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MAHMOUD KHDEIR stands over the detritus of his agriculture-product storage facility that burned during the 11-day war in Gaza.
Gaza’s economy in smoking ruins
Business owners see
little hope for a swift
recovery after war
By Nabih Bulos and Hana Salah
GAZA CITY — In the Karni Industrial
Zone on Gaza’s eastern edge, the Maatouq
factory churned out big plastic tubs of ice
cream that made their way to the compa-
ny’s five stores sprinkled throughout the
city. Just behind the plant, the Harir fac-
tory made its own contribution to compul-
sive snacking by cranking out salted potato
chips, which could be washed down with
one of the hundreds of thousands of bottles
of Coca-Cola manufactured and stored
nearby.
Those businesses are now mostly
scorched husks of singed metal and melted
plastic, casualties of the latest bout of vi-
olence last month that pitted Israel against
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group
that rules over this Mediterranean wedge
of territory between Israel and Egypt.
The sights and sounds of active combat
are absent now in the Gaza Strip, with a
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SHERRIL WELLS harvests vegetables planted by her late husband, Rodney
Wells, at the African American Farmers of California farmland in Fresno.
COLUMN ONE
Reaping what Rodney sowed
A widow needed a reason to carry on and found it
in tilling the fields and giving food to the hungry
By Diana Marcum
reporting from fresno
n a spring day when the mus-
O
ers.
tard greens were still tender,
Sherril Wells stopped harvest-
ing, raised her arms and
danced to Curtis Mayfield’s
“Superfly” playing over her SUV’s speak-
Her friend Liza Apper had told her that
joy and grief could exist together. She
thought this must have been what Apper
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Photographs by
A HORSE CART carrying debris passes piles of rubble in the upscale Al-Rimal neighborhood
of Gaza City on May 25, four days after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants.
L.A. inmates get access to
lifesaving drug for overdoses
By Alene
Tchekmedyian
The man swayed and
stumbled between two bunk
beds in a Los Angeles
County jail dorm, then col-
lapsed onto another inmate
who had fallen to the floor.
The men were showing
signs of having overdosed on
an opioid — probably fen-
tanyl, a powerful synthetic
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
Manchin rejects
key election bill
Senator defies party
and White House over
largest overhaul of U.S.
voting law in at least a
generation. NATION, A7
Ethics concerns
raised in recall
Judge and lawyer in
effort to oust Newsom
were once attorneys at
meant: a flash of being alive, even as she same Sacramento law
grieved for Rodney Wells.
firm. CALIFORNIA, B1
She and Rodney — who died in Decem-
ber of a heart attack so sudden that he Weather
never cried out — had tried to make it as Morning low clouds.
organic farmers. But they lost money
every year. They decided that if they were
going to pay to farm, it should be only a
labor of love. In 2016, they sold the farm
and in their yard started growing organic
produce to give to people who couldn’t
afford fresh food.
L.A. Basin: 70/59. B6
Printed with soy inks on
partially recycled paper.
They grew in planters in the front and
[See Harvest, A7]
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times
drug. Until recently, critical
time would have been lost
waiting for jail staff to come
to their aid.
But security cameras
captured other inmates
gathering around the men,
then one inmate hustling
down a flight of stairs. He
grabbed two small canisters
that were mounted on the
wall next to a pay phone and
rushed back up.
In his hands were doses
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GASCÓN’S
SCRUTINY
OF POLICE
KILLINGS
SPUTTERS
Delay in hiring special
prosecutor narrows
the D.A.’s options for
charging officers.
By James Queally
In his bid to unseat
Jackie Lacey as head of the
nation’s largest prosecutor’s
office last year, George
Gascón didn’t simply attack
her record of declining to
prosecute police officers
who killed unarmed people
— he promised to go a step
further and undo what he
saw as her mistakes.
Gascón identified four
shootings that he believed
should be reviewed, includ-
ing the 2015 killing of a
homeless man by an LAPD
officer whom then-Police
Chief Charlie Beck asked
Lacey to file charges against.
After his election, Gascón
moved to hire a decorated
special prosecutor, Law-
rence Middleton, to review
the cases.
But nearly six months
into Gascón’s tenure as Los
Angeles County district at-
torney, Middleton has yet to
sign his job contract, and the
delay could severely hinder
Gascón’s ability to bring
charges against officers in
the cases he singled out.
The statute of limita-
tions to bring manslaughter
charges in three of the four
shootings Gascón cited has
passed, meaning if Middle-
ton reopened any of them, he
would face the extremely dif-
ficult task of convicting a po-
lice officer of murder.
Under California law, the
statute of limitations for
manslaughter is six years. In
two of the cases that many
believed ripe for a criminal
filing — the 2015 killings of
Brendon Glenn in Venice
and Hector Morejon in Long
Beach — those deadlines
passed in April and May, re-
spectively.
“From a pure, intel-
lectual, legal perspective,
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of naloxone, a drug that can
quickly reverse the effects of
opioids.
He and another inmate
administered the nasal
spray to the two men who
had overdosed — a move
sheriff ’s officials credit with
saving their lives.
The drugs were acces-
sible as part of a pilot pro-
gram the Los Angeles
County Sheriff ’s Depart-
[See Naloxone, A8]
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ANALYSIS
On ‘cultural’ issues, views not set in stone
Decline in support for
the death penalty in
U.S. shows how public
sentiment can shift.
By David Lauter
A lot of American politi-
cal debates involve values
and personal beliefs, rather
than economics. But while
such cultural issues, as they
are often labeled, can get
lumped together as a single
category, Americans’ atti-
tudes toward them don’t
move in lockstep.
On some issues
—LGBTQ relationships, for
example — American atti-
tudes have shifted pro-
foundly over the last two
decades. On other issues,
such as abortion, the divi-
sion of opinion has barely
changed: About 6 in 10
Americans say the pro-
cedure should be legal in all
or most cases, about 4 in 10
say it should be illegal in all
or most cases, and the divi-
sion in opinion is about the
same now as it was in the
mid-1990s.
American feelings about
the death penalty occupy a
middle ground between
those two poles: Support for
executions dropped a lot
from the mid-1990s until a
few years ago, but since then
has plateaued, as new data
from the nonpartisan Pew
Research Center show.
“While they often get
talked about together, these
issues are all very different,”
and the differences often
surface in unpredicted ways,
said Carroll Doherty, Pew’s
director of political research.
Because cultural issues
involve people’s personal
values and beliefs, they’re
often seen as intractable.
But the record suggests
something different: New
facts and experiences can
change people’s beliefs, but
only up to a point.
Death penalty
support dropped
In March, Virginia abol-
ished the death penalty. The
move by the state that once
led the nation in executions
brought the number of juris-
dictions to have ended capi-
tal punishment to 23 states
plus the District of Colum-
bia. Three other states —
California, Oregon and
Pennsylvania — have mora-
toriums put in place by their
governors.
Congress may expand limits on Chinese-made drones
Lawmkers consider a
five-year ban, citing
risk to cybersecurity.
By Matt O’Brien
More than a year after the
U.S. Interior Department
grounded hundreds of Chi-
nese-made drones it was us-
ing to track wildfires and
monitor dams, volcanoes
and wildlife, it’s starting to
look like they won’t be flying
again anytime soon — if ever.
A measure moving
through Congress would im-
pose a five-year ban on U.S.
government purchases of
drones manufactured or as-
sembled in China. It reflects
bipartisan concerns that de-
vices made by companies
such as DJI, which is based
in Shenzhen, China, could
facilitate Chinese spying on
critical infrastructure.
But a ban could create
problems for government
users, since DJI dominates
the global market for the
small, low-altitude drones
used by hobbyists, photog-
raphers and many busi-
nesses and governments.
There aren’t many af-
fordable and reliable alter-
natives, said Carrick De-
tweiler, the chief executive of
Drone Amplified, which pro-
vides fire suppression pay-
loads to drones operated by
the Interior Department
and the U.S. Forest Service.
“Everyone I talk to in the
federal government is mov-
ing away from DJI whether
or not these bills are
passed,” said Detweiler, who
is also a computer science
professor at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Ev-
eryone wants a U.S. system
to be there and to work, it’s
SAN QUENTIN State Prison, which houses California’s only death row for male inmates. Gov. Gavin Newsom
imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019; the state hasn’t put a prisoner to death in more than 15 years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom im-
posed California’s moratori-
um in 2019. The state has 703
prisoners on death row, ac-
cording to the Department
of Corrections — more by far
than any other state — but
hasn’t executed anyone in
more than 15 years.
Eleven of the state aboli-
tion decisions came in re-
cent years, following a long
slide in support for the death
penalty that began in the
mid-1990s.
That was the second
such drop. In the 1960s, evi-
dence that Black Americans
were disproportionately
subject to capital punish-
ment helped cause a sharp
decline in support and set
the stage for a 1972 Supreme
Court ruling that struck
down all then-existing death
penalties.
The high court in 1976 al-
lowed executions to resume,
under new rules, and back-
ing for capital punishment
steadily increased through
the 1980s. It peaked in the
mid-1990s, when roughly 8 in
10 Americans said they fa-
vored execution for people
convicted of murder, accord-
ing to polling by Pew and the
Gallup organization.
By 2019, backing for the
CHINESE DRONES, which are popular among hobbyists and government agen-
cies alike, have also sparked concerns that they could facilitate spying by Beijing.
just that the U.S. drone in-
dustry was killed off by DJI a
decade ago. It’s going to take
three or four years before
we’re at parity.”
The proposed ban was re-
cently folded into the
broader American Innova-
tion and Competitiveness
Act, which was nearing
passage in the Senate before
it was abruptly postponed
last month. While the ban
wouldn’t take effect until
2023, many federal agencies
have already imposed tem-
porary restrictions on the
use of Chinese drones. Some
have begun to phase them
out entirely.
But the ban could create
other headaches. Because it
would also ban federal funds
from being used to buy or op-
erate Chinese drones, it
could hit police depart-
ments that rely on federal
PERSPECTIVES
death penalty had fallen to
some 6 in 10 Americans.
That’s about where it has re-
mained since. In the most re-
cent Pew survey, 60% of
American adults said they
supported the death penal-
ty; 39% opposed it.
Notably, that 60/40 split
holds true when people are
surveyed online. When peo-
ple are surveyed by tele-
phone with live interviewers,
support for the death penal-
ty is somewhat lower and op-
position somewhat higher,
according to Pew, which has
tested both methods for sev-
eral years.
That suggests that some
people who support the
death penalty hesitate to say
so to another person. Demo-
crats seem especially likely
to be in that group, Pew
found. It’s an example of how
polls can be skewed by
what’s considered the ac-
cepted position in a person’s
social circle. That sort of gap
between phone and online
surveys is not present on
some other issues Pew has
tested, such as abortion.
That polling issue, how-
ever, doesn’t change the two-
decade decline in support
for executions. Scholars who
have studied the shift cite
help to field new equipment.
The Department of Home-
land Security started halt-
ing such grants for Chinese-
made drones last year.
The Interior Department
said it conducted more than
11,000 drone flights in 2019 be-
fore temporarily grounding
its drones over cybersecurity
concerns at the end of that
year.
Its drone program has
been largely on hiatus since
then, except for some emer-
gency flights that are
granted a waiver. In March,
it started to make it easier to
fly emergency missions for
wildland fire response and
search-and-rescue opera-
tions.
Within the government,
the drone ban has met some
resistance from officials ea-
ger to get their existing
drone fleets back in the air
several possible factors:
The steep drop in homi-
cides and other crimes that
began in the early 1990s
eroded support for a variety
of get-tough measures. The
reduction in the number of
people being executed, espe-
cially in recent years, may
have made the penalty seem
less a normal part of public
life. Growing racial diversity
has reduced support for ex-
ecutions, which white peo-
ple in the U.S. back more
than Black or Latino Ameri-
cans.
Split on executions
has been partisan
Democrats, in particular,
have turned against the
death penalty in recent dec-
ades. Republican attitudes
have not changed as much.
In 1992, then-candidate
Bill Clinton very publicly in-
terrupted his presidential
campaign to return to Ar-
kansas to oversee the execu-
tion of a man convicted of
killing a police officer. In
2020, Joe Biden promised to
seek repeal of the federal
death penalty.
One of the biggest factors
in the shift in attitudes in-
volved a new fact in the pub-
Peter Thomson La Crosse Tribune
for missions that don’t re-
quire secrecy. Some trade
groups have argued that any
drone restrictions should be
based on specific security
standards, not their country
of origin.
A summary of a recent
Pentagon report obtained
by the Associated Press
found “no malicious code or
intent” in drone software
made by DJI and used by the
Interior Department. The
report assessed software
used to operate DJI’s “Gov-
ernment Edition” drones
and some fixes that were
made to address data leak-
age vulnerabilities found in
earlier audits.
That May 6 document
also made a big endorse-
ment. “The DJI Govern-
ment Edition versions that
were tested, show no ma-
licious code or intent and are
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
lic debate: Starting in the
1990s, DNA testing began to
prove that wrongful convic-
tions were real — and not un-
common. The wave of exon-
erations of people wrongly
convicted of crimes included
scores who had faced death
sentences. The Death Penal-
ty Information Center
counts 185 cases of people
sentenced to death who
have been exonerated.
Those exonerations have
had an impact on how the
public sees the death penal-
ty. In 1991, only about 10% of
death penalty opponents
said that the risk of an inno-
cent person being executed
was a reason for their stand.
By 2011, not only were a lot
more people opposed to the
death penalty, but more
than 25% of opponents cited
concern about the wrong-
fully convicted being killed
as a reason, Pew found.
Acknowledgment of that
risk, however, doesn’t neces-
sarily cause people to op-
pose the death penalty. In
Pew’s latest survey, 78% of
Americans said that there
was “some risk that an inno-
cent person will be put to
death” — that’s twice as
many as said they opposed
the penalty.
recommended for use by
government entities and
forces working with US serv-
ices,” wrote the author, Ad-
am Prater, a technology ex-
pert and second chief war-
rant officer with the U.S.
Army Special Operations
Command.
Prater declined to com-
ment, saying he wasn’t au-
thorized to speak to the me-
dia. The Interior Depart-
ment also declined to com-
ment. In a statement, DJI
spokesperson Adam Lis-
berg called the report sum-
mary “the strongest confir-
mation to date” of the safety
and security of the compa-
ny’s drones.
Outside experts, howev-
er, panned the Pentagon
conclusions.
“It’s clear that this soft-
ware was not designed for
security at all,” said Steven
Aftergood, director of the
Federation of American Sci-
entists Project on Govern-
ment Secrecy.
Mike Monnik, an Austral-
ian expert, said there’s a
“dangerous” risk that out-
side agents could pull data
off the drones given their
many unfixed software con-
cerns.
Monnik, the chief tech-
nology officer at DroneSec, a
firm that researches drone
cybersecurity vulnerabil-
ities, added that only cutting
off the drones entirely from
the internet could ensure
the security of their data.
National security con-
cerns about DJI drones have
lingered since at least 2017,
when a document from U.S.
customs authorities alleged
that the drones probably
provided China with access
to critical infrastructure and
law enforcement data. DJI
has repeatedly denied the al-
legations, but political con-
L AT I M E S . C O M
For many people, what
outweighs the risk of wrong-
ful executions is the belief
that capital punishment is
morally justified for murder.
Most supporters of the
death penalty don’t believe
it is perfect — only 30% of
supporters said they believe
that “adequate safeguards”
exist to “ensure that no inno-
cent person will be put to
death.” But 90% of support-
ers see it as morally just and
don’t want to abolish it in all
cases.
People’s judgments
about what is moral can be
hard to change. That doesn’t
mean they’re immovable,
however, as the shift in atti-
tudes toward gay and les-
bian relationships shows.
Attitudes toward
same-sex marriage
In 1996, only about 25% of
Americans said they be-
lieved that same-sex mar-
riages should be valid, ac-
cording to Gallup’s polling.
By 2004, a majority re-
mained opposed, but sup-
port had grown to about
40%. By 2015, when the
Supreme Court ruled for
marriage equality, a major-
ity of Americans said same-
sex unions should be legal.
By now, two-thirds of Ameri-
cans say so.
Some of that shift in-
volves generational change,
but the flip in public atti-
tudes happened so quickly
only because tens of millions
of older Americans changed
their minds. That change in
attitudes toward marriage
equality went hand in hand
with a shift in what Ameri-
cans deemed to be moral.
As recently as 2006, a ma-
jority of Americans told
Gallup that gay and lesbian
relations were “morally
wrong.” By 2010, a clear ma-
jority felt the opposite. Last
year, Americans rejected
that view by 2 to 1, Gallup
found.
There are other issues, of
course, on which opinions
have not shifted and some,
such as regulation of guns,
on which formidable parti-
san divides have grown even
deeper and seemingly more
stubborn in recent years.
But at a time in public life
when it sometimes seems as
if every issue has become a
matter for trench warfare,
both of these topics stand as
reminders that even on
some of the most deeply felt
questions — literal matters
of life and death — change is
possible, and shifts in opin-
ion do take place.
cerns about Chinese tech-
nology accelerated amid
then-President Trump’s
broader trade war against
China.
Last year, the Pentagon
began promoting American-
made — and more expensive
— alternatives to DJI. The
Defense Department in Au-
gust gave a seal of approval
to California drone maker
Skydio, French tech com-
pany Parrot and three other
firms to supply U.S.-manu-
factured drones to agencies
across the federal govern-
ment. But since then, the
Pentagon has acknowl-
edged that many military-
grade drones still present
risks because they rely on
components made in China.
In December, the Com-
merce Department placed
DJI on a blacklist of Chi-
nese firms subject to restric-
tions on national security
grounds.
DJI has tried to counter
such concerns, enabling an
internet “kill switch” on
more drones so that com-
mercial and government
users can halt data trans-
mission on sensitive flying
missions. Its products have
been favored by many local
and regional governments in
the U.S. for their price and
reliability, but a federal ban
could damage its reputation
among those buyers.
Aftergood said he could
see a case for DJI only in
situations where security
isn’t a top concern.
“It depends on other fac-
tors like cost, performance,
lifetime, ease of use,” After-
good said. “But to the extent
that security is a controlling
factor, you’d want to think
twice.”
O’Brien writes for the
Associated Press.
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Roadside bomb
kills 11 civilians
in Afghanistan
An official says the
toll may rise after
search of valley where
the minivan landed.
associated press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
A minivan carrying civilian
passengers in northwestern
Afghanistan was hit by a
roadside bomb, leaving at
least 11 passengers dead, in-
cluding three children, an
Afghan official said Sunday.
Oren Ziv Associated Press The minivan fell into a
ISRAELI FORCES arrest journalist Givara Budeiri during a protest in Sheikh Jarrah on Saturday. Sunday valley with the shock of the
saw fresh confrontations between Israeli authorities and protesters in the East Jerusalem neighborhood. explosion Saturday, said
Badghis provincial Gov.
Hesamuddin Shams, add-
Kabul and Doha in Qatar to
urge the sides to reach a po-
litical settlement.
Negotiations between
the Taliban and Afghan rep-
resentatives began last Sep-
tember in Doha and contin-
ued this year. But the Tali-
ban announced on April 13
that it would not take part in
any conference intended to
decide the future of Af-
ghanistan until all foreign
troops were gone.
President Biden had an-
nounced a day earlier that
all U.S. troops would leave
Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
In the northern province
of Faryab, officials said
Sunday that the district
of Qaisar had fallen to Tali-
ban fighters after a weeks-

Netanyahu accuses rival of fraud ing that rescuers were still

The embattled Israeli
prime minister takes a
page from the Trump
playbook, critics say.
By Laura King
TEL AVIV — Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu
unleashed a harsh verbal at-
tack Sunday against his po-
tential replacement, rightist
Naftali Bennett, declaring
that an end to his own reign
as the country’s longest-
serving leader would consti-
tute the “greatest election
fraud” in Israel’s history.
With a parliamentary
vote of confidence in a pro-
spective new Israeli govern-
ment to take place as early
as Wednesday, Bennett, 49,
retorted that it was time for
the 71-year-old prime min-
ister, his onetime mentor, to
“let go and allow Israel to
move forward.”
In the wake of four incon-
clusive national elections,
political passions are run-
ning high in advance of the
showdown between Netan-
yahu and a diverse coalition
arrayed against him, which
is drawn from the political
left, right and center.
Israel’s domestic security
agency, the Shin Bet, issued
an unusual warning over
the weekend that rising
political incitement could
lead to violence, and security
has been tightened for
several members of the
“change coalition” seeking
to unseat Netanyahu, who is
being tried on corruption
charges.
In an address to mem-
bers of his conservative
Likud Party on Sunday, Ne-
tanyahu lambasted Bennett
over earlier pledges that he
would not join forces with
centrist politician Yair
Lapid, the coalition’s leader,
or with other participants in
the new political grouping
seeking to oust him. Under
an accord struck last week,
Bennett and Lapid would
share the prime minister’s
job on a rotating basis, with
Bennett taking the first
turn.
Denouncing that alli-
ance, Netanyahu told party
allies, “We are witnesses to
the greatest election fraud in
the history of the country
and, in my opinion, the his-
tory of democracies.”
“People justifiably feel
deceived,” he told the gath-
ering in remarks that were
broadcast nationwide.
Critics swiftly pointed
out that the accusations
hurled by Netanyahu were
reminiscent of rhetoric em-
ployed by former President
Trump, a loyal booster over
the last four years. In addi-
tion to excoriating Bennett
as dishonest, Netanyahu
characterized his rivals as
radical leftists whose lack of
resolve would leave the
country vulnerable to exter-
nal security threats.
The prime minister also
sought to deflect accusa-
tions that his supporters
were creating a dangerous
climate with virulent threats
against some members of
the coalition. Instead, he
painted his own camp as the
victim, asserting that “in-
citement toward us runs
rampant.”
In a complaint that fur-
ther echoed the airing of
Trump-stye grievances, Ne-
tanyahu railed against what
he called attempts to “si-
lence” his supporters on so-
cial media. Those include his
son Yair, some of whose so-
cial media accounts were
temporarily suspended af-
ter he shared a post provid-
ing the home address of a
lawmaker the prime min-
ister’s allies were pressuring
to vote against the coalition.
The outbreak of political
turmoil comes only a little
over two weeks after a cease-
fire that ended a deadly 11-
day exchange of fire by the
Israeli military and the Pal-
estinian militant group
Hamas, which rules the
Gaza Strip. Fallout from
that cross-border violence
continued to be felt in
Jerusalem, where Sunday
saw fresh confrontations be-
tween Israeli authorities
and protesters in the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of
Sheikh Jarrah.
Palestinians have been
struggling to stave off prop-
erty seizures by Jewish set-
tlers who have been laying
claim to a number of Pal-
estinian homes that the new
arrivals say were previously
Jewish-owned. Israeli law al-
lows for such assertions of
property rights by Jews but
prohibits Palestinians from
making similar claims on
land and homes they were
forced to relinquish decades
earlier in Jewish West
Jerusalem.
Activists and family
members said Israeli police
earlier Sunday arrested a 23-
year-old woman, Muna al-
Kurd, from one of the Pal-
estinian families fighting
eviction, who has helped
lead weeks of protests that
at times have been harshly
suppressed by police. A day
earlier, Israeli police in
Sheikh Jarrah forcefully de-
tained Givara Budeiri, a
well-known journalist with
the TV network Al Jazeera.
Both women were re-
leased after hours in cus-
tody.
Adding to tensions in
Jerusalem, Jewish national-
ists have unveiled plans to
march Thursday through
sensitive parts of the Old
City. Previously, their
planned parade through
Muslim areas was rerouted
just before the eruption of
Gaza hostilities on May 10.
It was not yet clear
whether the police and gov-
ernment would allow the
new march to proceed.
In Tel Aviv, Bennett and
Lapid held a meeting of all
eight parties participating
in the coalition, with police
guarding the seaside hotel
where the gathering con-
vened. Outside, a few dozen
demonstrators shouted
their support for the coali-
tion to remove Netanyahu,
who has been prime minister
for the last dozen years, in
addition to a three-year ten-
ure in the mid- to late 1990s.
Netanyahu and his camp
have been seeking to delay or
derail the parliamentary
vote, whose timing is in large
measure controlled by the
speaker of the Knesset,
Yariv Levin, who is a sup-
porter of the prime minister.
Levin, addressing the same
Likud Party event that Ne-
tanyahu did, denounced the
prospective new govern-
ment as “based on abysmal
hatred.”
Israeli media reports
said Levin could allow a par-
liamentary vote of confi-
dence as early as Wednes-
day, but only if the prime
minister and his allies be-
lieve they could prevail
against the new coalition.
Lapid last week told Israel’s
president, Reuven Rivlin,
that he had secured the
backing of a razor-thin ma-
jority in the 120-seat Knes-
set.
The vote could be put off
until June 14, a week after the
coalition is expected to be
formally introduced to law-
makers.
searching for bodies in the
valley.
No one immediately
claimed responsibility for
the attack, but the provin-
cial government accused the
Taliban of placing the bomb
to target security forces.
There was no immediate re-
sponse from the Taliban.
Large swathes of war-
ravaged Afghanistan are lit-
tered with bombs and land
mines. Many were planted
by insurgents to target gov-
ernment military convoys,
but they often kill civilians
instead.
The United Nations has
repeatedly demanded both
government forces and the
Taliban take more precau-
tions to protect civilians. In
the first three months of this
year, the U.N. mission in Af-
ghanistan said that 1,783 ci-
vilians had been killed or
wounded in Afghanistan, an
increase of 29% over the
same period last year.
The violence came as U.S.
peace envoy to Afghanistan
Zalmay Khalilzad and a del-
egation from the National
Security Council and De-
partment of Defense trav-
eled to the region to start a
new series of talks between
the Taliban and the govern-
ment. They were to meet in
IN KABUL, men look at a damaged car after a road-
side bombing Sunday, a day after the minivan blast.
long fight between the two
sides.
Provincial council chief
Mohammad Tahir Rahmani
told the Associated Press
that provincial police chief
Saifulrahman was killed in
the fighting along with seven
other police officers. Like
many Afghans, Saifulrah-
man went by one name.
According to Rahmani,
the district had already fall-
en, but officers at police
headquarters were resist-
ing. He said the Taliban took
37 officers hostage.
A provincial police offi-
cer, who spoke on condition
of anonymity because he
was not authorized to speak
to media, said that, besides
police headquarters, the
main market and munici-
pality office fell to the Tali-
ban.
The Taliban did not com-
ment immediately upon tak-
ing control of Qaisar, but
both the Taliban and the
Afghan government defense
and security forces have in-
creased their operations
against each other.
Also on Sunday, Kabul
police spokesman Ferdaws
Faramarz said a roadside
bomb explosion in east
Kabul damaged a civilian
car, leaving three people
wounded.
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Gaza’s economy left in smoking ruins

[Gaza, from A1]
May 21 truce still holding.
While life has quickly re-
turned to normal in Israel,
the business owners in this
industrial zone — once billed
as a showcase project de-
signed to strengthen Israeli-
Palestinian ties — and in
Gaza at large see little hope
for a swift recovery.
The 11-day war killed
more than 250 people in
Gaza and 13 in Israel. During
the fighting, Hamas fired
more than 4,000 rockets, the
majority of which were inter-
cepted by Israel’s Iron Dome
missile defense system;
those that got through dam-
aged 1,325 buildings, Israeli
media reported.
For its part, the Israeli
military said its air and ar-
tillery strikes on Gaza hit
more than 1,500 targets, a
wave of devastation that has
left hundreds of buildings as
well as more than 1,800 com-
mercial units destroyed or
damaged, according to ini-
tial estimates from the econ-
omy and public works min-
istries in Gaza.
That is fewer than the ap-
proximately 6,500 commer-
cial units damaged or de-
stroyed over 50 days in the
2014 confrontation between
Hamas and Israel. But Gaza Photographs by Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times
was already reeling from the A WORKER tries to make repairs in a shop in Gaza City across the street from a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
compound effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic and the “Thirty-five years we’ve parts of the Israeli-occupied
stringent blockade imposed been doing this. It went in an West Bank.
by Egypt and Israel after instant. And there’s no way Last week, dozens of
Hamas took power in the we can do anything to help Egyptian trucks bearing aid
territory in 2007. Now, fully anyone at this point,” he containers entered Gaza,
70% of the enclave’s 2 million said. and Cairo has already
people are struggling with Standing nearby was Ad- pledged $500 million for re-
food insecurity and require ham Bassiouni, a spokes- construction, with Egyptian
assistance, World Food Pro- man for the agricultural firms expected to take part.
gram officials say. The un- ministry, who said the mate- That would require at least a
employment rate hovers rials damaged here had been partial lifting of the block-
around 69%. allowed in by Israel in the ade, and would allow Egypt
Coming on top of all that, first place. to monitor where materials
the war’s disastrous impact “There’s simply nothing were being used.
on Gaza’s business commu- here that is dual use,” he Right now, entry of con-
nity, with Israeli assaults re- said, meaning that none of struction materials is re-
ducing entire commercial the materials could be used stricted by the Gaza Recon-
towers to rubble and chop- for military purposes. “The struction Mechanism, a
ping up major commercial Israelis targeted this place temporary United Nations-
thoroughfares, is so great specifically. It makes you brokered agreement be-
that recovery will be harder wonder why. This must be tween the Palestinian Au-
than ever. Trade has been economic punishment and thority and Israel in 2014.
disrupted just when it’s environmental destruc- The mechanism allows Isra-
needed most. tion.” el to work with the U.N. in su-
Israel blames Hamas for Questions on how to re- pervising the entry of con-
embedding its bases and in- build Gaza center on how to struction materials and en-
frastructure near civilian break the Sisyphean cycle of suring “they reach their in-
areas. Even so, in the past, FRIENDS HELP a resident of an apartment building carry away his belongings recovery and destruction tended destination,”
Israeli forces spared areas in Gaza City. They said the building was in danger of falling at any moment. while ensuring that no aid according to the Israeli Min-
like the Karni Industrial benefits Hamas. Hamas re- istry of Defense. But critics
Zone, said Wadi Masri, who there would be no red lines.” raeli attack nearby. Flames take a shower, came back fuses to recognize Israel’s say the conditions are too
heads PADICO Holding, the Mohammad Ghazali, the had already devoured what- and saw the middle was de- right to exist and is consid- onerous and have in effect
company involved in cre- 65-year-old owner of Maa- ever was in the factory by the stroyed,” he said. ered a terrorist group by the hobbled previous recon-
ating the zone. Indeed, that touq Ice Cream, moved his time he and family members When Shorouq collapsed, U.S., Israel and other West- struction efforts.
formed part of the attrac- factory from the upscale Al- arrived. it sheared off the wall of the ern nations. Hamas officials insist
tion for businesses to move Rimal neighborhood to the Oxygen tanks used for Hasniya building, like a knife “Hamas is a terrorist or- that the blockade must be
there. Before, even if Hamas Karni zone because it pro- freezing blew up; plastic rolls cutting through a layer cake. ganization — we’ve recog- fully lifted for the cease-fire
fighters snuck in, the Israeli vided reliable electricity and melted. Ghazali couldn’t Ismail thought of the brand- nized that,” President Biden to become permanent.
side would communicate security. check if a dust-blackened new 600-pound dentist’s said after the cease-fire deal “If this happens, then
with the business owners, Three years ago, “there mixer still worked because chair he had bought and last month. “But that calm and stability could re-
who made Hamas pull the was nothing but four walls the wiring had melted and would never use. doesn’t mean we should not turn,” Khalil Hayya, a top
fighters back without firing here,” he said of the ware- short-circuited the power “I took a risk, and now the be in Gaza, rebuilding Gaza Hamas official, told report-
a shot, Masri said. house, which sits a few hun- supply. war destroyed everything,” for all those innocent people ers late last month.
“This was supposed to be dred yards from the border Stepping through the he said. “I don’t know if I’ll who in fact have been hurt It can’t come fast enough
a safe area. According to fence with Israel. He soon charred remains of his fac- stay or not. I think I’ll have to and had been collateral for Ibrahim Hassouneh, who
Oslo, the industrial zones at filled it with equipment, in- tory, he heaved open the leave. In any case, people damage, including loss of heads the Siksek plastic
the border should be outside cluding churning machines door of a walk-in freezer, have no money. Why should I homes and a whole range of pipe factory. He estimates
any equation,” Masri said, for making ice cream and then recoiled from the sickly sacrifice myself?” other things.” that he has lost some $1 mil-
referring to the Israeli-Pal- rollers for toasting pis- sweet miasma of burned There are also longer- At a news conference late lion as a result of the war, in-
estinian peace accords ne- tachios, almonds and plastic, explosive material term effects. Before the war, last month, Hamas’ political cluding what one factory
gotiated in the Norwegian peanuts for sprinkling. and the 14 flavors of ice the quartet of companies head in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, executive said was 350 tons
capital in the 1990s. At 4 a.m. on May 17, Ghaz- cream — a strange jumble of run by the Khdeir family was said the group had sufficient of raw materials burned in
“But this time it was a ali received word of a fire in banana, chocolate and pas- set to provide some 40% of financial resources from the Israeli attacks.
message, I believe, that his factory sparked by an Is- sion fruit, among others — the fertilizer, pesticide and Iran and various donors and “Now we can’t export or
his factory used to produce. other farming supplies for had no need to touch any of import. There’s been no
“I want to understand local farmers. Their ware- the aid money. mention as to when the
why. Why did Israel do this?” houses, set in a large dirt “We will make the task crossing might reopen,”
Ghazali said. “They had no yard in Atatra, in the north- easier for everyone,” he said, Hassouneh said, referring to
How to contact us bank of targets, so they just
struck the economy. It was
ern part of the strip, were
now a horror show of toxic
“and we will make sure that
the process is transparent
the Kerem Shalom crossing
between Gaza and Israel,
(800) LA TIMES just to humiliate us.” pink goop, still-smoking and fair, and let everyone be which normally allows a lim-
On Rimal Street, the piles of refuse and an evil- sure that no penny [from re- ited amount of goods to flow
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App for asylum seekers raises alarms
U.S. quietly deployed a platform relying on facial recognition to process backlog
By Molly O’Toole
WASHINGTON — Fac-
ing a backup of tens of thou-
sands of migrants stranded
at the U.S.-Mexico border,
the Biden administration is
betting on a technological
fix: a mobile app.
In recent weeks, U.S. bor-
der officials have taken an
unprecedented step, quietly
deploying the new app, CBP
One, which relies on contro-
versial facial recognition,
geolocation and cloud tech-
nology to collect, process
and store sensitive informa-
tion on asylum seekers be-
fore they enter the United
States, according to three
privacy-impact assess-
ments conducted by the De-
partment of Homeland Se-
curity and experts who re-
viewed them for The Times.
The DHS assessments
describe the app as neces-
sary because border officials
cannot “process all individu-
als at once” who are seeking
protection in the United
States but have been forced
back into Mexico under
Trump-era policies that
Biden has largely kept. Offi-
cials maintain it offers a safe
and efficient technical solu-
tion.
DHS officials argue that
such “smart border” innova-
tion is more effective than
the previous administra-
tion’s walls and bans. Home-
land Security Secretary
Alejandro N. Mayorkas told
lawmakers last month that
the Biden administration
was requesting $1.2 billion
for modernizing ports of en-
try and border security tech-
nology, including ensuring
“safe, orderly, and humane
treatment of migrants.”
“We are working tire-
lessly to rebuild our immi-
gration system,” Mayorkas
said.
But several experts who
reviewed the privacy assess-
ments said the Customs and
Border Protection app
raised alarms about
unchecked data collection
and surveillance by the gov-
ernment on vulnerable mi-
grants who had little choice
but to consent.
“CBP’s use of face recog-
nition poses enormous risks
to privacy and is another
step down a dangerous
path,” Ashley Gorski, senior
attorney at the American
Civil Liberties Union’s Na-
tional Security Project, told
The Times. “Whenever the
government acquires a per-
son’s faceprint, it creates a
risk of persistent surveil-
lance, where the govern-
ment could identify and
track people’s movements
without their knowledge.”
Others, such as Andrew
Farrelly, a former Customs
and Border Protection offi-
cial who runs a border-
management consulting
company, said the app was a
positive step toward a more
efficient and fair process at
the border.
“There is just an incred-
ible amount of pressure
right now on the border itself
and the agencies that are re-
sponsible for the border to
try to deal with the situation
as best as possible,” Farrelly
told The Times. “Applying
technology is a way to do
that.”
The DHS has signaled
that its authority to use the
app in this way may be ten-
uous, and some privacy risks
remain unresolved, accord-
ing to the privacy assess-
ments, which are required
by law. In early May, CBP
sought and received “emer-
gency” approval from the Of-
fice of Management and
Budget to use the app to col-
lect advance information on
undocumented individuals,
bypassing the public com-
ment and notification proc-
ess that’s required before
launching new programs.
Nonetheless, U.S. border
officials have already en-
listed international and non-
governmental organiza-
tions, such as the United Na-
tions refugee agency, known
as UNHCR, to use the app.
The organizations identify
asylum seekers in Mexico
who were subjected to the
Trump-era policies and then
submit their biographic and
biometric information, in-
cluding photographs,
through the app to Customs
and Border Protection. CBP
primarily uses facial recog-
nition to verify the informa-
tion and determine whether
the asylum seekers will be al-
ASYLUM SEEKERS in Penitas, Texas, along the wall separating the U.S. and Mexico wait to be transported to a Border Patrol facility.
THE BIDEN administration is facing a backup of tens of thousands of migrants
at the U.S.-Mexico border. Above, asylum seekers in La Joya, Texas, in March.
‘CBP’s use of face recognition poses
enormous risks to privacy and is another
step down a dangerous path.’
lowed to enter the United
States to pursue their
claims.
When asked about the
app, CBP spokesperson
Stephanie Malin said late
Saturday that using it was
voluntary.
“We ensure that all per-
sonal information is stored
in official, secure CBP sys-
tems,” Malin said by email.
“CBP is committed to pro-
tecting all sensitive informa-
tion in its possession, includ-
ing mitigating to the extent
possible the risk of data
breaches from information
systems containing person-
ally identifiable informa-
tion.”
Under the Trump admin-
istration, some 70,000 asy-
lum seekers were forced into
its so-called Remain in Mexi-
co program, requiring them
to wait south of the border
for immigration hearings in
the United States. As the
coronavirus emerged, the
Trump administration went
further, using Title 42, an ob-
scure 1944 public health law,
to close the border to nones-
sential travel and to sum-
marily expel migrants, in-
cluding those seeking asy-
lum. Border officials have
since carried out roughly
800,000 expulsions.
Biden froze the Remain
in Mexico policy on his first
day in office and kept the Ti-
tle 42 policy in place, saying
it remains necessary despite
a steadily easing pandemic.
But in recent weeks the ad-
ministration has allowed
more than 11,000 asylum
seekers into the United
States who still have open
immigration cases — and
hundreds more identified as
THE NATION
— A SHLEY G ORSKI ,
senior attorney at the ACLU’s National Security Project
the most vulnerable — by in- Immigration and Customs
creasingly relying on CBP Enforcement database, ac-
One, according the organi- cording to CBP. That data-
zations using the app. base, also accessible to out-
Homeland Security’s as- side law enforcement, can
sessments make clear that hold such personal informa-
as the Biden administration tion as long as 75 years.
winds down its most restric- With CBP One, organiza-
tive border policies, officials tions such as the United Na-
expect the CBP One app to tions refugee agency send to
serve as a primary means of CBP photographs of asylum
managing migration. seekers they’ve identified,
Said Lee Gelernt of the and the app uses facial rec-
ACLU, who has sued over ognition to compare those
the policies: “My sense is pictures with those in the ex-
that CBP One app is some- isting gallery.
thing that the government is The app then sends a re-
exploring very seriously as a sponse back indicating
way to process people in the whether the person’s case is
future.” active and how long they’ve
been waiting. If the app
shows the case is open, an
How the app works organization can arrange for
for asylum seekers the asylum seeker to get a
CBP developed the app, coronavirus screening, trav-
then launched it in late Oc- el to a port of entry and ob-
tober to little fanfare, mak- tain permission from CBP to
ing it available for download enter.
from app stores but limiting Chris Boian, a spokes-
its early functions to cargo man for UNHCR, declined to
carriers, non-immigrant comment on the record
travelers and pleasure boat- about how the refugee
ers. In February, after the agency is using the app. But
U.N. refugee agency started he insisted that “the protec-
processing migrants at the tion of personal data of per-
border with active asylum sons of concern is absolutely
cases, CBP put out a per- sacrosanct,” including in
functory news release that work with the U.S. govern-
didn’t mention using the ment.
app for asylum seekers. In Now, administration offi-
May, despite requirements cials have expanded the use
that privacy notices be is- of CBP One again, to those
sued publicly beforehand, identified as potentially eli-
the agency retroactively gible for exemption from the
published and updated the COVID-19-era Title 42 policy,
assessments for how it was under which authorities
already using CBP One for have expelled migrants
asylum seekers. without a court date and
Under Remain in Mexico, with negligible processing.
border officials amassed a That means using the app,
photo gallery of roughly for the first time, to collect
70,000 asylum seekers that entirely new biometric data,
was automatically sent to an including photographs,
Photographs by Carolyn
from asylum seekers in
Mexico before they even ar-
rive at the border.
Because undocumented
individuals coming to the
border often don’t have a
travel document that can be
used to run security checks,
officers generally have to en-
ter their information manu-
ally in a time-consuming
process, according to CBP.
The agency says the app will
auto-populate much of the
required data, calling it “a
safer practice during the on-
going pandemic.”
Raymundo Tamayo,
Mexico director for the In-
ternational Rescue Commit-
tee, one of the main NGOs
working with the asylum
seekers, said the DHS had
described CBP One as one
“tool” to “streamline the in-
take of information” — not to
supplant migrants’ right
under U.S. law to come to the
border directly and claim
asylum.
“Seeking asylum is legal
— even during a pandemic,”
Tamayo said.
CBP’s struggle with
facial recognition
Since the 1990s, Congress
has mandated a system to
track entries and exits from
the United States. After 9/11,
surveillance efforts by CBP
to identify those who over-
stay visas intensified, in-
cluding fingerprints and
photographs as well as facial
recognition technology,
which analyzes a person’s
features to verify his or her
identity by matching the fea-
tures to those in another
photo.
But questions persist
about both the ethics and
the effectiveness of the tech-
nology, particularly when
employed by the U.S. gov-
ernment against nonciti-
zens of color.
A federal study in 2019 of
over 100 commercially avail-
able facial recognition algo-
rithms found that accuracy
varied dramatically based
on the subject’s race, coun-
try of birth, sex and age. The
technology was especially
unreliable for border-cross-
ing photos, and for images of
those from Africa or the
Caribbean.
As of last May, CBP had
completed facial recognition
pilots on pedestrians at five
border crossings in Arizona
and Texas. Officers told the
Government Accountability
Office that they’d used facial
recognition to verify the
identity of 4.4 million border
crossers in three months
and found 215 “impostors” —
a statistical grain of sand.
There are also long-
standing doubts about the
agency’s ability to safeguard
such data. A 2018 CBP pilot
program testing facial rec-
ognition on vehicle passen-
gers crossing the border was
hacked, and more than
180,000 images were compro-
mised, with at least 19 pho-
tos of travelers winding up
on the dark web.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Cole Los Angeles Times
Criticism and
commendation
Sue Kenney-Pfalzer of
HIAS, a nonprofit refugee
advocacy group and another
main NGO working with ex-
pelled asylum seekers, ex-
pressed optimism about the
new mechanism, saying it
could yield less reliance on
smugglers and less time at
ports of entry where crimi-
nals prey on vulnerable mi-
grants if the U.S. govern-
ment tells “pre-vetted” asy-
lum seekers where and when
to come.
But she cautioned, “The
government needs to get the
balance right, ensuring se-
curity but also ensuring that
people have a meaningful
opportunity to seek safety.”
CBP’s own assessments
of the app’s privacy impact
are mixed. At times, the
agency says asylum seekers
can give biographic informa-
tion instead of submitting to
facial recognition. But in one
footnote, the agency advises
that, initially, the biographic
option won’t be available.
In some cases, the agency
says, app users must con-
sent to officials viewing their
GPS location. But else-
where, the assessment also
says officials won’t use the
geolocation feature to con-
duct surveillance on trav-
elers.
CBP stresses that its app
collects but does not store
the information, sending it
to other databases instead.
The agency also says that it’s
up to the other Homeland
Security components or out-
side authorities to protect
the information, or access it
appropriately.
CBP asserts migrants
can still come to ports of en-
try directly to seek asylum
and don’t have to use the
app.
But with the border still
closed to nonessential trav-
el, the process by which
NGOs identify asylum seek-
ers and request permission
for them to enter — now,
through CBP One — is, in
reality, the only option avail-
able.
Sophia Cope, a senior
attorney at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, said
the risk of relying on notori-
ously unreliable facial recog-
nition technology was par-
ticularly acute for asylum
seekers.
“If people’s lives depend
on an algorithm determin-
ing whether or not they are
who they say they are, and
it’s an imperfect algorithm,”
Cope said, “people may have
to go back to the country
they’re trying to flee because
they can’t be verified.
“It may not seem like a
big deal to match a pre-
existing photograph to
someone standing in front of
you,” she said. “But ulti-
mately, the government is
building a system of perva-
sive surveillance, and that
creates a society that looks
very different from a free re-
public.”
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Widow carries on his legacy in Fresno fields

