in
the world right now, your show is awe-
some but also too hard to watch”?
Strahovski: I hear that all the time.
the ‘Tale’
Even for me when I watch it for the other
scenes [I wasn’t present for], it’s shocking.
I have a very strong emotional reaction.
And I too have to cap it; I can’t watch many
in a row. At the same time, I’ll say that it is
important to see that stuff and important to
Yvonne Strahovski and Elisabeth Moss know that when
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have this piece of art reflecting life, as art
their characters ‘cross paths, it’s just this incredible explosion’ often does.
Moss: We’re not unaware that it’s a
BY RANDEE DAWN difficult show to watch. We know exactly
why. What I always say is if you can’t watch
this fiction version of life and what’s going
on in the world, how are you going to be
able to look at what’s actually going on and
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T’S A CONFUSING
time, but Billy Crudup is here
to solve mysteries. For starters,
it’s pronounced “Crewed up”
(not “Crud-up,” as it has been
screwed up in the past). And
who is Cory Ellison, Crudup’s
character on “The Morning
Show,” really? When the
mirthful, brutally effective executive first
appears, he seems ready to jettison long-
time anchor Alex (Jennifer Aniston) for
younger blood (including Reese Wither-
spoon’s Bradley). But is he really the latest
hotshot corporate killer for the powers that
be? Or is he a handsome saboteur, a kind of
double agent taking aim at the patriarchy
while making a nice living doing it? And is
he a bit nutty?
The answers, of course, are yes.
How would you describe Cory?
An extremely capable leader with a facile
intellect and desire to create as much power
for himself as possible. There are any num-
ber of people in New York City who I’ve
encountered who have that kind of quick
capacity, ambition and obscured motivation
that makes them fascinating figures. Not
altogether trustworthy but certainly enter-
taining. It takes a certain kind of capitalist,
particularly one that has never met tremen-
dous failure, to have the kind of thrill Cory
seems to have with each new discovery.
He’s not embarrassed by what he feels is
an extension of the American dream, which
is: “Exploit every opportunity to gain fi-
nancial and social status.” It’s not necessari-
ly tied to morality or ethics or social code;
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it turns out Cory has [those], but they’re
veiled under all the ambition.
He looks like he’s having fun. He seems
to enjoy the jiujitsu of it all, rather than
trying to bulldoze everyone.
In martial arts there’s an appreciation for
someone who is greater than you. That
appreciation will typically take the form of
learning from them so you can grow, so you
can understand the way they countered
your typical tap-out move.
Cory’s got a great poker face. “I bet I
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know what hand you’re holding. And I bet I
know how attached you are to that hand.” If
he can read they’ve got a great hand and
they’re super-attached, he’ll just move on to
the next hand. [laughs] He’s playing the
long game. There’s a kind of social-scien-
tific aspect to his general demeanor that is
off-putting to some people and totally
curious and insane to other people. His
way of being is generally upbeat and his
way of interacting is strange, the way his
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mind works. So you could imagine he’s a
goofball, he’s not formidable, he’s failed
upward. That’s a wonderful mask to wear.
You’re constantly underestimated. [It] gives
you enormous power.
I was interested to see how he’d react to
Alex’s power play [when she springs a
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major surprise]. Would he be outraged
or would he say, ‘Game on!’?
She’s very predictable in the beginning
[to him]. Alex’s revelation that she still has
the motivation to stay in the game and be a
full-time player is a delight to him. That
changes the entire social-corporate equa-
tion. He’s had these [patterns] in his head
all the time of how people are going to
manage certain situations .... When the
situation changes, he’s not diminished by
that; he’s thrilled at the discovery of a new
addition to his social algorithm.
Were there anecdotes or people from
real life that inspired moments for him,
tactics or perhaps his point of view?
A friend of mine from college who is one
of the most interesting intellects I’ve en-
countered — he had enough AP credits
from high school that he only needed two
and a half years to graduate; also kind of a
hippie, thinking outside the box on a lot of
things. When he has an idea for something,
inevitably, he has this little giggle. It’s such
a thrill to him to have discovered some-
thing cool. So I had to bring that to Cory.
There’s a joy to the discovery.
Despite his hidden motivations, he
strikes me as baseline-honest. Is he
totally sincere when he gives his bio as
“Smart kid, dad left, I vowed to take
over the world someday and kick every-
body’s ass into submission”?
No question about it. His mom is a
touchstone, somebody who clearly shaped
his worldview. If you want to be ultra-
competitive in a capitalist environment like
present-day America, you will most often
be competing with rich, white males. Cory
has all the trappings of that, and it serves
him in those environments. But in his core,
he is for what I think the best version of the
American dream could be, a meritocracy.
You won’t get people exploiting their full
potential, if there’s not a level playing field.
That’s something I’ve discussed with
Apple
[showrunner Kerry Ehrin] that I thought
would be so fun: ‘What if this guy that
THE CONTENDERS we’re presenting as a part of the almost Evil
Empire has this agenda, almost like a
Outfoxing
scorched-earth policy, to blow up the
patriarchy?’
Season 2 has been confirmed?
We’d started production on Season 2 and
had to shut down [due to the pandemic].
everyone What’s the best part of being on this
show?