[Harvest, from A1]
back of their house on Huntington
Boulevard, a stately street blocks
from a troubled urban core. They
chose the neighborhood because
of its diversity, including other
interracial couples such as Sherril,
who is white, and Rodney, who was
Black.
Next to their driveway, they
flew an American flag from a tall
pole because of Rodney’s military
background and because he did
not want to cede its symbolism to
racists. They expanded to a plot at
the African American Farmers of
California’s demonstration farm
behind Kearney Park on Fresno’s
west side.
After Rodney’s death, there
were days when Sherril wished
that she had died too. But she was
determined to keep growing food
to give away.
During the week, she worked as
a judicial attorney with the Superi-
or Court. On weekends, she
worked at the farm and found
solace where she could smell dirt,
hear the bees buzzing in the net-
tles and get scolded by jays nest-
ing in the oleander windbreak.
Maybe it was because Rodney
had loved the place. He was a
retired command master chief, the
highest noncommissioned rank in
the Navy. (If someone called him
“sir,” he always said, “No thanks, I
work for a living.”)
Will Scott, who founded the
Black farmers group, was a retired Photographs by Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times

submarine engineer, and there
were Pete and Ken and Bill, all
Vietnam veterans. They liked to
walk the rows and make jokes that
only they would get.
But Rodney’s best friend was
probably Carlos Luna, quietly
weeding a few rows away. Sherril
thought Luna came only on the
weekends, which she had hired
him to do. What she didn’t know
was that Luna also came during
the week on his way to his job at a
farm and manufacturing plant. He
checked the irrigation and fixed
anything that needed to be fixed.
Luna had started working for
the Wellses when they owned their
farm. Rodney always presented
the day’s jobs with military preci-
sion: tools laid out, tasks listed.
Luna would get straight to work,
clearly sensing that Rodney was
not one for chitchat.
After 10 months of working
silently together, Rodney initiated
conversation: “What did you do
this weekend? How are your chil-
dren?”
One day he said, “Carlos, you
are a good man. I like you.”
Carlos said, “Rodney, you are a
good man. I like you too.”
They started taking what Rod-
ney called water breaks and talked
over many things, including their
childhoods and the troubles each
had seen, one as a Black man, one
as a Mexican immigrant.
During the pandemic, anyone
who experienced loss did so in a
vacuum. There was no funeral
when Rodney died, no communal
mourning with physical touch.
Sherril liked to work at the farm
with Luna because he loved Rod-
ney too and he didn’t seem to mind
when she cried while they worked.
b beneath his sunglasses. “It’s like
By the time the mustard
greens, grown from seedlings that
Rodney planted, were bolting,
Luna found himself feeling —
What was the word? He didn’t
want to use “angry” — how could
he be mad at Rodney for dying?
But he was on his knees, weed-
ing around the garlic, feeling up-
set, when he found himself talking
to Rodney in his head: “You just
left and didn’t say anything to me,
man. You didn’t even say good-
bye.”
A week later, Luna had a
dream. He saw Rodney in the field.
He was showered and wearing
clean clothes. Luna could feel
SHERRIL WELLS , whose husband died in December, chats with fellow farmer Chris Fields on community farmland in Fresno.
WELLS , unloading vegetables planted by her late husband at her home in Fresno, says “it feels
good that what Rodney planted will keep giving. It feels good being part of this community.”
Rodney wanted to say something,
but in the dream, Luna just kept
working. The next week he had the
same dream, but this time his eyes
met Rodney’s.
Luna told Sherril about his
second dream as they spread
weed-suppressing cloth over the
ground where they were going to
plant herbs.
“He looked happy. I think he
was trying to tell me he is OK,” he
said, tears slowly dripping from
he’s gone, but not gone-gone. You
know?”
Sherril had been reflecting on
how Rodney’s life was in defiance
of circumstance. His father had
been impatient and cruel. Rodney
was patient and kind.
As a young seaman, other
sailors had called him racial slurs.
He and his best friend, Slim, had
studied with flashlights under the
covers for the petty officer test and
soon outranked the bigots who
had to show them institutional
respect.
“When you’re married, you
can’t go around constantly bowing
down, worshiping somebody. But
truth was, I hero-worshiped him.
There was an unshakable dignity
about Rodney,” Sherril said.
It was a late marriage, after
they had both traveled far from
home state Kansas. Whip-smart
but awkward, Sherril had learned
Mandarin, lived in China, moved
to Los Angeles and collected all
the shiny accoutrements to try
and convince herself she was
successful.
She became an alcoholic like
her father. She was nine years
sober when she met Rodney, who
was born in Kansas, raised in
Compton and had been stationed
all over the world. He’d had an
earlier marriage and kept a self-
imposed loneliness.
Sherril and Rodney’s marriage
hit a rough patch when he couldn’t
understand why she would some-
times get rigid and demand
things, such as engaging the park-
ing brake when the car was on flat
ground, or how, when she was
tired, she’d talk in circles, repeat-
edly making the same points.
She was diagnosed as being on
the autism spectrum. Her lifelong
best girlfriend said that fit with
everything from before they had
known a word for it.
Once Rodney had an explana-
tion, he always put on the parking
brake. He showed his care by
watching out for her.
“Little things. He made sure I
wore a hat so I wouldn’t get sun-
burned,” she said, touching her
reddening face and walking to the
car for the hat she’d forgotten.
At her house that afternoon,
she cleaned the mustard leaves,
spinning them in her washing
machine, then bagged them. In the
backyard, she had hung curtains
of drying garlic from clotheslines
and draped them over citrus trees.
The next morning, while it was
still inky dark, she left 14 gallons of
salad, 15 gallons of baby collards,
45 bunches of onions, 21 bunches of
kale and a lot of garlic in Apper’s
car to be delivered to people in an
agricultural valley where many
can’t afford fresh produce.
Apper, the founder of the St.
Benedict Catholic Worker in
Fresno, was a woman who com-
bined a dedication to feeding the
hungry with an earthy humor. She
had once declared it hotter than
two squirrels mating in a wool
sock, but she didn’t use the word
“mating.”
Apper had cut back on some of
her work as she went through
chemotherapy after a cancer
diagnosis. But not the food deliv-
eries. For one thing, there were too
many panicked calls for help.
But she also thought of her
39-year-old daughter, Mary, an
Afghanistan veteran, who in 2017
was diagnosed with cancer pos-
sibly caused by breathing toxic
fumes from military burn pits.
Mary had once pulled a stranger
from a crashed car while driving
herself to a chemotherapy ap-
pointment.
Apper told herself that if Mary,
who died in January, could run
toward a car that could explode,
on her way to treatment, then she,
Mary’s mother, could keep up with
food deliveries.
In June — after the mustard
had reseeded, the jay’s eggs
hatched, and the tomatoes started
to ripen — Sherril retired.
During her first week off work,
she joined a quilting group to learn
the art of stitching separate layers
and pieces together into some-
thing strong, often as part of a
sewing circle.
She watched videos on how to
braid the tops of garlic. She
wanted to add something pretty to
the produce box the African
American Farmers of California
was going to offer. She would also
donate herbs to put in the box as
an added value item — like getting
a lipstick with purchase, she said.
She finally received word that
she had obtained nonprofit status
for Rancho de Rodney farm. She
planned to offer agricultural train-
ing to war veterans, produce more
food for the Catholic Worker and
add deliveries in Lemoore near the
naval air station.
It had angered Rodney that
young, enlisted families often
didn’t make enough money to
afford healthful groceries.
“It breaks my heart that Rod-
ney isn’t here. We were supposed
to do this together,” she said,
beginning to cry — some of the
women in her quilting group had
told her to expect sudden, short
sobs for a while to come.
“But it feels good that what
Rodney planted will keep giving,”
she said. “It feels good being part
of this community.”
She said Apper was right. Joy
and grief do coexist.

Manchin plans ‘no’ vote on Democrats’ election bill

associated press
WASHINGTON — A key
Democratic senator says he
will not vote for the largest
overhaul of U.S. election law
in at least a generation, defy-
ing his party and the White
House and virtually guaran-
teeing the failure of the legis-
lation after a near party-line
approval in the House.
“Voting and election re-
form that is done in a parti-
san manner will all but en-
sure partisan divisions con-
tinue to deepen,” Sen. Joe
Manchin III of West Virginia
wrote in a home-state news-
paper, the Charleston
Gazette-Mail.
He wrote that failure to
bring together both parties
on voting legislation would
“risk further dividing and
destroying the republic we
swore to protect and defend
as elected officials.”
The bill would restrict
partisan gerrymandering of
congressional districts,
strike down hurdles to vot-
ing and bring transparency
to a murky campaign fi-
nance system that allows
donors to anonymously
bankroll political causes.
Among dozens of other pro-
visions, it would require
states to offer 15 days of early
voting and allow no-excuse
absentee balloting.
In appearances on two
Sunday news shows,
Manchin stressed his rea-
sons for opposing the bill, in-
cluding his view that it is too
broad.
“I think it’s the wrong
piece of legislation to bring
our country together and
unite our country and I’m
not supporting that because
I think it would divide us fur-
ther,” Manchin said. He also
said he believes Republicans
will see the need for a bipar-
tisan deal.
“And if they think they’re
going to win by subverting
and oppressing people from
voting, they’re going to lose.
I assure you they will lose,”
he said.
Senate Majority Leader
Charles E. Schumer (D-
N.Y.) told colleagues that he
would bring the elections
measure to a vote the week
of June 21, in effect testing
where senators stand. But
without Manchin’s support,
the bill is unlikely to garner
even a majority. Republi-
cans are united against it.
Manchin said lawmakers
should instead focus their
energies on revitalizing the
landmark Voting Rights Act,
which was weakened by a
Supreme Court decision in
2013. Republican Sen. Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska has
joined him in calling for that
approach.
Manchin’s opposition to
the broader elections bill is
just the latest challenge fac-
ing Democrats as they enter
the summer work period
under rising pressure to de-
liver on their promises to
voters.
Manchin reiterated he
would not vote to “weaken or
eliminate the filibuster,” a
route that many Democrats
see as the only realistic path
forward. The filibuster rule
requires 60 votes to pass
most bills, and in today’s
Senate, which is split 50-50,
that means many of the
Democrats’ biggest pri-
orities, including voting
rights and gun control, are
dead on arrival.
Manchin and Sen.
Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)
have frustrated their party
by their defense of the fili-
buster. But as many as 10
Democratic senators also
are reluctant to change the
rules.
President Biden last
week used the 100th anniver-
sary of Tulsa, Okla.’s race
massacre to make a plea for
legislation to protect the
right to vote, which comes as
Republican-led administra-
tions in Texas and other
states pass new restrictions
making it tougher to cast
ballots. Biden also seemed
to call out Manchin and
Sinema for stalling action on
voting measures, though he
has not said he wants to end
the filibuster.
Biden said the right to
vote was “precious” and
must be protected, and he
pledged that June would be
a “month of action” on Capi-
tol Hill. “We’re not giving
up,” Biden said. “I’m going to
fight like heck with every
tool at my disposal for its
passage.”
Senate Republican
leader Mitch McConnell of
Kentucky has promised to
block the elections bill,
which he characterizes as
undue government over-
reach into state election sys-
tems. He said no GOP sena-
tors support it.
“I believe that partisan
voting legislation will de-
stroy the already weakening
binds of our democracy, and
for that reason, I will vote
against the For the People
Act,” Manchin wrote.
“Furthermore, I will not vote
to weaken or eliminate the
filibuster.”
In March, House Demo-
crats passed the voting bill
by a near party-line 220-210
vote. The legislation would
restrict partisan gerryman-
dering of congressional dis-
tricts, eliminate hurdles to
voting and bring transpar-
ency to a campaign finance
system that allows wealthy
donors to anonymously
bankroll political causes.
The measure has been a
priority for Democrats since
they won their House major-
ity in 2018. But it has taken on
added urgency in the wake of
former President Trump’s
false claims about the 2020
election, which incited the
Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Manchin was inter-
viewed Sunday on “Fox
News Sunday” and “Face the
Nation” on CBS.
A8 M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
Review of police shootings on hold
[Gascón, from A1]
once you take manslaughter
out of the equation because
of the statute of limitations,
these are not, and should
not, be viable cases,” said at-
torney Michael Schwartz,
who has successfully de-
fended police officers in a
number of controversial
killings in California.
Schwartz is not currently
involved in any of the cases
Middleton has been asked to
review, though in 2013 he did
briefly represent the officers
who shot and killed Ricardo
Diaz Zeferino in Gardena,
the oldest of the cases that
Gascón highlighted.
The filing of murder
charges against police offi-
cers is rare, and successful
prosecutions are even less
frequent. Since 2005, 142 po-
lice officers have been ar-
rested on charges of murder
or manslaughter in the U.S.,
according to data tracked by
Phillip M. Stinson, a crimi-
nologist at Bowling Green
State University in Ohio.
Only 44 of those officers
were convicted of any crime,
according to Stinson’s re-
search. Seven were con-
victed of murder.
“What we see in those
cases, quite often, is that of-
ficers are convicted of lesser
offenses,” Stinson said. “If
the lesser offenses are off
the table because of the stat-
ute of limitations, that
makes it an all-or-nothing
proposition.”
Middleton said it would
not be appropriate to dis-
cuss cases he might eventu-
ally prosecute. Gascón said
he was aware of the tight
window to file manslaughter
charges when he began dis-
cussing the cases on the
campaign trail. Although he
still thinks murder charges
could be viable, he also said
the blame for the delay rests
with the county’s sluggish
and bureaucratic hiring
processes.
“There’s still other
charges, and we’re going to
look very closely, but there’s
a very intense bureaucratic
process that the county op-
erates under ... that’s my re-
ality. The fact that the statu-
te of limitations in a couple
of these cases has run out,
you have to go back to the or-
igins,” he said, referring to
Lacey’s decision to not file
charges.
Of the shootings Gascón
highlighted, the only one in
which Middleton could
consider charges beyond
murder is the 2018 killing
of Christopher DeAndre
Mitchell by Torrance police.
Mitchell had been accused of
driving a stolen car and offi-
cers said they saw him
L.A. jails give inmates access to overdose drug
[Naloxone, from A1]
ment launched last month.
Officials last week an-
nounced plans to expand it
and put the drug in dorms
across Los Angeles County’s
sprawling network of jails.
The straightforward but
unusual strategy comes
amid a rise in overdoses in
the nation’s largest jail sys-
tem, where officials continue
to struggle to stop the illicit
flow of fentanyl into lockups.
Dr. Sean Henderson, a
physician with the county’s
Correctional Health Serv-
ices, said the time saved by
giving inmates quick access
to the drug can be the differ-
ence between life and death.
“We have an antidote; we
know exactly what to do,”
Henderson said. “Why not
bring the antidote as close as
possible?”
Officials say Los Angeles
is one of the first counties in
the country to put naloxone
in jails. The idea was born
out of crisis, when a man
died of a fentanyl overdose in
March at the North County
Correctional Facility.
After the death, sheriff ’s
officials reviewed security
video, which showed the
man hiding between bunks
and appearing to snort a
substance into his nose, said
Assistant Sheriff Brendan
Corbett, who oversees jail
operations. When deputies
walked by to check on the
dorm, which they do every 30
minutes, the man, who was
identified as Kevin Jovel,
waved and seemed fine.
Jovel, 28, then took more
drugs and soon appeared in-
toxicated, Corbett said.
Other inmates helped him to
his bed, and when deputies
checked on him again, he
seemed to be asleep.
Later, when inmates
were unable to awaken Jovel,
they clothed him and spun
S L AT I M E S . C O M
WHEN HE campaigned for Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascón promised that if he won, he
would revisit cases in which his predecessor had declined to file charges after fatal shootings by police officers.
reaching for a weapon be-
tween his legs when they
shot him seated inside the
vehicle.
Mitchell died at the scene
and an airsoft rifle was re-
covered, according to 2019
memo issued by the district
attorney’s office when prose-
cutors declined to charge
the officers.
Gascón decided to hire
an outside attorney to re-
view the cases because pros-
ecutors in the office’s Justice
Systems Integrity Division,
which normally handles po-
lice shooting cases, previ-
ously declined to bring
charges in each killing.
Despite announcing the
plan to review the old cases
months before he was
elected, Gascón said he did
not have a job candidate in
mind until he sought the
Board of Supervisors’ per-
mission to hire Middleton in
February. The board ap-
proved the move in March,
less than six weeks before
the deadline to file man-
slaughter charges in More-
jon’s death.
Once he is hired, Middle-
ton’s primary task will be
to review the four cases
Gascón highlighted during
the campaign. That list
could expand, according to
Gascón, who said Middleton
will have wide latitude to re-
view any on-duty killing in
which Lacey declined to
charge officers. Cases that
THE L.A. COUNTY Sheriff’s Department has placed the overdose drug nalox-
one, dispensed under the brand name Narcan, in a dorm at the Men’s Central Jail.
‘We have a bit of an [opioid] crisis in
the country, and our jail reflects the
community. Trying to convince you
not to take it doesn’t always work.’
—Dr. Sean Henderson,
L.A. County Correctional Health Services
his mattress around to make
it look as though he’d moved.
Deputies assumed he had —
there was no vomit, and
nothing looked out of place,
Corbett said.
Officials from the coro-
ner’s office determined that
Jovel was killed by the effects
of fentanyl.
In a meeting after the
fatal overdose, Henderson
proposed putting the nalox-
one nasal spray in the
dorms.
“We all looked at each
other like, ‘Why not?’ ” Cor-
CLIFFORD PROCTOR , then an LAPD officer, uses crutches in Venice at the
scene where he fatally shot Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man, in 2015.
were pending when Gascón
took office will remain in the
purview of JSID, as well as
new fatal use-of-force cases.
The Board of Supervi-
sors approved $1.5 million
in funding for Middleton’s
position, though Gascón
said that will also be
used to hire outside attor-
neys and investigators who
will work under the special
prosecutor. Gascón said he
could not offer an exact
amount that Middleton
would be paid because he
will have to bill the county for
Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department
bett said. “It’s the responsi-
ble thing to do.”
They weighed potential
downsides: If inmates took
the medication from the dis-
pensary boxes when it
wasn’t needed, the jail would
simply replenish the supply.
The medication can’t be
used to get high and actually
triggers an unpleasant with-
drawal reaction when used
on someone who has over-
dosed.
“If they take it without
using it, I don’t care. Then
they’ll have a stash, and
his hours.
Middleton’s hire was fur-
ther complicated by con-
flict-of-interest concerns. As
of late May, he was still serv-
ing as counsel for two de-
fendants in three criminal
cases being tried by the dis-
trict attorney’s office.
Two of the cases involved
a single defendant, Larthan
Merriweather, who was fac-
ing weapons, theft and forg-
ery offenses. Middleton was
also representing a man ac-
cused of misdemeanor elder
abuse in a third case.
that’s fine too,” Henderson
said.
The need to try some-
thing new was clear. Sheriff
Alex Villanueva signed off
on the plan to give inmates
access to the drug, dis-
pensed under the brand
name Narcan.
“Fentanyl is getting in,”
Corbett said. “We’ve de-
ployed Narcan four to five
times this last week alone….
We’re just trying to get
ahead of it,” he said.
Narcotics, Corbett said,
are coming into the lockup
largely through the mail. He
said synthetic marijuana,
known as spice, is being
laced with fentanyl, then
dried onto paper. Inmates
tear up little pieces and drop
them into their tea or to-
bacco.
Since 2018, sheriff ’s depu-
ties and custody assistants
working in jails have carried
on their work belts two doses
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
Last month, Deputy Dist.
Atty. Sean Carney filed
a motion asking a judge
to remove Middleton in one
of Merriweather’s cases,
sparking another round of
public criticism of Gascón
from line prosecutors who
have opposed many of his re-
form-minded policies.
Even though the county’s
lawyers had drawn up a
document waiving concerns
about any conflict, a posi-
tion Gascón says he agreed
with, Carney filed the mo-
tion without informing the
of naloxone. So far this year,
the drug has been used 85
times in county jails, Corbett
said, compared with 54 inci-
dents in all of 2020. Officials
said the increase may be due
in part to better tracking of
cases.
Sheriff ’s officials tested
the idea of giving inmates ac-
cess to Narcan with a few
dozen doses in 16 dorms and
three barracks in its Castaic
jails. Inmates were shown a
video on how to administer
the spray and were in-
structed to notify deputies if
they ever used it so that
medical staff could respond,
Corbett said.
“Our emphasis is always
going to be putting them in
appropriate therapy…. But
we have a bit of an [opioid]
crisis in the country, and our
jail reflects the community,”
Henderson said. “Trying to
convince you not to take it
doesn’t always work. While
we’re working on that, we
have to keep you safe.”
The idea quickly paid off.
The two men overdosed in
the North County Correc-
tional Facility on May 26; it is
believed to be the only time
inmates have used Narcan
so far.
Within days of that inci-
dent, the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment had placed Narcan in
dozens more dorms and
plans to continue to roll it
out in other facilities. The
Office of Diversion and Re-
entry, which provided the
Narcan, said it has enough
doses to supply the program
for the next year.
“The fact that they’ve al-
ready saved two people’s
lives is pretty remarkable,”
said Kevin Fiscella, a physi-
cian who teaches at Uni-
versity of Rochester Medical
Center and has studied opi-
oid overdose deaths in jails.
He also serves as a board
district attorney, according
to two people with knowl-
edge of the situation who re-
quested anonymity to dis-
cuss the matter candidly.
Both Middleton and Car-
ney declined to be inter-
viewed for this article. Cali-
fornia law prohibits an attor-
ney from operating as both a
“public prosecutor” and de-
fense attorney within the
same jurisdiction. In his mo-
tion, Carney argued Middle-
ton’s involvement in Merri-
weather’s case violated that
rule.
In court last month,
Middleton said Carney was
aware he was trying to find a
new lawyer for Merriweather
and argued there was no
need for the prosecutor to
file the motion.
“I was somewhat blind-
sided and felt somewhat
sandbagged,” Middleton
said.
But Middleton also re-
peatedly argued that there
was no conflict of interest
since he had yet to formally
accept the job, and his
role as special prosecutor
would be solely focused on
the prosecution of law en-
forcement officials rather
than defendants such as
Merriweather. Gascón said
this month that Middleton
would begin his role as
special prosecutor soon
but did not specify an exact
date.
L.A. County Superior
Court Judge David Fields
threw Middleton off the case
after an hourlong hearing
late last month.
“The conflict has oc-
curred and is occurring....
This is in the public. You’re
taking this job,” Fields said.
“It’s the appearance of im-
propriety.”
As of Friday, Middleton
had voluntarily stepped
away from the other two
cases, according to Alex
Bastian, a special advisor to
Gascón.
Laurie Levenson, a for-
mer federal prosecutor who
teaches at Loyola Law
School in Los Angeles, said
the fracas over Middleton’s
hire is indicative of the
broader struggle Gascón
has faced in trying to make
seismic changes within the
district attorney’s office.
“Gascón is so eager
to make big changes, and
to bring in people to show
the public that he’s going
to be different, that no-
body is focusing on the de-
tails,” she said. “And the de-
tails turn out to be impor-
tant.”
Times staff writer Richard
Winton contributed to this
report.
member of the National
Commission on Correc-
tional Healthcare.
According to the federal
Bureau of Justice Statistics,
deaths in local jails across
the U.S. due to drug or alco-
hol intoxication soared to 178
in 2018 from 37 in 2000, a rise
Fiscella suspects is driven by
the national opioid epidem-
ic. In L.A. County jails alone,
10 people have died of over-
doses since June 2019, sher-
iff ’s officials said.
People who use drugs
face a greater overdose risk
in jail or soon after their re-
lease, largely because their
tolerance drops rapidly
when they stop using, ex-
perts said.
“You get locked up on Fri-
day, and by Monday, a dose
that would have been safe to
take on Friday is enough to
kill you on Monday,” said
Peter Davidson, a professor
at UC San Diego who studies
drug abuse. “So you’ve got a
whole bunch of people com-
ing out who aren’t necessari-
ly super aware of that and
who resume opioid use very
quickly.”
That’s why L.A. County
last year began offering Nar-
can to people leaving jail and
has since distributed more
than 34,000 doses through
free vending machines set
up at exits.
A 2017 survey of people
entering county jails found
that 7% reported witnessing
an overdose in the previous
year, and 39% indicated that
they were interested in over-
dose prevention and re-
sponse training, according
to the diversion office.
“It’s so simple as just
making a tool available that
can change a life-or-death
situation,” said Shoshanna
Scholar, the office’s director
of harm reduction and com-
munity-based diversion.
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MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL
TRADE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND TAIWAN IS AT ITS
HIGHEST LEVEL IN DECADES – HERE’S WHY
hen we think of Taiwan, vast, modern cityscapes, soaring mountain

W peaks and beautiful beaches instantly come to mind. Those with

experience in world economics may also know that Taiwan maintains
a reputation for democratic and economic freedom on the Asian continent. But
competitive trade partner. Taiwan and the
U.S.’ industries and imports/exports trend
towards being complementary, creating a
robust flow of goods, materials and services
both east and west.
trade. Taiwan lies in the direct path of the
Indo-Pacific sea trade, closer to critical U.S.
ports – like the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach – than many on mainland Asia.

what lies beyond a gorgeous travel destination and a contemporary democratic In addition, Taiwan has been ranked as
economy is a huge trans-Pacific financial driver, and moreover, one of the United SelectUSA, as both a cheerleader and a one of the most “economically free” nations
spotlight operator for participant nations, in the world according to the Heritage
States’ most important trade allies.
give a huge amount of visibility to countries Foundation’s 2021 Index of Economic
Trans-Pacific Trade by the Numbers Going forward, Taiwan is slated to like Taiwan that share in the goals of U.S. Freedom, besting close U.S. allies such as
According to the U.N., Taiwan has the 57th invest even more. In 2020, Taiwanese international economic development. Germany and South Korea by offering less
largest population in the world in 2021 on an company TSMC announced plans to build The Summit, which begins today (after barriers to free trade. Self-described as
island about 11% the size of California. This a semiconductor fabrication plant in the not occurring last year due to the global a “beacon of democracy,” Taiwan offers
makes it even more impressive that Taiwan American Southwest. The investment will pandemic), will pair investors, business like-minded business operations and similar
is the United States’ 9th largest trading
partner. Bilateral trade – the importing and
exporting of goods, services, and materials
– is larger (and more equal) than many
more vast regions on the globe.

Among other surprising facts about

U.S.-Taiwan trade:

• Taiwan is the 8th largest export market

for U.S. agricultural products, including
the 5th largest for fruits and vegetables,
4th for poultry and 6th for U.S. beef.

• Taiwan is the 4th largest U.S. Pacific

trade market, after China, Japan and
South Korea.

• Taiwan-affiliated companies support over

373,000 well-paying U.S.-based jobs.

Aside from substantial amounts of

agricultural trade, Taiwan is the 3rd largest
destination for U.S. energy exports.
Beginning last year, Taiwan was slated to
purchase over $35.8 billion worth of liquid
natural gas (LNG) over the next 25 years.
In addition, Taiwan accounted for 30% of
U.S. semiconductor exports, making it the
largest semiconductor market in the world.
While exports from the U.S. are
numerous, the trade flow functions in both
directions. One major export from Taiwan
is jobs – thousands of U.S. jobs are firmly
tied to the Taiwanese market. Taiwanese
companies are also increasing their output
of high-tech goods, specifically chipsets for
the increasing market of automobiles that
use advanced technology (e.g., electric or
hybrid vehicles).
Finally, Taiwan has made enormous
investments in stateside economies beyond
job creation, investing in infrastructure,
development, and other facets of trade.
Many of these investments involve
newer, tech-heavy sectors like medicine,
information technology and innovative and
renewable materials, such as smarter
plastics. All said, Taiwan spent $47 billion in
economic infrastructure in 2019 alone.
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create over 1,600 jobs immediately in
Arizona, with many more ancillary roles
being created through a further need to
support the factory and its surrounding
infrastructure.
Natural ‘Selection’
Underscoring the importance of U.S.-
Taiwan trade is Taiwan’s participation in the
SelectUSA Investment Summit, where they
have led the largest delegation for two years
in a row (from 2018-19). So important is
trade between the two countries that Taiwan
will continue to be a major voice at this
year’s Summit, which is being held virtually
for the first time.
SelectUSA, overseen by the U.S.
Department of Commerce, holds its
summit yearly to promote bilateral trade
with foreign companies, from established
multinationals to startups. While hundreds
of nations participate, Taiwan’s influence on
the event comes from its position as a non-
owners and national representatives all with
similar goals: increasing commerce, trade
opportunities, and smart, mutual growth.
Roots of the Partnership
Why Taiwan and the U.S., exactly? This
impressive trade balance is created from
several factors. Historically, Taiwan has
been able to shift its economy from an
agrarian-based, aid-receiving country in
the 1960s to one of the world’s leaders in
high-tech development and manufacture
in an incredibly short amount of time, all
while casting off any need for help and
becoming an economic powerhouse and aid
donor itself. With a firm focus on education,
free-market practices and infrastructure
development, Taiwan will regain the lead
in chipmaking technology, debuting the
next-generation 3-nanometer chip in 2022,
according to a recent CNBC report.
The geographic location of the two
countries also allows for simpler intermodal
democratic ideals to American companies.
Furthermore, Taiwan’s role in trade moves
beyond private business and into the U.S.
State Department’s larger Indo-Pacific
Strategy. The set of directives, which sets
the stage for a contemporary set of ideals
for trans-Pacific relations and cooperation,
offers a pivotal role for countries like Taiwan
that support free and open markets and
trade, while ensuring safety and peace
of mind for those who travel the critical
routes that deliver our next-generation
technologies to our doorsteps.
To learn more about Taiwan and U.S. trade,
please visit en.mofa.gov.tw.
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LA Times Brand Publishing. It did not
involve the editorial or reporting staffs
of the Los Angeles Times. Contact
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Can state keep the lights on this summer?
Electric grid operator is guardedly optimistic that 2020’s rolling blackouts won’t recur
By Sammy Roth
It feels like just yesterday that
California was roiled by rolling
blackouts during an epic summer
heat wave.
But that was nearly a year ago,
and now summer is dawning once
again. Across the West, power grid
managers and utilities are prepar-
ing for heat waves and for the dry,
windy conditions that have top-
pled electrical infrastructure and
ignited wildfires.
Temperatures are already surg-
ing, which is happening more fre-
quently as the planet warms.
It’s not too bad in Los Angeles,
but a heat wave brough triple-digit
temperatures to California’s Cen-
tral Valley. Montana, Nevada, Ore-
gon and Washington were also
scorching.
The California Independent
System Operator, which runs the
power grid for most of the state,
says we’ve got enough electricity
supply on hand at the moment.
But blackouts loom as a threat this
summer.
How big a threat, exactly? The
Times recently had a chance to ask
state officials that question during
a panel discussion hosted by the
Sacramento Press Club. Our co-
moderator was Ashley Zavala, Cal-
ifornia Capitol correspondent for
KRON 4 News.
It was a fascinating conversa-
tion featuring Elliot Mainzer, presi-
dent of the California Independent
System Operator; state Sen. Mike
McGuire (D-Healdsburg), whose
district has suffered some of Cali-
fornia’s worst fires sparked by elec-
trical wires; Susan Kennedy, a for-
mer advisor to Govs. Gray Davis
and Arnold Schwarzenegger who
served on the California Public
Utilities Commission and founded
energy software company AMS;
and Bob Foster, former president
of Southern California Edison.
Here are some highlights from
the discussion, edited and con-
densed for clarity.
L.A. Times: Elliot, right up until
your agency pulled the trigger in
August, it didn’t seem like rolling
blackouts were going to happen.
Looking ahead to the next few
months, do you think people
should be preparing for this
again?
ELLIOT MAINZER: Guarded
optimism is a reasonable way to
state it. If we get relatively modest
temperatures across the West, or if
it’s hot in California but not hot in
adjacent states — given the re-
source additions that we’ve had
since last year, given the fact that
the infrastructure going into the
summer is in pretty good shape —
we should be fine.
If we get into another big West-
wide heating event like we saw last
year, our numbers tell us the grid
will be stressed again. But we will
be reaching out actively to con-
sumers and industry to conserve
energy. The Flex Alert program
and calls for conservation that
were absolutely instrumental last
summer, particularly after the 14th
BUSINESS
ACROSS THE WEST, power grid managers and utilities are preparing for heat waves and for the
dry, windy conditions that have toppled electrical infrastructure and ignited wildfires.
‘We’re now the equivalent of many Third World
countries where we’re used to having the power go
out for hours at a time.’
and 15th of August, are going to be
essential.
BOB FOSTER: Yeah, we could
have blackouts again. A more
important issue is what we do over
the next six years to fill the gap
from things like the Diablo Canyon
nuclear plant and the coastal gas
plants going off the system. I hap-
pen to believe in the carbon and
renewable goals we have, and the
quickest way to kill them is to have
reliability problems. We need to
avoid that.
The recent action by the Public
Utilities Commission was a real
step in the right direction. I finally
see some urgency. I see a more
than adequate amount of new
energy being proposed — over 11
gigawatts. I wish it would have
happened a year ago.
LAT: Sen. McGuire, a lot of these
power grid decisions get made by
regulatory agencies, including
the decision to keep running
gas-fired “peaker” plants that
are only needed when energy
demand is high. What is the Leg-
islature’s role in making sure we
keep reducing emissions and also
keep the lights on?
MIKE McGUIRE: No. 1, this
Legislature, the governor and the
Public Utilities Commission have
to hold the utilities accountable
when it comes to their vegetation
management and hardening their
infrastructure.
I live in PG&E territory, and I’ll
be candid: America’s largest utility
is one of the most dysfunctional
utilities, unfortunately, in the
former California Public Utilities Commission member
nation. And it’s incredibly frus-
trating because what we’re going
to see, based on their lack of vege-
tation management in the most
high fire-risk zones, is the same
communities in Northern Cali-
fornia hit year after year after year
for the next 10 years.
No. 2, we can’t end our reliance
on the peaker plants immediately.
We get rid of peakers and the lights
go off, and that’s simply unaccept-
able. We have to continue adding
alternative sources of energy, and
expediting that.
ASHLEY ZAVALA: With Gov.
Gavin Newsom facing a recall
election, some observers are
making comparisons to the
early-2000s energy crisis, when
power outages helped fuel the
recall of then-Gov. Davis. Are
those comparisons fair?
SUSAN KENNEDY: I don’t
think so. I think people under-
stand this is a very different situa-
tion. Twenty years ago, the black-
outs were the product of govern-
ment failure, government incom-
petence. Everyone knew they
should not have been occurring.
And no one was prepared. We
weren’t sensitized to turning
things off and living without elec-
tricity for periods of time.
We’re now in year two or three
of blackouts that are the result of
environmental events, fire and
weather. I live in Sonoma, and I
bought a very expensive genera-
tor, so I’m now not as fearful when
the power is going out for seven or
eight hours, or days when the wind
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
— S USAN K ENNEDY,
kicks up and the heat is there. I
think people are a little more
resilient and resigned to it because
of the fires.
FOSTER: I was the point per-
son for Edison in 2000-01, and this
is entirely different. This is not
Newsom’s problem. He didn’t
create it. He needs to solve it, but I
would urge everybody to be a little
understanding. The governor’s
not the guy out there with the hard
hat building the plant or putting
up solar systems or putting in
batteries.
LAT: The word “crisis” gets
thrown around a lot when we talk
about power shortages. But when
you look at the numbers, on Aug.
14 we had about half a million
utility customers lose power for
2½ hours at most. The next day
we had about 300,000 lose power,
and nobody for longer than 90
minutes. How big a crisis is this?
KENNEDY: It’s not a crisis.
We’re now the equivalent of many
Third World countries where we’re
used to having the power go out for
hours at a time. That was unheard
of 20 years ago. The first time I
heard the words, “Utilities are
expecting brownouts,” it was the
end of 1999, and we all looked at
each other and said, “Brownouts?”
We didn’t even understand the
concept of brownouts in the state
of California, the fifth-largest
economy on the planet.
For the last 20 years, regulators
have been balancing cost, emis-
sions and reliability. We make a
decision that we’re going to reduce
costs, and reliability suffers, or
emissions suffer. We make a con-
certed effort to reduce emissions,
and costs go up. And we only chase
those problems when they break
the system. We have to recognize
that it’s a constant balancing act.
McGUIRE: We have two chal-
lenges. One is having the neces-
sary supply on the hottest days in
July, August, September. But we
also need to focus, especially in
PG&E territory, on the blackouts
we’re seeing because of fire danger.
Some of the poorest communities
are suffering because of the negli-
gence of this utility.
In 2019, there were some areas
in the North Coast that lost power
14 out of 30 days. Schools shut
down. The economy came to a
stop. The most medically vulnera-
ble didn’t have access to their
medical equipment. This is not
only unheard of, it’s unacceptable.
We’re the fifth-flipping-largest
economy in the world, yet we can’t
keep the damn lights on.
ZAVALA: We all learned last
summer how heavily California
relies on out-of-state power.
What will it take to move away
from that and become more
self-sufficient?
MAINZER: California is likely
to have a significant dependence
on imports from out of state for
quite a period of time. And that’s a
phenomenon that’s existed for
many, many years, and it’s not
entirely a bad thing if the different
sub-regions of the West take care
of business and make sure they
have resource adequacy.
But California needs to be
acutely sensitive to the fact that if
we continue to see these types of
heating events that we saw last
summer — and it gets hot in Sac-
ramento and Phoenix and
Spokane and Portland and Salt
Lake City at the same time — then
there’s not as much power. So we
have to have contingency plans
and other capabilities during
those periods.
And I want to mention demand
flexibility. This summer you’ll see a
lot of messaging about the things
consumers can do from 4 p.m. to 9
p.m. Turning their thermostats up
just a little bit, assuming their
health can handle it. Reducing the
use of those heavy appliances,
turning off unnecessary lights.
That kind of aggregated capability
can be a real difference-maker.
FOSTER: We should not look
to be energy self-sufficient. Look
at the recent debacle in Texas, and
the huge power outages there.
Texas has almost no interconnec-
tions with other states — they
wanted to be free from federal
jurisdiction, and it’s created a real
problem. They had no help when
they needed it. You want some
out-of-state power. You want some
flexibility.
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A push for firms to make good on diversity promises

By Jeff Green
and Saijel Kishan
The year 2021 is shaping
up to set records for diver-
sity proposals at U.S. com-
panies’ annual meetings.
Nine in 10 investors
backed a call last month for
IBM Corp. to produce an an-
nual diversity report. Five
other companies, including
renewable energy firm First
Solar Inc. and chemical gi-
ant DuPont de Nemours
Inc., saw more than 80% of
shareholders backing diver-
sity proposals.
A year after the death of
George Floyd galvanized
protests against racial injus-
tice, the same cultural pres-
sures that prompted hun-
dreds of the largest compa-
nies to pledge changes in
their business operations to
support racial equity are
now fueling an unprecedent-
ed number of boardroom
proposals designed to en-
sure they keep their word.
“We’re seeing a shift in in-
vestor sentiment,” said
Kristin Hull, founder of Nia
Impact Capital, an invest-
ment fund that initially filed
the IBM proposal. The deci-
sion at IBM was a result of
many conversations, she
said. Having that agreement
in hand with a larger com-
pany such as IBM, which is
seen as progressive, makes it
easier to persuade others to
take initiatives more seri-
NINE IN 10 investors supported a call last month
for IBM to produce an annual diversity report.
ously, Hull said.
Shareholders submitted
a record 37 diversity-related
proposals, and they got an
average 43% of support as of
Friday, according to
Bloomberg Intelligence.
Two proposals at Union Pa-
cific Corp. each garnered
more than 80% of sharehold-
er support, while one at
American Express Co. got
60%. The ratio may shift
even more during the re-
mainder of the so-called
proxy season, when public
companies face additional
shareholder votes in the
coming months.
Corporate efforts on di-
versity had until June 2020
been focused mostly on gen-
der. Now the pressure has
ratcheted up on companies
to racially diversify their
workforces — from the C-
suite to rank-and-file work-
ers. Asset management gi-
ants BlackRock Inc. and
Richard Drew Associated Press
Vanguard Group Inc. last
year said they would vote
against corporate directors
who fail to act. Leading
proxy advisory firm Institu-
tional Shareholder Services
said that next year it will rec-
ommend voting against di-
rectors of all Russell 3000 or
S&P 500 companies whose
boards aren’t diverse
enough.
Institutional Sharehold-
er Services estimates there
are about 894 boards on the
Russell 3000 and 28 among
the S&P 500 that still lack a
diverse member. Although
most of the diversity propos-
als are still failing to get a
majority vote, when support
hits 30%, corporate boards
will often start to engage
with investors to avoid a vot-
ing defeat.
“There’s a new sense of
urgency,” said Marc Gold-
stein, head of U.S. research
at ISS Governance.
Just two years ago, some
companies didn’t under-
stand they were being asked
about their corporate diver-
sity and why it was impor-
tant, said Meredith Benton,
founder of Whistle Stop
Capital in San Francisco.
Benton, a sustainable-in-
vestment advisor who has
coordinated several of this
year’s diversity proposals,
said many companies are
scrambling to catch up.
“These conversations
came fast and furious, more
than any other” environ-
mental, social and govern-
ance issue, she said, citing
Ulta Beauty Inc. and Capital
One Financial Corp. as be-
ing more forthcoming than
others.
An early sign of shifting
sentiment came last year. A
diversity report proposal at
network security company
Fortinet Inc. received 70%
approval June 19, auspicious
because it’s the holiday
known as Juneteenth, which
marks the anniversary of a
Union general’s order in 1865
that freed slaves in Texas.
IBM publicly reported di-
versity data in the first half
of 2020 and in October told
employees that it will report
the information annually,
the company said in a state-
ment. This year’s report was
released in April, shortly be-
fore the annual meeting, and
thus there was no reason to
oppose the Nia Impact pro-
posal, IBM said.
Another major shift has
been the number of compa-
nies willing to publicly share
detailed workforce data by
race and gender that they re-
port annually to the U.S.
Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission. This in-
formation, known as EEO-1,
is private unless it’s volun-
tarily disclosed.
In a Bloomberg survey of
S&P 100 companies in June
2020, only 25 agreed to dis-
close their EEO-1. By Octo-
ber, that number had in-
creased to 68 companies
that already had or were
willing to disclose either this
year or shortly thereafter. At
shareholder meetings this
year, three companies got
proposals to disclose their
EEO-1 data. The resolutions
received a majority of votes
at two companies.
Racial audits emerged as
a new shareholder proposal.
They are an independent
analysis into a company’s
business model to see if, and
how, it causes or perpetu-
ates racial discrimination.
Although they didn’t
pass, those filed at compa-
nies including Johnson &
Johnson and JPMorgan
Chase & Co. got more than a
third of votes. That’s high
enough that companies are
likely to face increased pres-
sure to agree to future re-
views. A racial audit propos-
al filed with BlackRock Inc.
was withdrawn after it
agreed to perform one.
Most companies are still
resisting diversity propos-
als. Among the reasons is
some data cast them in an
unfavorable light, said
Natasha Lamb, managing
partner at Arjuna Capital,
which is seeking detailed
pay data on median pay
gaps for women and people
of color from large U.S. com-
panies. Only Citigroup Inc.,
Starbucks Corp. and five
other companies have
agreed to such proposals in
the U.S., she said.
This month, Nike Inc.
asked regulators to block a
shareholder proposal asking
the sportswear manufactur-
er to publish annual reports
on its diversity measures.
The filer, As You Sow, a non-
profit shareholder advocacy
group, said Nike has faced
allegations of harassment
and discrimination based on
gender and race, and doesn’t
provide sufficient data on
how effective its diversity
programs are. It also doesn’t
publicly release its EEO-1
data.
Nike said that it pub-
lishes “extensive materials”
about its diversity efforts on
its website, that diversity
was one of three focus areas
for its corporate targets last
year, and that it aims to have
racial and ethnic minorities
make up 35% of its U.S. cor-
porate workforce by 2025.
Green and Kishan write for
Bloomberg.
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insights.

Q: DURING THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC, WHAT HAVE
YOU BEEN HEARING FROM
YOUR CLIENTS ABOUT THEIR
PORTFOLIOS?
A: Kaplan
At the start of the pandemic, we saw
portfolios decrease rapidly because there
was so much fear and anxiety as to what
this would do to the global marketplace,
and the volatility of the marketplace has
had everyone on the edge of their seat.
However, some people successfully predicted
the impact the pandemic would have on
supply chains, the way business would be
conducted, and investments, so for a lot
of my clients, their portfolios have done
extremely well. They were overweighted in
technology, consumer products and health
care companies. From the 19,000 that the
DOW dropped to in March 2020 to the
34,000 now – it has been quite a ride, but
most clients have weathered the storm and
experienced a relatively quick recovery.
Q: WHAT KEEPS YOUR CLIENTS UP
AT NIGHT IN 2021?
A: Powell
No doubt it’s the question, “Will my wealth
help or hurt my kids?” Many clients cite
Warren Buffet and say they want to give their
kids enough to do anything but not enough
to do nothing. If every client had $100 billion
that would be easier to do because we
planners could take the time to help our
clients understand what “doing anything”
really means. Too many times I read trusts
with incentive clauses that say the trust will
match a beneficiary’s income. But as parents,
we don’t really want to boil the support we
give our children down to a comparison
of their paychecks, do we? We want to
help them engage their energy in fulfilling
activities.
Q: HOW DO YOU BUILD
IN PROTECTIONS FOR
YOUR CLIENTS?
A: Moyzes
Process, process, process. The biggest threat
to a client’s financial success isn’t down
markets, it’s taking the wrong action at the
wrong time by letting emotion override good
decision-making. And the threat is not just
to clients! Advisors can get emotional as well
and let their own fears dictate their actions
in a way that jeopardizes the people they
are supposed to protect. To guard against
that, our team puts processes in place
before drawdowns occur. As a result, when
the rubber hits the road, our actions are not
driven by our emotions. For example, our
processes dictated rebalancing into equities
during the 2020 crash. Purchasing stocks
during a global pandemic did not feel good,
but we were able to provide significant value
to our clients by simply doing what we had
agreed in advance to do.
A: Herrmann
First and foremost, we evaluate the client’s
risk tolerance. In almost all cases, we
strongly advise to set a well-diversified
portfolio across various asset classes and
discuss the short-term risks of such asset
classes. In building the allocation, we build
in protection by holding 2-3 years of cash (or
cash alternatives). This provides a buttress
“It’s no secret that the tax
laws are under scrutiny right
now, and estate and gift taxes
are no exception.”
— Stefanie J. Lipson
in dramatically reducing or negating the
possibility that our clients will be forced
sellers. This cash cushion allows our clients
to ride out negative market conditions or
even a bear market (defined as a 20% peak to
trough drawdown) and prevent a permanent
loss of capital if they were forced sellers in
the nadir. Risk is often defined as volatility; by
holding liquid resources to ride out extreme
volatility, one’s medium and long risk is
minimized.
Q: WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS
OWNERS? WHAT ARE YOU
TALKING ABOUT WITH THEM
THESE DAYS?
A: Kaplan
Strategic planning. Cash management is a
big issue; since logistics and supply chains
are taking much longer, there’s a huge
demand and not a lot of supply – which
means there is plenty of opportunity to
reevaluate and diversify supply chains and
service offerings. Companies who only had
one or two supply chain sources have taken
the biggest hit – many of those companies
are still struggling to get back on their feet.
Meanwhile, companies who have fared
better are now positioned to acquire these
struggling companies – to gain new market
share, new products, new customers, and
new supply chains. Certainly, the geopolitical
and geoeconomic issues (U.S.-China
relations, U.S.-Middle East relations, etc.)
that are part of today’s business world factor
into the strategic planning and supply chain
discussions as well. The companies that
can diversify across those will be the most
successful.
Q: HOW ARE CLIENTS REACTING
TO NEWS OF THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION RAISING
CAPITAL GAINS TAXES?
A: Kaplan
Clients are mixed; some feel like they
understand it and don’t have an issue with
paying their fair share while others (most)
are rather unhappy with this news. Many
clients feel it will lead to fewer investments in
the market – and less money funneling into
the market is bad for the economy. Along
with a proposed increase in the tax rate on
businesses, this would lead to less money
for companies to invest in research and
development of their products or services as
well as their infrastructure. At a time when
businesses are struggling to recover due
to the constraints of the COVID pandemic,
they believe that this would do more harm
than good.
Q: WHAT ARE YOU ADVISING
CLIENTS WHO ARE WORRIED
ABOUT INCREASES IN CAPITAL
GAINS TAX RATES?
A: Babington Falls
I advise them as follows: If you are planning
to sell a business or other appreciated asset
in the next 12 months and the increased
tax would prove a material cost to you,
acceleration of the sale and triggering capital
gains in 2021 may very well make sense.
Otherwise, if you like an asset and intended
to hold it for a number of years, it is probably
best to do just that – sit tight and enjoy the
continued tax deferral. Tax rates fluctuate
depending on the priorities of the individuals
in power at that time and, thankfully, we
are not in 1920 when the top capital gains
rate was 77%.
Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
PROPOSED TAX CHANGES
THAT COULD IMPACT
BUSINESS OWNERS?
A: Kaplan
The proposed change to the tax rate on
business owners could be devastating
for small and medium sized businesses.
Raising their rates – at a time when they
are struggling to get back on their feet –
makes it harder to reopen and rehire their
previously laid-off or furloughed workers. This
hurts their opportunity to rebuild, grow, and
ultimately hurts the economy as we start
losing the small businesses that are vital to
our Main Street economy and the backbone
of the American dream.
A: Babington Falls
Since 95% of businesses are pass-through
businesses – sole proprietorships, LLCs,
partnerships, and S corporations – an
increase in individual income tax rates
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could mean an increase in taxes on the
business income of the owner. An early
phase-out of the up-to-20% deduction
for qualified business income could also
increase a business owner’s tax bill. For
real estate investors, 1031 exchanges could
be on the chopping block, as well as the
current special tax treatment of carried
interests that minimizes taxes on certain real
estate and private equity investors. These
changes reflect a shifting of priorities from
incentivizing investment to incentivizing
middle-class workers, which has been a
stated goal of the Democrats for years. New
incentives rewarding domestic investment
and investment in renewable energy
could prove a positive impact for some
business owners.
Q: WHAT GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS
ARE YOU WATCHING FOR, AND
HOW MIGHT THEY AFFECT U.S.
AND GLOBAL MARKETS?
A: Herrmann
To answer this question, we must address
China first. U.S. policy and China’s stance
both affect the global financial markets
and the world. China continues to flex its
muscle, which can affect many areas – its
ownership of U.S. Treasuries, our intellectual
property protection and the listing of Chinese
companies on U.S. exchanges. Both countries
need each other, providing an uneasy
equilibrium. President Biden’s commission’s
findings are due in June and this could
affect policy and move markets. Another
“Multiple research studies
have shown that asset
allocation is responsible
for over 90% of long-term
returns, making it the single
most important decision an
investor makes.”
— Edward Moyzes
area worth watching is energy policy, the
Mideast, and cyber terrorism against our
infrastructure. Recent events like the Texas
winter storm and the Colonial Pipeline
cyberattack exposed the vulnerability of our
supply and our response to disruption. In
2019, the U.S. became net energy exporters;
that said, because of supply chain disruptions
and winter storms damaging infrastructure,
recently prices spiked. With the price of
gasoline rising over $1 per gallon in the past
year, this large increase affects many areas
of the U.S. transportation industry, ultimately
causing inflation.
Q: THERE HAVE RECENTLY
BEEN SEVERAL PROPOSED
LEGISLATIVE CHANGES THAT
WOULD IMPACT ESTATE AND
GIFT TAXES. HOW WOULD THESE
CHANGES IMPACT FAMILIES?
A: Babington Falls
Before Congress are proposals that would
increase gift and estate taxes on certain
transfers, by reducing the amount a person
can give before a gift or estate tax accrues
and by increasing the rate applied to taxable
transfers. The proposals would also prevent
the use of more complex estate planning
strategies that have been used for decades to
pass wealth to future generations of family.
Proposals are also being considered that
would eliminate the so-called basis step-up
at death – currently a means of eliminating
capital gains on inherited properties – or tax
transfers at death as if the asset were sold for
fair market value, thus triggering a taxable
capital gain. Most experts agree that all of
these are unlikely to pass in their current
form and compromise is likely.
A: Lipson
It’s no secret that the tax laws are under
scrutiny right now, and estate and gift taxes
are no exception. The current estate and
gift tax exemption ($11.7 million in 2021, but
subject to an inflation adjustment each year)
is set to automatically expire at the end of
2025, and the exemption amount would be
reduced by 50% on January 1, 2026, though
the estate and gift tax rate of 40% would not
increase. The current proposal in Congress
would reduce the exemption to $3.5 million
effective January 1, 2022, allow only $1 million
of the exemption to shelter lifetime gifts (as
in 2009), but would increase the estate and
gift tax rates to 45-65%, depending upon the
value of the estate. Reducing the exemption
amount will result in more estates being
subject to the estate tax or having an estate
tax return filing obligation. In addition, if
enacted, the legislation would reduce the
effectiveness of current planning structures
and change the taxation of both existing
trusts and new ones established post-
enactment of legislation.
A: Herrmann
The current proposed legislation (the
American Families Plan) would remove the
“step-up basis” tradition (after a $1 million
exemption) for assets transferred at death on
wealthy families. More specifically, an asset
with a large unrealized capital gain would
be taxed in the descendant’s estate at 43.4%
(if capital gains taxes are increased, also in
this pending legislation). The remaining
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value of the assets will then be taxed at 40%.
This results in a tax of over 60% on such
appreciated assets!
Q: HOW HAS TECHNOLOGY AND
THE INTERNET AFFECTED
CONSUMERS’ ABILITY TO
MANAGE WEALTH?
A: Moyzes
There has been an exponential increase
in information, as the internet has made
available to the average consumer what
once was only accessible to a select
few. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a
commensurate increase in knowledge,
and the result is a mixed bag. The lack of
training on how to determine which piece
of information is accurate and applicable
to their unique circumstances has led
consumers to make significant mistakes with
their finances. On the other hand, there have
been huge strides made in the development
and use of aggregation software, which
allows consumers to see their full financial
picture and make more informed financial
decisions. Additionally, there’s more
transparency with their managed assets
so they have a better sense of how their
financial advisor operates.
Q: WHAT ADVICE CAN YOU SHARE
FOR LONGER-TERM PORTFOLIO
ASSET ALLOCATION?
A: Herrmann
The first step is to clearly discuss and
understand the client’s objectives and then
develop the proper strategic allocation to
achieve such objectives. For example, if the
client is planning for the next generation,
then the portfolio will be biased in favor
of risk-on assets, such as equities and
alternative assets. If the client requires
cash distributions from the portfolio, we
will suggest a more conservative portfolio
to best protect principal and meet cash
requirements. Most investors understand
that historically, over a market cycle, equities
outperform fixed income; however, equities
are more volatile in the short term. In
addition to a strategically set diversified
allocation, we also will make tactical
recommendations at certain times. For
example, in current times, we might suggest
a small allocation to ETFs in the growing
cannabis or gaming industries. Lastly, taxes,
fees and inflation matter! Over the long run,
these factors can significantly affect your real
rate of return after taxes – your true spending
power. This often is overlooked.
A: Moyzes
Start with the end in mind. Multiple research
studies have shown that asset allocation
is responsible for over 90% of long-term
returns, making it the single most important
decision an investor makes. We work with our
clients to determine what they are trying to
accomplish and why it is important to them.
“Since 95% of businesses are
pass-through businesses,
an increase in individual
income tax rates could
mean an increase in taxes
on the business income of
the owner.”
— Charity Babington Falls
We then model out a financial plan that
helps determine the appropriate allocation
to fund each goal. For example, if the current
portfolio will fully fund the long-term goal,
significant risk can likely be avoided. If not,
more risk is likely necessary. It’s important to
avoid a one-size-fits-all mentality or to make
excessive bets on one sector over another.
Our team identifies what the client wants
to achieve and what resources are available,
and then works backwards to determine the
proper asset allocation for that goal.
Q: WHAT ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES DO YOU SEE
YOUR HIGH-NET-WORTH CLIENTS
EXPERIENCING AS A RESULT OF
LIVING IN CALIFORNIA?
A: Herrmann
The obvious disadvantage here is taxes.
California has the highest tax rate in the
country (13.3% with a pending proposal of
16.8%) along with a very high cost of living
in the Los Angeles area (where most of our
California clients live). The problem could
worsen as recent data shows that there are
many high-net-worth clients moving out
to more favorable state tax jurisdictions.
Additionally, large businesses are following
this pattern (CBRE, Charles Schwab, Oracle,
etc.). This will create additional budget
pressure for the state. Also, with the SALT
tax deduction terminated at the U.S. level,
there is a combined tax rate of over 50%
for terminated high earners; this is quite
disinviting. Lastly, there is talk of a 1-1.5%
wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy. The two
primary advantages for a high-net-worth
resident of California are the absence of
estate or inheritance taxes and gift taxes at
the state level.
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Q: WHAT TECHNIQUES CAN BE USED
TO CREATE MORE EFFICIENT
STRATEGIES TO PASS WEALTH
FROM ONE GENERATION
TO THE NEXT?
A: Powell
Suppose you’re working with parents and
their children on wealth transfer plans. After
taking them through a values exploration
process, you know they generally value
security, resilience, and self-reliance. The
vast majority of trusts I see today provide
no guidance to the trustee beyond the IRS
ascertainable standards of health, education,
maintenance and support. A statement of
purpose from the settlors to the trustees that
encourages distributions to enhance the
“When setting up a trust,
parents neglect the important
discussion of what will
be inherited, though; I
always suggest having that
discussion with their heirs.”
— Michael Kaplan, CPA
financial security of the beneficiaries, ensure
their ability to rebound from life lessons, and
help them live independently using their
own abilities is one of the wisest strategies
that can be used to ensure financial stability
and values are a part of the settlor’s legacy.
Suppose the family’s values instead called for
distributions to help beneficiaries find new
ways of doing things (innovation), pursue
what they feel is morally right (justice), and
support their current needs while planning
for the long term (sustainability). Won’t the
trustee be glad to have these objectives
spelled out?
A: Lipson
Someone once told me that most clients
spend two-thirds of their lives accumulating
wealth and the last one-third trying to give
it away. Then we, as planners, use the tools
in our toolbox to whittle away at it and find
efficient, but imperfect, options for the
client to transfer the accumulated wealth.
However, the most effective wealth transfer
occurs when assets are transferred to the
next generation at a low value so that the
next generation shares in the growth and
appreciation as it happens. For example:
a client is making an investment in a new
startup – it’s unknown whether it will be
successful but certainly has potential. The
client decides to make the investment with
a small gift to a trust for the client’s children,
so that the trust will own 50% of the new
investment and the client will own 50%.
If the investment is successful, 50% of the
appreciation already belongs to the children’s
trust, and the only “transfer” is the initial
transfer to fund the investment.
A: Kaplan
Tax laws for trusts and estate play a critical
role. Currently, individuals are allowed up
to $11.7 million in lifetime gift exclusion,
so that allows for a lot of wealth transfer
from one generation to the next; one of
the most common ways you can do that is
through irrevocable trusts – passing assets
from one generation to another while
maintaining control as a trustee. That lifetime
exclusion number is potentially going to
drop significantly under President Biden’s
proposed legislation – potentially reducing
the number down as low as $3.5 million
for individuals. Biden is also proposing to
eliminate the step-up in basis at death
provision, which would consequentially
impact wealth transfer from one generation
to another and increase taxes paid by heirs in
the future.
Q: HOW CAN INDIVIDUALS BEST
PREPARE THEIR HEIRS TO
RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE?
A: Moyzes
Be transparent with them, particularly as it
relates to how the wealth was created. Tell
your stories of the long hours at the office,
the big purchases you deferred to save
more, and the risks you took (or didn’t take!)
along the way. Involve them in the financial
decision-making and invite them in on
meetings with your financial advisor. Hiding
your wealth won’t magically make your heirs
more responsible once they inherit it. Quite
the opposite. Help them understand why
this wealth is important to you and listen to
why it’s important to them. We encourage
all our clients to have family meetings that
involve their heirs, which we help facilitate,
and to be open and honest about their hopes
and concerns.
A: Lipson
Both as a planner and as a parent, I believe
that you cannot teach through a will or trust
what you did not teach during lifetime. This
means that placing unfamiliar conditions
on an inheritance that are inconsistent with
the messaging the beneficiary received
during lifetime will not be effective and often
leads to frustration and resentment. For
example, if your desire is for the beneficiary
to be self-supporting rather than relying
on the inheritance, this will be a surprise
if, during lifetime, the beneficiary was not
expected to be self-supporting and could
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rely on his or her family for funds. There
is an entire industry focused on “NexGen”
planning – educating the next generation
about financial planning, introducing age
appropriate information about wealth
responsibility and teaching the younger
generation to work with appropriate tax
and investment advisors to help them
understand their responsibility.
A: Powell
There needs to be an open line of
communication about the family wealth
among generation one and generations
two or three while generation one is
alive and well. Imagine receiving a $15
million wire into your bank account with
the vague instruction, “Honor us.” That’s
what most trusts do. They transfer wealth
without transferring wisdom that older
generations worked hard to gather. Without
understanding the context in which the gift
was made, the stories most important to the
donor, and their north star guiding factors,
the money is hard to contemplate. More
importantly, these communications need to
be thoughtful and ongoing over many years
and include very fundamental training the
beneficiaries will need. This may be the first
time a beneficiary will talk to a lawyer, CPA
or financial advisor. The family should make
sure beneficiaries have the skillset to manage
inheritances responsibly.
A: Kaplan
A lot of times people will put inheritances
into trusts, and in doing so, they build in
parameters for the distributions (ages,
timing, etc.) which helps the heirs see
into the future for and understand the
circumstances under which they would
receive that money or those assets. Most
times, when setting up a trust, parents
neglect the important discussion of what
will be inherited, though; I always suggest
having that discussion with their heirs.
This is especially important when there are
sentimental assets that should be given
to specific heirs. You don’t want your heirs
arguing over the sentimental assets from
your estate as it will just lead to animosity
amongst them. Sometimes there is a
concern that an heir could be disincentivized
from working or earning their own money
if they know the full extent of their trust.
In those cases, some families may find it
advantageous to distribute money before
the inheritance. This enables the parents or
benefactor to see their heir use and enjoy the
assets, which can assist them in the timing of
distributions and division of their assets.
Q: WHEN SHOULD INDIVIDUALS
MAKE UPDATES TO THEIR
ESTATE PLAN?
A: Lipson
An estate plan is a living document – it
doesn’t belong in a drawer for 20 years.
Revisit the provisions of the plan every
three to five years to ensure the plan is still
consistent with your wishes and that your
relationships with the fiduciaries (trustees,
executors, agents) remain the same and
you would want those individuals to carry
out the plan. In addition, a significant life
change – the birth or adoption of a child, a
death, a move to another state, a significant
change in net worth – are appropriate times
to revisit the provisions of your estate plan
to determine whether updates are needed.
Finally, most plans are affected by hundreds
of laws, ranging from California inheritance
and property rules to federal and state tax
laws, and so changes can impact how a plan
would be carried out. Review the provisions
with appropriate advisors every three to five
years to ensure the plan would still be carried
out as intended.
A: Herrmann
Individuals should review their estate plans
at certain intervals of their lives. We like to
suggest that at life cycle events – marriages,
child births, divorces, death of a spouse,
grandchildren, new home purchases, sale
of business assets, sudden large increases
or decreases in net worth, fractured or new
close relationships – their plans should
be reviewed, and consideration given to
the relevant changes. If there are no such
“events,” the plan should still be reviewed at
least every five years to ensure that all still
“Irrevocable trusts serve
another, equally important
purpose. They allow us to
use structure to help wealth
transfer between generations
effectively.”
— Mark Powell
seems to be in order. Additionally, we highly
recommend always being cognizant of who
you chose as your executor, POA, health care
proxy, guardian (if you have young children),
trustee(s), and successors to these individuals
as they were chosen to carry out your wishes.
Lastly, estate tax law changes (or pending
legislation as we are experiencing now),
should also influence a review.
A: Babington Falls
The short answer is to make updates
whenever the plan no longer accomplishes
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your goals. More importantly, review your
estate plan regularly, at least every three
years or sooner if your family makeup
changes – due to births, deaths, marriage
and divorce – or when tax laws change.
Ensure those you name as beneficiaries are
those you want to benefit from your estate.
Ensure the selection of trustees and agents
named in powers of attorney are in line with
your wishes. And don’t solely review your
estate planning documents. Many death
benefits, such as benefits under retirement
plans, life insurance policies and bank
accounts, are distributed to the beneficiary
named in the plan documents regardless of
what your will or trust directs.
Q: WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY
REASONS FOR CREATING AN
IRREVOCABLE TRUST?
A: Powell
Estate tax freeze and many transfer
techniques use irrevocable trusts, and
planners should always include appropriate
tax planning for clients. Irrevocable trusts
serve another, equally important purpose.
They allow us to use structure to help wealth
transfer between generations effectively. I
recently met with a member of generation
three after he became eligible to serve as
a trustee of his family’s charitable trust. He
was distressed by language in the trust that
prevented supporting LGBTQ+ programs. It
made him question the support he received
from his family after he came out to them
and doubt whether he could be involved
with the trust. Luckily, the trust employed a
committee governance structure, and the
committee was charged with involving future
generations even if it meant altering course.
This structure allowed a deeply personal
conversation among family members, who
rose to the occasion in tremendous ways.
A: Kaplan
To get it out of your estate – you only have
up to $11.7 million in lifetime exclusions, so
move appreciating assets out of your estate
while they’re at a low value. It reduces the
amount that counts against the lifetime
exclusion and the amount of estate tax your
heirs would inevitably have to pay. It also
ensures the added benefits that it is out of
your estate for litigation purposes as well
and could provide a sense of privacy for
those assets.
A: Lipson
Trusts are not “one size fits all.” Most
commonly, we utilize an irrevocable trust
to implement one or more tax planning
structures, whether income tax, estate and
gift tax, generation-skipping transfer tax or
property tax, to name a few. That said, the
purposes of the irrevocable trusts widely
differ – for some, they are intended to create
multi-generation benefits for the family
to use and access, others are intended
to provide an ongoing source of funding
to charity while still providing for family
members or friends, others facilitate business
succession and cross purchase or “buy out”
terms among business owners and others
can be used to meet obligations, such as in
the case of premarital agreement or divorce
agreements.
A: Babington Falls
Irrevocable trusts serve many important
purposes. A well-drafted irrevocable trust
can protect assets from frivolous spending
by an immature or less financially astute
beneficiary by naming a more capable
person to manage the assets for the
beneficiary. A well-drafted irrevocable trust
can provide some element of protection from
a beneficiary’s creditors, including divorcing
spouses. A well-drafted irrevocable trust
can supplement a disabled beneficiary’s
state and federal disability benefits without
jeopardizing the beneficiary’s right to receive
those benefits. A well-drafted irrevocable
trust can be the vehicle through which a
person satisfies his or her philanthropic vision
in a tax-efficient, thoughtful manner. Lastly,
certain irrevocable trusts can provide estate
tax benefits to the person funding the trust.
Q: IS THERE AN ADVANTAGE
IN USING A TRUST INSTEAD
OF A WILL?
A: Lipson
In California, the advantage of using a trust
as the primary document in a core estate
plan instead of a will is the opportunity to
avoid a court-supervised public probate
proceeding to transfer your assets to your
intended beneficiaries at death. There are
other forms of ownership that can likewise
avoid a court probate proceeding, such as
holding assets with “rights of survivorship,”
designating a beneficiary on a life insurance
policy, retirement account or creating a “pay
on death” or “transfer on death” designation
for a bank or investment account. However,
these non-probate transfers do not always
offer flexibility when there are complex
provisions for beneficiaries and are often
limited in being able to specify “contingent”
distribution options if the primary or
secondary beneficiaries are deceased.
A: Babington Falls
A trust avoids probate, and a will does not.
A will directs where assets owned by the
deceased at death go after payment of the
deceased person’s creditors. In order to
ensure the will is valid, it must go through
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the costly judicial process called probate to
prove its validity. Because trusts do not die
but continue to exist as a legal entity after a
person dies, assets owned by a trust do not
have to undergo the probate process. This
doesn’t, however, mean you should have only
a trust. Most wills in California act as a catch-
all and direct that any estate assets not titled
in the trust at a person’s death pour from
the estate into the trust to be distributed
according to the trust’s terms. Wills also serve
as the document in which parents of minor
children will nominate a guardian in the
event of an untimely death.
Q: WHAT ARE SOME MISTAKES
INDIVIDUALS MAKE WHEN
WORKING WITH THEIR WEALTH
MANAGEMENT ADVISORS?
A: Lipson
Wealth planning, whether asset allocation,
wealth transfer strategies, succession or tax
planning, requires both an understanding
of the big picture and a patience to be
deliberate with each brushstroke. No one
artist should paint the entire picture. The
most effective planning often comes from a
collaborative approach where advisors from
multiple disciplines can pool their collective
knowledge to provide the best advice to
the client. Unfortunately, often there is
resistance to this approach – sometimes it
is the advisor’s own personality, sometimes
client fee sensitivity and other times it is
a lack of communication. With the right
team, the first two issues can be met with
solutions. However, when there is a lack of
“Risk is often defined as
volatility; by holding liquid
resources to ride out extreme
volatility, one’s medium and
long risk is minimized.”
— Arnie Herrmann, CPA
communication, whether at the direction
of the client who wants to keep information
compartmentalized, or poor communication
among the advisory team, it is often difficult
to provide comprehensive, effective advice.
For that reason, when selecting wealth
advisors, it is most important for the client to
feel comfortable freely communicating with
them, so that the advisors can provide their
best advice.
A: Moyzes
Not focusing on what really matters to
them and, consequently, not having a
written game plan around it. Our tagline is
“Achieve Financial Peace of Mind,” which is
something that only comes with clarity of
goals and a strategy to accomplish them.
So many people come to us saying they
have a “financial plan,” but when we ask
to see it, there is no actual plan. What they
share with us is an investment strategy,
which, while important, is like asking for
home blueprints and being handed a
hammer and nails instead. Clients should be
pushing their advisors to demonstrate how
the recommended strategies will directly
translate into accomplishing their goals,
rather than accepting the advisor’s definition
of success, which is often quite different from
the client’s.
A: Powell
I tell clients nearly every day that they
shouldn’t work with an advisor they can’t
understand. We estate planners can drive
clients to frustration by using terms like
“sales to intentionally defective grantor
trusts,” just as investment advisors might
do by using terms like “a variable prepaid
forward.” It’s our job as advisors to make
sure our clients understand the strategies
we’re recommending, and we should be
able to do that in plain English. If we don’t,
clients should feel absolutely comfortable
pulling the brakes on a discussion they don’t
understand.
Q: WHAT SHOULD A CONSUMER
LOOK FOR WHEN SELECTING A
WEALTH MANAGER?
A: Moyzes
A balance of competence and care, and a
succession plan. An advisor can have every
credential on earth, but if they don’t care to
understand your desires and the “why” behind
them, it is extremely unlikely they will be able
to help you achieve them. Similarly, all the
niceness in the world will get you nowhere
if it isn’t backed with a deep knowledge of
financial planning. Lastly, any advisor telling
you they “will always be there for you” is
making a statement they likely don’t intend to
stand by and certainly can’t promise. Ask your
advisor how your planning will be handled
when they retire or if they pass away suddenly.
If they don’t have an answer, start looking for
a replacement now, because you’re going to
have to sooner or later anyway.
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REIMAGINE CALIFORNIA
THE PANDEMIC OPENED POSSIBILITIES. LET’S EMBRACE THEM.