The rigor of the work. All those mono-
logues , and his easy-breezy attitude
[laughs]; that’s me putting my nose to the
Billy Crudup’s Cory Ellison is a spy in the house of grindstone. I get some of those monologues,
and I get a couple of weeks, sometimes a
capitalism in ‘Morning Show.’ Don’t underestimate either man. couple of days, to internalize them, and I
don’t memorize things as easily as I used to.
BY MICHAEL ORDOÑA And with Cory’s contorted intellect, I’ve
got to make all those links readily apparent
to myself so I can render it. All that and
working under the pressures of the TV
environment — it’s incredibly rewarding. 8
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 W EEKS BEFORE THE
Black Lives Matter protests broke out around the globe in the
wake of the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
Ahmaud Arbery and others, inclusivity, “otherness” and the
struggle for an essential humanity were already on the minds of
the eight actors gathered via video conference for The Envel-
ope’s annual Drama Roundtable conversation.
“All of us play these characters that society could perceive of
as ‘other’ and decide to limit the way that we deal with each
thing that’s probably driving
Holly is the search for the
truth, no matter what that
might be. She just is an
outsider because of the way
she processes things. She
finds it quite difficult in the
traditional sense to commu-
nicate with people. And I
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other’s depth as human beings and complexity. That is our job think her journey is about
as storytellers, to make people take pause and realize that human finding ways to find con-
beings, no matter who we are, we’re complicated and rich and nections. And in those
deep,” said Kerry Washington during the May 17 chat with L.A. connections, being able to
Times culture columnist LZ Granderson. “And whether we look express what truth is hers
like you or don’t look like you, there are elements to our story and what truth she believes
that are unique and precious,” the “Little Fires Everywhere” will help figure out the Pari Dukovic FX
actress added. problem that they’re all
Regina King stars as Angela Abar and her alter ego Sister facing. I do believe she’s on
Night in “Watchmen,” a series that launches its story with the the spectrum and I wanted All of that kind of pejora- playing Frank Tassone, our
TO SEE VIDEOS
1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Okla., before shifting into a fictional to make sure that that did FROM THIS TALK, tive language around being a job is to show every side of
aftermath. “What was really attractive to me about the character not mean that she didn’t GO TO feminist — you were a man it. To show, yes the back-
is this — which I think is something that so many humans expe- have the humanity that I LATIMES.COM/ENVELOPE. hater or anti-family — that ground, why this happens,
rience and don’t realize they’re experiencing — is this trauma believe everybody has. THE FULL EVENT actually came out of the because all of us are fallible.
WILL AIR JULY 1
that she’s inherited,” King said. “So much of her life right now is rhetoric of Phyllis Schlafly, All of us are susceptible to
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informed by that trauma [from the killings of Black residents Jeremy, your character SPECTRUM NEWS1
who was really protecting doing things we’re not
and business owners]. She’s kind of created this world where struggles to find his place what she saw as a commu- proud of. How is it possible
both within the family nist threat. I found it really that someone like Frank
being an outsider is actually conversation that veered company, but also in life challenging to play someone could go so far off from
a safe space to be.” from real-life depictions to itself. who you would think, “That being very respected,
Sandra Oh noted that the pandemic to polarizing Jeremy Strong: I think is so far away from my set of clearly motivated out of
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even when her casting
hasn’t involved her ethnic-
ity, she tries “to infuse more
pieces of me into my charac-
ter’s ethnicity and cultural
background. We carry our
culture, we carry our his-
tory,” the “Killing Eve” star
said.
“I was reading President
Obama’s commencement
speech, and it was talking
about being alive to one
another’s struggles at this
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stories. Their conversation
here has been edited for
clarity and length.
So many of your shows
deal with the themes of
belonging and trying to
find your place in this
world. Let’s start with
Kerry. What’s driving
your character in “Little
Fires Everywhere”?
Kerry Washington: I
think what’s driving Mia is
sort of the engine behind
this character is in the
disparity between who he is
and who he wants to be.
And the pain in that dispari-
ty. I’ve always loved the sort
of modern antihero. And I
think of Kendall Roy as a
sort of non-hero, an un-
hero, someone who’s been
anointed with this power,
and by birth and station is
required to act heroically,
but he’s not equipped to do
truth. And I thought that
was such a beautiful ideal to
sort of strive for. And one
thing —
Cate Blanchett: — To
fail by! It’s like, wow, how
do you live up to that?
Cate, a lot of people see
Phyllis Schlafly as the
villain of the fight for
the Equal Rights
Amendment. But she
was representing an
values” and to try and find
the points of similarity.
What was their childhood
like? What are they deeply
frightened of to behave in
such a polarizing way?
Hugh, you’re also playing
a character from a real
event, a school superin-
tendent convicted of
grand larceny. Do you
prefer real-life stories?
Hugh Jackman: Not
service to others, to being in
prison for four and a half
years? I find the cautionary
tale of that fascinating.
Regina, “Watchmen”
is interesting in that
you’re in an alternative
universe, but you use
very real conversations
in terms of race rela-
tions and what happened
in the past. Is that what
attracted you to it?