the time but could easily perform aspects of

his or her job at home.
While some bosses may be sold on the
benefits of telecommuting now, company
executives have short memories. And other
bosses still buy in to the idea that the best
employees — the hustlers and the “uber-ly
engaged,” as two CEOs recently described
them — will choose to work in the office.
That outdated thinking locks the workforce
into rigid commuting and housing patterns.
If you have to be in the office for set hours
every day, that’s going to affect how you get
there and where you choose to live. It also
penalizes parents, caregivers and others
trying to balance life and work, not to men-
tion the workers who thrive when they are
untethered to their office desk.
As long as corporate America remains
fickle, the future of remote work will de-
pend on whether employees demand the
continued flexibility of telework or vote
with their feet if employers refuse to adapt.
One recent survey found that 1 in 3 employ-
ees would look for a new job if they were re-
quired to come to the office full time. That
should send a powerful message to employ-
ers. But not all workers have that kind of
leverage or can afford to quit and find a new
job.
Nico Chilla Los Angeles Times
There are larger societal benefits to
workplace flexibility. It can help keep par-

We’ve discovered we can work from ents and caregivers, especially women, in
the labor force. It can reduce workers’ ex-
penses for things like child care, commut-
ing and office attire. Telecommuting cuts

home. There’s no turning back down on traffic and vehicle emissions,

which is good for air quality and for fighting
climate change. It can decouple opportuni-
ty from location, allowing companies to hire
from a broader labor pool and employees to
By Kerry Cavanaugh | Second in a series live farther from their jobs, in communities

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that have lower housing costs or are closer
to their families.
There are good reasons for government
ast spring, the shift to efits of remote work, there was another it was first pitched as a way to reduce traffic policies to support remote work and to
remote work appeared to praising the perks of the office. Not surpris- congestion, air pollution and energy con- prod employers to do so as well. Employers
be one of the few bright ingly, then, employees overwhelmingly say sumption. The idea began to gain steam, tend to oppose mandates. Last year, com-
spots in a landscape of they want a hybrid schedule with some days particularly in Southern California, in the panies in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area
sorrow and fear. The state was a few at home and some days at the office. But 1990s, when leaders were desperate for so- railed against a proposal to require that
months into sheltering in place, and if you what they’re really saying is that they want lutions to the region’s bumper-to-bumper employees from larger companies work re-
weren’t an essential worker or unemployed, the flexibility and freedom to choose where traffic and sickening smog. motely three days a week to cut climate-
you were told to work at home. they do their jobs. Of course, it makes sense: Los Angeles city and county set up pilot warming emissions from commutes. The
Three of California’s thorniest chal- Every worker is an individual with his or her projects that allowed public employees to proposal was dropped in favor of requiring
lenges are housing, transportation and the own needs and work habits. That fact, how- work from home. The region’s transporta- that more workers arrive at the office by
environment. Remote work seems like the ever, has largely been ignored by the vast tion and air quality agencies spent $10 mil- bike, transit or other environmentally sus-
magical solution to all of them. With fewer majority of employers. Until now. lion to set up telecommuting centers — the tainable commute.
people commuting, there was less traffic The pandemic radically infused the predecessors to today’s co-working spaces There are ways to encourage companies
and fewer tailpipe emissions. Untethered white-collar working world with enormous — where employees could travel just a few to embrace remote work. There are finan-
to an office and a daily commute, employ- flexibility. Let’s be clear: This is largely an miles to an office setting with high-speed cial incentives, tax breaks and other regu-
ees could move further from their jobs to option for a segment of the workforce; em- internet connections and fax machines. Re- latory perks that can be offered for employ-
cheaper homes. ployees who perform hands-on jobs or gional planners set a goal of having 20% of ers that allow telecommuting. Investments
Plus, analyses showed workers were just must physically show up for work largely the workforce telecommuting by 2010. in universal broadband would help too, en-
as productive at home, and the shift al- did not have this option. Still, remote work Well, it didn’t happen by 2010. It didn’t suring workers in all communities can do
lowed caregivers, more often than not is now a proven concept for many jobs, in- even happen by the beginning of 2020. Re- their jobs without being hindered by unreli-
women, to keep working and earning dur- cluding many that seemed impossible to mote work remained a niche perk, em- able, slow internet connections. In some
ing the pandemic when schools and day shift to telework before. Based on the pan- braced by some employers, shunned by cases, it’s actually illegal for companies to
care providers shut down. Remote work demic experience, it is estimated that 1 in 3 others. Before 2020, about 8% of workers in allow flexible working conditions. Business
appeared to be a win-win-win. workers could do their jobs entirely from Southern California telecommuted on any groups have lobbied for a change in state
As time passed and the pandemic home. A larger portion of the workforce given day. Then COVID-19 hit. There are no labor law to allow employees to work four
dragged on, some of the shine came off re- could do some of their job remotely if we, regional numbers, but an MIT survey last 10-hour days and other flexible schedules
mote work. Yes, there was still a glorious the users of services, are willing to incorpo- spring found that about half the nation’s without triggering overtime. Two such bills
freedom in being able to work in pajamas rate more virtual medicine, education and workforce was working remotely. introduced this year by Republican law-
and avoid the hustle of reporting to the of- other activities into our lives. The biggest barrier to telecommuting is makers didn’t even get a hearing. The
fice every day. But some surveys have The real question is whether employers company culture, explained Jack Nilles, an Democratic-controlled Legislature should
found that workers kept up the pace by and society at large will evolve and allow expert in remote work who coined the term at least allow the idea to be debated.
putting in more hours on the job, including employees to continue to work remotely at “telecommuting.” Some managers believe When COVID-19 hit California, employ-
evenings and weekends. When the line be- least some of the time. Or will the working employees have to be in the office to be pro- ees and companies scrambled to take work
tween home and work blurred, people world snap back to life pre-pandemic and ductive. There’s a tendency to focus on the from the office to home and keep the econo-
tended to work more rather than less, lead- pro-office? Given the history of tele- hours employees work, rather than what my rolling to the best of their ability. And it
ing to burnout. Younger, less experienced commuting in the U.S., the outlook is not they produce. And companies often lack worked. If we want workplaces that are hu-
employees felt disconnected from their vir- promising without some intervention. creativity and willingness to experiment mane, that support caregivers and allow in-
tual colleagues and bosses. The idea of telework or telecommuting with remote work arrangements. An em- dividuals to live their best lives, we must
For every news article extolling the ben- has been around since the early 1970s, when ployee may need to be in the office part of not turn back the clock on remote work.

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healthy Americans who can Please publish more His 15 minutes are finally resents a part of the com-
view the pandemic in the pictures like the one show- over. munity that has historically
rearview mirror will give the ing the smiling gentleman Joseph Garcia lacked representation in
current administration the with his beer glass after Yorba Linda government.
credit it so rightly deserves. getting his shot. That sort of Patricia Goodman
Michael Berenbaum picture will do more to con- :: Huntington Beach
Los Angeles vince others instead of the
ones showing jabs in the After only six months
:: arm.
William Sharpe
into his four-year term in
office, Ortiz left thousands
EV standards
The powers that be are Santa Monica of voters in the lurch by Re “Skip the hybrid; go fully
now offering cash prizes and abruptly resigning as mayor electric,” letters, June 3
other incentives for people :: pro tem of Huntington
to get vaccinated. I under- Beach. One thing about electric
stand the reasons and the No shoes? No shots? No He ran for office to make vehicles that deserves at-
Jacquelyn Martin Associated Press urgency for doing so, but service. the city safe, yet by his sim- tention is setting a standard
GEORGE RIPLEY of Washington, D.C., holds up his this shows the ugly truth Kim Righetti ple action of not wearing a for universal charging sta-
free beer after receiving a COVID vaccine on May 6. that saving lives and having Upland face mask, he put others at tions. Non-Tesla vehicles
regard for others aren’t risk of catching a deadly cannot use Tesla charging

Fine, just call it Johnson vaccine, but the

Trump vaccine. Make re-
enough for many people to
do the right thing. The fighter
virus. It’s too bad that the
job didn’t work out for him,
stations; however, Tesla
vehicles have an adaptor
‘Trump vaccine’ ceiving the shot an act of
resistance to the Biden
It always seems to boil
down to “what’s in it for who resigned
but sadly, he is not the only
public official who receives
and can use most chargers.
Just as the railroad
Re “Shots with a beer administration and its me?” What an example of threats and criticism. industry standardized the
chaser,” June 3, and “A shot admirable, responsible, greediness. Re “O.C. city is at a fork in Huntington Beach is rail gauge, what is the auto
and a beer — or money,” orderly and nonpolitical We must look in the the road,” June 3 indeed at a fork in the road. industry going to do to avoid
editorial, June 4 vaccination campaign. mirror and see exactly who We have an excellent City an obvious problem?
That will protect the we are as a nation; right Tito Ortiz claims to be a Council and city staff mov- Burt Sacks
To boost vaccination, nation and allow us to re- now, the reflection is disap- patriot and an American ing ahead to address issues Indio
from now until July 4, let us sume activities more pointing. Human nature who will always fight for his of food and housing insecu-
rename COVID-19 shots the quickly and safely. isn’t so pretty sometimes, is country and the Constitu- rity among our residents,
“Trump vaccine.” President Biden will it? Life shouldn’t be about tion. climate change and human HOW TO WRITE TO US
Let Trump supporters never get the votes of these stuff, it should be about But when the going got rights. Hopefully, the coun- Please send letters to
announce the numbers people, but he will get credit caring for others. tough serving on the Hunt- cil will appoint a resident letters@latimes.com. For
every day. Let them brag for magnanimity and cre- Frances Terrell ington Beach City Council, who already serves on one of submission guidelines, see
about getting not the Pfizer, ativity for calling it the Lippman the former MMA fighter the city’s many boards and latimes.com/letters or call
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OP-ED

Ruling on state’s
assault weapons ban
is nutty — and scary
By Erwin Chemerinsky tion of prohibiting the carrying of
‘dangerous and unusual weap-
ons.’”

Khim Anne Pangayan EyeEm
W
ould anyone
really compare
an AR-15 assault
rifle, which has
been used in so
many recent mass killings, to a
Swiss Army knife?
Such a comparison is ludicrous,
yet that is exactly what a federal
judge in San Diego did on Friday in
striking down California’s 32-year-
old ban on assault weapons. Judge
Roger Benitez began his decision
by declaring, “Like the Swiss Army
Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a
perfect combination of home de-
fense weapon and homeland de-
fense equipment.”
This is the most extreme gun
No one can argue that AR-15
style weapons existed, let alone
were in common use, in 1791. Nor
can it be denied that they are very
dangerous weapons. This type of
semiautomatic weapon has been
used in many of the worst mass
shootings in the U.S., including the
2012 Sandy Hook Elementary
School shooting, the 2015 San Ber-
nardino attack, the 2017 Las Vegas
shooting, the 2017 Sutherland
Springs church shooting, the 2018
Stoneman Douglas High School
shooting and the shooting at a Col-
orado grocery store in March that
killed 10 people.
Judge Benitez argued that the

My daughter fell off the

rights ruling yet from a federal
court. Every other court in the
country has upheld bans on as-
sault weapons. This ruling is
wrong as a matter of constitutional
2nd Amendment protects a “mus-
cular” constitutional right and the
California ban is “about average
guns used in average ways for aver-
age purposes.” He added, “In Cali-

mental health care cliff law and of common sense. Unfor-

By Jasmin Iolani Hakes
ur mental health system has failed my
vider about getting her assigned to doctors and a
tunately, though, a majority of the
current Supreme Court justices
are very likely inclined to expand
gun rights. But I hope they will not
go so far as to declare that the Con-
stitution protects a right to have
an assault weapon.
fornia, murder by knife occurs sev-
en times more often than murder
by rifle.”
This attempt to minimize the
danger of assault weapons fails to
recognize that they are banned by
California and other states (and
for a time by the federal govern-

O daughter. Again. Actually, that’s not

true. There is no system, no real help for
her.
My 20-year-old daughter tried to kill
herself three weeks ago. She took a lot of pills all at
once and, afraid that wouldn’t do the trick, drove
toward the American River to drown herself. Her
boyfriend happened to drive past her car and waved
her down. That serendipity is the only reason she’s
alive today.
My family isn’t alone in being affected by the
failures of a non-system. Of our rising mental health
problems — suicides, homelessness — doctors use
the word “tsunami.” On average, says the National
Alliance on Mental Illness, one person dies by sui-
cide in the U.S. every 11 minutes.
This latest horror with my daughter isn’t a sur-
prise. There were years of red flags. As a toddler, she
stiffened if you hugged her, could focus for hours on
something like a handful of rocks. She was clearly
wired differently, but at first her eccentricities
seemed harmless, even charming.
She started cutting around the same time she
started to grow breasts. Our search for help began.
Her insurance-covered crisis counselor explained
that she had sensory sensitivities and anxiety cou-
pled with mild autism that left her unable to process
emotions the way others might.
The cutting worsened. Crippling anxiety and
panic attacks that lasted a day or two became the
norm. We did what we could with what our health-
care provider offered, but she was stuck in a horrible
middle: Not OK enough to be helped much by once-
a-week therapy, not an addict fit for rehab. I called
every helpline and hotline. Weeks and months and
years went by, as we begged for appointments and
assessments, and searched for programs that fit.
In her late teenage years, she spoke often of
suicide, not because she was depressed, but be-
cause she felt like a burden to us. When she was good
she was great and really not when she wasn’t. She
needed holistic care — individualized, intensive
therapy; life skills development; constantly cali-
brated meds to subdue what was not yet unmanage-
able. But the programs were bursting at the seams,
available mostly to the farthest-gone.
In early November 2020, a few days after she
turned 20, my daughter locked herself in her room
and stopped eating. She destroyed her possessions
and wiped her laptop. Didn’t want to leave a trace,
she told me later.
We got her admitted into an intensive outpatient
program. For one month, her days were filled with
group and individual therapy sessions. It helped,
and when it ended we were told she would be con-
nected with a therapist, a psychiatrist to oversee her
meds, and a group therapy program that would
teach her coping skills for her inevitable dips.
We spent weeks pestering our healthcare pro-
group. She had her first follow-up therapy session at
the end of month two. We’re still waiting for the
group therapy to begin.
By mid-April, her meds needed to be refilled. I
know, because I was giving them to her. But since
she is legally an adult, only she could get the pre-
scriptions renewed. The bottles ran empty.
The 2nd Amendment says: “A
well regulated Militia, being neces-
sary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and
bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
From 1791, when it was ratified, un-
til 2008, not one law — local, state,
ment) because of their ability to
kill a large number of people in a
short amount of time.
Judge Benitez described Cali-
fornia’s law as a “failed experi-
ment” because there have been
mass killings with assault weap-
The impact was almost immediate. She went or federal — was struck down as ons since its enactment in 1989.
from manic to depressive and back again. She took violating the 2nd Amendment. But by that analysis, every crimi-
off, started living in her car. Kept a roll of disinfect- nal law would be a failed experi-
ant wipes in her glove compartment for bathing. ment because they are repeatedly
Obtained blackout curtains to wedge into her win-
dows.
This attempt to violated. This argument makes no
sense because there is no way to
She eventually refilled her prescriptions, and minimize the danger know how many more mass shoot-
then she emptied the bottles. ings would have occurred without
When I got to the ER, I couldn’t get past the of assault weapons California’s ban.
guard; they would not release any information. I left
not knowing if my daughter was still alive.
fails to recognize that Clearly, the United States
Court of Appeals for the 9th Cir-
The next day, my phone rang. But the woman just they are banned ... cuit should reverse this ruling and
wanted to fill in my daughter’s contact information; allow the assault weapons ban to
she didn’t know where or how my daughter was. She because of their stand. Eleven judges on the 9th
did, however, know there was an $8,000 copay, and
would I like to pay for that over the phone?
ability to kill a large Circuit will soon hear another
decision by Judge Benitez striking
That evening a doctor from the ICU called. My
daughter was in a coma and on life support. I could
number of people in a down California’s ban on large-ca-
pacity ammunition magazines.
see her. short amount of time. I fear the conservative majority
Three days later, she wiggled her toes. She was on the Supreme Court will soon go
seizing, and her fever was 104. High, but not brain- much further in expanding gun
damage high. When she could, she asked everyone, When dealing with 2nd Amend- rights. Justices Clarence Thomas
nurses, doctors, me, her boyfriend: Why am I here? ment cases, the Supreme Court and Samuel A. Alito Jr. already
What happened? has repeatedly said that the provi- have urged this. The three newest
We told her, again and again. She remembered sion meant what it said: It was justices — Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett
nothing. Not sleeping in her car, not taking pills. solely a right to have guns for the M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney
Why did I do it? she asked. No one knew how to purpose of militia service. Barrett — are also seen as likely to
answer that one. In June 2008, the court, in a 5-4 expand 2nd Amendment rights.
When she was medically stable, the doctors decision in District of Columbia vs. This fall, the court will hear a case
moved her to a regular hospital room, waiting for an Heller, took a very different ap- challenging a New York law lim-
opening at our provider’s inpatient psych facility. proach and said that the 2nd iting carrying of concealed weap-
That care would last one week, we were told, two Amendment protected a right of ons.
tops. When I asked what we should do then, the people to have guns in their homes Still, even a Supreme Court
doctor shrugged. for the sake of security. that expands gun rights is likely to
I am writing this while I search for whatever Justice Antonin Scalia wrote impose some limits. No right in the
comes next. My daughter is not an addict or an the opinion for the court and de- Constitution is absolute. And
alcoholic or a criminal. She isn’t homeless now, but if clared unconstitutional a 1976 ordi- these limits must include the abil-
she comes home, I am sure she will land back on the nance in Washington that prohib- ity of states to outlaw weapons of
streets, and the cycle will begin again. Why do we ited private ownership or pos- mass murder, like assault rifles. A
make it so hard to find a place for those who are session of handguns. But the court Swiss Army knife might be used to
mid-fall, who need more than once a week with a was clear that this right is not ab- stab one person, but an AR-15 can
therapist, less than an intervention on the street? solute and the government can be used to kill dozens of people in
Why do we wait for them to hit rock bottom? regulate who has guns, where they the same amount of time.
The provider still wants its money, and I must have them and what type of weap-
also find a way to pay for help beyond what the ons are allowed. Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of
provider provides — if, when, I can locate that help. In fact, Justice Scalia’s opinion the UC Berkeley School of Law
My daughter tumbled off a cliff, and I have to jump stated that the right to possess and a contributing writer to
after her. We’re still falling, calling for help. So far, no arms was limited to weapons that Opinion. He is the author of a
one is answering. “were in common use at the time” forthcoming book, “Presumed
the 2nd Amendment was ratified. Guilty: How the Supreme Court
Jasmin Iolani Hakes is a novelist based in He said this “limitation is fairly Empowered the Police and
California. supported by the historical tradi- Subverted Civil Rights.”

Population growth slows, yet Earth grows hotter

By Jade S. Sasser In any case, age structures are sider: Young people are simply
already shifting markedly. As of having less sex, with fewer part-
t’s time to stop blaming 2018, people over 65 outnumbered ners, and are having sex for the first

I overpopulation for our envi-

ronmental woes and start
looking at the factors that
really matter — resource con-
sumption and toxic exposure as
population growth and fertility
rates show downward trends.
U.S. and global populations are
both growing at slower rates. In the
period between July 2019 and July
2020 alone, the growth rate in the
U.S. had slowed to just 0.35%, the
slowest recorded since at least
1900. And this isn’t just because of a
COVID-19 baby bust. Rather, this is
a part of a long-term trend, dec-
ades in the making. In 2010, births
had fallen 3% from 2009, according
to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. The total fertility
rate (number of births over the
course of a woman’s lifetime) was
down 4%, and teen birth rates fell
10%, the sharpest drop in more
than 70 years.
Global population growth,
which has stabilized, is also heading
toward decline. According to the
United Nations population divi-
sion, the world’s population is grow-
ing at a slower rate than at any time
since 1950, and will level off around
2100. A 2020 study suggests that
global population will probably
reach its peak four decades earlier
than what the U.N. projected.
children under 5 worldwide for the
first time in history. While the pace
is uneven, the population story of
the 21st century will be one of global
graying, rather than significant
global growth.
Yet despite slower growth, we
are still speeding toward environ-
mental catastrophe. At the same
time that human fertility rates
were decreasing, greenhouse emis-
sions all over the planet were rising
steadily, hitting record levels in
2019. A U.N. report on global green-
house gas emissions found that the
richest 1% of people on Earth were
responsible for more than double
the number of greenhouse gas
emissions of the poorest 50%. To
comply with the Paris agreement,
the ultra-rich would need to de-
crease their greenhouse gas emit-
ting behaviors by a factor of 30.
The link between population
and climate change is broken. In
both China and the U.S. — the top
two emitters of greenhouse gases
— the average woman gives birth
to 1.6 children in her lifetime, below
the 2.1 children needed to replace
herself and her partner.
There are several factors be-
hind the fertility slowdown. Wom-
en’s voluntary access to contracep-
tives — alongside other reproduc-
tive health services — plays a ma-
Bebeto Matthews Associated Press
THE U.S. population growth rate slowed to just 0.35% between
July 2019 and July 2020, the slowest growth recorded since 1900.
jor role, as well as formal education 1973 and 2011 found that total
and opportunities to earn an in- sperm counts had decreased by al-
come outside of the household. most 60%. Researchers aren’t en-
But researchers also point to tirely certain why — and some re-
another concern: Infertility may be searchers question whether sperm
on the rise. The rate of pregnancy count even impacts fertility — but
loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth some evidence indicates that expo-
and ectopic pregnancy in the U.S. sure to hormone-disrupting
has been rising at a rate of 1% per chemicals, such as phthalates
year between 1990 and 2011. Fur- (which make plastics flexible), play
ther, an analysis of 185 studies look- a role in disrupting fertility.
ing at close to 43,000 men between There’s something else to con-
time at later ages compared with
earlier generations. Some applaud
this change for reducing teen preg-
nancy in the U.S. But it could signal
a waning desire to have children on
a warming planet.
Multiple surveys have found
this phenomenon, showing that
climate anxiety is on the rise, and
with it, a fear of bringing babies
into a world whose future isn’t so
rosy. My own interviews with div-
erse young people between the
ages of 22 and 34 reveal that racial
violence and climate change com-
pete as the two main reasons they
cite for being either deeply ambiva-
lent about or outright opposed to
becoming parents in the future.
These very real social and envi-
ronmental problems have intensi-
fied as population growth rates
have declined. This alone demon-
strates that stabilizing population
size isn’t a panacea. Social and en-
vironmental problems won’t solve
themselves, regardless of the num-
ber of people on Earth.
Jade S. Sasser is an associate
professor of Gender and Sexuality
Studies at UC Riverside. She is the
author of “On Infertile Ground:
Population Control and Women’s
Rights in the Era of Climate
Change.”
A16 MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES

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CALIFORNIA
“THE POPULAR AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense
equipment,” District Judge Roger Benitez wrote in a ruling against California’s ban on assault weapons.
CAPITOL JOURNAL
How is a weapon of war
like a Swiss Army knife?
It doesn’t take an expert to see through ruling’s tortured logic
GEORGE SKELTON
in sacramento
The U.S. district judge
began his 94-page ruling
sanctioning the AR-15
assault rifle for home
and militia use by equa-
ting it with a Swiss Army
knife.
Yes, you read that
correctly.
And it’s all you need to know about
the quality of the judge’s tortured
opinion — even if it is ultimately up-
held, heaven forbid, by the conserva-
tive U.S. Supreme Court.
But come on, that couldn’t actu-
Police arrest two
suspects in fatal
freeway shooting
of 6-year-old boy
Aiden Leos lay dying
in his mother’s arms
after alleged road rage
incident last month.
By Richard Winton,
Rong-Gong Lin II
and Cindy Carcamo
Two people have been ar-
rested in the shooting death
of 6-year-old Aiden Leos,
who lay dying in his mother’s
arms on the 55 Freeway in
Orange last month in what
officials have called a road
rage incident.
Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24,
and Wynne Lee, 23, were
taken into custody at their
home in Costa Mesa on Sun-
day. The California Highway
Patrol said in a statement
that the agency expects the
pair will be charged with
murder.
Eriz and Lee were being
held in county jail on $1-mil-
lion bail each. They are
Bill could make
abortions free
for more people
Plan would eliminate
out-of-pocket expenses
for the procedure and
related services, such
as counseling. B3
M O N D A Y , J U N E 7 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A
ally happen. Right?
We’ll probably find out.
This is how San Diego-based
federal Judge Roger Benitez — the
gun lobby’s best friend in recent years
— began his opinion:
“Like the Swiss Army Knife, the
popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combi-
nation of home defense weapon and
homeland defense equipment. Good
for home and battle….
“Yet, the State of California makes
it a crime to have an AR-15 type rifle.
Therefore, this court declares the
Californian statues to be unconstitu-
tional.”
And just like that, the judge threw
out California’s 3-decade-old ban on
scheduled to be in court
Tuesday.
The CHP recovered at
least one bullet at the shoot-
ing scene. The agency has
publicly said the bullet came
from a pistol of unknown
caliber.
A law enforcement
source told The Times that
Eriz, an auto detailer, is
shown in one of his social
media accounts with a type
of weapon capable of dis-
charging the round that
killed Aiden. Officials on
Sunday were executing
search warrants for possible
evidence connected to the
crime.
Another law enforce-
ment source told The Times
that the suspects were
under surveillance before
their arrests, which followed
by a day a memorial for
Aiden.
There has been an out-
pouring of public grief in the
aftermath of the death of
Aiden, who was on his way
[See Shooting, B2]
Soldier helped in
camp’s liberation
David Dushman, last
surviving member of
the Soviet Red Army
who freed Auschwitz
prisoners, dies at 98. B5
Lottery ......................... B2
Vaccine rates
low for young
Black residents
County also finds a
concerning disparity
in inoculations among
Latinos 16 and older.
By Rong-Gong Lin II
and Luke Money
In a troubling sign, rates
of COVID-19 vaccinations
among Los Angeles Coun-
ty’s youngest eligible Black
and Latino residents are sig-
nificantly lower than for
other racial and ethnic
groups, and officials are ex-
panding efforts to make
shots available across the
region.
Among people 16 and old-
George Frey AFP/Getty Images er, only 41% of Black resi-
dents and 48% of Latino
residents in L.A. County
have received at least one
shot; by contrast, 63% of
white, 59% of Native Ameri-
can and 71% of Asian Ameri-
can residents are at least
partially vaccinated. Coun-
tywide, 64% of residents in
this age group have received
at least one dose of vaccine.
The disparities are con-
tributing to the increased
chance of infection, hospi-
talization and death among
Black and Latino residents
from COVID-19.
Black residents are now
assault weapons. He granted a 30-day
stay while the state appeals.
about twice as likely, and
Latinos about 60% more
likely, to be hospitalized with
COVID-19 than white resi-
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has
successfully championed gun con-
trols that Benitez has previously
blocked, hit the bulls-eye with his
dents in L.A. County. Black
and Latino residents also
have roughly twice the risk of
dying of COVID-19 than
response to Friday’s ruling:
“Today’s decision is a direct threat
to public safety and the lives of inno-
cent Californians, period.
white residents in the
county.
“This is really concern-
ing. As we’ve witnessed,
“As the son of a judge, I grew up
with deep respect for the judicial
process and the importance of a
judge’s ability to make impartial
Black and brown residents,
as essential workers, bore
the brunt of this pandemic,
especially noticeable during
fact-based rulings. But the fact that the surge,” L.A. County Pub-
this judge compared the AR-15 — a lic Health Director Barbara
weapon of war that’s used on the Ferrer said. “If they’re not
[See Skelton, B5] protected by the vaccine
with the lifting of public
Photographs by Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
KIMI THOMPSON hugs her grandmother Fusako “Fusa” Takahashi, 93, at a
ceremony Friday at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
Stamp honors veterans
15-year effort spotlights Japanese American troops
By Anh Do
At 16, Don Miyada was
wrenched from his family’s
farm near Laguna Beach
and sent to a prison camp in
Arizona.
Two years later, he was
drafted into the U.S. Army,
ready to give his life for the
country that stole his home.
Now, Miyada and the
30,000 or so other Japanese
Americans who served in
World War II are being hon-
ored with a postage stamp.
On the stamp, a soldier
stands in uniform and hel-
met with a serious expres-
sion on his face, the motto
“Go For Broke” emblazoned WORLD WAR II veteran Don Miyada, 96, served
vertically. in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Their
[See Veterans, B3] heroics earned them thousands of Purple Hearts.
B
health safety measures, they
can again have the highest
risk of getting infected, being
hospitalized or dying from
this virus.”
The overall pace of vacci-
nations has also slowed con-
siderably in L.A. County.
There are now about 100,000
first-dose vaccinations be-
ing administered each week,
a fraction of the roughly
500,000 a week earlier this
year, prompting Ferrer to re-
vise her estimate of when the
county will reach its goal of
having 80% of residents 16
and older at least partially
vaccinated. To do so, the
county must administer
1.1 million more doses, Ferrer
said. Instead of achieving
that goal in mid- to late July,
as she projected a month
ago, she now expects it to be
achieved in late August.
“I am hopeful that we’ve
stabilized at about 100,000
[first] doses a week,” Ferrer
said. “I think if we continue
to make all of the efforts
that we’re doing with all of
our partners, we will get
[See Vaccinations, B4]
Judge,
lawyer
in recall
suit in
hot seat
Pair were co-counsel
on at least two cases
while partners at
Sacramento law firm.
By Phil Willon
SACRAMENTO — The
Sacramento County Superi-
or Court judge whose ruling
in November was pivotal to
the recall campaign against
Gov. Gavin Newsom, provid-
ing supporters extra time to
gather the necessary peti-
tion signatures to trigger a
special election, was once a
law partner with the attor-
ney hired by the effort’s pro-
ponents to plead their case.
Judge James P. Arguelles
and Bradley Benbrook were
attorneys at the Sacra-
mento law firm of Stevens,
O’Connell & Jacobs before
2010 and, according to fed-
eral court records, the two
served as co-counsel on at
least two cases.
Sacramento retiree How-
ard Herships, who opposes
the campaign to recall New-
som, said he raised the issue
last month in a complaint
against the judge filed with
the Commission on Judicial
Performance, the state
agency that investigates
allegations of judicial mis-
conduct.
Herships, 77, said that he
considered the work rela-
tionship to be a conflict of in-
terest for the judge and that
he should not have heard the
case.
Two experts in legal eth-
ics, however, said judges
often face similar situations
and noted that it was un-
likely to be an ethical viola-
tion.
Benbrook represented
recall proponents Orrin
Heatlie and the California
Patriot Coalition in the case
before Arguelles last fall.
The judge on Nov. 17 agreed
with Benbrook’s argument
that California’s COVID-19
shutdowns and restrictions
had limited the recall cam-
paign’s ability to circulate
petitions.
Arguelles gave them an
additional five months to
gather and submit 1.49 mil-
lion petition signatures from
[See Recall, B2]
B2 M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21 S L AT I M E S . C O M

Pair in recall lawsuit were partners at firm

[Recall, from B1]
California voters, the num-
ber required by state law to
qualify the recall for the bal-
lot, and they did so success-
fully by March 17. Were it not
for that extra time, the recall
would have failed to qualify.
The recall proponents’
fight for more time to gather
signatures began in early
October when they filed a
legal action in Sacramento
County Superior Court
against then-Secretary of
State Alex Padilla, who is
now serving in the U.S.
Senate.
The former work rela-
tionship between Arguelles
and Benbrook was not
known by attorneys repre-
senting Padilla, a person fa-
miliar with the defense
team’s efforts told The
Times.
Scott Cummings, a pro-
fessor of legal ethics at the
UCLA School of Law, said
Arguelles probably should
have recused himself from
the case given his history
with Benbrook. But Cum-
mings emphasized that “ju-
dicial ethics is one of those
murky areas” in the law, in
part because judges have
past lives as lawyers, and
said he wasn’t confident
that Arguelles did anything
improper.
“If I were a judge in that
situation, I would probably
want to err on the side of re-
cusal to avoid even the ap-
pearance of impropriety,”
Cummings said. “It may
have been something the
judge should have done, but
it may not be an ethical Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
violation.” SUPPORTERS of President Trump call for the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom during a protest against COVID-19 public health orders on
Still, if it’s determined Nov. 21 in Huntington Beach. The recall effort’s organizers were granted more time to collect signatures last year because of the pandemic.
that a judge committed an
ethics violation, that could the state Commission on traditional locations, such and arguing that the judge ponent in the 2018 guberna-
potentially provide a “basis
for reopening and overturn-
Judicial Performance.
“We will have to let CJP
as shopping malls, sporting
events, concerts, fairs and
should hear the recall case
as well.
‘If I were a judge torial election, John Cox.
Cox currently is running to
ing the case,” Cummings review the matter and re- political rallies, among other One of the cases involved in that situation, I replace Newsom if he is
said. view the alleged facts,” places and events. a proposed ballot initiative recalled.
Richard Zitrin, who has Pedersen said in an email. The attorney represent- to allow sports betting at would probably Campaign finance re-
taught legal ethics for a
quarter-century at the UC
Gregory Dresser, direc-
tor and chief counsel at the
ing the secretary of state’s
office opposed granting the
tribal casinos and horse-rac-
ing tracks, and the other was
want to err on the cords show that the Califor-
nia Patriot Coalition, which
Hastings College of the Law, Commission on Judicial Per- recall organizers more time, related to a proposed ballot side of recusal to was leading the Newsom re-
said it would be extremely formance, said he could not arguing that they failed to initiative on restrictions for call effort, has paid Ben-
unlikely for the judge’s deci- comment on the issue. prove that the restrictions the use of single-use plastic avoid even the brook $57,000 in legal fees
sion in the recall case to be
overturned because more
Benbrook could not be
reached for comment. A
impeded their efforts.
He noted that a previous
packaging.
In legal filings months
appearance of since Sept. 18.
Former Republican Gov.
than half a year has passed
since it was handed down
spokesman for the secretary
of state’s office did not re-
effort to recall Newsom,
launched before the pan-
earlier, proponents for both
initiatives cited similar
impropriety.’ Arnold Schwarzenegger ap-
pointed Arguelles to the
and the ruling was never spond to questions about demic, failed to come any- constraints on circulating — Scott Cummings, Sacramento County Superi-
appealed. the judge’s history with Ben- where close to collecting petitions because of the professor of legal ethics at the or Court in 2010. Arguelles
Still, Zitrin said, Ar- brook or whether the agen- enough signatures to qualify COVID-19 pandemic and UCLA School of Law earlier served as an attorney
guelles should have dis- cy’s counsel was aware of it. for the ballot. asked to extend the deadline for Stevens, O’Connell &
closed his history with Ben- Under the California “The 160-day period for for gathering signatures. Jacobs starting in 2005 and
brook and given opposing Constitution, recall cam- collecting signatures to initi- Arguelles granted those re- support of ousting the gov- was a judge advocate gen-
counsel an opportunity to paigns have 160 days to ate a recall election was in- quests, with the support of ernor. Neither the secretary eral in the U.S. Army Re-
address the issue. gather the required number cluded in the California the secretary of state’s of- of state nor the governor’s serve. He also worked for the
“The judge should have of voter signatures — equal Constitution for a compel- fice. office appealed Arguelles’ U.S. attorney’s office in Sac-
informed them about the to 12% of the ballots previ- ling reason. Governors are Proponents of the sports decision. ramento for five years.
relationship and asked ously cast for the office being elected by the majority and betting initiative objected to Benbrook has repre- Former President Trump
whether anyone had a prob- targeted — after the secre- it should not be too easy for a having their case consoli- sented conservative causes nominated Arguelles to be-
lem with it. It’s as simple as tary of state approves the re- minority to force a costly dated with the Newsom re- and Republican politicians come a federal judge in June
that,” he said. “And if some- call petition for circulation. special election,” Kevin Cal- call case, but Arguelles in recent years. 2020. The American Bar
one did have a problem, give For the Newsom recall, ia, the outside counsel repre- granted Benbrook’s request In 2018, he represented an Assn. rated Arguelles as well
them the opportunity to be the clock began June 10, senting the agency, respond- to join the cases Oct. 7. From Oregon high school student qualified, but his nomina-
heard.” 2020, and was set to expire ed in a court filing. that point, Arguelles presi- who was suspended for tion was never considered by
Kim Pedersen, a spokes- Nov. 17. The case was initially as- ded over the Newsom recall wearing a “Donald J. Trump the U.S. Senate and, after
woman for the Sacramento In his petition to the signed to Judge Shelleyanne case, Sacramento County Border Wall Construction Trump lost his bid for reelec-
County Superior Court, said court, Benbrook argued the W.L. Chang. Superior Court records Co.” shirt, leading to a tion, it was returned to the
neither court officials nor COVID-19 restrictions im- However, Benbrook, on show. $25,000 settlement and an White House in January
Arguelles could comment on posed by Newsom made it the same day he filed the ini- On Nov. 17, Arguelles is- apology from the school. without action.
the matter because they much harder for recall or- tial petition, filed a notice of sued an order granting a Benbrook also worked
have not seen the allega- ganizers to circulate peti- related case pointing out five-month extension for the for an independent expendi- Times staff writer John
tions. She referenced a “sup- tions because they were un- two similar cases that Ar- Newsom recall proponents ture committee that backed Myers contributed to this
posed complaint” filed with able to gather signatures at guelles was presiding over to gather signatures in Newsom’s Republican op- report.