time” added “Succession”
actor Jeremy Strong. “It feels
like what you guys are
talking about and the way
that you’re doing that
through storytelling is a way
that we [as actors] might be
able to contribute to that, by
making that struggle alive
for the audience.”
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the determination to carve a
path for herself. Because I
think she has decided that
she doesn’t belong in any
traditional sense. And so her
fierce commitment to live
this kind of unapologetic life
outside of the boundaries of
normal culture is because
she’s created a world where
so. So he’s given this burden
that he can’t carry and is
constantly falling short of
the mark. Which is some-
thing I can identify with.
How so?
Strong: I mean, aspira-
tionally, as an actor, falling
short of a mark is something
existing perspective.
How did you find a
balance with that?
Blanchett: I identified
as a feminist, I thought it
was about equality. I didn’t
know it was a polarizing
issue in the States. And I
also thought that the Equal
Rights Amendment was
overly. There’s a weight of
responsibility added to it,
which I actually find chal-
lenging. It only struck me a
week ago that I’ve done two
films that portray the worst
moments of somebody’s life
[“Bad Education” and “The
Frontrunner” about the fall
of presidential candidate
King: Honestly, what
attracted me the most is that
Damon Lindelof was writing
it. Everything he does is
complex. It’s layered. It’s not
two-dimensional. But once I
got into the material beyond
the pilot script, what was
really attractive to me about
the character is that trauma

Cate Blanchett, who stars
in the limited series “Mrs.
America,” Hugh Jackman,
from the television movie
“Bad Education,” Nicole
Kidman of “Big Little Lies”
and Cynthia Erivo of “The
Outsider” joined in the
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she belongs just to her
daughter, where they belong
to each other and they kind
of reject any other need to
belong in other spaces or
with other people.
What about you, Cynthia?
Cynthia Erivo: The
that one feels, or I certainly
feel. I was doing a Conor
McPherson play years and
years ago, and Conor Mc-
Pherson wrote in the liner
notes that his characters
have been summoned by
God to the stage to tell the
ratified. So it was a huge
journey for me to discover
that in fact, there was an
equal and opposite move-
ment in traditional women
who felt marginalized by the
social revolution ... in the
1970s.
Gary Hart]. You realize that
the Gary that I played is still
alive, and it’s still very
painful. So you have to have
a really good reason to want
to make the movie. And
obviously we did.
And the same with
that she’s inherited. So she
finds comfort in just having
created this little safe space
with her family and then
having an identity outside
of that small nucleus that’s
her family, and just naviga-
ting that.

REGINA KING ,
above, is a hero in
“Watchmen” and
Cate Blanchett,
opposite, is a hero
to some, villain
to others in “Mrs.
America.”
I’m used to seeing women
of color be demonstrative
and you perform with
such great nuance. What
was that like?
Sandra Oh: It’s pretty
great. As my authorship of
my own work has grown,
I’ve been trying to infuse
more pieces of my charac-
ter’s ethnicity and cultural
background. Like at the very
top of Season 3 in “Killing
Eve,” you see Eve in New
Malden [outside Central
London], which is actually
the largest gathering of
Koreans outside of Korea. I
wanted it to be set in a place
where Eve could try to
disappear for a while. It was
just a small bit of the show,
but I wanted to bring the
flavor of that because we
carry our culture, we carry
our history. And typically,
white Hollywood does not
write our culture, does not
write the depth of our
culture.
I remember talking to the
sound people, it’s like, “Hey
guys, you are layering in the
sound of me wearing shoes
in the house. I don’t wear
shoes. My character doesn’t
wear shoes. I know you
don’t see the feet. But don’t
layer in the sound of shoes
in the house, because that
doesn’t happen.” But maybe
these people, mostly white
English dudes, don’t know
that. It’s something that you
might not even think is
important, but it is because
that’s how we start building
the nuance of a character.
Kerry?
Washington: We have a
tendency in our representa-
tion of humanity to be really
reductive and to want to put
people in these kind of
limited boxes of identity.
One thing that was exciting
for us on “Little Fires” was
that the character of Mia in
the beautiful novel by Ce-
leste Ng was written am-
biguously with regard to
race. And so our choice to
make Mia Black, in some
ways represented a kind of
progress. The second layer
of what makes that matter is
then what Sandra was talk-
ing about, is being in the
writers room and saying,
“OK, if we’re going to make
her Black, how does that
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require the story to shift?
What are the elements that
we can pull out and grow,
what’s unique about her
experience?”
Nicole, your
character Celeste
seems to be fine,
but she’s struggling
internally.
Nicole Kidman: For us
in making a second season
was trying to deal with the
aftermath [of her husband’s
death in Season 1] and go,
“What is the truth?” Because
I think a lot of people
wanted the female charac-
ters to come out healed, and
strong, and capable, and all
of these things that would
have been satisfying. And
the truth is, particularly
with somebody like Celeste,
that’s not the case. It’s “Now
I have to actually deal with
all of these emotions that
come with the loss.” It’s
about, “I still want him,” and
that addiction to a person,
and the way in which that
plays out is really fascinat-
ing to me.
But also wanting to just
say something about being
able to explore all these
different cultures and ideas.
As a producer now, we have
a show that we’re looking to
do in Hong Kong, that has a
lead Korean female, has a
lead Chinese female, has a
lead American and a lead
British. And that future is so
exciting. But my gosh, with
what’s happened to the
world right now, it’s going to
get harder and harder. And
that’s terrifying. We need
people like Sandra, going,
“This is how you have to
adjust the writing.”
Oh: There is an equal
force: As soon as things start
opening up, we’re going to
start making this stuff, and
there is this other force that
comes in called a pandemic,
that seems to be stopping
the flow of making things in
a different way. And I’m
interested in how we in-
crease an interior type of
confidence and resilience
and clarity in what is es-
sential to make. This time
for me [in sheltering at
home] has been spent in
contemplation. And one of
the things that has come up
for me mostly is: What is
essential? And so even what
you’re saying, Nicole, it’s
like all of these things are
happening and now we have
all these other challenges. It
is up to us, who have some
ability and knowledge to
impart, to try and find these
different avenues.
Kidman: There’s so
many opportunities, we’ve
all been working so hard to
create these paths and just
trying to keep them open
and forging ahead ... but I
suppose that’s why I was so
excited to just have this
conversation, because I
haven’t had a lot of conver-
sations about what the
future holds, and how do we
keep doing this.
Oh: I am afraid, I’m sure
like we all are, that we’re
going to retract.
Blanchett: I think it’s
about keeping the conversa-
tion alive. Nothing is normal
anymore, but somehow the
conversations have been
much more open. People
have been more alive to
reimagining things in new
ways. So in fact, it’s a very
creative space that we find
ourselves in. It’s a devas-
tating space, for millions
and millions of people, but
it’s about attending to things
in a slightly different way —
the thing we have to do
every time we go into a
writer’s room. We have to
pretend that this story has
never been told before, and
we’re going to look left
rather than look right. I
think this has really shifted
people’s quality of listening.
I hope.
Erivo: There is some-
thing really wonderful as a
performer who’s in music
and acting; I’m watching
musicians literally take the
gear and shift in a different
way. People are finding
really wonderful creative
ways to still make music, to
still connect with others in
that way. And I think that as
performers, full stop, we
have this wonderful privi-
lege of being able to make
what we want. And so I
guess it’s not necessarily
where we’re going to make
it, or when; it’s how do we
shift and create something
that just feels and may look
different to what we’re used
to? And that way, we get to
open the doors to who we’re
talking to and who we create
with.
Jackman: I want to hear
the music immediately, so if
you wouldn’t mind singing
one of those songs now,
that’d be great. It’s funny,
but the whole world is sort
of experiencing something
unifying. Of course, the
experience is very different
for different people. And
that’s something we need to
really talk about. But in
terms of storytelling and
opportunities, it’s sort of
blossoming and who knows
what’s going to come out of
this? Because we need to
make sense of what’s hap-
pening, as a planet, as the
human race.
For those of you
who have ongoing
series, do you imagine
seeing some of these
story lines written in?
Strong: I have lobbied
hard to set [“Succession”]
very squarely in this [pan-
demic] moment that we’re
in. There’s [nearly 21 mil-
lion] people unemployed in
America, and I just read that
there’s an $800 takeaway
sushi box at Masa. And that
is something certainly that
speaks right to the core of
the show that I’m working
on. I would think that the
writers have to write from
this place that we’re in.
Surely, it’s the stuff of great
and real drama.
Washington: The
themes of “Little Fires” is
kind of what it means when
the haves meet the have-
nots and how you begin to
make sense of bridging the
divides between worlds and
parenting styles and ideol-
ogies and consumerism.
Because we’re more in
contact with the world than
we sometimes even know, I
think we’re already deeply
in the themes of what this
pandemic is all about. It’s
going to be there, this need
to kind of deal with our
hearts breaking down or
breaking open or breaking
in whatever ways they’re
breaking.
What has it been
like over the years
watching so many more
women be behind
the lens?
Erivo: What it’s been for
me particularly is inspira-
tional. Both Regina and
Kerry will know because
I’ve reached out to them. So,
if we do end up going into a
second season, one of the
things I’ve really required
was that there were more
women behind the camera
and that there were more
women that looked like me.
There is a lonely thing in
that, on this particular
series. I wanted to be able to
share that with people who
would understand what it is
to be a Black woman, and
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what it takes to create the
detail that this kind of
woman needs. It means that
I don’t have to find ways to
explain how I’m feeling or
explain why she has the
nails or ... those little details
that Sandra was talking
about that make us us.
Strong: I read something
that you said once about
being Harriet Tubman hard?
I thought it was great, but I
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also think it’s something
that everyone should sort of
take up the mantle of, you
know, right now.
Erivo: Yeah. Yeah. The
idea that if it isn’t as hard as
it was for her, then you can
probably get through it.
Whenever it got really
difficult [on set], the ques-
tion we would ask is, was it
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HTH? Which was Harriet
Tubman Hard, and if it
wasn’t HTH then we could
get through it and we’d keep
moving forward.
Washington: There’s the
message for the pandemic. 8
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HEY, MY TV
SOUNDS LIKE
AN ALBUM
The original song category is really grooving this year:
Janelle Monáe, the Weeknd and many more are in the mix
BY MICHAEL ORDOÑA