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Bill would make abortions cheaper
As other states restrict
access to procedure,
California could nix
out-of-pocket costs.
By Rachel Bluth
SACRAMENTO — Even
as most states are trying to
make it harder to get an
abortion, California could
make it free for more people.
State lawmakers are de-
bating a bill to eliminate out-
of-pocket expenses such as
co-pays and payments
toward deductibles for abor-
tions and related services,
including counseling. The
measure, approved by the
Senate and headed to the
Assembly, would apply to
most private health plans
regulated by the state.
So far this year, 559 abor-
tion restrictions have been
introduced in 47 state legis-
latures, 82 of which have
already been enacted, said
Elizabeth Nash, a state pol-
icy analyst at the Gutt-
macher Institute, a nonpar-
tisan research organization
that studies abortion and
reproductive healthcare.
That’s already the third-
highest number of abortion
restrictions adopted in a
year since the U.S. Supreme
Court’s landmark Roe vs.
Wade ruling of 1973, which af-
firmed the legal right to an
abortion, she said.
By comparison, just a
handful of bills, including
California’s, would make it
easier or cheaper to termi-
nate a pregnancy, she said.
Ellen Erickson of San Diego holds a dead pig at a mass funeral in Los Angeles to mark the 11th annual
National Animal Rights Day. The L.A. event was one of more than 70 held in cities across the globe.
New stamp honors Japanese American veterans
[Veterans, from B1]
The image is taken from a
1944 photo of U.S. Army Pfc.
Shiroku “Whitey” Yama-
moto of Hawaii, a member of
the Japanese American
442nd Regimental Combat
Team whose heroics in Eu-
rope earned them thou-
sands of Purple Hearts,
awarded to soldiers
wounded in combat.
“Go For Broke” meant
they were putting it all on the
line, both to fight the Ger-
mans and to demonstrate
their patriotism as many of
their families and friends re-
mained in the prison camps
for alleged disloyalty to the
country.
“In those days, we had
very little chance to work
outside of produce markets
and the farms,” said Miyada,
96, at a ceremony unveiling
the stamp at the Japanese
American National Museum
on Friday. “But the war
changed all our lives. War is
hell, but it leaves lessons.”
Miyada served in the
100th Infantry Battalion, an-
other all-Japanese Ameri-
can fighting unit that was
eventually absorbed into the
442nd.
The exploits of the 442nd
members and other Japa-
nese American soldiers, in-
cluding those who used their
Japanese language skills to
The state Legislature is
considering the bill just as
the fate of Roe vs. Wade has
been thrown into question.
The conservative-leaning
Supreme Court has agreed
to review this year a Missis-
sippi law that bans abor-
tions after 15 weeks, and its
ruling could end or weaken
Roe.
“It’s tough to know your
reproductive rights may be
in question again after it’s
been decided for 40 years,”
said state Sen. Lena Gonza-
lez (D-Long Beach), author
of the California bill, SB 245.
“We’re taking a stance, not
just to make abortions avail-
able but to make them free
and equitable.”
Abortion opponents be-
lieve the state should in-
stead make birth and mater-
nity care more affordable,
said Wynette Sills, director
of Californians for Life. In-
stead of giving patients
more choices in their repro-
ductive healthcare and fam-
ily planning, this bill pro-
motes just one option, Sills
said.
“If we’re trying to look out
for the economically disad-
vantaged, I think it’s repul-
sive that the best we can of-
fer is a free abortion,” she
said.
California already offers
broad protection for abor-
tion. It’s one of six states
that require health insur-
ance plans to cover abor-
tions, and most enrollees in
the state’s Medicaid pro-
gram for low-income people,
Medi-Cal, pay nothing out of
pocket for the procedure.
When Bella Calamore de-
FOUR-LEGGED FUNERAL
ARMY PFC. Shiroku “Whitey” Yamamoto is depicted on a new U.S. stamp that
honors the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team of World War II.
gain intelligence on the ene-
my in the Pacific, have
gained increasing recogni-
tion over the years.
But it took a determined
campaign, beginning in
2005, to make the stamp a
reality.
Fusa Takahashi and Chiz
Ohira both married men
who served in World War II.
Aiko O. King had been a ci-
vilian nurse for the U.S.
Army.
All three women spent
years in the prison camps
where the U.S. government
sent Japanese Americans
CITY & STATE
cided to seek an abortion in
May 2020, she thought the
procedure would be free
through Medi-Cal. But at
the clinic, she learned that
her father had recently
enrolled her in his Blue
Cross Blue Shield plan,
which told her she would
owe $600 after insurance was
applied.
“Financially, it just didn’t
seem reasonable for me to
spend that,” said Calamore,
22, of Riverside. A college
student, she had lost her job
as a waitress during the
COVID-19 pandemic and
had no income. The abor-
tion cost more than her rent
that month, she said.
Calamore sat in her car,
surrounded by antiabortion
protesters, and tried to fig-
ure out what to do. She de-
cided to pay for the abortion,
leaving $200 in her bank ac-
count, barely enough for
food for the rest of the
month.
Calamore later got in-
volved with NARAL Pro-
Choice America, a group
that promotes abortion
rights, and testified before
the Senate Health Commit-
tee.
The bill would not apply
to the millions of Califor-
nians whose health insur-
ance plans are regulated by
the federal government. Out
of approximately 23,000
women who get abortions in
California each year, roughly
9,650 would be affected by
this bill, according to an
analysis by the California
Health Benefits Review
Program.
The agency estimates the
during the war.
Wayne Osaka, who has
relatives who served in the
war, joined the “Stamp Our
Story” effort the following
year.
They collected endorse-
ments from lawmakers, gov-
ernors and mayors. They
won support from people in
the areas of France liberated
by the “Go For Broke”
troops.
They sent the U.S. Postal
Service 10,000 handwritten
signatures and 10,000 online
signatures.
In 2009, postal officials
bill would lead to a 1% in-
crease in abortions among
those whose cost sharing
would be eliminated, or the
equivalent of about 100 addi-
tional abortions per year.
Though the measure
likely would not significantly
increase abortions, waiving
costs would help those who
would otherwise have to
make financial sacrifices,
such as falling behind on
rent or cutting back on gro-
ceries, said Jessica Pinck-
ney, executive director of Ac-
cess Reproductive Justice, a
fund that helps people pay
for abortions.
“We’ve noticed a lot of
callers who had private
insurance plans and really
restrictive co-pays or high
deductibles,” Pinckney said.
“They’re really creating a
barrier.”
The cost of an abortion
rises as a pregnancy prog-
resses. A medical abortion,
in which pills are used to ter-
minate a pregnancy, costs
California patients an aver-
age of $306 out of pocket, ac-
cording to the agency’s anal-
ysis, but isn’t available after
10 weeks.
After that, the only op-
tion is a surgical abortion,
which costs an average of
$887 out of pocket in Califor-
nia.
As a pregnancy ad-
vances, the cost goes up and
fewer providers are willing to
perform an abortion.
“The moment that a per-
son finds out that they’re
pregnant, the clock is tick-
ing, as well as the meter,”
said Fabiola Carrión, a sen-
ior attorney with the Na-
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
told them that stamps were
not allowed to honor individ-
ual military units.
Years of silence ensued,
until last November, when
the Postal Service
announced the “Go For
Broke” stamp, along with
stamps honoring Missouri
statehood and the nuclear
physicist Chien-Shiung Wu.
Takahashi and King are
now in their 90s. Ohira died
during the campaign’s 15-
year length.
In a statement, U.S. Post-
al Service officials said they
are “proud to honor the
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tional Health Law Program.
Several other states ex-
panded abortion access this
year. New Mexico repealed
its pre-Roe law that banned
abortion in case Roe is over-
turned, and Virginia re-
pealed a ban on abortion
coverage in plans sold
through the state’s market-
place. Hawaii expanded the
category of medical profes-
sionals who can provide
abortions, and Washington
now requires student health
plans that cover maternity
care to cover abortions as
well.
New Jersey lawmakers
are considering a compre-
hensive abortion-rights bill
that would eliminate cost
sharing for abortions, but
advocates aren’t optimistic
about its chances.
Meanwhile, total abor-
tion bans have been passed
in Oklahoma and Arkansas
this year, as have bans on
abortion after six weeks in
Texas, Idaho, South
Carolina and Oklahoma
(Oklahoma has passed
three different bans on abor-
tion this year). None has
gone into effect, leaving time
for court challenges, said
Nash, from the Guttmacher
Institute.
Eliminating abortion
costs for patients has been
tried in other states, includ-
ing Oregon, which adopted a
comprehensive abortion-
rights law in 2017 that in-
cluded language similar to
California’s. A handful of
other states have provisions
to reduce out-of-pocket
costs.
States have learned —
from contraception cov-
erage and from California’s
experience requiring health
plans to cover abortions —
that simply requiring some-
thing doesn’t ensure pa-
tients can get it, Nash said.
“Cost sharing is a huge barri-
er to accessing services that
you need to remove so peo-
ple can actually get the care
they need,” she said.
Most essential health-
care, like routine immuniza-
tions, preventive services
and contraception, is al-
ready covered at no cost to
the patient. Advocates of
SB 245 say abortion is just as
essential and should be
treated the same way.
The California Assn. of
Health Plans disagrees. This
measure is one of several
this year that would elimi-
nate out-of-pocket costs for
treatments or medicines, in-
cluding insulin and other
drugs for chronic diseases,
said Mary Ellen Grant, a
spokesperson for the associ-
ation.
“We find this concerning
as these bills would cumula-
tively increase premiums for
all health plan enrollees,”
Grant wrote in an email.
This story was produced by
Kaiser Health News, one of
the three major operating
programs at the Kaiser
Family Foundation.
bravery and sacrifice of Jap-
anese American soldiers
during World War II.
“They lived up to their
motto with legendary acts of
heroism,” and their “spirit
and perseverance continue
to live on in generations of
Japanese Americans ever
since,” the statement said.
To Yoshio Nakamura, an
ammunition carrier in the
442nd, the stamp’s debut is
timely, considering the rise
in anti-Asian attacks during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Not everyone knows of
the Japanese effort in the
war, when actually, we have
helped the U.S. so much
through the years,” said the
Whittier resident, 95, who re-
ceived a Bronze Star.
Kerri Krueger, Fusa
Takahashi’s granddaughter,
said her grandmother
taught her to be proud of her
heritage and to know what
Japanese Americans have
suffered and overcome.
Her grandfather, Kazuo
Takahashi, was drafted into
the U.S. Army from a Utah
prison camp in 1943.
He joined the Military In-
telligence Service, which
employed Japanese Ameri-
cans as translators to pore
through documents, inter-
rogate prisoners and inter-
cept messages from the Jap-
anese military.
B3
CHP
reviews
gunfire
on 605
Man is wounded in
one of two shootings
on the same stretch of
freeway in Irwindale.
By Tony Barboza
The California Highway
Patrol is investigating two
shootings that occurred
within hours and a few miles
of each other Saturday on
the 605 Freeway, including
one that wounded a man in
his 30s.
The attacks took place on
the same stretch of the
southbound 605 Freeway in
Irwindale, about 15 miles
east of downtown Los Ange-
les, but it remains unclear
whether they are related.
In the first shooting, re-
ported about 5:12 p.m.
Saturday on the south-
bound 605 north of Lower
Azusa Road in Irwindale,
two women in a 2011 BMW
528i reported that a black
sedan traveling behind them
in another lane fired several
rounds at their vehicle, the
CHP said.
One round struck the
right side and another the
right-side rearview mirror of
the BMW, and the driver lost
control of the vehicle.
The BMW then veered
left, struck the center medi-
an wall and became disabled
in the center median, the
CHP said.
No injuries were reported
to the driver, 21, or the pas-
senger, 18, who were both
from Pasadena.
The second incident was
reported about 11:23 p.m.
Saturday, when officers re-
sponded to a call of a
shooting victim on the
southbound 605 north of
Arrow Highway in Irwin-
dale.
The suspect was de-
scribed as a man “wearing a
black vest, riding a black
motorcycle” who used a
handgun, according to the
CHP.
The victim, an Azusa res-
ident, was taken to Los An-
geles County-USC Medical
Center with a single gunshot
wound.
Few other details on the
second shooting were re-
leased.
“At this time, there is
minimal descriptions of
both the suspect and the
suspect vehicle,” the CHP
said.
Authorities have encour-
aged anyone who witnessed
either attack or has informa-
tion pertaining to their in-
vestigations to call the
CHP’s Baldwin Park office
at (626) 338-1164.
“She wants the genera-
tions to try to understand
what Asian Americans have
been through, how they have
progressed so far,” Krueger,
32, said of her grandmother.
The 55-cent stamp, de-
signed by Antonio Alcalá,
will always be good for up to
one ounce of first-class mail.
Lynn Franklin, the Taka-
hashis’ daughter, said the
stamp represents “how
much my father and all the
men and women were
Americans, in every sense,
and how they were willing to
give up everything for
America.”
At the same time, many
of the soldiers were fluent in
Japanese and understood
Japanese culture — a
tremendous advantage for
the American side in the Pa-
cific theater.
Kazuo Takahashi, who
died in 1977, rarely spoke
about the war. But his wife
always remembered what he
did and wanted the world to
know about it.
“These people translated
millions of documents. They
did a lot of counterintelli-
gence. They showed their
patriotism at every turn,”
Franklin said. “That’s why
my mom refused to give up
in the struggle to get a
stamp…. She intended to
showcase courage.”
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Finding disparities, county to boost vaccine push

[Vaccinations, from B1]
there in August.”
Ferrer said she hopes
that as more people see their
friends and family get the
vaccines without major
problems, they’ll be con-
vinced to get the shot.
The disparities in vacci-
nations are particularly
stark in the youngest age
groups. Among adults in
their 20s or younger, just 24%
of Black and 37% of Latino
residents have received at
least one dose of vaccine; by
comparison, 54% of white,
53% of Native American and
70% of Asian American resi-
dents in this age group have
gotten at least one shot.
Even among adults in
their 30s and 40s, significant
disparities exist: Thirty-five
percent of Black and 45% of
Latino residents have re-
ceived at least one dose; by
contrast, 60% of white, 61% of
Native American and 69% of
Asian American residents in
this group have received at
least one dose.
The inequities reflect a
number of complicated is-
sues, Ferrer said, including a
historical lack of medical
resources in underserved
communities. Officials have
struggled to convince some
residents that the vaccine
truly is free — and there ar-
en’t hidden fees that will
come later — and that get-
ting the vaccine won’t affect
immigration status. Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
Getting the vaccine is EMT SPECIALIST Andrew Roberts, left, gives a vaccine shot to Valentine Quezada in Santa Ana in March. Just 41% of Black residents
also more challenging for and 48% of Latino residents 16 and older in L.A. County are at least partially vaccinated, lagging behind other racial and ethnic groups.
lower-income residents who
may be working two or more Officials are trying to pro- who get vaccinated by coming into vaccine clinics most community and sites across the county when
jobs and worry about the po- mote interest in vaccina- Thursday at sites run by the lately, Ferrer said. Some- mobile sites now offer shots people are ready to get their
tential for having to take a tions with prizes. The state county, the city of Los Ange- times, as many as half are without appointments, and vaccines,” Ferrer said.
day or two off to deal with the has launched a $116.5-million les or St. John’s Well Child aware of the prizes and many are open on weekends Officials are positioning
mild side effects, like a fever incentive program that will and Family Center will be eli- sweepstakes, Ferrer said. and evenings. scores of mobile vaccine
or fatigue, that can some- award 10 Californians a prize gible to win season tickets to Ferrer also urged people “We can share our own sites in places hardest hit by
times happen after receiving of $1.5 million each and 30 the Dodgers or the Los An- to encourage their friends, stories, share what it was the pandemic — at work-
the shot, she said. Officials more residents $50,000 geles Football Club soccer family and neighbors to get that helped us make our de- places, schools, churches
are trying to make it easier apiece, while offering 2 mil- team. vaccinated. People can cision…. And we can offer and senior centers — and are
for those people to get vacci- lion residents eligibility to Past incentives, such as a look for vaccination sites our company and our en- moving to set up clinics at
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DAVID DUSHMAN
Last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz
associated press
avid Dushman, the
D last surviving Sovi-
et soldier involved
in the liberation of
the Nazi death camp at
Auschwitz, has died. He was
98.
The Jewish Community
of Munich and Upper Bavar-
ia said Sunday that Dush-
man had died at a hospital in
Munich, Germany, on Sat-
urday.
“Every witness to history
who passes on is a loss, but
saying farewell to David
Dushman is particularly
painful,” said Charlotte
Knobloch, a former head of
Germany’s Central Council
of Jews. “Dushman was right
on the front lines when the
National Socialists’ machin-
ery of murder was de-
stroyed.”
As a young Red Army sol-
dier, Dushman flattened the
forbidding electric fence
around the notorious Nazi
death camp with his T-34
tank on Jan. 27, 1945.
He acknowledged that he
and his comrades didn’t im-
mediately realize the magni-
tude of what had happened
in Auschwitz.
“Skeletons everywhere,”
he recalled in a 2015
interview with Munich
newspaper Sueddeutsche
Zeitung. “They stumbled
out of the barracks, they sat
and lay among the dead.
Judge’s gun ruling
ignores the will of
voters, lawmakers
[Skelton, from B1]
battlefield — to a Swiss
Army knife completely
undermines the credibility
of the decision.”
Look, I never went to
law school. But I know the
difference between a
Swiss Army knife and an
AR-15.
You can use a well-equip-
ped Swiss Army knife as a
screwdriver, a leather punch
or scissors. You can open a
beer bottle or sharpen a
pencil or carve your initials
into a gun stock.
And you can stab some-
one, but not kill a dozen or
more innocent people
within seconds.
An AR-15 is designed for
one thing when equipped
with a high-capacity ammu-
nition magazine, another
deadly tool Benitez has
ruled is protected by the
2nd Amendment. And
that purpose is mass shoot-
ing. It has a proven track
record.
With that firearm —
holding, say, 30 bullets —
you can mow down lots of
stunned co-workers, shop-
pers or schoolchildren
without pausing to reload.
You’re pretty safe from
being rushed by some des-
perate victim.
A Swiss Army knife has
about as much in common
with an AR-15 as a tricycle
does with an Indy 500 race
car.
In two separate previous
cases, Benitez ruled against
the state’s ban on the sale
and possession of
magazines holding more
than 10 rounds. The state is
appealing.
And last year the judge
blocked California’s at-
tempt to require back-
ground checks for ammuni-
tion purchasers. The state is
appealing that too. After all,
guns don’t kill people; bul-
lets do.
Both the ban on pos-
session of high-capacity
magazines and the require-
ment of background checks
for ammo buyers were
championed by then-Lt.
Gov. Newsom and approved
by voters as Proposition 63
in 2016.
“The Bill of Rights pre-
vents the tyranny of the
majority from taking away
the rights of a minority,” the
judge wrote in his opinion.
Sure, but in a democracy,
there’s also something
called majority rule.
“The 2nd Amendment
protects any law-abiding
citizen’s right to choose to
be armed to defend himself,
his family and his home,”
the judge said. “At the same
time, the 2nd Amendment
protects a citizen’s right to
keep and bear arms to use
should the militia be needed
Terrible. We threw them all
of our canned food and im-
mediately drove on, to hunt
fascists.”
More than a million peo-
ple, most of them Jews de-
ported there from all over
Europe, were murdered by
the Nazis at Auschwitz-
Birkenau between 1940 and
1945.
Dushman earlier took
part in some of the bloodiest
military encounters of World
War II, including the battles
of Stalingrad and Kursk. He
was seriously wounded
three times but survived the
war, one of only 69 soldiers in
his 12,000-strong division.
His father — a former mil-
itary doctor— was mean-
while imprisoned and later
died in a Soviet punishment
camp after falling victim to
one of Josef Stalin’s purges.
After the war, Dushman
helped train the Soviet
Union’s women’s national
fencing team for four dec-
ades and witnessed the at-
tack by eight Palestinian ter-
rorists on the Israeli team at
the 1972 Munich Olympics,
which resulted in the deaths
of 11 Israelis, five of the Pal-
estinians and a German
policeman.
Later in life, Dushman
visited schools to tell stu-
dents about the war and the
horrors of the Holocaust. He
also regularly dusted off
his military medals to par-
ticipate in veterans gather-
ings.
to fight against invaders,
terrorists and tyrants.”
On his first point, all
these bad guys are law-
abiding until they’re not.
Then they sometimes be-
come heavily armed mass
killers.
And on the second point,
the judge sounds like a
garden-variety conspiracy
theorist, fearful of a foreign
invasion that overwhelms
our best-in-the-world mili-
tary. Or he’s scared there’ll
be a tyrant regime in Wash-
ington.
Well, maybe after Donald
Trump, that last thought
isn’t so far-fetched.
The judge’s lengthy
opinion is replete with the
need for “militia readiness.”
“The versatile AR-15 type
of modern rifle is the perfect
firearm for a citizen to bring
for militia service,” Benitez
said. “It has been argued
that citizens with nothing
more than modern rifles will
have no chance against an
army with tanks and mis-
siles.
“But someone forgot to
tell Fidel Castro, who with
an initial force of 20 to 80
men armed with M-1 car-
bines, walked into power in
Havana in spite of Cuba’s
militarized forces.”
The Havana-born Ben-
itez, 70, was nominated to
California’s Southern Dis-
trict bench by Republican
President George W. Bush
in 2003.
GOP Gov. George Deuk-
mejian and the Legislature
enacted California’s initial
assault weapons ban in 1989.
In his ruling, the judge
scolded the lawmakers for
not being “concerned with
maintaining” the citizens’
constitutional right “to have
a common firearm of one’s
choosing to defend hearth
and home.”
That’s basically true.
Their main concern was
about the five slain South-
east Asian immigrant chil-
dren and 30 other kids
wounded by a racist drifter
who shot up a Stockton
schoolyard with an AK-47.
They then enacted the
nation’s first assault weap-
ons ban.
“My thoughts simply
were that regardless of what
argument somebody might
make about having the right
to own and possess a gun,
there was no commonsense
reason for someone to
have an assault weapon,”
Deukmejian told me years
later.
Perhaps federal judges
shouldn’t be given lifetime
appointments. Like state
judges, maybe they need to
periodically face the voters
— most of whom know the
difference between a knife
and a gun.
“Dushman was a legend-
ary fencing coach and the
last living liberator of the
Auschwitz concentration
camp,” the International
Olympic Committee said in
a statement.
IOC President Thomas
Bach paid tribute to Dush-
man, recounting how as a
young fencer for what was
then West Germany he was
offered “friendship and
counsel” by the veteran
coach in 1970 “despite Mr.
Dushman’s personal experi-
ence with World War II and
Auschwitz, and he being a
man of Jewish origin.”
“This was such a deep hu-
man gesture that I will never
ever forget it,” Bach said in a
statement.
Dushman trained some
of the Soviet Union’s most
successful fencers, including
Valentina Sidorova, and
continued to give lessons
well into his 90s, the IOC As a young Red Army soldier, David Dushman drove his tank through the elec-
said. tric fence around the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. Seventy
Dushman’s wife, Zoja, years later, he described the scene as “terrible,” with “skeletons everywhere.”
died several years ago.
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Roland Joseph Siart
October 28, 1929 - October 27, 2020
Roland Joseph Siart passed away quietly on the
morning of Tuesday, October 27, 2020, just one
day shy of his 91st birthday. He was born October
28, 1929, to Joseph Siart and Emily K. Thiem in
Manchester, New Hampshire. He now joins the
love of his life, Barbara V. Siart, who passed away
on May 20, 2019. They were married June 7, 1953,
and together enjoyed 66 years of marriage, raising
a family of three boys: Bill, Jack, and Jim.
Roland’s birth and death were bookends of tough
times – born at the start of the Great Depression
and dying during the COVID-19 Pandemic. He
more than overcame tough times, including his
father dying when Roland was 5 years old, by illing
them with love and caring for his wife, sons, seven
grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. He was
quick to make friends and enjoyed get-togethers
illed with laughter and drink.
As beitting a member of the “Great Generation,”
he was eager to join his two older brothers, James
and Francis, during World War II. He enlisted in
the Marines because James was in the Army and
Francis in the Navy. His Mother signed papers
allowing Roland to join the Marines at the age of
16.
After completing his enlistment period serving
on an Aircraft Carrier as an MP stationed in the
Mediterranean, Roland returned stateside and
shortly thereafter helped his cousin move from the
East Coast to California. He liked what he saw in
California and, with the help of his Uncle Alfred and
Aunt Mary Pfefferkorn, he began his career as a
Tool and Die Maker at Lockheed Aircraft Company
in Burbank.
In May 1953 he met the love of his life, Barbara
McPherson. She also worked at Lockheed in the
Blueprint Department, and he would return day
after day trying to persuade her to go out with him.
In addition to his job at Lockheed, Roland worked
part-time as a lifeguard at the Sunland pool. He
knew Barbara loved to swim so he invited her to
the pool. She brought her two boys, Bill and Jack,
and together they all had a great time. Roland was
active in many sports; bowling, tennis, swimming,
and horseback riding – all of which Barbara also
enjoyed. Roland was very good with her two boys,
who were six and four at the time. It was very
important to Barbara to marry a man that would
treat her and her children well. On June 7, 1953,
Roland and Barbara married and spent the next 66
years together.
Roland became involved in all the boys’ activities
including Little League, Indian Guides, YMCA,
Cub Scouts, and Pop Warner football. He coached
many of the boys’ teams. In 1957, their third son,
Jim, was born.
Roland and Barbara spent all their time with
friends and involved with their boys’ activities.
When Jim took up dirt bike riding, they also bought
motorcycles to join in. They bought a camper
and would spend many weekends in the Mojave
Desert watching Jim race his motorcycles. Later,
they bought a ski boat to use for water skiing. This
became an annual family vacation each summer at
either Bass Lake or Lake Nacimiento. Bill and Jack,
who were now married, would bring their children
to enjoy these outdoor activities.
After 40+ years at Lockheed, Roland retired
with Barbara to Escondido where they enjoyed
years playing golf and cards with members of the
Escondido Country Club.
When they reached their advanced years,
they moved to Carlsbad by the Sea Retirement
Center and stayed there until Barbara passed
after spending years in recovery following a stroke.
Roland was always at her bedside until she passed.
Roland, suffering from memory challenges, moved
to Phoenix, Arizona, to be close to Jim. He died of
natural causes a little more than a year later.
Bill, Jack and Jim will bury their father’s ashes
next to their mother on June 26, 2021, at Oakwood
Memorial Park and Cemetery. The delay in interring
Roland is due to the on-going pandemic and safety
concerns for all family members. The family wants
to be together when these services are conducted
and, as such, decided to wait until it was safe.
To future generations of relatives who locate this
obituary, we left this for you to understand the deep
love and appreciation Bill, Jack, and Jim have for
our parents, Roland and Barbara.
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LITTLE, John Calvin
August 31, 1932 - March 8, 2021
John Calvin Little, of Glens Falls, New
York, passed away on March 8, 2021
at the age of 88. He died peacefully in
Flagstaff, Arizona after a glorious visit
to the Grand Canyon with his nieces
Margaret Little and Deborah Little by
his side.
John had never married and did not
have children of his own, but he was a
father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, and
beloved friend to so many people.
John was born in Glens Falls, New
York on August 31, 1932 and was
the son of Fannie Carleton Little and
William Arthur Little Sr., brother to
Mary Margaret Little, Carleton Keim
Little, and William Arthur Little, Jr.
John attended Glens Falls High
School and graduated from Curtis High
School, NY in 1950. He then attended
Davis & Elkins College in WV and
graduated with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Biology in 1954.
Captain John Little joined the
United States Air Force and became
a pilot in the Strategic Air Command.
After he had completed his active
duty, he continued in the US Air Force
Reserve until 1972. He continued to
fly throughout his life and often took
friends and family members on flights
with him.
John moved to Los Angeles,
California in 1960. After his career in
the Air Force, John became a Master
Carpenter and oversaw and managed
the building of many of the most
loved beautiful buildings in Los
Angeles including The Getty Center
and Nichiren Shoshu Soku Gakkai of
America Building (“NSA Building”). He
was also a member and very active in
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
Union for many years. As a Master
Craftsman, he built his own home in
which he resided until his death in
Venice, California.
He was a very passionate, liberal
Democrat who was also a loyal
member of the National Rifle
Association and registered Republican.
While he felt very strongly about his
views, he was also very tolerant and
understanding if others had opposing
political or religious views. People who
knew him well would learn that he
was a great believer in learning from
others and trying to resolve differences
was very important to him. He was a
peacemaker.
In addition to all John’s career
achievements, John was an avid
camper, fisherman, dirt motorcyclist,
marksman, world traveler,
cartographer, lexicographer, Gin
Rummy player, scuba diver, and could
hike up large mountains with his grand
nephews and nieces well into his 80s.
John was also a generous
philanthropist and gave to so many
organizations including Disabled
Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, Funds
for African Americans and American
Indians, and volunteered in the Air
Force Civil Air Patrol Auxiliary. He was
generous with his intellectual gifts and
helped many nieces, nephews, and
grand nieces and nephews with their
chemistry and mathematics.
John has left an indelible mark
on this earth and will be painfully
missed. He was survived by the
following nieces and nephews and
their children: Margaret Little (son,
Brenden Carleton Smith and daughter,
Natalie Rose Smith), Jamie Little Myers
(son, David Myers and daughter, Eve
Myers), William Arthur Little (“ Billy”
deceased), Deborah Little (daughter,
Amanda Walker), Sheila Little Bara
(son, Bowen Bara and daughter,
Gianna Bara), Michael Little (daughter,
Sarah Little), Stephen Little (son, Philip
Little and daughter, Michelle Little
Nudd), Shawn Little Dietrich (sons,
James, Jonathan and Joshua Dietrich
and daughter, Jennifer Dietrich) and
so many cousins and beloved friends.
May he Rest in Peace.
A graveside service will be held
at Union Cemetery in the town of
Fort Edward, New York at 10 a.m. on
Saturday, August 21, 2021. Please
join us.
Arrangements are under the care of
Carleton Funeral Home, Inc., 68 Main
Street in Hudson Falls, New York
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FLINK, Martin
April 15, 1933 - June 3, 2021
Martin Gordon Flink was born
in Chicago, IL, during the Great
Depression. When he was a young
boy in the 1940s, his family moved
to California. Over the course of his
life, Marty raised his own family,
worked hard, pursued his passions
and interests, and became a valued
member of his community.
Like many young men of his
generation, Marty served in the US
Army. From post-war Europe, he sent
home crinkle-edged black and white
photos taken with his Retina camera –
a poignant collection treasured by his
family. From the rubble of Europe, he
turned his camera toward his children
and their children and created glorious
family albums. Throughout his life,
he was a keen photographer and an
expert on vintage cameras. Whenever
he took pictures, they were of people.
In Orange County, Marty built a
successful career in the insurance
industry. He and his wife Marilyn
raised their daughter and son in
Newport Beach. After retiring, he
volunteered where his interests led
him. A World War II history buff, he
served as a docent at the Lyon Air
Museum. Marty volunteered at the
Newport Beach Police Department,
where he is remembered for his sense
of humor and for the dedication he
brought to his patrols. The Department
honored him as Volunteer of the Year
in 2015. He forged friends wherever he
volunteered and continuously made
those around him laugh.
Marty played tennis, rode his bicycle,
and swam in the sea. But his greatest
joy was reading. This was reflected in
his many years as a volunteer at the
Newport Beach Public Library. During
his tenure as President of Friends of
the Library, he was instrumental in
creating the Children’s Sun and Sea
Discovery Garden, a cozy outdoor place
for little readers lined with mosaics of
sea creatures. In the Library shop, he
supervised the identification of rare
books that were brought to auction to
greatly benefit Library programs.
Marty was guided by the principles
of compassion and fairness from
a young age. As a boy, he wrote a
heartfelt letter to President Franklin
Roosevelt asking him to denounce
lynchings in the American South.
Marty is survived by his wife Marilyn
and his daughter Jenny. Sadly, he was
preceded in death by his cherished son
Aaron. He was adored as “Papa” by
his grandchildren Matthew, Isabelle,
Henry, Christopher, and Benjamin and
his great-grandsons Oscar and Victor.
He loved miniature dachshunds, of
which there have been many in the
family.
Forever funny and kind to all, “Papa”
will always remain in our hearts.
Family will be honoring Marty
privately. Donations in his memory
can be made to Friends of the Newport
Beach Library.
In Memoriam
Benjamin D Canino, Sr.
June 17, 1937 - June 7, 2005
Dad, You will always be loved and
missed! We cherish you! May God bless
you! Love, your children – Keith, Greg,
Ben Jr., Denise, Donna, Cathy, David,
Elizabeth, and Anne
Ellen Steinbaum Wallerstein
August 12, 1923 - June 7, 2006
It’s been 15 years and not a day goes
by that you are not missed.
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Morning clouds, fog and drizzle: The marine layer will be deep enough this morning that pockets of drizzle Still hot across the Midwest, Northeast: The ongoing heat wave across
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move across the region later today. A deep trough will move down from the north in its wake, reinforcing the expected to challenge daily records. Numerous showers and thunder-
marine layer Tuesday with lingering clouds and fog. storms are anticipated across the South. The Northwest will be cool.
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Low clouds clearing Low clouds clearing Low clouds clearing Partly sunny; cool Breezy in the p.m. 58/50
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Married officers are mourned in San Diego

Huntley-Park’s death
A traffic collision took has been especially devas-
tating for the hockey com-
the lives of the two munity, where she was a be-
detectives, who met loved youth coach with San
Diego Angels Girls Hockey.
at the police academy. Alex Morrison, the group’s
director, says she was
By Alex Riggins among his closest friends.
and Jonathan Wosen Their friendship went be-
yond a shared passion for
SAN DIEGO — Ryan coaching and refereeing the
Park and Jamie Huntley met sport. Morrison was the bro-
and began dating while in ker that represented the
the San Diego police acade- couple when they bought a
my in 2012. They became offi- home. He and his daughter
cers on the same day in April went to Disneyland with
of that year, married in Feb- them last week, and he was
ruary 2016 and were pro- supposed to be at an Angels-
moted to detectives on the Mariners baseball game
same day two years later. with them in Anaheim on
On Friday morning, the Friday night.
two of them were scheduled “She was as heart-on-
to be off work, but they were her-sleeve as anyone I’ve
working “follow-up on cases” ever met. She always, al-
anyway, San Diego Police ways, always cared for oth-
Chief David Nisleit said. As ers,” Morrison said. “She’s
they drove in an unmarked just this right balance of
department sedan south on holding the kids account-
Interstate 5 in San Ysidro, a able and holding them to a
wrong-way driver slammed high standard while show-
into their car. ing the utmost compassion
The couple and the other for them and understand-
driver died at the scene of ing. And that’s just how she
the fiery crash, which hap- Alex Morrison lived her life.”
pened about 10:25 a.m. on A MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL for Det. Jamie Huntley-Park features flowers, notes and drawings from youth Early Saturday, girls
the I-5 near State Route 905. hockey teams she coached. She and her husband, Ryan Park, became San Diego police officers in 2012. from hockey teams Huntley-
“You couldn’t have met Park coached gathered at
two nicer kids,” Nisleit said lice Department loses two fornia Highway Patrol offi- our friends.” KGTV-TV Channel 10 in San the Salvation Army Kroc
at a Friday night news con- members, it hurts,” Nisleit cers who responded to the Harris and Bowser Diego, Park’s brother Justin Center to grieve. They made
ference at downtown police said. “It hurts the depart- scene. lighted candles that they said, “There is no right way a wreath out of flowers, filled
headquarters. They “had ment, it hurts the communi- “What I saw on the free- placed at the foot of the me- to mourn, and right now my with notes and drawings.
nothing but their lives ahead ty, it hurts the city.” way today was an expression morial, then stood in silence family is at a loss.” There were more than a
of them. Both their lives and The couple did not have of the honor that we give to saluting the fallen officers, He said the family took few tears, Morrison said, but
their careers were definitely children, said the chief, who fellow public servants,” Glo- whose names they did not comfort in knowing his it was also a joyful moment
on a very, very rapid trend visited the crash scene Fri- ria said. “Treating them yet know. brother was with his soul- in that it underscored how
upward, just doing amazing day before spending the rest with the dignity that they The memorial grew Sat- mate. many lives Huntley-Park
work.” of his day, along with a de- deserve.” urday as mourners added “They did everything to- had touched — as did the
Jamie Huntley-Park, 33, partment chaplain, inform- Earlier Friday night, as flowers and mementos. gether,” he wrote. “Right flood of Facebook messages
grew up in the San Diego ing the couple’s family mem- the sun set, the Rev. Shane Park and Huntley-Park now we picture them trav- and calls that he’s received,
area and graduated from La bers of their deaths. Nisleit Harris, president of the Peo- were the second and third eling all over heaven, walk- stretching from Finland to
Jolla High School, Nisleit spoke in person to Huntley- ple’s Assn. of Justice Advo- San Diego officers to die ing among the clouds to- New York to South Carolina
said. She played college Park’s parents and one of cates, and Bishop Cornelius while on duty this year. In gether, sipping on a beer and to Seattle, among other
hockey in New York before Park’s brothers, he said. Bowser, pastor of Charity February, patrol Officer some scotch, which Jamie places.
becoming a coach and a ref- Mayor Todd Gloria of- Apostolic Church of San Di- David Sisto, 39, had a medi- loved to collect.” In 2019, Huntley-Park
eree with a goal of refereeing fered his condolences to the ego, went to police head- cal emergency while re- It was a message that was featured in a segment on
at the next Winter Olympics. couple’s families. He de- quarters to hold a small cer- sponding to a call and died Huntley-Park’s mother, what was then Fox Sports
She was a detective in the scribed the call from Nisleit emony near a memorial for later at a hospital. Cherisse Huntley, echoed San Diego, highlighting her
Police Department’s South- on Friday monring as “the the city’s fallen officers. The detectives’ deaths during a phone call with work coaching a San Diego
ern Division, the chief said. call a mayor never wants to Both men are often criti- triggered an outpouring of KGTV. Jr. Gulls hockey team and
Park, 32, was one of get.” cal of the Police Depart- grief on social media, with “Jamie was an amazing refereeing for the sport she’d
Nisleit’s patrol officers when Gloria said about 11,000 ment. Bowser said it’s be- the Police Department’s woman, daughter, sister, grown up playing. She went
the chief was captain of the people work for the city of cause “we hold them ac- Twitter and Facebook pages aunt, coach, friend and wife. on to play at Elmira College
Western Division. Park was San Diego, and “Jamie and countable … but it’s not be- filling with messages ex- She was our protector, our in New York, where she was
“a remarkable patrol officer Ryan were two of our best, cause we see them as the pressing shock and sadness. hero, and will be missed ev- the team’s enforcer.
who quickly [ascended] the and we lost them today, and enemy. They are part of our The losses were espe- ery minute of every day,” she
ranks and became a homi- that breaks our hearts.” community, and we love cially hard on those who said. “Ryan was everything Riggins and Wosen write for
cide detective,” Nisleit said. Gloria also praised San them. And they’re humans, knew the couple best. In a to Jamie, and together they the San Diego
“When the San Diego Po- Diego firefighters and Cali- but also many of them are statement released to were one.” Union-Tribune.