H E S T R E A M I N G E X P L O S I O N has wildly ramped up

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competition in all kinds of Emmy categories, with many more
contenders and many boundaries broken. The original songs
race is certainly no exception, since traditional contenders
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often find themselves competing these days against pop stars

and viral hits. ¶ Streamers such as Apple TV+, Netflix and
Disney+ bring new muscle to the fight. But will multiple win-
ners “Saturday Night Live” and the Tonys continue to rule with
their brand of novelty tunes? Here are some contenders for this year’s Emmy for
original song. ¶ As a bonus, these flow together nicely as a playlist (hence the
numbering here, which is for the sequence of play, not as an indicator of qual-
ity). The whole thing is also available as a YouTube playlist with a bonus track.
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1
‘TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER’
(‘THE WITCHER’)
» Warning: This song is accursedly catchy,
likely due to some dark magic in the cho-
rus, so beware of the ear worm, O Valley of
Plenty. Now, maybe they didn’t have hair
2
‘ONE LESS ANGEL’
(‘THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL’)
version with a soulful vocal by Jorja Smith. dance to, powered by a vocal from Shea
» Simply nails the show’s turn-of-the-’60s Diamond. This is the unscripted series’
period. The vocal by Darius De Haas (the theme song, but it’s eligible in this category
singing voice of crooner Shy Baldwin,
played by Leroy McClain) is quite strong.
4
‘THAT’S ENOUGH’
because there’s no main title sequence.

metal back in ye olde sword-and-sorcery (‘LADY AND THE TRAMP’)

6
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days (whenever those were), but although

the version in the show doesn’t rock your
face off, there are a number of viral covers
that do (the song has been remixed and
covered by many, many fans), and it’s just
so right for that treatment. If you check
Dan Vasc’s stab at it on YouTube (more
than 12 million views), grab the arms of
your chair around the 2:33 mark and ROCK
S12
3
‘KISS ME IN THE MORNING’
(‘THE EDDY’)
» A legit upbeat jazz tune from the heavily
music-themed Netflix show. This version
was recorded in quarantine and released to
commemorate International Jazz Day 2020
» Janelle Monáe plugs into some of her
“Electric Lady”-era pop-jazz vocal skills.
‘THE WEEKND’S DARK SECRET’
(‘AMERICAN DAD’)
» Then come the novelty songs, which
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‘I AM AMERICA’
frequently win in this category (“D— in a
Box” is how Justin Timberlake got his first
(‘WE’RE HERE’) Emmy, and seven winners in the last decade
could be considered such). This one is not

ON. (April 30). The soundtrack also contains a » An R&B rave-up anthem you can (must?) only performed by Grammy-winning,