Home is where the heartbeat is
L.A. puts past
failures behind
to keep its title
hopes alive
By Andrew Greif
As the Clippers left Sta-
ples Center last week, trail-
ing again in this first-round
playoff series and unsure
whether they would return,
Paul George called the third
quarter when so much had
gone wrong something
“that’s going to haunt us.”
It was an off-the-cuff re-
mark by an All-Star. It also
happened to be the perfect
description of another im-
perfect game for a franchise
that, for 50 years, has been
defined by such postseason
shortcomings.
All season, the Clippers
have called that a thing of
the past and last season’s
second-round collapse
against Denver a non-factor.
They believed that winning
short-handed throughout
the season had steeled
them, and that their shoot-
ing would sustain them.
Offered a chance to add
another ignominious chap-
ter to their history Sunday,
nine months after crum-
bling in their previous Game
7, the Clippers instead con-
tinued their redemption
tour into the second round
following a 126-111 win against
the Dallas Mavericks, their
most forceful declaration
yet that this roster is not
haunted by the past.
The top-seeded Utah
Jazz now await. Game 1 is
Tuesday in Salt Lake City.
Kawhi Leonard had 28
points with 10 rebounds,
Marcus Morris scored 23,
Paul George contributed 22
points and six rebounds,
and Reggie Jackson had 15
points for the Clippers, who
shot 50%.
Leonard is only the
fourth player in NBA history
to score at least 200 points
while shooting at least 60%
in a playoff series, joining
Shaquille O’Neal (2000),
Bernard King (1984) and Ka-
reem Abdul-Jabbar (1977).
The mental mistakes
that lost the Clippers’ first
three home games of this se-
ries, particularly the way
Game 5 unraveled, were
gone amid a 24-4 run over
the final six minutes of the
third quarter. When Dallas
cut a 19-point lead to seven
with two minutes to play, be-
hind Luka Doncic’s 46
points, their resilience could
[See Clippers, D6]
Dodgers’ spin doctor
sounds like a quack
ATLANTA 4
DODGERS 2
DYLAN HERNÁNDEZ
Under their
current own-
ers, the
Dodgers have
taken pride in
refusing to
adhere to the
fundamental
spirit of base-
ball’s compen-
sation system, which is to
reward players for what
they’ve done in the past and
not necessary for what
they’ll do in the future.
Ironically, that’s the very
position the Dodgers are
now in with their high-
profile free-agent acquisi-
tion from the winter who
characterized the organiza-
tion’s forward-thinking
culture.
Angels’ bats go cold in loss
They rally late but watch their modest two-game
win streak end in 9-5 setback against Seattle. D5
SPORTSM O N D A Y , J U N E 7 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
CLIPPERS WIN SERIES 4-3 | NEXT: GAME 1 AT UTAH, TUESDAY, 7 P.M., TNT
KAWHI LEONARD, slamming home two of his 28 points, finished just shy of a triple-double, and Paul George
and the Clippers bid farewell to Luka Doncic, below, and Dallas to complete their first-round comeback.
Just two months into the
season, Trevor Bauer isn’t
the same pitcher the Dod-
gers signed in the winter.
The Dodgers invested
$102 million in the
right-hander believing he
was a front-line starter, but
who knows what they’re
paying for now that the
commissioner’s office has
informed teams it would
start enforcing rules prohib-
iting the doctoring of base-
balls.
The transformation was
as instantaneous as it was
pronounced.
In a 4-2 loss to the At-
lanta Braves on Sunday, the
spin rate and usage of
Bauer’s four-seam fastball
were noticeably down.
Bauer held the Braves to
three runs in six innings, but
he didn’t pitch well. The 10
baserunners he allowed
were a season high.
[See Hernández, D5]
NBA PLAYOFFS :: FIRST ROUND
CLIPPERS 126, DALLAS 111
‘Another slap in the face’ from NFL
For former player, news about race-norming doesn’t come as a surprise
By Toi Cook
Same old, same old.
That’s the feeling I had
this past week when I heard
about “race-norming,”
which curves the cognitive
test scores of NFL players
who are Black, assuming
they have a lower level of
intellect. I wasn’t familiar
with the specific term, but I
wasn’t at all surprised.
It’s kind of like when Dez
Bryant made that catch
against the Green Bay Pack-
ers in the playoffs, the one
that was ruled a non-catch
on the field. We all saw it.
The whole world knew it was
a catch. But it took the NFL
a few years to come out and
say, “Oh, yes, it was a catch
after all.”
Gee, thanks. It was an-
other slap in the face.
Allow me to introduce
myself. My name is Toi Cook,
Reloading Lakers won’t be easy
Team is up against the salary cap and may need to
get creative to make another championship run. D7
Photographs by
‘We are battle-tested
now. We are going into
where they have a tough
fan base and it’s tough to
play there but our guys
are locked in.’
—T YRONN L UE , Clippers coach, on his team’s
resiliency as they prepare to play at Utah in the next round
TOI COOK, shown in Westlake Village, had his
concussion settlement claim denied by the NFL.
An oral history of Chávez-De La Hoya
It was a clash of more than just warriors when the
two boxers met in the ring 25 years ago. D3
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
D
The Curse is on
notice — this
win will propel
them to Finals
BILL PLASCHKE
Seventh
heaven.
Kawhi
Leonard
drives the
baseline for a
vicious two-
handed slam
and the build-
ing fills with
chants of “M-V-P, M-V-P!”
Marcus Morris Sr. nails
one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven three-pointers —
seven! — and fans are
pounding their Thunderstix
into plastic pulp.
Luke Kennard makes
three straight shots and
suddenly heard is a dirge of
“Luuuuke.”
You read that right. Luke
Kennard. Three straight
shots. Somebody saying his
name.
It was that crazy. It was
that perfect. For once the
Clippers were not cursed,
they were blessed, playing
their best of the season on
their most important day of
the season Sunday in a
game that was uproariously
loud and eminently lovable.
In the same arena where
three days earlier the Lak-
ers collapsed, the Clippers
flew, walloping the Dallas
Mavericks 126-111 in the
deciding Game 7 of their
first-round playoff series in
front of 7,342 at Staples
Center.
You sure you’re ready for
this, L.A.?
There’s one local team
left in the NBA playoffs, and
it’s the team in black, not
purple. Staples Center will
continue to host playoff
games, but they will be
inhabited by Chuck the
Condor, not Lawrence
Tanter.
This is the first time in 15
years that the Clippers have
lasted longer than the Lak-
ers in a postseason that
contained both teams. The
Clippers not only have the
town to themselves now, but
a bit of NBA history after
becoming only the fifth
team to win a series after
losing the first two games at
home.
Said Kennard: “This was
a big-time win.”
Said Reggie Jackson:
“We’re still chasing what
we’re chasing.”
What they’re chasing,
[See Plaschke, D6]
and I spent 11 seasons as a
defensive back in the
league, my first seven with
New Orleans and two each
with San Francisco and
Carolina. I grew up in Los
Angeles, went to school at
Montclair Prep in the San
Fernando Valley and Stan-
ford, and relied on my intel-
lect to have as long a profes-
sional career as I had.
You’ve got to be pretty
smart to make it that long
as an eighth-round draft
pick. Obviously, you’ve also
got to be the kind of athlete
who can compete at a high
level.
If you just look at the way
we practiced and played,
where hitting was a way of
life, you have to assume I
might have lost some cogni-
tive ability. While mine is
still high, and I’m not as bad
off as many former players, I
still lost something. How
[See Race-norming, D2]
D2 M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
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CLIPPERS
NEXT: JUNE 19 VS. SEATTLE, 6 P.M., SPECSN
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TIME EVENT
BASEBALL
2 p.m. Miami at Boston
6:30 p.m. Kansas City at Angels
7 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Diego
BASKETBALL
4:30 p.m. NBA playoffs, Milwaukee at Brooklyn, Game 2
7 p.m. NBA playoffs, Denver at Phoenix, Game 1
COLLEGE BASEBALL: NCAA REGIONALS
10 a.m. Teams TBA
10 a.m. Teams TBA
1 p.m. Teams TBA
1 p.m. Teams TBA
4 p.m. Teams TBA
7 p.m. Teams TBA
COLLEGE SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES
1 p.m. Semifinal, Oklahoma vs. James Madison
4 p.m. Semifinal, Alabama vs. Florida State
HOCKEY
3:30 p.m. NHL playoffs, N.Y. Islanders at Boston, Game 5
5 p.m. NHL playoffs, Winnipeg at Montreal, Game 4
SOCCER
11 a.m. Uruguay, Villa Espanola at Fenix
TENNIS
3 a.m. French Open, fourth round
5 a.m. French Open, fourth round
THE DAY IN SPORTS
U.S. beats Mexico
for Nations crown
staff and wire reports
Christian Pulisic con-
verted a penalty kick in the
114th minute, backup goal-
keeper Ethan Horvath
stopped Andres Guarda-
do’s penalty kick in the
124th, and the United
States overcame an early
defensive blunder to beat
Mexico 3-2 on Sunday night
in Denver in a final of the
first CONCACAF Nations
League.
Gio Reyna and Weston
McKennie scored as the
20th-ranked U.S. twice
overcame deficits against
No. 11 Mexico, which led af-
ter just 63 seconds.
ETC.
Titans acquire
wideout Jones
Tennessee agreed to a
deal with Atlanta for seven-
time Pro Bowl wide receiver
Julio Jones, allowing the
Falcons to clear salary-cap
space while the Titans get
help for Ryan Tannehill,
Derrick Henry and A.J.
Brown.
The Falcons will receive
the Titans’ second-round
pick in 2022 and a fourth-
round choice in 2023 with
Atlanta sending Jones and
a sixth-round selection in
2023 to Tennessee pending
Jones passing a physical.
The NHL received an ex-
emption from Canadian
health officials allowing
cross-border travel for
teams starting in the semi-
final round of the Stanley
Cup playoffs.
When in Canada, teams
will be required to stay in a
bubble and be tested daily
for COVID-19, similar to the
tight restrictions that al-
lowed the NHL to stage and
complete its playoffs in two
hub cities last year.
Nick Paul scored in over-
time, and Canada won its
27th world hockey title by
beating Finland 3-2 in Riga,
Latvia. Max Comtois and
Adam Henrique, both of
whom play for the Ducks,
also scored for Canada. The
U.S. won the bronze with a
6-1 victory over Germany.
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BSW BSW, ESPN put an end to the controver-
sial practice of “race-norm-
ing,” which assumed Black
at Utah* players started out with a
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tion and thereby makes it
harder for those retirees to
prove they qualify for pay-
outs in the administration of
the 2017 $1 billion-plus con-
cussion settlement.
“We are committed to
eliminating race-based
norms in the program and
more broadly in the neu-
ropsychological communi-
ty,” the NFL said in a state-
at ment, while maintaining
Washington that no such discrimination
4 took place in the administra-
CBSSN tion of the settlement.
The revelation of race-
norming came to light last
year when former players
Najeh Davenport and Kevin
Henry sued the league, alleg-
ing that race-norming led to
them being denied a portion
ON THE AIR of the settlement.
A judge dismissed the
TV: MLB case earlier this year, and the
TV: BSW NFL and Christopher See-
R: 830, 1330 ger, the lead attorney for the
TV: ESPN, ESPND players in the concussion
settlement, said the use of
TV: TNT race-norms was not manda-
tory and up to the individual
TV: TNT
doctors to use or ignore
while performing the evalu-
TV: ESPN2 ations.
TV: ESPNU Harry Edwards, a sociol-
TV: ESPN2 ogist and longtime staff con-
TV: ESPNU sultant for the San Fran-
TV: ESPN2 cisco 49ers, has spent a half-
TV: ESPN2 century studying the inter-
section of sports and society.
TV: ESPN He spoke Sunday to the Los
TV: ESPN Angeles Times about race-
norming, what it suggests
and what the NFL should do
TV: NBCSN
to repair the damage it has
TV: NHL, NBCSN caused.
(joined in progress) When did you first be-
come aware of race-norm-
TV: GOLTV ing as it relates to the NFL
concussion settlement?
TV: Tennis Edwards: I’ve known
TV: BSW
Ex-player says NFL should pay up
[Race-norming, from D1]
much may not be deter-
mined until later, as it was
with the tumultuous jour-
neys of Junior Seau, Dave
Duerson and John Mackey,
Tiare Jennings hit a men who truly gave their
leadoff homer and drove in lives for the game.
the go-ahead run with a sev- Still, the NFL rejected
enth-inning double, and my claim for a portion of the
No. 1 seed Oklahoma aveng- concussion settlement,
ed a stunning loss to un- despite the diagnosis of an
seeded James Madison by acclaimed neurosurgeon.
beating the Dukes 6-3 in a They didn’t tell me why they
Women’s College World Se- rejected me. You’re just
ries softball semifinal in supposed to accept it.
Oklahoma City. That’s typical of everything
The Sooners will face in our society. There’s no
James Madison again Mon- transparency.
day with the winner advanc- Things aren’t always as
ing to face either Florida they seem. I learned that as
State or Alabama in the a kid when I saw the magic
best-of-three championship of TV from a different per-
series starting Tuesday. The spective. My dad was a
Seminoles defeated the cameraman at Paramount
Crimson Tide 2-0 to force a and worked on shows like
semifinal rematch Monday. “Soul Train” and “Enter-
tainment Tonight” and
Easton Murrell had “What’s Happening!!” I grew
three hits and two RBIs to up around Hollywood and
lead Texas Tech to an 8-2 win went to school with Barry
over UCLA to capture the White’s daughters, Robert
Lubbock Regional title in Conrad’s kids, the daugh-
the NCAA baseball tourna- ters of Tom Bosley and
ment. The Bruins, who had Peter Ueberroth. As a kid, I
reached the final after de- went on a date with Rosie
feating Army and North Perez.
Carolina, finished 37-20. The I mention this because
Red Raiders (39-15) advance these experiences took
to the super regionals. ... UC something that is so myste-
Irvine beat host Stanford 8-4 rious to so many and demys-
to stay alive in that regional. tified it for me. It wasn’t
The teams will play again magic anymore. It was
Monday. ... UC Santa Bar-
bara lost 5-2 at Arizona,
studios that were so cold the
producers were running
which won the regional. around in sweaters when it
was 90 degrees outside. It
The final 12 Olympic was, “Oh, so that’s how this
spots — seven for women
and five for men — for surf-
stuff happens.”
When I got to college, the
ing’s debut at the Tokyo NFL was kind of demysti-
Games were decided as the fied too. When I was a soph-
World Surfing Games omore at Stanford, I got to
wrapped up in El Salvador.
However, the best men’s
work out in the summers
with NFL players who
surfer in the event, Joan would come around. Some
Duru, did not qualify for of the 49ers like Ronnie Lott
Tokyo despite capturing the and Eric Wright, Joe Mon-
world title. Each country is tana and Mike Wilson. Jim
allowed to send no more Plunkett would come back
than two male and two fe- to Stanford, and so would
male surfers to the Kenny Margerum.
Olympics, and Duru surfs I’m out there covering
for France, which had al- pros who had been in the
ready qualified two surfers. league for seven years. I’m
The women’s world title all over them. That’s when
went to Australia’s Sally Ronnie, Eric and Dana
Fitzgibbons. McLemore told me, “Toi,
— Kevin Baxter you can play in the league,
no question.” Once I heard
Reigning Olympic tennis those words, that became
gold medalist Monica Puig my focus.
will miss the Tokyo Games But once I got to the
and the rest of the season af- NFL, I learned pretty
ter having shoulder surgery. quickly that I would be
... Sifan Hassan set a wom- judged on more than my
en’s world record by running level of play. I was outspo-
10,000 meters in 29 minutes ken, and if I had a problem
6.82 seconds in Hengelo, with something, I didn’t
Netherlands. hold my tongue. I had con-
KEN JENKINS , right, helps deliver petitions in May
demanding equal treatment for concussion claims.
about this since last August.
When it first became an is-
sue, I was contacted by some
people who have been look-
ing at this thing as a eugen-
ics issue for quite some time.
But the details of it didn’t
start coming out until the
NFL faced that lawsuit.
Then as we got more and
more into it, it became clear
that this was simply unac-
ceptable.
It’s morally unconscion-
able, most certainly politi-
cally unsustainable and
legally indefensible. You
can’t have 74% of the players
in the league Black but
when it comes to actually
being able to claim access to
funds resulting from brain
damage, dementia, CTE,
other kind of cognitive-
deficit-inducing conditions
that are directly related to
football, all of a sudden
there’s a different standard
for them.
There’s a presumption
that they come in at a cogni-
tively lower ranking. A lower
baseline.
What was your initial
reaction to the notion of
race-norming?
Edwards: It’s ridiculous,
it’s asinine, it’s almost come-
dic that it would get this far.
And not only that but that
the NFL would be fighting a
TOI COOK pauses in Westlake Village. He says his claim for a portion of a con-
cussion settlement was denied by the NFL despite a neurosurgeon’s diagnosis.
versations with the late Jim
Finks, the former Saints
general manager who I still
love, and with coach Jim
Mora, who I really love, and
those conversations weren’t
always pleasant.
I should point out that
Jim Mora by no means has
ever done anything wrong to
me. The only thing he did
was help me play 11 years in
the league. I wouldn’t have
lasted that long without Jim
Mora. That being said, I was
kind of a problem player to
him.
After all, how many DBs
have a call-in show after
games? I had one in New
Orleans. Those are usually
reserved for quarterbacks,
running backs, guys like
that. But I had one. Like I
said, I didn’t hold my
tongue.
One time, I was part of a
group of New Orleans defen-
sive backs holding out for
better contracts. So the
Saints signed a couple of
players from the Canadian
Football League and gave
them, if I recall, $200,000
bonuses. They weren’t going
to give that kind of money to
us. I said at the time: “I
didn’t know that the CFL
was more valuable than the
NFL. Maybe I should have
gone from Stanford to the
CFL first.” That didn’t go
over well.
When I felt like we were
mistreated, I said, “This
isn’t slavery.” People didn’t
forget that. They repeated it
back to me a lot during my
career. What I meant by that
was, “Just because you have
my rights as a player doesn’t
Matt Rourke Associated Press
lawsuit by two Black players
who say, “Hey, this isn’t fair.”
And the response was to
fight the lawsuit. So at the
end of the day we’ve got
some work to do.
Some players say their
requests to be included in
the settlement were re-
jected with insufficient
explanation. From your
perspective, is that com-
mon among players?
Edwards: Of course. You
just get a no. But when you
go back to it and start dig-
ging into it, you find out that
the whole situation is race-
normed, where you have to
show greater decline to get
the same benefits that a
white player does. Because
the presumption is that as a
Black player, you start with
lower cognitive capability to
begin with. The Black dumb
jock.
Most of the time this
stuff takes place within the
context of gentlemen’s
agreements. That was the
case with the Black quarter-
back, Blacks being blocked
from the league up until
1946, but those were based
on gentlemen’s agreements.
This was a matter of
policy, and that’s what
makes it different than
segregation. ... This was
policy, which made it not
mean you’re allowed to treat
me this way.” God forbid
someone say that.
So now the NFL and lead
attorney Christopher [See-
ger] come out and promise
they’re going to eliminate
race-based norms, that
they’re sorry for the pain
this has caused Black for-
mer players and their fam-
ilies.
‘The question
now is, how do
you move
forward? I believe
the league should
offer a different
settlement.’
— Toi Cook,
who says the NFL should
compensate former players for
cognitive damage they suffered
The first thing that
comes to mind for me is,
somehow Christopher
[Seeger] got paid and we
didn’t. He didn’t play one
down in the NFL, not one
practice. He set up a system
where he cut out a lot of us,
and it’s a terrible system —
except for the system for
him.
The question now is, how
do you move forward? I
believe the league should
offer a different settlement
to the players, call it an offer
and a compromise. I think it
should be $100,000 for each
year that you played in the
just different but dumb.
What would you advise
the NFL to do?
Edwards: Complete
transparency. “We’re going
to rectify this. We’re going to
go back and review every
case that was turned down,
Black and white. And where
necessary, we’re not just
going to grant access but do
what we can in terms of
reparations for the damage
that has been done in the
meanwhile.”
Do you have reason to
be optimistic that will
happen?
Edwards: One of the
things I’m optimistic about
is that there are some good
people at the NFL, at the
top, in the middle, and
people who just came in.
Coaches, administrators,
front-office folks who want
to get this right. Hopefully
with the additional pressure
of sunlight, they will have a
greater chance of prevailing
in terms of transparency,
rectification, reparations
when necessary, and turn
the corner on this.
I put [Commissioner]
Roger Goodell in that cate-
gory. I know him off-site,
off-script and out of the
spotlight.
He’s the commissioner
when he sits up in that office
on Park Avenue, but as a
human being and a man he’s
an eminently decent guy. If I
didn’t think that was the
case, I wouldn’t bother
bringing this kind of stuff up
to him.
It’s a tough situation
because, hey, that’s his job.
He answers to 32 franchise
owners. He can’t just fly off
and say, “We’re going to do it
this way,” if the medical
committee or whoever says,
“We’re going to do it that
way.”
But this is one the whole
league should get behind
and say, “This is not us. This
is not who we are.”
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
NFL. It’s a one-time offer
and if you agree to that deal,
you agree not to sue the
NFL for any future demen-
tia or whatever you might
suffer.
I would accept that deal
ASAP, and I know a lot of
people who would accept
that deal. And the people
who feel like they need
more? I can’t fight that
fight.
Can the NFL afford it?
Yes. The new TV deals will
pay more than $300 million
per team per year. The
league was built on the
shoulders of the players who
came before this generation.
You don’t practice the way
we practiced, you can’t line
up the same way, you don’t
have the same formations in
place. Because the NFL
protects its players now in a
way that it didn’t before.
Why does the NFL not prac-
tice the way we did any-
more? Why did the league
legislate out certain hits
and officiate plays differ-
ently than when I played?
In my opinion, that’s a
total admission of fault. Why
else would the league
change the rules on phys-
icality in practice and
games? As proof of the old
days, we have those videos
like “Crunch Course” that
glorify those hits that are
now outlawed.
So if you’re now asking us
to take another cognitive
test, and then just give us
some lame excuse about
why we don’t qualify ... that’s
just not right.
We took a beating. Pay us
for it.
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Biles appears right on schedule to shine at Tokyo

HELENE ELLIOTT
FORT
WORTH,
Texas —
Simone Biles’
fearlessness
and un-
matched
skills created
little doubt
that she would win the
women’s all-around title at
the U.S. gymnastics cham-
pionships. But Biles, who’s
trying to repeat as the
Olympic all-around champi-
on in Tokyo and lead the
U.S. to another team gold
medal, left nothing to
chance in Sunday’s national
finale, bringing the power
and sizzle that make her the
best gymnast who has
graced a mat.
Biles put on a show in the
finale for an adoring crowd
at Dickies Arena, topping
her first-day score while
wrapping up her seventh
national all-around title and
setting herself up nicely for
the Olympic trials June
24-27 in St. Louis. She con-
trolled the overexuberance
that had carried her out of
bounds three times during
her floor exercise routine on
Friday, stepping out once
but otherwise preserving
her trademark strength and
amplitude. This woman —
and her spirit — can soar.
“It’s so crazy because in
training I never go out of
bounds and I never have
this much power, but adren-
aline is where it comes, so
we just have to focus on
working with that,” she said.
“It’s not a bad thing, but it
could be if I keep going out
of bounds.”
The only misfortune she
experienced was minor: she
snapped a fingernail on her
first vault. “I’m very upset
about it because they’re
pretty cute this time,” she
said, holding her fingers
toward the camera during
her post-event webinar.
She couldn’t be too up-
set. Discomfort that re-
sulted from jamming her
ankles on Wednesday led
her to skip the daring
Yurchenko double pike
vault she pulled off last
month — she’s the only
woman in the world to land
it — but the vaults she did
instead were effortless and
stunning. She racked up
60.10 points on Sunday and
119.65 overall, ahead of dy-
namic Sunisa Lee (114.95),
who had the meet’s top
uneven bars score.
“I feel like I’m on the
correct road for the trials,”
Biles said, adding that she
plans to do the Yurchenko
double pike vault at least
once in the two-day trials.
Jordan Chiles, who
trains alongside Biles in
Spring, Texas, and is set to
enter UCLA in the fall, was
third with 114.45 points.
Emma Malabuyo, also an
incoming Bruins freshman
and in her ninth year on the
national team, finished a
strong fourth with 110.45
points and was deemed
“very, very impressive” by
U.S. high performance team
coordinator Tom Forster.
“It’s great to see Emma
Malabuyo back in her inter-
national form that she was
in a couple years ago. She’s
wrestled with a couple
injuries here and there,” he
said. “That was really what I
need to see. That was prob-
ably the biggest surprise
that I had.”
Leeanne Wong was fifth
(110.15). Sixth-place finisher
Jade Carey has earned an
individual Olympic berth
based on her World Cup
performances. Another
UCLA commit, Emily Lee,
was 13th (108.25).
Eighteen women were
named to the U.S. national
team and were invited to the
Olympic trials, but others
can petition to join them.
The top two in the all-
around standings at the
trials will get Olympic
berths. The U.S. can send a
four-woman team to Tokyo,
plus two other individual
competitors whose scores
won’t count toward the U.S.
team score. If Carey has a
top-two finish at the trials
and gets an automatic berth
she could give up her indi-
vidual spot and the U.S.
would lose it.
Lee, who finished second
to Biles at the 2019 U.S.
championships, fought
through injuries to compile
the best two-day uneven
bars score and second-best
(to Biles) on the balance
beam. “I think this is a really
good confidence booster
because I wasn’t even at my
full potential on floor, my
vault could have been a little
better, and today my bars
was a little rough,” said Lee,
who is from St. Paul, Minn.,
and is of Hmong descent.
“It definitely helped my
confidence going in because
I know that I don’t have to
be at 100% to be able to still
be in the top with Simone ….
I feel people kind of doubted
me because I have been
injured for a little bit and I
wasn’t doing my full poten-
tial on floor and vault.”
Chiles, 20, credited her
move from the Pacific
Northwest to train at World
Champions Centre with
Biles’ coaches, Laurent and
Cecile Landi, for putting her
on an upward trajectory in
every possible way. She
called them “the dopest
people I’ve ever met in my
life,” her ultimate compli-
ment.
“After I moved to WCC I
had the worst lack of confi-
dence throughout my whole
gymnastics career,” she
said, “and I think just hav-
ing the proper coaching and
the proper teammates that
can support you through
everything definitely helps
throughout your whole
gymnastics and just in your
life in general.
“It’s crazy to see how I
was in the past, to now, and
definitely my confidence is
way better than it was back
in the day. I’ve been at this
for a while.”
Biles, 24, has been at this
long enough to win a mind-
boggling 15 medals at the
world championships to go
with the four Olympic gold
medals and one bronze
(balance beam) that she
won in Rio in 2016. She’s
moving powerfully and
purposely toward the next
challenge. “I feel like every
single championship stands
out for a reason,” she said
“but this one stands out
specifically because it’s the
road to Tokyo.” A road
paved with triumphs and
gold.

Twenty-five
years ago, a
clash of more
than warriors
By Roberto José Andrade Franco

On June 7, 1996, Julio César Chávez faced Oscar De La Hoya.

Promoters called the fight “Ultimate Glory.” Held outside of Las
Vegas’ Caesars Palace on a hot Friday night, the fight was, in
many ways, a clash of opposites. Chávez, 33, was a Mexican na-
tional hero entering his 100th professional fight. De La Hoya, 23, John Gurzinski AFP via Getty Images

was a once-in-a-generation Mexican American boxer about to
enter his prime. But more than a fight between a once-great
boxer versus another with expectations of greatness, Chávez
versus De La Hoya symbolized something more in the United
States’ Mexican community. This is an excerpt from the Los An-
geles Times’ oral history of that fight — 25 years ago — between a
man who epitomized everything Mexican boxing was, and a man
who’d be criticized for not being Mexican enough.
Part 1: The great
Mexican champion
Chávez was a national hero to
people of Mexican ethnicity on
both sides of the border. He’d
fought his way from the obscurity
that comes from fighting on the
undercard of bouts in Mexico to be-
come a main-event attraction in
the United States. Chávez built his
career during the 1980s, which U.S.
news media and advertisers called
the “Decade of the Hispanic.” He
was Mexican machismo personi-
fied, the type of folk hero who in-
spired songs. Chávez was “El Gran
Campeón Mexicano” — the great
Mexican champion.
Gene Aguilera, boxing author:
I was at Olympic Auditorium when
Julio fought Azabache Martínez
for his first championship in 1984.
Chávez was the underdog. It was a
very unique night. Not too many
people knew about Chávez. They
were fighting for a vacant title and
Azabache was ranked No. 1 and
Chávez was No. 2. Chávez ended up
just totally manhandling Az-
abache and turned him into a
bloody mess by the end of the fight.
I mean, he just totally over-
whelmed him, controlled the fight.
That night, a star was born with
Julio César Chávez.
Larry Merchant, HBO Sports
commentator at the fight: Chávez
was the epitome of the fierce Mexi-
can warrior. He was tough-minded,
he attacked the body. I think it’s
fair to say he was primarily respon-
sible for communicating the kind
of warrior spirit that the top Mexi-
can fighters had and that their fans
expected.
Eric Gomez, president of
Golden Boy Promotions and De
La Hoya’s childhood friend:
Chávez was a hero, a god. He was
incredible.
Teresa Tapia, wife of late boxer
Johnny Tapia: Johnny, growing
up, wanted to fight like Chávez.
Joel De La Hoya Jr., Oscar’s
older brother: He represented
Mexican boxing at its best; he was
the face of boxing. Like every
Chávez fan, we’d have parties every
time he fought. It was a time to get
together with friends and family to
watch one of the greatest boxers of
all time.
Fernando Paramo, former La
Opinion sports editor: Chávez
used to go a lot to the Vegas Hilton
and all the dealers were prohibited
from speaking Spanish. Then
Chávez started coming in with his
buddies, a lot of the heavy guys
from Mexico, coming in with big
rolls of money, and started playing
the tables and the whole place is
full. After about six months, a year,
they requested the dealers speak
Spanish.
Not just that, but all the guys —
[star singers] Juan Gabriel, Rocio
Durcal — they were playing in the
little bars, they weren’t playing at
the big scenes. It wasn’t until
Chávez came on that they started
opening at Caesars for the big
shows. Chávez should have a big
statue right in Vegas because of
what he did for the Mexican com-
munity. That’s something no one’s
even thought about. That he was
the one that opened Vegas to the
Spanish-speaking people.
Paul Rodriguez, comedian and
friend of both fighters: The thing
that Chávez had, that not even De
La Hoya had, and very few people
are able to possess, was a certain
kind of earthiness. He had a cer-
tain kind of approachability. I re-
member going with him to eat in
East Los Angeles, to this little hole
in the wall, and he was already a
superstar but everybody — from
the cab driver, to the guy mowing
the lawn, to the business owner —
they felt they knew him. Like they
could walk up to him and shake his
hand and say a couple of words. He
never lost that, even at the height
of his fame.
::
Part 2: The Golden Boy
De La Hoya was Mexican
American. The son of immigrants,
he was born and raised in East Los
Angeles. He was a bilingual
Olympic gold medalist with movie-
star good looks, a soft voice and a
warm smile. As De La Hoya built
his career in the 1990s when the
country’s Hispanic population
boomed, he became the ideal cor-
porate pitchman. De La Hoya idol-
ized Chávez. In and out of the ring,
in both nickname and in terms of
mass appeal, De La Hoya was “The
Golden Boy” of boxing.
Oscar De La Hoya (in a 1996 in-
terview with Playboy): I was a little
kid who used to fight a lot in the
street and get beat up. But I liked
it. So my dad took me to the gym.
Aguilera: Boxing was very im-
portant to East L.A. It served as a
vessel for the young kids to break
out and become somebody. Using
Oscar De La Hoya as an example,
he grew up in a humble neighbor-
hood, a small house, and he raised
OSCAR DE LA HOYA scored the biggest win of his young career in 1996 when he stopped
Julio César Chávez, a champion and hero in both Mexico and De La Hoya’s East L.A. home.
CHÁVEZ, looked at by referee Joe Cortez after being cut in
the first round, bled until the fight was stopped in Round 4.
himself up.
Rodriguez: I met Oscar De La
Hoya before he went to the
Olympics. I had a talk show and he
came on. I remember giving him
$50 when he went to Barcelona. It
was the best investment I ever
made.
Gomez: He called me like three
or four times when he was out there
in Barcelona. He’d call me after
pretty much every fight and it was
fun, it was exciting. The fights were
coming on almost at midnight. I re-
member we stayed up to watch.
Two of my brothers were with me. I
remember Oscar was a little nerv-
ous in the fight. He was confident
that he would win. He was pre-
pared. He was ready. Just a proud
moment for all of us.
Aguilera: I went to most of De
La Hoya’s fights. Because I’m from
East L.A., he’s from East L.A., I was
just proud of his ascent.
Merchant: One of the ironies is
that when he was called a cross-
over star, they wanted to promote
De La Hoya as somebody who
crossed over from just being anoth-
er very good Mexican or Mexican
American fighter, to trying to find
his fan base among Americans.
But as it turned out, Mexicans felt
— from as much as I could observe
— that because of that plan, be-
cause of that background, and his
look, and his confident American
style, that somehow, he had aban-
doned the Mexican base. That’s
important in understanding the
Chávez fights with De La Hoya.
::
Part 3: The fight
Chávez versus De La Hoya was
not available on pay-per-view.
“There have been estimates that
for every home that buys a fight,
two homes steal it,” Bob Arum said
of illegal black boxes in a March
Mike Nelson AFP via Getty Images
1996 interview with The Times. In-
stead, the fight got broadcast on
closed-circuit television at desig-
nated theaters, convention cen-
ters, casinos, fairgrounds, arenas,
and stadiums across the United
States and Mexico.
Perez: I saw it at the Rose Bowl.
I got those tickets, that same
morning, from an oldies radio sta-
tion. It was $40; it wasn’t cheap. If I
hadn’t have gotten those tickets, I
probably would not have gone.
Gomez: I watched at East L.A.
College. They opened the audito-
rium and showed it there. It was
probably 80% Chávez fans and 20%
Oscar fans.
Mark Taffet, then-HBO Sports
senior vice president: It was one of
the most electric nights ever in
boxing. You had the passion of Lat-
ino fight fans, there to watch their
legend, Julio César Chávez, against
the up-and-coming star who was
not only Latino but also had
tremendous appeal to a young
American audience and to females
in a way that no boxing star had be-
fore him.
Teresa Tapia: It was very hot.
Johnny actually fainted after his
fight and some fans had to help me
carry him back to the dressing
room.
Gomez: Fight starts. From the
get-go, Oscar’s on. I mean, he’s
sharp. He’s peppering him with the
jab and taking control with the
speed, the combinations. Chávez
didn’t even land a punch. He
couldn’t touch Oscar.
Aguilera: Bam! De La Hoya
pops him with a jab.
Joel De La Hoya Jr.: I saw blood
trickling from Chávez’s eye.
Aguilera: It opens up, and
Chávez is bleeding like a pig.
Dr. Skip Homansky, chief ring-
side physician: I was focused on
the cut and his eye. But because
Chávez was such a veteran, I wasn’t
worried about that. He wasn’t a
young fighter, so I wasn’t worried
what the cut would do psychologi-
cally. But obviously, the physical ef-
fects of the cut had to be watched.
Oscar De La Hoya (in a 1996 in-
terview with the Washington
Post): I knew when I cut his eye and
broke his nose — I think I felt his
nose break — I knew I had him.
Chávez (in a 1996 interview with
Sports Illustrated): I never felt Os-
car’s punch. I just was not able to
see.
Gomez: Oscar just landed a jab.
If you followed Chávez’s career, he
rarely bled. He was known for being
able to take a punch. And for Oscar
to just land a couple of jabs and do
that, I believe there might have
been prior injury or something.
How it happened, I don’t know.
Chávez (in a 1996 interview with
The Times): I didn’t consider not
fighting. It was too big of a fight.
Homansky: There was no evi-
dence of an earlier laceration. I’m
not saying there wasn’t a cut dur-
ing training; that’s really not that
unusual for a boxer. But I can tell
you, a stiff jab from De La Hoya
really opened a small laceration
and then a devastating right hand
in that first round is really what
opened up this cut. I can’t really
say if there was an earlier lacera-
tion or there wasn’t, but I know
that Chávez says there was.
Whether there was or there wasn’t,
it was De La Hoya’s punch that
opened the cut.
Taffet: I knew that Julio César
Chávez was a great, great fighter.
And I knew that he was going to
give Oscar a heck of a battle. The
cut changed the complexion of the
entire fight. That was the first mo-
ment, when I saw the cut, when I
really started to believe, “OK, this
night is going to end up Oscar’s
night.”
Prior to that, I was very nervous
because I knew that Oscar De La
Hoya could carry the entire pay-
per-view industry on his back if he
won the fight. From a business per-
spective, there was a lot on the line
for the future.
Paul Rodriguez: I could hear
Chávez in his corner. He was
screaming, “ESTA BIEN! ESTA
BIEN! HECHAME LA POMADA!
ESTOY BIEN!” (It’s fine! It’s fine!
Put on the ointment! I’m fine!) It
was his heart, of course. They let
him go on for another couple of
rounds. But it just got worse. It
wouldn’t stop bleeding.
::
The fight was stopped in fourth
round due to the cut, De La Hoya
winning by technical knockout.
Interviews edited for clarity. Read
it in full at latimes.com/sports.
Roberto José Andrade Franco is
an author, freelance journalist and
writer at large for Texas Highways.
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NL STANDINGS
DODGERS 2 ANGELS 5 INDIANS 5 PIRATES 1
West W L Pct. GB L10
San Francisco 37 22 .627 — 7-3 Streak Lost 2 This month 2-3 Streak Lost 1 This month 3-2 Cedric Mullins hit a leadoff homer in a Sandy Alcantara cruised through eight
Home 19-10 Road 15-15 Home 15-16 Road 12-16 three-hit day and Baltimore scored its innings, Jesus Aguilar hit a long solo
San Diego 36 25 .590 2 4-6
Division 17-8 Interleague 7-5 Division 15-17 Interleague 3-2 most runs since 2015, with a season- home run and added a sacrifice fly,
DODGERS 34 25 .576 3 4-6 Next: Tuesday at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Next: Tonight vs. Kansas City, Angel Stadium, 6:30 high 21 hits. After going 0-14 to finish and Miami ended its longest losing
Colorado 24 36 .400 131⁄2 5-5 TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020 TV/Radio: BSW/830, 1330 May, the Orioles are 4-1 in June. streak in six years at eight games.
Arizona 20 41 .328 18 2-8 Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Baltimre AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg.
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Betts rf 4 0 1 0 .258 Acuna Jr. rf 4 0 0 0 .278 Crawford ss 3 2 2 2 .263 Upton lf 4 2 2 2 .225 Hernandz 2b 3 0 0 0 .218 Mullins cf 4 2 3 2 .322 Chishlm ss 3 1 0 0 .264 Frazier 2b 4 1 1 0 .332
Turner 3b 4 1 2 0 .270 Freeman 1b 3 1 0 0 .229 Haniger rf 5 1 1 1 .261 Ohtani dh 2 1 0 0 .256 Miller 2b 2 0 0 0 .119 Mncini 1b 6 2 0 0 .273 Marte cf 3 1 1 0 .301 Hayes 3b 4 0 2 0 .348
Chicago 33 26 .559 — 6-4 Taylor 2b 4 0 0 0 .275 Albies 2b 4 0 1 1 .256 France 1b 5 0 1 0 .249 Rendon 3b 5 1 2 1 .236 A.Rosario ss 4 1 1 2 .246 Sntndr dh 5 2 3 3 .269 Dickerson lf 4 0 0 0 .266 Reynolds cf 3 0 0 0 .287
Pujols 1b 4 1 2 2 .229 Swanson ss 4 1 1 0 .238 Seager 3b 3 0 1 2 .216 Walsh 1b 4 0 1 1 .301 Ramirez dh 3 0 1 0 .262 Galvis ss 5 1 2 1 .250 Aguilar 1b 3 1 2 2 .265 Moran 1b 4 0 1 1 .296
Milwaukee 33 26 .559 — 9-1 Pollock lf 4 0 1 0 .272 Almonte lf 2 1 1 1 .273 Murphy c 5 0 1 1 .171 Lagares cf 5 0 0 1 .209 E.Rosario lf 2 0 0 0 .235 2-Wln 2b 0 1 0 0 .180 Berti 2b 4 0 0 0 .175 Polanco rf 4 0 0 0 .208
Bellinger cf 4 0 1 0 .196 b-Heredia lf 1 1 1 0 .268 Notnhm dh 3 0 0 0 .115 J.Iglesias ss 5 0 0 0 .266 Zimmer cf 1 0 0 0 .227 Mntctle lf 5 3 3 2 .254 Diaz 3b 4 0 1 0 .130 Gonzalez ss 3 0 1 0 .215
St. Louis 31 29 .517 21⁄2 3-7 W.Smith c 4 0 0 0 .268 Adrianza 3b 3 0 2 0 .231 b-Fraley dh 1 1 1 1 .207 Ward rf 3 0 0 0 .223 Ramirez cf-lf 3 0 1 0 .278 Stewart rf 3 2 3 1 .229 Leon c 4 0 1 0 .189 b-Tom 1 0 0 0 .190
Lux ss 3 0 0 0 .238 Contreras c 3 0 0 0 .217 Tramll cf/lf 4 1 0 0 .173 Suzuki c 2 0 0 0 .200 Naylor rf 3 1 1 0 .251 1-McKa rf 1 0 1 2 .216 Sierra rf 3 0 0 0 .241 Gamel lf 3 0 1 0 .217
Cincinnati 28 29 .491 4 7-3 Bauer p 2 0 0 0 .000 Inciarte cf 3 0 1 2 .250 Mayfield 2b 4 1 1 0 .000 a-Wong 1 0 0 0 .235 Chang 3b 4 1 1 0 .181 Frnco 3b 5 1 2 2 .203 Alcantara p 2 0 0 0 .087 Perez c 3 0 0 0 .136
a-Muncy 1 0 0 0 .264 Fried p 1 0 0 0 .333 Kelenic cf 0 0 0 0 .096 Stassi c 0 0 0 0 .275 Bradley 1b 4 2 3 3 .800 Urs 2b/ss 4 2 2 2 .246 Totals 30 3 5 2 Kuhl p 2 0 0 0 .000
Totals 34 2 7 2 c-Sandoval 1 0 0 0 .235 Wltn lf/2b 3 3 2 2 .232 Fletcher 2b 3 1 2 0 .264 Rivera c 4 0 0 0 .250 Wynns c 5 2 2 1 .154 a-Difo 1 0 0 0 .244
Pittsburgh 23 35 .397 91⁄2 5-5 Totals 29 4 7 4 Totals 36 9 10 9 Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 33 5 8 5 Totals 43 18 21 16 Totals 32 1 6 1
East W L Pct. GB L10 Dodgers 000 100 001 —2 7 0 Seattle 102 000 105 —9 10 1 Cleveland 001 020 002 — 5 8 1 Miami 010 002 000 —3 5 1
Atlanta 011 001 01x —4 7 0 Angels 100 000 013 —5 7 0 Baltimore 160 500 51x —18 21 0 Pittsburgh 100 000 000 —1 6 1
New York 29 23 .558 — 7-3 a-grounded out for Suzuki in the 8th. b-singled for Nottingham in the 9th. 1-ran for Stewart in the 6th. 2-ran for Galvis in the 7th.
a-flied out for Bauer in the 7th. b-singled for Almonte in a-struck out for Davis in the 7th. b-grounded out for Gonzalez in the 9th.
the 8th. c-popped out for Martin in the 8th. Walks—Seattle 5: Crawford 1, Seager 1, Fraley 1, Trammell 1, Walton 1. Angels 6: Upton Walks—Cleveland 3: Ramirez 1, E.Rosario 1, Naylor 1. Baltimore 3: Mullins 2, Walks—Miami 2: Marte 1, Alcantara 1. Pittsburgh 2: Reynolds 1, Gamel 1.
Atlanta 28 29 .491 31⁄2 5-5 1, Ohtani 3, Walsh 1, Ward 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 14: Haniger 3, Seager 2, Murphy 3, Stewart 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 7: Hernandez 1, Miller 1, A.Rosario 1, Ramirez 1,
Walks— Atlanta 6: Acuna Jr. 1, Freeman 1, Almonte 1, Strikeouts—Miami 6: Chisholm Jr. 1, Dickerson 1, Berti 1, Leon 1, Alcantara
Nottingham 2, Trammell 2, Mayfield 2. Angels 11: Upton 2, Ohtani 2, Walsh 3, Lagares 1, Chang 1, Rivera 2. Baltimore 6: Mancini 3, Mountcastle 1, Urias 1, Wynns 1.
Philadelphia 28 30 .483 4 5-5 Adrianza 1, Contreras 1, Fried 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 5: 2. Pittsburgh 6: Hayes 2, Moran 1, Polanco 1, Kuhl 1, Difo 1. E—Aguilar (5),
J.Iglesias 1, Ward 1, Suzuki 1. E—Crawford (6). LOB—Seattle 7, Angels 10. 2B—Crawford 2 E—Quantrill (1). LOB—Cleveland 5, Baltimore 5. 2B—Chang (6), Bradley (2),
Betts 1, Taylor 1, Pollock 1, Lux 2. Atlanta 10: Acuna Jr. 3, Gonzalez (4). LOB—Miami 4, Pittsburgh 6. 2B—Moran (8), Gamel (5), Frazier
(14), Walton (2), Fletcher (7), Walsh (13), Upton (6), Rendon (7). HR—Walton (2), off Naylor (10), Santander (9), Mullins (15), Mountcastle (12). HR—A.Rosario (4), off
Miami 25 33 .431 7 2-8 Albies 2, Swanson 2, Adrianza 1, Contreras 1, Inciarte 1. Sandoval; Upton (13), off Gilbert. RBIs—Seager 2 (36), Walton 2 (7), Crawford 2 (21), Lopez; Bradley (1), off Lowther; Mullins (9), off Quantrill; Urias (2), off Wittgren. (20). HR—Aguilar (12), off Kuhl. RBIs—Aguilar 2 (44), Moran (20). CS—Berti
LOB—Dodgers 5, Atlanta 9. 2B—Turner (10), Almonte (2), Haniger (38), Murphy (12), Fraley (9), Upton 2 (28), Walsh (40), Rendon (22), Lagares (10). RBIs—Bradley 3 (3), A.Rosario 2 (17), Mullins 2 (18), Wynns (1), Santander 3 (15), (3). SF—Aguilar. Runners left in scoring position—Miami 0; Pittsburgh 3
Washington 24 32 .429 7 3-7 Albies (19), Adrianza (4). HR—Pujols (4), off W.Smith. SB—Ohtani (8). SF—Seager, Crawford. S—Fletcher. Runners left in scoring Mountcastle 2 (30), Stewart (19), Franco 2 (28), Urias 2 (8), Galvis (23), McKenna 2 (Polanco, Frazier, Moran). RISP—Miami 0 for 1; Pittsburgh 1 for 9. Runners
position—Seattle 4 (Nottingham, Haniger, Trammell); Angels 6 (J.Iglesias 2, Rendon, (3). Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 1 (A.Rosario); Baltimore 1 moved up—Reynolds 2, Perez. GIDP—Berti, Perez, Reynolds. DP—Miami 2
RBIs—Pujols 2 (12), Almonte (2), Albies (37), Inciarte 2
Ohtani, Wong). RISP—Seattle 6 for 14; Angels 2 for 13. Runners moved up—Murphy, (Mountcastle). RISP—Cleveland 3 for 9; Baltimore 11 for 18. Runners moved (Chisholm Jr., Berti, Aguilar; Berti, Chisholm Jr., Aguilar); Pittsburgh 1 (Hayes,
Sunday’s results (5). SF—Inciarte. S—Fried. Runners left in scoring France, Lagares 2. up—Hernandez 2. GIDP—Chang, Naylor, Wynns, Santander. DP—Cleveland 2 Frazier, Moran).
position—Dodgers 3 (Pujols, Muncy); Atlanta 7 (Inciarte, Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA (Chang, Hernandez, Bradley; A.Rosario, Chang, Bradley); Baltimore 2 (Urias, Galvis, Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Atlanta 4, DODGERS 2 Swanson, Acuna Jr. 3). RISP—Dodgers 1 for 7; Atlanta 1 for Gilbert, W, 1-2..............5 2 1 1 4 7 105 4.98 Mancini; Galvis, Urias, Mancini). Alcantara, W, 3-5..........8 6 1 0 2 6 103 3.30
Miami 3, at Pittsburgh 1 12. Runners moved up—Taylor. LI DP—Freeman. DP—Dodgers Chargois, H, 5 ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 6 1.93 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Garcia, S, 10-13...........1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.62
Sewald, H, 3 ................1 0 0 0 0 2 22 3.00 Quantrill, L, 0-2..........11⁄3 5 7 5 0 1 44 3.41 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Milwaukee 2, Arizona 0 1 (Pujols). Sandlin.......................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 17 2.84
Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Montero, H, 4...............1 2 1 1 1 0 24 4.78 Kuhl, L, 0-3 .................6 3 3 2 1 2 82 5.61
at Philadelphia 12, Washington 6 Bauer, L, 6-4................6 6 3 3 4 7 100 2.40 Middleton....................0 3 3 3 1 0 18 4.15 Hentges ....................12⁄3 9 5 5 0 2 45 8.51 Davis ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00
Gonzalez .....................1 0 0 0 0 2 17 2.29 Steckenrider.................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.10 Stephan....................21⁄3 0 0 0 2 1 35 3.98 Oviedo ........................2 2 0 0 1 4 33 7.23
Cincinnati 8, at St. Louis 7 Price ..........................1⁄3 1 1 1 2 0 22 4.42 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nelson ........................1 5 5 5 1 0 28 7.50
HBP—Kuhl (Chisholm Jr.).
Wittgren ......................1 1 1 1 0 1 13 5.21
at Colorado 3, Oakland 1 Jones .........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 8 3.48 Sandoval, L, 0-2 ...........6 5 3 3 1 10 101 3.95
Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA U—Cory Blaser, Brian Gorman, Sean Barber, James Hoye. T—2:40.
Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Claudio.......................2⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 14 4.84 Tickets sold—5,477 (38,747).
Chicago 4, at San Francisco 3 Fried, W, 3-3................6 6 1 1 0 4 92 4.63 Mayers ........................1 0 0 0 0 2 15 4.73 Lopez, W, 2-6...............5 4 3 3 3 2 74 5.30
Strickland....................1⁄3 1 2 2 1 1 14 9.95 H.Harvey .....................1 1 0 0 0 0 10 4.50
New York 6, at San Diego 2 Minter, H, 13................1 0 0 0 0 0 14 3.97
Wells ..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 9 4.62
Martin, H, 4 .................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 1.69 Cishek ........................1 2 3 3 3 1 29 3.91
W.Smith, S, 11-11 ........1 1 1 1 0 1 10 4.30 Middleton pitched to 4 batters in the 9th Lowther .......................2 3 2 2 0 3 34 15.19
Inherited runners-scored—Jones 2-0, Minter 2-0. Inherited runners-scored—Steckenrider 2-1, Mayers 1-0, Cishek 2-2. Inherited runners-scored—Sandlin 2-2, Stephan 1-0. HBP—Quantrill PHILLIES 12
IBB—off Gilbert (Ohtani), off Cishek (Seager). HBP—Gilbert (Suzuki). WP—Sandoval. (Urias), Lopez (Ramirez). WP—Hentges, Lopez.
U—Larry Vanover, Dave Rackley, Erich Bacchus, Marvin
U—Jordan Baker, Chris Segal, Mark Carlson, Jeremy Riggs. T—3:57. Tickets U—Phil Cuzzi, Adam Beck, Tom Hallion, Mark Ripperger. T—3:10. Tickets NATIONALS 6
Hudson. T—3:21. Tickets sold—39,439 (41,084). sold—9,423 (45,971).
sold—12,833 (45,517).
AL STANDINGS
West W L Pct. GB L10
J.T. Realmuto hit his 100th career
WHITE SOX 3 ASTROS 6 homer, a three-run shot, and Philadel-
Oakland 35 26 .574 — 6-4
TIGERS 0 BLUE JAYS 3 phia rallied with a seven-run fourth and
Houston 33 26 .559 1 6-4 won after a delay when the protective
Seattle 30 31 .492 5 6-4 Chicago’s Tony La Russa moved past Jose Altuve led off the game with a netting behind home plate collapsed.
ANGELS 27 32 .458 7 5-5 John McGraw for sole possession of home run and Luis Garcia earned his Washingtn AB R H BI Avg. Philly AB R H BI Avg.
Texas 23 38 .377 12 1-9 second on baseball’s career manager fifth straight win for Houston despite Turner ss 5 1 2 1 .311 Herrera cf 5 1 2 2 .273
Soto rf 4 0 2 2 .278 Realmto c 3 2 2 3 .295
Central W L Pct. GB L10 wins list with 2,764. Dylan Cease battling a cold. Garcia’s 68 strikeouts Bell 1b 4 0 1 0 .217 Harper rf 5 1 1 0 .273
Schwarbr lf 5 0 0 0 .222 Hoskins 1b 5 1 0 0 .263
Chicago 36 23 .610 — 7-3 struck out 10 in seven strong innings. are tied for the lead among AL rookies. Castro 3b 4 0 0 0 .244 McCtcn lf 4 2 2 1 .225
e-Zimrmn 1 0 0 0 .299 Miller 2b 2 2 1 3 .276
Cleveland 31 26 .544 4 5-5 Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Avila c 3 1 1 0 .176 d-Jankwski 1 0 1 0 .500
Baddoo lf 4 0 1 0 .241 Anderson ss 4 0 2 2 .297 Altuve 2b 6 1 1 1 .302 Semien 2b 4 1 0 0 .294 Mrcr 2b/3b 4 1 1 0 .236 Bohm 3b 3 1 0 1 .209
Kansas City 29 28 .509 6 6-4 Schoop 1b 4 0 1 0 .257 Lamb lf 4 0 0 0 .259 Correa ss 4 0 0 0 .280 Bichette ss 4 1 1 0 .262 Robles cf 3 3 2 1 .224 Torreyes ss 4 1 0 1 .271
Candelrio 3b 4 0 1 0 .266 Mendick lf 0 0 0 0 .200 Bregmn 3b 5 2 2 0 .286 Guerero dh 3 0 0 0 .333 1-Ross 0 0 0 0 .333 Velasqz p 1 0 0 0 .091
Detroit 24 35 .407 12 5-5 Cabrera dh 4 0 1 0 .197 Moncada 3b 3 0 0 0 .294 Alvarez lf 4 1 1 0 .294 Hernandz rf 4 1 1 1 .306 a-Hernandz 1 0 0 0 .265 b-Joyce 1 0 0 0 .109
Haase c 4 0 1 0 .265 Mercedes dh 3 0 0 0 .292 Straw cf 0 0 0 0 .242 Grichuk cf 3 0 1 1 .282 c-Stevensn 1 0 0 1 .233 Maton 2b 1 1 0 0 .252
Minnesota 24 35 .407 12 4-6 Mazara rf 4 0 0 0 .183 Grandal c 4 0 0 0 .153 Gurriel dh 3 1 3 1 .325 Panik 3b 4 0 1 0 .265 Harrison 2b 1 0 1 0 .265 Totals 35 12 9 11
Goodrum ss 3 0 0 0 .212 Eaton rf 3 1 1 0 .197 Tucker rf 5 0 2 2 .258 Gurriel Jr. lf 2 0 0 1 .259 Totals 36 6 10 5
East W L Pct. GB L10 W.Castro 2b 3 0 0 0 .228 Vaughn 1b 4 1 1 1 .228 McCck cf/lf 4 1 1 1 .200 Tellez 1b 4 0 0 0 .207 Washington 001 203 000 — 6 10 1
Hill cf 2 0 0 0 .111 Engel cf 2 0 0 0 .000 Jones 1b 5 0 1 0 .176 Jansen c 1 0 1 0 .157 Philadelphia 000 723 00x —12 9 1
Tampa Bay 38 23 .623 — 7-3 Totals 32 0 5 0 Madrigal 2b 3 1 2 0 .306 Maldondo c 3 0 1 0 .163 McGuire c 2 0 0 0 .220 a-flied out for Suero in the 4th. b-struck out for Velasquez in the 4th. c-grounded out for
Totals 30 3 6 3 Totals 39 6 12 5 Totals 31 3 5 3 Espino in the 6th. d-singled for Coonrod in the 7th. e-struck out for McGowin in the 9th. 1-ran
Boston 36 23 .610 1 7-3 Detroit 000 000 000 —0 5 0 Houston 112 000 110 —6 12 0 for Voth in the 3rd.
Chicago 030 000 00x —3 6 1 Toronto 010 000 020 —3 5 1 Walks—Washington 3: Soto 1, Bell 1, Avila 1. Philadelphia 4: Realmuto 2, Miller 1, Bohm
Toronto 30 27 .526 6 6-4 1. Strikeouts—Washington 9: Turner 1, Soto 2, Bell 2, Schwarber 2, Zimmerman 1, Avila 1.
Walks—Detroit 1: Hill 1. Chicago 2: Moncada 1, Mercedes Walks—Houston 7: Correa 1, Alvarez 1, Gurriel 2, McCormick 1, Maldonado Philadelphia 9: Herrera 1, Realmuto 1, Harper 1, Hoskins 2, McCutchen 1, Bohm 1, Joyce 1,
New York 31 29 .517 61⁄2 2-8 1. Strikeouts—Detroit 14: Baddoo 1, Schoop 2, Candelario 2. Toronto 4: Guerrero Jr. 1, Grichuk 1, Gurriel Jr. 1, McGuire 1. Maton 1. E—Mercer (2), Realmuto (1). LOB—Washington 8, Philadelphia 4. 2B—Mercer
1, Cabrera 1, Haase 3, Mazara 3, Goodrum 1, W.Castro 2. Strikeouts—Houston 8: Altuve 2, Bregman 1, McCormick 2, Jones 3. Toronto (4), Robles 2 (9), McCutchen (7), Herrera (7). 3B—Soto (1). HR—Miller (6), off Espino;
Baltimore 21 38 .356 16 4-6 Chicago 2: Lamb 1, Moncada 1. E—Grandal (5). 9: Semien 1, Guerrero Jr. 2, Hernandez 2, Grichuk 2, Tellez 2. E—Tellez (2). Realmuto (5), off Rainey. RBIs—Soto 2 (25), Robles (6), Stevenson (10), Turner (29),
LOB—Houston 13, Toronto 7. 2B—Jones (1), Bregman 2 (12), Jansen (4), McCutchen (29), Miller 3 (18), Bohm (26), Torreyes (9), Herrera 2 (14), Realmuto 3 (23).
LOB—Detroit 6, Chicago 7. 2B—Schoop (7), Haase (3),
Panik (5). HR—Altuve (9), off Matz; McCormick (5), off Matz. RBIs—Altuve Runners left in scoring position—Washington 3 (Castro, Bell); Philadelphia 2
Sunday’s results Madrigal (9). 3B—Eaton (2). RBIs—Vaughn (13), Anderson (27), McCormick (19), Tucker 2 (37), Gurriel (41), Gurriel Jr. (20), Hernandez (Harper, Maton). RISP—Washington 4 for 11; Philadelphia 4 for 9. Runners moved
Seattle 9, at ANGELS 5 2 (22). SB—Hill (2), Engel (1). Runners left in scoring (31), Grichuk (43). SB—Gurriel (1). SF—Gurriel Jr. Runners left in scoring up—Stevenson, Torreyes. GIDP—Castro. DP—Philadelphia 1 (Miller, Torreyes, Hoskins).
position—Detroit 5 (Cabrera, W.Castro, Candelario, position—Houston 9 (Tucker, Correa, Jones 2, Alvarez, Bregman, Altuve); Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Baltimore 18, Cleveland 5 Kathy Willens Associated Press Voth............................2 0 0 0 0 2 24 2.73
Baddoo, Mazara); Chicago 3 (Lamb, Anderson). Toronto 3 (Guerrero Jr., Tellez, Panik). RISP—Houston 3 for 19; Toronto 1 for 7.
RISP—Detroit 0 for 9; Chicago 2 for 5. Runners moved Suero .........................1 0 0 0 0 0 14 2.60
Houston 6, at Toronto 3 Runners moved up—Maldonado, McCormick, Alvarez, Bichette.
Clay, H, 4 ....................1⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 8 5.19
up—Mazara, Madrigal.
at Chicago 3, Detroit 0 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA BUMMER OF 41 GIDP—McCormick. DP—Toronto 1 (Panik, Tellez).
Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Finnegan, L, 2-1, BS, 0-1 2 5 1 2 1
.................................1⁄3
29 4.12
Minnesota 2, at Kansas City 1 Urena, L, 2-5 ...............5 6 3 3 2 1 87 4.25 Garcia, W, 5-3..............6 3 1 1 2 8 79 2.75
Foley ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 18 0.00 Raley........................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 14 6.56 Espino ......................11⁄3 2 2 2 1 0 27 2.95
at Colorado 3, Oakland 1 Norris .........................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 5.57 Yankees’ Miguel Andujar Stanek........................2⁄3 2 2 2 1 0 21 3.86 Rainey ........................1 2 3 3 0 1 22 10.57
McGowin .....................2 2 0 0 0 5 30 2.35
Tampa Bay 7, at Texas 1 Garcia.........................1 0 0 0 0 0
Chicago IP H R ER BB SO
7 5.03
NP ERA
watches as fans go for Mar- Pressly, S, 9-10 ............1 0 0 0 1 0
Toronto IP H R ER BB SO
20 2.16
NP ERA Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Boston 6, at New York 5, 10 inn. Cease, W, 4-2 ..............7 5 0 0 1 10
Bummer, H, 7...............1 0 0 0 0 2
99 3.36
12 3.18
win Gonzalez’s home run. Matz, L, 6-3...............41⁄3 8 4 4 4 3 77 4.50 Velasquez ....................4 4 3 3 1 4
Bradley .......................1 0 0 0 2 0
80 4.33
20 4.82
Castro.......................12⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 29 1.50
Hendriks, S, 15-17........1 0 0 0 0 2 13 1.85 Mayza.........................1⁄3 2 1 0 0 0 8 6.48 Kintzler .......................2⁄3 4 3 3 0 0 22 8.50
HBP—Foley 2 (Eaton,Engel). Edwards Jr. ..................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 14 3.00 Coonrod, W, 1-2.........11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 22 3.38
U—Greg Gibson, Will Little, Rob Drake, Dan Merzel. Payamps ...................12⁄3 2 1 1 1 2 44 2.96 Sanchez....................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 22 0.00
T—2:36. Tickets sold—20,068 (40,615).
RED SOX 6 Chatwood....................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 5.23 Neris ..........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 17 1.90
Inherited runners-scored—Castro 1-0, Edwards Jr. 2-1, Chatwood 1-0. Inherited runners-scored—Finnegan 2-2, Espino 1-0, Coonrod 1-0.
TODAY’S GAMES YANKEES 5 HBP—Stanek (Semien). WP—Matz, Edwards Jr.. PB—McGuire (1). HBP—Velasquez 2 (Robles,Voth), Rainey (Maton). WP—Finnegan.
U—Brian O’Nora, Fieldin Cubreth, D.J. Reyburn, Ryan Blakney. T—4:26. Tickets
U—Chris Conroy, Lance Barksdale, Pat Hoberg, Ben May. T—3:32.
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Tickets sold—5,404 (21,050). sold—15,108 (42,792).
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
TWINS 2 Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run single in
the 10th in a wild finish in which Mar-
KC/Kowar (R) — — 6:30 p.m. ROYALS 1 win Gonzalez made a slick play for the
Angels/Bundy (R) 0-6 6.49 BSW BREWERS 2 RAYS 7
Minnesota first baseman Miguel Sano final out in Boston’s first three-game
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
sweep in the Bronx since June 2011. DIAMONDBACKS 0 RANGERS 1
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME swooped in to catch a popped-up bunt Boston AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg.
CHI/Alzolay (R) 4-4 3.62 7 p.m. to start a triple play, and he also hit an Santana dh 3 0 0 0 .125 LMu 2b/1b 5 0 0 0 .253
SD/Weathers (L) 2-2 2.06 ESPN a-Arroyo dh 1 1 1 0 .289 Judge dh 3 2 2 1 .295 Corbin Burnes struck out a career-high Taylor Walls had a tiebreaking, two-run
RBI double. Sano has been a part of Verdugo lf 5 1 1 1 .288 Torres ss 5 1 2 1 .272 13 in seven innings, and Milwaukee double in the eighth, among his three
INTERLEAGUE >>> the last four triple plays by the Twins. Bogaerts ss 3 0 2 3 .318 Urshela 3b 5 0 2 0 .269
Devers 3b 5 0 0 0 .275 Sanchez c 4 0 2 2 .210 won for the ninth time in 10 games to hits, and Tampa Bay won the series in
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Renfroe rf 2 1 1 0 .269 Gittens 1b 4 0 0 0 .000
MIA/López (R) 1-3 2.82 2 p.m. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Gonzalez 2b 4 1 1 2 .203 c-Odor 2b 1 1 0 0 .180 hand Arizona its team-record 17th its return to Globe Life Field, where it
BOS/Pivetta (R) 6-1 3.77 MLB
Polanco dh 5 0 2 0 .242 Merrifield 2b 4 1 2 0 .268 Hernandz cf 4 0 0 0 .224 Frazier rf 3 0 1 0 .185 consecutive road loss. lost the World Series.
Kirilloff rf 4 0 1 0 .238 Santana 1b 4 0 0 0 .244 Vazquez c 4 1 1 0 .251 Andujar lf 5 1 1 0 .235
Sano 1b 5 0 1 1 .161 Benintendi lf 4 0 1 1 .294 Dalbec 1b 3 1 0 0 .195 Gardner cf 1 0 0 0 .190 Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Texas AB R H BI Avg.
Larnach lf 3 0 1 1 .247 Perez dh-c 3 0 0 0 .275 Totals 34 6 7 6 b-Stanton 1 0 0 0 .252 Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg.
Rojas 2b/3b 4 0 0 0 .258 Urias 2b 4 0 2 0 .224 B.Lowe 2b 5 1 0 0 .192 Holt 3b 5 1 2 0 .244
Astdllo 3b 4 0 0 0 .255 Gutierrez 3b 4 0 1 0 .261 Wade cf 1 0 1 1 .270 Arozarena lf 5 1 1 0 .252 Kinr-Flfa ss 5 0 1 0 .284
Gordon 2b 4 0 2 0 .400 Olivares rf 3 0 0 0 .286 Totals 38 5 11 5 Marte cf/2b 4 0 2 0 .382 Adames ss 4 0 1 0 .269
C.Kelly c 4 0 1 0 .270 Yelich lf 3 0 0 0 .247 Wendle 3b 2 0 0 0 .283 N.Lowe 1b 4 0 1 0 .241
Jeffers c 4 0 0 0 .200 Dyson cf 3 0 1 0 .273 Boston 100 000 210 2 —6 7 1 b-Brseau 3b 1 2 0 0 .170 Gallo rf 1 0 0 0 .207
Garlick cf 3 1 1 0 .245 Gallagher c 2 0 1 0 .227 Walker 1b 4 0 1 0 .194 Garcia rf 4 0 0 0 .242
ODDS Simns ss 3 1 2 0 .259 a-Taylor 1 0 0 0 .253
New York 200 100 001 1 —5 11 0
a-doubled for Santana in the 8th. b-struck out for Gardner in the 8th. c-struck out
P.Smith rf/cf
D.Peralta lf
4
4
0
0
0
1
0
0
.288
.245
Bradley Jr. cf
Pina c
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
.154
.161
Meadows dh
Diaz 1b
5
4
1
1
2
1
2
3
.248
.253
Solak dh/2b
Calhoun lf
4
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
.237
.261
Totals 35 2 10 2 Barlow p 0 0 0 0 --- for Gittens in the 9th. Walls ss 5 0 3 2 .262 Culbersn 2b 3 0 1 0 .230
Lopez ss 3 0 0 0 .224 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0 .228 Taylor cf/rf 4 1 1 1 .218
Margot rf 4 0 1 0 .241 c-Garcia 1 0 0 0 .277
Major League Baseball Totals 31 1 6 1 Walks—Boston 4: Bogaerts 1, Renfroe 2, Dalbec 1. New York 7: LeMahieu 1, Vargas 3b 2 0 0 0 .250 Hiura 1b 4 0 1 0 .130
Mejia c 3 0 0 0 .253 J.Martin cf 4 0 2 0 .167
Judge 2, Sanchez 1, Frazier 1, Gardner 2. Strikeouts—Boston 6: Devers 2, Gonzalez b-Vogt 1 0 1 0 .195 Shaw 1b 0 0 0 0 .191
AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 001 010 000 —2 10 0 1, Hernandez 3. New York 11: LeMahieu 2, Urshela 2, Gittens 3, Odor 1, Frazier 1, C.Smith p 1 0 0 0 .000 Robertsn 3b 2 1 1 1 .146 Phillips cf 1 0 0 0 .223 Heim c 3 0 0 0 .167
Favorite Underdog Kansas City 000 100 000 —1 6 0 Andujar 1, Stanton 1. E—Gonzalez (6). LOB—Boston 5, New York 12. 2B—Arroyo a-Cabrera 1 0 0 0 .284 Burnes p 2 0 0 0 .188 a-Zunino 1 0 0 0 .197 Totals 32 1 8 0
(9), Renfroe (12), Sanchez (6), Torres (8). HR—Verdugo (8), off German; Gonzalez c-Reddick rf 1 0 0 0 .328 Totals 30 2 6 2 Kiermaier cf 1 1 1 0 .210
at ANGELS -135 Kansas City +110 a-struck out for Gallagher in the 8th. Totals 37 7 9 7
Walks—Minnesota 3: Kirilloff 1, Garlick 1, Simmons 1. Kansas City (2), off Luetge. RBIs—Verdugo (25), Gonzalez 2 (15), Bogaerts 3 (36), Sanchez 2 Totals 33 0 6 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE (15), Judge (32), Torres (23), Wade (2). SB—Torres (4). SF—Bogaerts. S—Arroyo. Tampa Bay 000 000 034 —7 9 0
1: Perez 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 10: Polanco 1, Kirilloff 1, Sano 3, Arizona 000 000 000 —0 6 0
Favorite Underdog Larnach 2, Astudillo 1, Gordon 1, Jeffers 1. Kansas City 11: Merrifield Runners left in scoring position—Boston 2 (Devers, Vazquez); New York 6 Milwaukee 000 011 00x —2 6 0 Texas 100 000 000 —1 8 2
at San Diego -122 Chicago +106 1, C.Santana 1, Benintendi 2, Perez 1, Gutierrez 1, Olivares 1, Dyson (Frazier, Gittens, Torres, Odor, LeMahieu). RISP—Boston 1 for 7; New York 3 for 12. a-pinch hit for Phillips in the 7th. b-walked for Wendle in the 8th. c-flied out for Culberson
Runners moved up—Verdugo, Hernandez, Andujar. GIDP—Torres, Andujar. a-flied out for C.Smith in the 6th. b-doubled for Vargas in in the 8th.
INTERLEAGUE 1, Gallagher 1, Taylor 1, Lopez 1. LOB—Minnesota 10, Kansas City 4. the 8th. c-grounded out for Clarke in the 8th. Walks—Tampa Bay 5: Wendle 1, Brosseau 1, Diaz 1, Mejia 1, Phillips 1. Texas 6: N.Lowe
2B—Sano (4), Merrifield (14). 3B—Merrifield (1). RBIs—Sano (28), DP—Boston 3 (Bogaerts, Gonzalez, Dalbec; Devers, Gonzalez, Dalbec; Gonzalez,
Favorite Underdog Dalbec). Walks— Milwaukee 3: Yelich 1, Robertson 1, Burnes 1. 1, Gallo 3, Calhoun 2. Strikeouts—Tampa Bay 10: B.Lowe 2, Arozarena 2, Wendle 1,
Larnach (8), Benintendi (29). SB—Gordon (3). Runners left in Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Strikeouts—Arizona 16: Rojas 4, Marte 1, C.Kelly 2, Walker 1, Meadows 1, Diaz 1, Margot 1, Mejia 1, Phillips 1. Texax0s 8: Kiner-Falefa 1, N.Lowe 2, Solak 1,
at Boston -164 Miami +138 scoring position—Minnesota 6 (Larnach, Astudillo, Polanco, Richards......................5 8 3 3 2 6 95 3.88 P.Smith 1, D.Peralta 1, Ahmed 3, Vargas 2, C.Smith 1. Culberson 1, J.Martin 1, Heim 2. E—Kiner-Falefa 2 (7). LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Texas 11.
Garlick, Sano); Kansas City 2 (Olivares, Gutierrez). RISP—Minnesota Hernandez ...................1 0 0 0 2 1 20 3.00 Milwaukee 11: Urias 1, Adames 2, Yelich 1, Garcia 1, Taylor 1, 2B—Walls 2 (4), Holt (5). HR—Diaz (1), off B.Martin. RBIs—Diaz 3 (21), Walls 2 (4),
2 for 11; Kansas City 1 for 7. Runners moved up—Kirilloff. Ottavino ......................1 0 0 0 1 0 15 2.66 Hiura 3, Robertson 1, Burnes 1. LOB—Arizona 6, Milwaukee 8. Meadows 2 (48). SB—Brosseau (1). S—Heim. Runners left in scoring
GIDP—Jeffers. DP—Kansas City 1 (Merrifield, Lopez, C.Santana). Taylor, H, 6...................1 1 0 0 0 2 19 4.34 2B—Vogt (5), Urias (9), Hiura (5). HR—Robertson (2), off position—Tampa Bay 4 (Phillips, Zunino, Mejia); Texas 5 (Solak, Holt, Kiner-Falefa, Garcia,
NOTES TP—Minnesota 1 (Sano, Simmons, Gordon, Sano). Barnes, W, 2-1 .............1 1 1 1 2 2 23 2.73 C.Smith; Taylor (6), off R.Smith. RBIs—Robertson (2), Taylor N.Lowe). RISP—Tampa Bay 2 for 9; Texas 1 for 11. Runners moved up—N.Lowe,
Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Valdez, S, 1-1...............1 1 1 0 0 0 13 3.98 Holt. LI DP—Gallo. GIDP—Walls, N.Lowe. DP—Tampa Bay 2 (B.Lowe, Walls, Diaz;
Ober ...........................4 5 1 1 0 4 51 4.63 (15). Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 3 (P.Smith,
New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA B.Lowe, Diaz, B.Lowe); Texas 1 (Kiner-Falefa, N.Lowe).
Marte, D.Peralta); Milwaukee 5 (Taylor, Yelich, Burnes).
Longoria out at Farrell, W, 1-0 ..............1 0 0 0 0 2
Alcala .........................1 0 0 0 0 1
Duffey.........................1 1 0 0 0 2
Robles ........................1 1 0 0 0 2
13 0.90
10 3.63
14 4.03
15 3.04
German ....................52⁄3 3 1 1 2 3
Luetge, BS, 0-1 ..........11⁄3 1 2 2 1 2
Peralta ........................1 1 1 1 0 0
Chapman ....................1 1 0 0 0 1
84 3.12
26 3.03
9 4.22
12 0.39
RISP—Arizona 0 for 5; Milwaukee 0 for 5. Runners moved
up—P.Smith, Garcia.
Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO
Wacha ......................22⁄3 2 1 1 2 1
Sherriff .....................11⁄3 3 0 0 1 2
Kittredge .....................2 0 0 0 1 1
NP ERA
42 4.54
25 3.38
33 1.29