platinum-selling superstar the Weeknd, but
absolutely inhabits his sonic persona.
7
‘FIVE LONG YEARS
(WAITING FOR YOU)’
(‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’)
» Speaking of novelty songs, “Saturday
Night Live,” with 10 nominations and two
wins since 2010, has its usual slew of quali-
fiers this year. Among its best is this early-
’60s-style folk ballad by a Peter, Paul and
Mary-ish trio (played by host David Har-
bour, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant). In
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it, they mark their lives by the calendar,
“Seasons of Love” style. But perhaps not as
pithily. Other contenders from the show
include “Salad,” featuring Bryant with
Daniel Craig, and the Halloween-themed
“Spooky Song,” featuring Chance the Rap-
per in a shocking recitation of how ghosts
in a graveyard met their fates.
8
‘ALL I WANT’
(‘HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL:
THE MUSICAL — THE SERIES’)
» Written and performed by star Olivia
SING IT : Clockwise from top left, Leroy
McClain in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”;
Damian Nueva Cortes, Joanna Kulig and
Lada Obradovic in “The Eddy”; James
Corden and cast of “The 73rd Annual Tony
Awards”; Hailee Steinfeld in “Dickinson.”
Rodrigo, it’s a memorable power ballad that
was certified gold as a single.
9
‘MISBEHAVIN’ ’
(‘THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES’)
» Perfect for that show’s environs and
would have been right at home on a “Grand
Ole Opry” broadcast. Series costar Jennifer
Nettles is a Grammy- and ACM-nominated
singer-songwriter, but fans of “Justified”
may be surprised to find that Boyd Crow-
der (Walton Goggins, playing Baby Billy on
“Gemstones”) can kick up his heels when he
wants to.
10
‘ANYTHING GOES IN FLORIDA’
(‘BIG MOUTH’)
» A hair-metal tribute to some of the Sun-
shine State’s special qualities. One of the
cleanest excerpts from this NSFW rocker:
“Come on down and do your worst / Snort a
rail off a dolphin / Naked and a-golfin’ /
Chances are you won’t be the first.”
11
‘AFTERLIFE’
(‘DICKINSON’)
» Performed and co-written by series star
Hailee Steinfeld, it would be an unusually
forward-reaching choice by voters. The
lyrics express the protagonist’s morbid/
romantic obsessions (“Will death be our last
kiss, my love? Oh-oh / When my heartbeat
stops, will you stay mine?”). But the music
— totally appropriate for the often-anach-
ronistic show — is meticulous electro-pop
with layered production ... not the kind of
thing that usually gets a nomination, re-
gardless of quality. The same qualification
applies, by the way, to Labrinth and Zen-
daya’s song from “Euphoria,” “All for Us.”
12
‘WONDERING’
(‘HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL:
THE MUSICAL — THE SERIES’)
» A wistful ballad perhaps overshadowed
by the better-known “All I Want,” but defi-
nitely worthy of consideration. Rodrigo
and Julia Lester look like formidable young
talents. There’s also a lovely acoustic
version that showcases the impressive pipes
of more of the cast.
13
‘TODAY AND TOMORROW’
(‘STARGIRL’)
» Speaking of wistful, there’s this un-
adorned ukulele ditty by the Disney+
movie’s star and real life rising singer-
songwriter Grace VanderWaal (co-written
by Ido Zmishlany).
14
‘WEIRDOS’
(‘CENTRAL PARK’)
» The new musical animated series on
Apple TV+ has an embarrassment of riches
in the talent department. This song is writ-
ten by Sara Bareilles and sung by Kristen
Bell and Tituss Burgess.
15
‘THE EDDY’
(‘THE EDDY’)
» A haunting jazz rhapsody written by
longtime pop producer Glen Ballard and
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performed by the show’s band, featuring
lead actress/vocalist Joanna Kulig (of “Cold
War”).
16
‘WE DO IT LIVE’
(‘THE 73RD ANNUAL TONY AWARDS’)
» Big, brassy, long (about 10 minutes) and
featuring cameos from tons of nominated
casts, it’s just the kind of glammy, showy
number that gets voters’ attention.
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‘NEXT YEAR’
(‘SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER’)
» And then, out of nowhere, an online,
Passover-themed COVID-19 benefit boast-
ing major-league talent ( Jason Alexander,
Darren Criss, Rachel Brosnahan, Idina
Menzel, for starters) pops up with a beauti-
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ful gut-punch closer. The song plays off the
Seder-ending, hopeful idea of “Next year in
Jerusalem” to tie touchingly into the pan-
demic. It features award-winning singer-
songwriter Shaina Taub (who co-wrote)
and reminds us that Skylar Astin of “Spring
Awakening” can really sing. The song is
co-written by Benj Pasek (“Dear Evan
Hansen”) and should it win, he would
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 BRIAN COX plays
the patriarch of
a media family in
“Succession.”
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»
Peter Kramer HBO

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‘Succession’
“GAME OF THRONES” earned nine lead and support-
ing acting nominations for its final season last year,
part of a record-breaking haul for a farewell that, even
fans admit, underwhelmed in every possible way. ¶ Its

plan with exit opens up plenty of real estate, (particularly after a new ex-
pansion of the number of nominees), offering hope for other ac-
tors and viewers who’d like a variety of work rewarded. ¶ But if
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voters go all-in on “Succession,” I’m OK with that too.

no Bran LEAD ACTRESS DRAMA land”; Christine Baranski, “The Good

The drama categories’ thrones are up
for grabs in new family struggles.
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Fight”; Kirsten Dunst, “On Becoming a God
in Central Florida”
Olivia Colman, “The Crown” » Comer won last year, taking the Emmy
Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show” that many thought her costar would win.

Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”
‘Ozark’ and ‘The Crown’ vie to rule. Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Laura Linney, “Ozark”
BY GLENN WHIPP Viola Davis, “How to Get Away With
Murder”
Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”
Next up: Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”; Zen-
daya, “Euphoria”; Reese Witherspoon, “The
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It’s possible that both women will be shut
out this year as “Killing Eve” has failed to
spark much conversation for its third sea-
son. Plus, the competition is fierce. Plus,
the competition is fierce. But I see Comer
getting back in with the expansion of the
category to at least seven nominees, pos-
sibly eight.
Earlier this year, Aniston won at the

Morning Show”; Claire Danes, “Home- SAG Awards, while Colman took the Gold-
en Globe. Since then, Linney joined the
fray with a new season of “Ozark” that sunk
her character more deeply into the evils of
the family business and delivered her lost
soul brother (a great Tom Pelphrey) to her
doorstep. Linney’s showcased performance
will be the one freshest in voters’ minds.
Danes won this Emmy in 2012 and 2013
for her signature spy role in “Homeland”;
Davis prevailed two years later for the
ground-breaking “How to Get Away with
Murder.” Both shows have finished their
final seasons, giving voters one last chance
to honor them. As Danes hasn’t been nomi-
nated since 2016 and Davis made it in just
last year, I’d give the edge to the latter for
her uncompromising work.
LEAD ACTOR DRAMA
Brian Cox, “Succession”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Jeremy Strong, “Succession”
Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us”
Billy Porter, “Pose”
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
Tobias Menzies, “The Crown”
Next up: Ben Mendelsohn, “The Outsider”;
Al Pacino, “Hunters”; Patrick Stewart, “Star
Trek: Picard”; Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”;
Steve Carell, “The Morning Show”
» All but one of last year’s six nominees —
Kit Harington for “Game of Thrones” — is
again eligible. But Emmy voters are going to
be up to speed on “Succession,” meaning
that room must be made for the show’s
cutthroat patriarch and, perhaps, his sad,
self-loathing son. Seriously, if Bateman
makes it in for playing blank, calculating
Marty — and he will; he won an Emmy for
directing “Ozark” last year — and Strong is
snubbed after dropping that epic rap, a
“tribute of a certain flavor” to Logan (“just
remember, I’m not a professional”), then
voters should be made to play a few rounds
of boar on the floor until they see the error
of their ways.
Bateman directed Mendelsohn in “The
Outsider,” and I’m sure he’d be the first to
tell you just how brilliant the Australian
Emmy winner (“Bloodline”) was as the
series’ grieving detective. Both Men-
delsohn and his “Outsider” costar Cynthia
Erivo should be nominated for their work
on the haunting HBO series, easily one of
the spring’s most noteworthy shows.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS DRAMA
Sarah Snook, “Succession”
Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown”
Julia Garner, “Ozark”
Rhea Seehorn, “Better Call Saul”
Meryl Streep, “Big Little Lies”
Cynthia Erivo, “The Outsider”
Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies”
Thandie Newton, “Westworld”
Next up: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, “The Morn-
ing Show”; Janet McTeer, “Ozark”; Ann
Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale”; Yvonne
Strahovski, “The Handmaid’s Tale”; Millie
Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things”
» I have almost, almost, let go of the rage
I’ve been holding onto since last summer
when Emmy voters once again — seriously,
what is wrong with you? — failed to nomi-
nate Rhea Seehorn for her remarkably
nuanced turn as Kim Wexler in “Better Call
Saul.” Can we please just stop with this
annual rite of indignation? Every year,
Seehorn tops herself, and this past season
expanded Kim’s role on the show in ways
both fascinating and alarming, ending with
a scene (I’m not going to spoil it) that would
Bob Mahoney HBO have been shocking had Seehorn not done
such a remarkable job over the series’ 50
episodes in revealing her character’s com-
plex layers. Kim’s a character for the ages.
CYNTHIA It’s way past time to reward the woman
ERIVO (above who gave us this gift.
with Ben
Mendelsohn in
“The Outsider”), SUPPORTING ACTOR DRAMA
Viola Davis (“How
to Get Away With
Murder”) and
“Better Call Jonathan Banks, “Better Call Saul”
Saul’s” Rhea Kieran Culkin, “Succession”
Seehorn and Bob Tom Pelphrey, “Ozark”
Odenkirk are top Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
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contenders. Bradley Whitford, “The Handmaid’s
Tale”
Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”
David Harbour, “Stranger Things”
Jeffrey Wright, “Westworld”
Jessica Brooks ABC Next up: Mandy Patinkin, “Homeland”;
Giancarlo Esposito, “Better Call Saul”; Josh
O’Connor, “The Crown”; Nicholas Braun,
“Succession”; Mark Duplass, “The Morning
Show”; Chris Sullivan, “This Is Us”
» Peter Dinklage has ceded the throne,
leaving an opening for ... well, maybe Banks
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finally earning an Emmy or Crudup to win
for his gleefully eccentric turn as a network
exec on “The Morning Show.” You could
easily fill out this card with four actors
from “Succession” (Alan Ruck’s Connor
manages to make the rest of the Roy family
look almost normal), and it’d be criminal to
nominate Macfadyen without Braun, his
young partner in crime and comedy.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” earned 44 nomi-
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nations for its first two seasons, but view-
ers’ appetite for the dystopian drama waned
in its third. Whitford won forguest actor
last year for his portrayal of Gilead’s trou-
bled, weirdo architect and he’ll likely make
the jump to supporting this year. Praise be
... I guess. I’d rather see Esposito be re-
warded for his exacting Gus Fring. But
maybe I’m just hoping that every restaurant
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AMC cleans its deep fryer to Gus’ standards. 8

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
At home in
‘Homeland’
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C
With husband L A I R E DA N E S
has portrayed Carrie
and sons in cast Mathison, the dam-
aged, driven and
or on set, it was a always brave protago-
nist of Showtime’s acclaimed spy
family affair for
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thriller “Homeland,” for almost a
Claire Danes. decade now. This spring, loyal
fans were treated to the eighth
BY RAMIN and final season of the show,
which found the bipolar CIA
ZAHED operative recovering from a
period of imprisonment in Russia
and then sent immediately to
Afghanistan on a peace mission,
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though there were those certain
Mark Seliger Showtime
the Russians had turned her.
During a phone interview
early this spring, the articulate
and sophisticated actress says the
experience of playing such a
complicated character has been
life-changing.
“I am both relieved and proud,
but I’m also grieving, which is
inevitable,” notes the four-time
Emmy-winning Danes. “We
filmed this last season for what
seemed like forever. We wrapped
the production, and then, after
the holidays, I did more press
than usual since this was our last
season. Soon after, the co-
ronavirus pandemic happened, so
just as I was released into the
world as an emancipated citizen,
everything shut down. I feel like
all the psychological work I was
doing to disentangle myself from
‘Homeland’ was interrupted
because everything around us has
been suspended.”
The past season was also
something of a family affair as
Danes’ husband of 11 years, Hugh
Dancy, joined the cast as John
Zabel, a self-serving advisor to
the president who made life even
more difficult for Carrie and her
boss, Saul Berenson (Mandy
Patinkin). The actress says Dancy
and their two young sons have
always been part of the experi-
ence in one way or another.
“Well, the kids have been
inside of me, Russian-doll style,
at first, and then actually on the
set. During our third season, our
producing director Lesli Linka
Glatter would direct the episodes
while she was cradling my first
son, Cyrus, who was 5 months
old at the time. During the final
season, he was still sitting on her
lap, but this time, he was 7 years
old and was calling ‘Action’ and
‘Cut!’ ”
One of the fascinating aspects
of “Homeland” was how often the
events of the show mirrored what
was unfolding in the real world.
Danes says the writers and pro-
ducers were diligent about get-
ting as close a reading of the D.C.
political climate as possible.
“Every year, we would talk to
a host of politicians, journalists
and CIA insiders to get as accu-
rate a picture of the landscape
and what may happen in the near
future as possible,” she says. “So
we did a fair amount of research,
and I was lucky enough to sit in
on those sessions with our
showrunner, Alex Gansa. Then
there was always some kismet in
play as well, where some plot
point and detail emerged from
the collective imagination that
played out in the real world as
well.”
As Danes leaves Carrie be-
hind, she says she is pleased
about how the finale treated the
character. “I think she is most
vital and at her best when she is
working as an operative in the
field,” she says. “I wanted her to
end in that place. I thought it was
very elegant storytelling to have
her be in such a parallel position
as Brody [Damian Lewis] was in
the first season.
“She can’t orient herself or
place herself because she has no
recollection of the past, so that
was a little bit tricky for me to get
traction but was very interesting
to play. I thought it was also kind
of amazing to have this central
relationship be with her adver-
sary [Russian spy Yevgeny Gro-
mov, played by Costa Ronin], but
she is drawn to him in a very
perverse and practical way be-
cause he’s the only person who
can fill in those crucial blanks”
from her captivity.
The “Homeland” cast and
crew traveled to many interna-
tional locations — including
Lebanon, Venezuela, South Afri-
ca, Germany, Israel and Morocco
— in search of authentic-looking
backdrops for the show’s plot
lines.
“What I will remember most
is the globe-trotting aspect of the
experience,” Danes says. “We saw
so much of the world in such an
in-depth way. We would land in
these far-flung places for half a
year at least and got to work with
some of the best people from
each country. My son is a very
worldly first-grader because of
that! It also made politics seem
less abstract and made you aware
that there are people who are
figuring out these policies in real
time and making decisions based
on a human framework.”
Of course, for many TV fans,
Danes will always be the lovely,
angst-ridden heroine of ABC’s
acclaimed series “My So-Called
Life” (1994-95), for which she
received an Emmy nomination.
“It’s funny, when people meet me
on the streets, I still get com-
ments about that show more than
anything else I have done since,”
she notes. “I think it’s perhaps
because it was the first impres-
sion that was made. It was such a
surprising show at the time and
still remains kind of fresh, vital
and progressive. I was only 14 at
the time, and that seems so very
long ago!”
What’s next? “Well, there are
some things percolating, but I’m
not sure what will ultimately
manifest,” she says. “I do know
that I won’t be playing a spy in
the next project.” 8
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