least six weeks Rogers, S,....................1 0 0 0 1 1 13 2.59 C.Smith, L, 2-2.............5 3 1 1 2 8 84 3.14 Springs .......................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 10 3.00
Cessa, L, 1-1 ...............1 1 2 1 1 0 20 3.09 R.Smith.......................1 2 1 1 1 0 15 5.44
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Inherited runners-scored—Luetge 1-0. IBB—off Barnes (Sanchez). Feyereisen, W, 2-0 ......11⁄3 0 0 0 2 2 27 1.08
Singer, L, 3-5, .....5 .....2⁄3 8 2 2 3 7 106 4.88 Clarke .........................1 1 0 0 0 2 12 3.90 Fairbanks ....................1 2 0 0 0 2 19 1.29
HBP—Valdez (Frazier). WP—Luetge. Crichton ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 5.09
Zimmer ...................1/3 0 0 0 0 0 5 2.11 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
U—Gabe Morales, Ryan Additon, Bill Miller, Brian Knight. T—3:49. Tickets Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Dunning ......................5 3 0 0 2 6 80 4.26
Brentz .........................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 1.95
Staumont ...................1 1 0 0 0 1 12 2.66 sold—19,103 (47,309). Burnes, W, 3-4 .............7 4 0 0 0 13 106 1.97 Hearn, H, 1..................2 1 0 0 1 1 36 4.25
Williams, H, 9 ..............1 1 0 0 0 2 16 4.03
The San Francisco Giants Barlow ........................1 1 0 0 0 1 16 1.80
Boxberger, S, 2-2 ..........1 1 0 0 0 1 13 3.04
King, L, 5-4, H, 3 .........1⁄3 1 3 2 1 0 20 2.40
U—Jeff Nelson, . Ryan Wills, Manny Gonzalez, Mike Estabrook. Sborz, BS, 1-2 .............2⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 24 4.12
placed Evan Longoria on the 10- T—3:45. Tickets sold—14, 046 (37,903). IBB—off R.Smith (Robertson). HBP—C.Smith (Pina). B.Martin ......................1 3 4 0 0 1 22 1.71
day injured list with a left shoulder REDS 8 U—Dan Bellino, Edwin Moscoso, Joe West, Bruce Inherited runners-scored—Feyereisen 1-0, Sborz 3-3.
Dreckman. T—3:04. Tickets sold—20,117 (41,900). U—Tim Timmons, Lance Barrett, Alfonso Marquez, Roberto Ortiz. T—3:45. Tickets
sprain before Sunday’s series fina- CARDINALS 7 sold—26,442 (40,300).
le against the Chicago Cubs. CUBS 4
He’s expected to miss at least Jesse Winker hit a tiebreaking homer
six weeks. GIANTS 3 off Alex Reyes in the ninth inning for
METS 6 ROCKIES 3
Longoria, who was hitting .280
with nine home runs and 30 RBIs, Patrick Wisdom hit a pair of homers his second three-homer game this year PADRES 2 ATHLETICS 1
was injured late in Saturday’s win, and drove in three runs, and Chicago and Cincinnati completed its first four-
game sweep of St. Louis in 21 years. Marcus Stroman struck out seven and German Marquez struck out six in six
colliding with shortstop Brandon avoided a four-game sweep. He has
won his second straight start after four innings and a beleaguered bullpen led
Crawford in the ninth inning as seven home runs in 13 games. Kyle Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg.
India 2b 4 2 1 0 .261 Edman 2b 5 1 1 1 .272 consecutive losses and doubled in a by Daniel Bard held on to help Col-
both players tried to field a ground Hendricks won his fifth straight start. Winker lf 4 3 3 6 .350 Carlson cf 4 0 1 0 .277 run, and New York split the four-game orado avoid a three-game sweep.
ball. Castellns rf 5 0 0 0 .359 Gldscht 1b 5 0 3 0 .250
Crawford was fine afterward
Chicago
Rizzo 1b
AB R H BI Avg. San Fran. AB R H BI Avg.
5 0 1 0 .255 Wade Jr. 1b 3 1 1 1 .270
Stphnsn 1b 3 1 1 0 .262 Arenado 3b 4 1 4 2 .287 series. San Diego has lost six of eight. James Kaprielian took his first loss.
Naquin cf 1 0 1 0 .257 O’Neill lf 5 1 1 2 .278
Bryant lf 4 0 1 0 .309 Posey c 4 1 3 1 .333 a-Akya cf 4 1 2 0 .205 Sosa ss 4 1 0 0 .259
though he was not in Sunday’s Happ cf 2 1 1 0 .190 Dickerson lf 4 0 1 0 .227 Suarez 3b 4 0 1 2 .162 J.Rondon rf 4 1 2 0 .222
New York AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg.
Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg.
McKinney rf 5 1 2 1 .242 Pham lf 3 0 1 1 .223
starting lineup. Baez ss 4 0 0 0 .240 Flores 3b 4 0 0 0 .240 Barnhart c 3 1 0 0 .266 Knizner c 4 1 1 0 .211 Lindor ss 4 0 0 0 .218 Profar cf 4 0 0 0 .228 Canha cf 4 0 0 0 .259 Tapia lf 4 0 1 1 .280
Alcantara ss 0 0 0 0 .429 Duggar cf 2 0 1 0 .309 Frmn ss/1b 4 0 1 0 .214 Gant p 1 0 0 0 .000 Kemp 2b 3 1 1 0 .287 Daza cf 3 0 1 0 .331
Infielder Thairo Estrada was Heyward rf 4 0 0 0 .172 b-Slater cf 1 0 1 0 .223 Miley p 1 0 0 0 .125 b-Thomas 1 0 0 0 .100
Alonso 1b 3 1 1 1 .248 Cronwrth 2b 4 0 1 0 .276
Olson 1b 4 0 1 0 .278 Blackmon rf 4 1 1 0 .268
Wisdom 3b 4 2 2 3 .412 Solano 2b 4 0 1 1 .270 Do.Smith lf 3 1 1 1 .260 Tatis Jr. ss 3 1 0 0 .292
recalled from triple-A Sacramento Sogard 2b 4 0 1 0 .245 Tauchman rf 4 0 0 0 .184
c-Payton 1 0 0 0 .150 d-Carpenter 1 1 1 2 .161 McCann c 4 1 1 2 .228 Hosmer 1b 4 0 1 1 .273 Murphy c 4 0 1 1 .222 McMahn 2b 4 1 2 0 .257
e-Heinemn 1 0 0 0 .100 f-Nogowski 1 0 0 0 .063 Drury 3b 4 0 1 0 .219 Myers rf 3 0 0 0 .250 Pinder lf 4 0 0 0 .222 Fuentes 3b 3 0 2 0 .259
to take Longoria’s place on the ros- Higgins c 4 0 0 0 .050 Dubon ss 4 1 1 0 .234 Farmer ss 0 0 0 0 .205 Totals 39 7 14 7 Williams cf 4 0 1 0 .200 Kim 3b 3 0 1 0 .203 Brown rf 4 0 1 0 .195 Cron 1b 4 0 0 0 .261
Hendricks p 3 1 1 0 .053 Cueto p 2 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 8 10 8 Chapman 3b 4 0 1 0 .205 Rodgers ss 2 0 1 1 .256
ter. c-Contreras 1 0 1 0 .250 a-Estrada 1 0 0 0 .000 Peraza 2b 4 2 2 0 .231 b-Marcano 1 1 1 0 .182
Andrus ss 4 0 2 0 .214 Nunez c 2 1 1 1 .168
Totals 35 4 8 3 Vosler rf 1 0 0 0 .179 Cincinnati 232 000 001 —8 10 1 Stroman p 2 0 1 1 .091 Rivas c 4 0 1 0 .235
a-Blnknhrn 0 0 0 0 .167 Paddack p 2 0 0 0 .000 Kaprielian p 1 0 0 0 .000 Marquez p 2 0 0 0 .143
St. Louis 000 007 000 —7 14 0
Etc. Totals 34 3 9 3
a-singled for Naquin in the 3rd. b-struck out for Miller in the 5th. c-flied out for Miley in the Totals 33 6 10 6 Mateo 3b 2 0 0 0 .211 b-Moreland
1-Bolt
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
.246
.000
a-Adams 1 0 0 0 .172
Hampson cf 1 0 0 0 .244
Chicago 010 210 000 —4 8 0 6th. d-doubled for A.Rondon in the 6th. e-struck out for Hendrix in the 8th. f-struck out for Totals 33 2 6 2
Houston Astros utility man San Francisco 210 000 000 —3 9 1 Gallegos in the 8th. c-Lowrie 1 0 0 0 .250 Totals 30 3 9 3
New York 001 101 120 —6 10 2 Totals 34 1 8 1
Aledmys Diaz fractured his left a-grounded out for Leone in the 7th. b-singled for Duggar in the 8th. Walks—Cincinnati 4: Winker 1, Stephenson 2, Barnhart 1. St. Louis 4: Carlson 1, San Diego 000 001 001 —2 6 0
c-singled for Chafin in the 9th. Arenado 1, Sosa 1, J.Rondon 1. Strikeouts—Cincinnati 8: India 1, Castellanos 2, Akiyama Oakland 000 001 000 —1 8 0
hand when hit by a fastball on Sat- Walks—Chicago 2: Happ 2. San Francisco 3: Wade Jr. 2, Duggar 1. 1, Barnhart 2, Freeman 1, Heineman 1. St. Louis 12: Edman 2, Carlson 2, Goldschmidt 1, Sosa a-walked for Castro in the 9th. b-singled for Adams in the 9th. Colorado 001 100 01x —3 9 1
2, J.Rondon 1, Knizner 1, Gant 1, Thomas 1, Nogowski 1. E—Freeman (1). LOB—Cincinnati 6, Walks—New York 2: Do.Smith 1, Blankenhorn 1. San Diego 5: Pham 2,
urday and will be sidelined for six Strikeouts—Chicago 8: Bryant 2, Heyward 1, Wisdom 2, Higgins 2,
Hendricks 1. San Francisco 7: Wade Jr. 2, Dickerson 1, Solano 1, Tauchman St. Louis 9. 2B—Naquin (9), Suarez (7), Carlson (10), Carpenter (5), Arenado (19). Profar 1, Tatis Jr. 1, Myers 1. Strikeouts—New York 9: McKinney 1, Lindor 1,
a-grounded out for Marquez in the 6th. b-singled for Romo in the 7th.
c-struck out for Petit in the 9th. 1-ran for Moreland in the 7th.
to eight weeks. The team’s plan is 1, Dubon 1, Vosler 1. E—Posey (2). LOB—Chicago 6, San Francisco 7. HR—Winker 2 (16), off Gant; Winker (17), off Reyes; O’Neill (13), off Feliz. RBIs—Winker 6 Do.Smith 2, McCann 2, Drury 1, Peraza 1, Stroman 1. San Diego 9: Profar 1, Walks—Oakland 1: Kemp 1. Colorado 3: Daza 1, Fuentes 1, Nunez 1.
(37), Suarez 2 (30), O’Neill 2 (29), Carpenter 2 (13), Edman (18), Arenado 2 (40). Tatis Jr. 1, Myers 2, Kim 1, Rivas 1, Paddack 2, Mateo 1. E—Stroman (1), Alonso
to activate outfielder Michael 2B—Happ (5), Hendricks (1), Dubon (6), Posey (6), Duggar (6). Strikeouts—Oakland 11: Canha 2, Kemp 2, Murphy 1, Pinder 1, Chapman 2,
HR—Wisdom 2 (7), off Cueto; Wade Jr. (3), off Hendricks. RBIs—Wisdom SB—Edman (12). S—Miley. Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 2 (5). LOB—New York 4, San Diego 9. 2B—Peraza (4), Stroman (2), Pham (3).
(Miley, Stephenson); St. Louis 6 (O’Neill, Knizner, Goldschmidt, J.Rondon). Andrus 1, Kaprielian 1, Lowrie 1. Colorado 8: Tapia 1, Blackmon 2, McMahon 2,
Brantley (hamstring) for Tues- 3 (10), Wade Jr. (5), Solano (12), Posey (22). Runners left in scoring RISP—Cincinnati 2 for 7; St. Louis 4 for 13. Runners moved up—Castellanos, Sosa. HR—Do.Smith (4), off Paddack; McCann (6), off Stammen. RBIs—McKinney Cron 2, Hampson 1. E—McMahon (4). LOB—Oakland 8, Colorado 9.
position—Chicago 3 (Baez, Wisdom); San Francisco 3 (Tauchman 2, (6), Do.Smith (20), Alonso (25), Stroman (1), McCann 2 (21), Hosmer (31),
day’s game at Boston. Houston Flores). RISP—Chicago 2 for 7; San Francisco 3 for 10. Runners moved
LI DP—Goldschmidt. DP—Cincinnati 1 (Antone, Stephenson, Antone); St. Louis 1 (Arenado,
Pham (18). SB—Pham 2 (8), McKinney (1). CS—Do.Smith (1). S—Stroman.
2B—Kemp (6), Murphy (13), Andrus (9), Nunez (6). RBIs—Murphy (31), Tapia
Knizner, Edman). (31), Rodgers (8), Nunez (20). SB—Andrus (4). SF—Rodgers, Nunez.
played a man short on Sunday. ... up—Heyward, Cueto, Solano, Dickerson. GIDP—Rizzo, Solano. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Runners left in scoring position—New York 1 (McKinney); San Diego 5 S—Kaprielian. Runners left in scoring position—Oakland 7 (Murphy,
DP—Chicago 1 (Sogard, Rizzo); San Francisco 1 (Solano, Dubon, Wade Miley ..........................5 4 0 0 2 8 92 2.96 (Tatis Jr., Cronenworth 2, Profar, Myers). RISP—New York 2 for 4; San Diego 1
Baltimore placed left-hander John Jr.). Feliz ...........................0 4 5 5 1 0 21 16.20 for 10. Runners moved up—Lindor, Hosmer. GIDP—Williams, Peraza,
Kemp 2, Brown 2, Canha, Lowrie); Colorado 4 (Marquez, Adams, Hampson).
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L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
As the whirled turns, Bauer labors Larson,
His fastballs lose spin
in first start since rules
enforced on pitchers
using ‘sticky’ materials
to doctor baseballs.
By Jorge Castillo
ATLANTA — Trevor
Bauer was on the mound for
the first six innings of the
Dodgers’ 4-2 loss to the At-
lanta Braves at Truist Park
on Sunday, but the ace that
the Dodgers made one of the
highest-paid pitchers in Ma-
jor League Baseball was
missing.
This version of Trevor
Bauer wasn’t the version
that won the 2020 National
League Cy Young Award. It
wasn’t the version the
Braves encountered in
Game 1 of the wild-card se-
ries last September. That
one was dominant, striking
out 12 without a walk over
seven scoreless innings for
the Cincinnati Reds.
This version of Trevor
Bauer labored. This one
gave up six hits, walked four
— setting a season high for
baserunners allowed — and
yielded three runs. He threw
100 pitches, 38 fastballs.
Those fastballs averaged a
spin rate of 223 revolutions
per minute (rpm) lower than
his league-leading average
entering the day. The Braves
(28-29) sat on the pitch and
had success, cracking their
first three hits off it.
Coincidentally, it was
Bauer’s first start since
MLB informed team owners
Bauer’s spin doctoring is not the cure
[Hernández, from D1]
“Hot, humid day in At-
lanta,” Bauer said sarcasti-
cally.
To his everlasting credit,
Bauer didn’t deny having
previously used foreign
substances to improve his
grip on baseballs, coming as
close to admitting he did
without actually saying it.
“I just want to compete
on a fair playing field,” he
said.
Bauer’s refreshing can-
dor doesn’t change the
Dodgers’ predicament,
however. An aversion to risk
has characterized Andrew
Friedman’s seven seasons
as the team’s president of
baseball operations, but the
Dodgers made a sizable and
potentially costly wager by
signing Bauer.
They gambled Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred
wouldn’t remove his head
from the sand.
The Dodgers now have
$102 million tied up in a
pitcher who went into his Cy
Young Award season last
year with a career earned-
run average of 4.04.
Asked whether he could
be the caliber of pitcher the
Dodgers paid for if the
league takes substantive
measures to discourage the
use of foreign substances,
Bauer replied, “Go look at
the 2018 numbers and tell
me what you think.”
He spent that season
with the Cleveland Indians
and was 12-6 with a 2.21
earned-run average. He did
that with a four-seam fast-
ball that averaged 2,322
Angels’ bats go cold as late rally falls short
SEATTLE 9
ANGELS 5
By John Scheibe
The Angels went into
Sunday’s game against the
Seattle Mariners with a
modest two-game winning
streak and a chance to win
their ninth game in 13 tries,
but after scoring 12 runs Sat-
urday night, they could
manage just two through
eight innings and eventually
lost 9-5 at Angel Stadium.
On a near-perfect 72-de-
gree, sun-splashed day, the
Mariners opened the game
with a run in the first inning
on a walk, a wild pitch, an in-
field single and a sharply hit
sacrifice fly by Kyle Seager
that scored J.P. Crawford. It
took 26 pitches from Angels
starter Patrick Sandoval to
retire the side, but he did
strike out two of his career-
high 10.
The Angels responded
immediately when Justin
Upton hit his third career
leadoff home run and 13th
DODGERS STARTER Trevor Bauer walked four and allowed a season-high 10
baserunners in a 4-2 loss to Atlanta, which got its first three hits off his fastball.
of its plan to begin enforcing
the rules against pitchers
using illegal substances to
doctor baseballs for in-
creased spin rates. After the
game, Bauer did not deny
the two developments are
linked.
“I don’t know,” Bauer
said. “Hot, humid day in At-
lanta. I just want to compete
on a fair playing field. I’ll say
it again. That’s been the
whole point this entire time.
Let everyone compete on a
fair playing field. So if you’re
going to enforce it then en-
force it. And if you’re not
revolutions per minute,
according to Baseball Sa-
vant.
Bauer’s average spin rate
for the pitch jumped to 2,779
rpm last year and was at
2,835 through his first 12
starts this year. Against the
Braves on Sunday, Bauer’s
first start since the league
informed owners of its plans
to police the problem, the
figure dropped to 2,612 rpm.
The Dodgers have im-
proved their spin rates from
last year by 7.04%, more
than any other team, ac-
cording to a report by
Sports Illustrated, which
called them “Spin City.”
A crackdown on foreign
substances could severely
affect their chances of re-
peating as World Series
champions, especially con-
sidering how reliant they are
on pitching.
Manager Dave Roberts
said he hasn’t held any
clubhouse meetings on the
subject, even though a
suspension to an offending
pitcher could affect the
entire team. Nor is Roberts
interesting in finding out
which pitchers were using
what substances.
“I’m not as curious as
you are,” Roberts said.
But in the eighth inning
of a close game, wouldn’t he
want to know if a certain
reliever might have, say, a
300-rpm drop?
“I still think that he’s
going to get guys out and
execute pitches,” Roberts
said.
Roberts shared a con-
cern about the midseason
THE MARINERS’ Jack Mayfield scores on a field-
er’s choice, beating the throw to catcher Kurt Suzuki.
homer of the season, a line
drive into the Angels bullpen
off Seattle starter Logan
Gilbert. It was Upton’s fifth
home run in his last six
games in Anaheim.
The Mariners took a 3-1
lead in the third on four hits
that included Donavon Wal-
ton’s second home run of the
season and a double by
Crawford that skipped off
then stop sweeping it under
the rug, which is what
they’ve done for four years
now.
“So, I’d just like to see ev-
eryone be able to compete
on a fair playing field so we
can see who the best players
are and who the best team is,
according to the given rules
and the given enforcement
of the rules.”
Bauer wouldn’t say
whether he was checked for
foreign substances more
than usual Sunday. He said
MLB hasn’t been clear with
its plans to police pitchers
shift in MLB policy, making
the case a pitcher who
pitched under one set of
conditions might be more
susceptible to injury pitch-
ing under another. While he
approved of Major League
Baseball’s efforts to clean
up the game, he also said he
didn’t view the use of sticky
materials as cheating.
“I think that cheating is
more when rules are im-
posed, are in place, and you
break them,” he said. “But I
think we’re getting to that
point.”
Is it too much to ask of
players to follow rules for
which there are no penal-
ties?
“It’s not just baseball, it’s
sports and it’s life in general,
if there’s not rules, distinct
rules and consequences,
people push limits,” Rob-
erts said. “That’s just the
way the world works.”
Bauer, who was once a
loud critic of the use of
foreign substances, made a
similar point. He said of the
commissioner’s office, “If
they’re serious about actu-
ally doing something, about
the rule that’s on the books,
then that’s all I’ve wanted
for four years.
“So, we’ll see what they
do. Unfortunately, in MLB, a
lot of times, nothing gets
done until their hands gets
forced and it becomes a
public issue.”
He’s right.
Tuesday will mark the
release of “Cheated,” a book
by longtime New York-
based baseball reporter
Andy Martino that chroni-
Alex Gallardo Associated Press
the top of the glove of right
fielder Taylor Ward.
Gilbert’s day ended after
five innings when he was re-
placed by reliever J.T. Char-
gois. Gilbert, a lanky right-
hander, held the Angels to
one run and two hits, walked
four and struck out seven to
record his first win of the
season against two losses.
An inning later, San-
Brynn Anderson Associated Press
and criticized the league for
not being proactive on the
matter sooner.
“We’ve heard a whole
bunch of stuff and it always
changes day to day,” Bauer
said. “No one knows what
the rules are right now, ap-
parently, including MLB
and the commissioner, so
it’d be nice as players to
know what rules we’re com-
peting by and what rules are
going to be enforced be-
cause, as everyone knows, a
rule that’s written down that
is never enforced is not a
rule.
cles the Houston Astros’
sign-stealing scandal. The
similarities between that
controversy and this one are
striking, Martino describing
how Manfred’s efforts to
incrementally legislate the
issue allowed the practice of
the game’s dark arts to
escalate into a technolog-
ically enhanced arms race.
(Full disclosure: Martino is
a friend and I wrote a blurb
for the book jacket.)
The commissioner only
seems interested in the
integrity of the game as it
relates to revenues. Until
the bottom line is affected
and he takes decisive action,
however, players are in a
no-man’s land of sorts. If
they don’t cheat, they risk
losing their jobs. If they
cheat, they are in danger of
being punished when the
rules are enforced.
Manfred’s missteps don’t
excuse the Dodgers for the
oversized bet they placed on
Bauer. As Bauer implied in
the wake of his loss to the
Braves, his previous state-
ments and pitch-tracking
data made it clear what he
was doing.
“If you want to do re-
search and make your own
decision, go for it,” he said.
Somehow, the suspected
cheater is the only person
here who doesn’t come
across as negligent or de-
void of character. This
points to a greater problem,
about the people who run
the game, the culture they
are creating and how the
sport’s next scandal could
be around the corner.
doval’s outing was over. He
gave up three runs, five hits
and one walk.
“I felt good,” Sandoval
said. “Most of my stuff was
working for the majority of
the game.”
Said Angels manager Joe
Maddon: “They have a lot of
left-handed hitters and their
team has a tendency to
strike out. His fastball com-
mand and changeup was
good.”
With two out in the sev-
enth, though, Angels reliever
Alex Claudio gave up back-
to-back doubles to Walton
and Crawford that made the
score 4-1. He was replaced by
Mike Mayers, who struck
out outfielder Mitch
Haniger.
The Angels Rally Monkey
got the crowd of 12,833 bois-
terous in the eighth inning
and the fans got louder when
Anthony Rendon singled off
reliever Rafael Montero.
That was followed by Jared
Walsh’s double to right that
scored Rendon to make it
4-2. After Walsh had taken
third on an infield out, Mon-
S M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
“So it’d be nice just to
have some clarity on what
the rules of the game are
that we’re playing under so
it’s changed about four
times in the past week or so.”
Bauer left Sunday’s game
with the Dodgers (34-25)
trailing 3-1. Albert Pujols
drove in the Dodgers’ first
run in the fourth inning with
a two-out bloop single to
right field that traveled 68.4
mph off his bat. He then
clubbed a solo home run to
lead off the ninth inning. It
was his ninth homer of the
season, fourth as a Dodger
and 671st as a major leaguer.
With it, he passed Barry
Bonds for third place on the
all-time total bases list.
But the Dodgers failed to
score with runners in scor-
ing position in the sixth and
seventh innings. They’ve
scored seven runs in 22 in-
nings since their eight-run
fifth inning in Friday’s series
opener. They dropped the
series and have lost six of
nine games. They’ll lose
more than expected for the
rest of the season if Bauer
isn’t a top-tier starter.
High spin rates have been
treasured across the majors
in recent years. Front offices
seek pitchers with elite spin
rates and compensate ac-
cordingly. Fastballs with
higher spin rates create a ris-
ing effect and cross the plate
inches higher than a fastball
at the same velocity with a
lower spin rate.
Bauer was the first major
leaguer to publicly challenge
MLB to enforce the rules
against pitchers using sticky
substances. He began his
crusade in 2018 on Twitter.
He implied that the Houston
Astros cheated to increase
spin rates and the only way
he knew to drastically in-
crease his fastball’s spin rate
was with pine tar.
He didn’t stop there. In
an essay on the Players’
Tribune in 2020, he wrote
that, after eight years of try-
ing to improve his fastball’s
spin rate, he concluded it
could only happen by using
foreign substances. On
HBO’s “Real Sports,” he es-
timated that 70% of major
league pitchers use illegal
substances. He said he
didn’t use illegal sticky stuff
because he has “morals.”
The data suggests that
changed in September 2019.
His fastball’s average spin
rate dramatically increased
that month and rose again in
2020 to 2,779 rpm, per Base-
ball Savant. He finished with
a 1.73 ERA in the regular sea-
son for the Reds before shut-
ting down the Braves in the
postseason.
Bauer converted the per-
formance into a three-year,
$102-million contract — with
opt-outs after the first and
second seasons — with the
Dodgers in February. His
fastball’s spin rate reached
new heights over his first 12
starts, averaging of 2,835
rpm, per Baseball Savant.
That changed Sunday. His
four-seam fastball’s spin
rate maxed out at 2,762 rpm,
not even reaching his previ-
ous average.
After the game, Dodgers
manager Dave Roberts said
he isn’t worried about
Bauer’s performance should
MLB start cracking down on
sticky stuff. Bauer referred
to the 2018 season, when he
posted a 2.21 ERA in 28
games for Cleveland, as evi-
dence that he can remain
elite if policing begins. He
wasn’t Sunday.
tero walked Ward.
But pinch-hitter Kean
Wong, batting for catcher
Kurt Suzuki, grounded to
second for the third out.
Hunter Strickland
yielded a single by Mariners
pinch-hitter Jake Fraley
then walked Trammel to
open the ninth. He was re-
placed by Steve Cishek, The
next batter, Jack Mayfield,
bunted safely to load the
bases. Cishek walked Wal-
ton to force in the Mariners’
fifth run, and then gave up
another run on Crawford’s
sacrifice fly to center.
The Mariners added
three runs on two infield
ground balls and a bases-
loaded walk for a 9-2 lead.
The Angels offense
perked up in their last at-
bat. Fletcher singled and
Upton followed with a dou-
ble, scoring Fletcher. Shohei
Ohtani walked and Rendon
doubled to left. Ohtani
scored on an infield out but
the Angels’ rally stalled.
They left nine runners on
base and were 0 for 8 with
runners in scoring position.
D5
MOTORS
Hendrick
stay hot
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Kyle Larson first visited
Sonoma Raceway as a kid
dressed in Jeff Gordon gear.
Now he’s a Cup winner at
what is considered the Elk
Grove racer’s home track,
but his victory lane celebra-
tion Sunday was a disaster.
Larson tried to recreate
an old photo of him spitting
wine into the air following a
lower-level win, but it was far
windier Sunday and when
he sprayed a mouthful from
the oversized chalice, the
red wine splashed all over
the new track president.
“I blew it,” Larson said.
It was the only thing Lar-
son did wrong all day.
Larson beat teammate
Chase Elliott in overtime to
win his second straight race,
third of the season, and help
Hendrick Motorsports con-
tinue its dominant month.
Hendrick drivers have
won four straight races and
the Hendrick group is on
such a roll that maybe only
two-time defending winner
Martin Truex Jr. was consid-
ered a real threat to stop the
streak as NASCAR returned
to California for the first
time since 2019 because of
the pandemic.
But reigning Cup cham-
pion Elliott was the favorite,
the king of the road with six
wins on road courses includ-
ing one over Larson two
weeks ago in Texas. But this
one wasn’t close as Elliott re-
mained winless at Sonoma
in five starts.
Larson, who had led just
11 laps in six previous races
at Sonoma, won all three
stages and led a race-high 58
of the 92 laps. The eighth
caution sent the race to
overtime for a two-race
sprint shootout, but he eas-
ily cleared Elliott on the re-
start and pulled away to tie
Truex with a Cup-high three
wins each this season.
Hendrick’s four drivers
have combined for seven
wins this season and Alex
Bowman at ninth Sunday
gave them three in the top 10.
Sonoma had roughly
15,000 fans — the first time in
714 days they were permitted
there. It was likely the last
race with limited spectators
as nearly all the upcoming
venues announced plans to
open all seats for sale.
Wild finish in
Formula One
Max Verstappen was
cruising to a second con-
secutive win until a tire fail-
ure turned the Azerbaijan
Grand Prix into a two-lap
shootout, a shocking win for
teammate Sergio Perez and
one of the more memorable
races in recent memory.
The finish might be an
unintentional preview of
changes Formula One plans
to experiment with this sea-
son to add excitement.
It began when champi-
onship leader Verstappen
crashed out of the lead with
four laps left. F1 threw a red
flag, let teams change tires
during a lengthy delay, then
unconventionally restarted.
Seven-time champion
Lewis Hamilton tried to pass
Perez for the win but acci-
dentally flicked a switch that
“basically switches the
brakes off and I just went
straight” through turn one
and off course, he said. Ver-
stappen and Hamilton both
finished outside the top 10,
the first time since 2016 that
the top two in the standings
failed to score a point.
RE S U LT S
NASCAR CUP
TOYOTA/SAVE MART 350
At Sonoma Raceway; Sonoma, Calif.
Lap length: 1.99 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (1) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 92 laps, 60 points. 2.
(2) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 92, 50. 3. (19) Martin Truex
Jr., Toyota, 92, 41. 4. (13) Joey Logano, Ford, 92, 42. 5.
(5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 92, 44. 6. (30) Kurt Busch,
Chevrolet, 92, 41. 7. (29) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 92,
30. 8. (4) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 92, 31. 9. (7) Alex
Bowman, Chevrolet, 92, 42. 10. (11) Ryan Blaney, Ford,
92, 27.
11. (18) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 92, 27. 12. (16) Daniel
Suarez, Chevrolet, 92, 25. 13. (6) Austin Dillon, Chevro-
let, 92, 29. 14. (15) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 92, 23. 15.
(9) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 92, 25. 16. (12) Chris
Buescher, Ford, 92, 21. 17. (25) Chase Briscoe, Ford,
92, 20. 18. (22) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 92, 19. 19.
(10) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 92, 22. 20. (23) Cole
Custer, Ford, 92, 17.
21. (27) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 92, 16. 22. (8) Kev-
in Harvick, Ford, 92, 15. 23. (17) Matt DiBenedetto,
Ford, 92, 16. 24. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 92, 14.
25. (32) James Davison, Chevrolet, 92, 12. 26. (35)
Scott Heckert, Ford, 92, 11. 27. (26) Aric Almirola, Ford,
92, 10. 28. (21) Michael McDowell, Ford, 92, 9. 29.
(36) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 92, 8. 30. (31) Ben Rhodes,
Chevrolet, 92, 0.
31. (28) Anthony Alfredo, Ford, 92, 6. 32. (34) Gar-
rett Smithley, Ford, 92, 0. 33. (24) Ryan Newman, Ford,
92, 4. 34. (37) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, accident, 84, 0.
35. (3) William Byron, Chevrolet, accident, 76, 7. 36.
(33) Quin Houff, Chevrolet, reargear, 69, 1. 37. (14)
Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, engine, 40, 1.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 73.113 mph. Time
of Race: 3 hours, 14 minutes, 42 seconds. Margin of
Victory: .614 seconds. Caution Flags: 8 for 18 laps.
Lead Changes: 13 among 7 drivers.
Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 664; 2. K.Larson, 617;
3. C.Elliott, 591; 4. W.Byron, 564; 5. J.Logano, 548; 6.
M.Truex, 527; 7. Ky.Busch, 520; 8. R.Blaney, 509; 9.
K.Harvick, 483; 10. B.Keselowski, 473; 11. A.Bowman,
447; 12. A.Dillon, 436; 13. T.Reddick, 398; 14.
C.Buescher, 391; 15. C.Bell, 364; 16. M.McDowell, 355.
D6 M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
Hawks jump to big lead and hold on
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Trae Young put an early
smackdown on Philadelphia
that had the Atlanta Hawks
in control of Game 1 and fin-
ished the win with a lob to
John Collins for a one-hand-
ed jam.
Collins punched the air in
celebration — and the
Hawks took a moment to ex-
hale after a hefty lead nearly
was squandered.
“Thank God we were up
20,” Hawks guard Kevin
Huerter said.
Young scored 25 of his 35
points in the first half as At-
lanta overcame Joel Embi-
id’s 39 points and a hostile
crowd and held on to beat
the Philadelphia 76ers 128-
124 on Sunday in their East-
ern Conference semifinal
opener.
“The confidence in all
these guys is high,” Young
said. “We’re out here playing
KAWHI LEONARD , left, and Nicolas Batum swarm on Boban Marjanovic in a brilliant Game 7 Clippers win.
Franchise curse is on course to end
[Plaschke, from D1]
first and foremost, is that
Clippers Curse, which is
epitomized in the fran-
chise’s inability to advance
past the playoffs’ second
round once in the team’s
37-year Los Angeles history.
To clear that defining
hurdle, they now must play
the team with the league’s
best record, the Utah Jazz,
beginning Tuesday in Salt
Lake City.
History is against Clip-
pers. Home-court advan-
tage is against the Clippers.
Likely more than 90% of Los
Angeles basketball fans are
against the Clippers.
You know what? Bet on
them anyway. Bet on them
big. It says here, this first-
round fright was the series
— and this Game 7 bril-
liance was the win — that
will eventually catapult
them into the NBA Finals.
“We are battle-tested
now,” coach Tyronn Lue
said. “We are going into
where they have a tough fan
base and it’s tough to play
there but our guys are
locked in.”
Locked into teamwork.
Locked into toughness. As
they showed Sunday, this is
a deep and resilient group
that does not blink. Re-
member, this is a team that,
trailing two games to none
after home losses in this
series, fell behind by 19
points in the first quarter of
Game 3 in Dallas and re-
bounded to win four of the
next five games.
“We … were ready to
almost get swept,” Nicolas
Batum said. “And we find
something in us like resilien-
cy and some toughness like,
‘OK, we can’t go down like
that.’ ”
This is also a team that
was chasing the ghosts from
last season’s Game 7 defeat
to the Denver Nuggets in a
second-round series that
once again made the Clip-
pers a national laughing-
stock. But this time, they
did the haunting, whisking
the Mavericks into the
summer with a Game 7-
for each other. Out here hav-
ing fun. Everyone’s locked
in.”
Embiid raised a sledge-
hammer as he returned from
a one-game absence with a
cartilage tear in his right
knee. He walked out with
WWE star Triple H to a roar-
ing ovation.
But Young and the
Hawks had the 76ers down
for the count from the jump
and led by 26 points.
The 76ers — playing in
front of their biggest crowd
of the season at 18,624 — re-
fused to easily cede home
court, and Embiid scored
consecutive baskets that
brought them within three
with 1:01 left.
Bogdan Bogdanovic,
who missed all three games
in the season series against
the 76ers with a knee injury,
steadied the Hawks when he
buried a three that gave
them needed breathing
room. He even put his fin-
CLIPPERS OWNER Steve Ballmer, third from left, cheers with friends and fam-
ily. His club is only the fifth team to win a series after starting it 0-2 at home.
record 20 three-pointers,
perfect 24-for-24 foul shoot-
ing, 30 assists on 41 baskets,
and seven players in double
figures.
“We show who we are,”
Batum said.
Their attack began with
a Leonard floater, his first
two of 28 points, their leader
immediately picking up
from where he left the Mav-
ericks in ruins with 45 points
in Game 6.
Their attack ended four
quarters later with three-
point daggers from Jackson
and Morris resulting in
separate joyous celebra-
tions. Jackson danced down
the court with a huge grin.
Morris held his shooting
pose for what felt like an
entire minute.
“We wanted this mo-
ment,” Lue said.
They officially seized
that moment midway
through the third quarter.
Trailing 81-76, they roared
back with a 24-4 run to end
the quarter and essentially
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Today’s games
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7 p.m.
(Best-of-seven series)
8 Game 2, Milwaukee at
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(Nets lead series 1-0)
Sunday’s results
8 Atlanta 128, Philadelphia 124
(Hawks lead series 1-0)
8 CLIPPERS 126, Dallas 111
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gers to his lips and shushed
the raucous crowd.
“He’s a big shot maker,”
Huerter said.
Harden out
James Harden will miss
Game 2 of the Eastern Con-
ference semifinals Monday
night because of right ham-
string tightness.
Photographs by Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
win the game.
Morris three. Leonard
dunk. Morris three. Morris
three. And so on. They
complemented the offense
with a defense that held
Luka Doncic, who scored 46,
to six points in the quarter
with three misses on his
three long-range shots.
“Game 7 is the toughest
game,” Doncic said after-
ward.
The Clippers were the
tougher team, and they
might have started a run
that Clippers fans have been
waiting for since Leonard
and George joined the team
two summers ago.
“We’ll continue to grind,”
Morris said. “We’re just
getting started.”
It was also a moment
that Lakers fans have been
dreading, as they must now
watch their hated neighbors
steal their usual summer
spotlight.
Markieff Morris watched
Sunday’s game from a base-
line seat, even giving his
DANILO GALLINARI and the Hawks led by as
many as 26 in Game 1 in Philadelphia, then held on.
twin brother Marcus tips at
halftime.
LeBron James might not
have been watching at all,
as, during the furious first
quarter, he audaciously
tweeted a commercial for
his new movie.
To further insult the
Lakers, if this second round
is extended, Game 6 would
be at Staples Center on
June 18, three days after all
local pandemic restrictions
are lifted. This means the
Clippers would be the first
Los Angeles basketball
team to play in front of a full
house in more than a year.
If nothing else, it will be
great to see the organiza-
tion trash all those card-
board cutout fans that the
Lakers never used and that
have looked so silly during
these playoffs.
Two weeks ago, the
Clippers were as stiff as
some of those spectators.
Today they’re alive, danc-
ing, posing, celebrating, the
last L.A. team standing.
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Matt Slocum Associated Press
Clippers win in
clutch Game 7
[Clippers, from D1]
have finally wobbled. But
Jackson and Morris an-
swered with three-pointers
on consecutive possessions
and fans gripped one anoth-
er in almost stunned cele-
bration. The Clippers’ 20
three-pointers are the most
made in Game 7 history.
One game after making
one of 10 shots, Morris made
eight of 15, including seven
three-pointers.
Instead of a cringe, this
ended in catharsis. Consult-
ant and Hall of Famer Jerry
West walked over to team
owner Steve Ballmer’s seat
and shook his hand with 41
seconds left in a celebration
that didn’t always feel inevi-
table. The Clippers are only
the fifth team to lose the first
two games at home and rally
to win the series.
“This team forced us to
play on a nightly basis a full
48-minute game,” George
said. “Let’s not again even
get into last year. We’re on to
a whole other season. We
hung in there and stuck to-
gether and knew what it
took to win tonight.
“Again, Kawhi stepped
up big for us. Reggie stepped
up huge for us, Marcus, I
mean, everybody just
brought it and played for one
another, played hard, and
we collectively got the win.”
Before tipoff, coach Ty-
ronn Lue said he had not de-
livered a soaring message at
the morning walk-through
because Game 7s come
down to “trust.” It had built
behind the scenes through-
out the series during film
sessions, when Leonard said
teammates realized they
had left one another alone
“on islands” defensively.
Doncic was brilliant, again,
adding 14 assists, but the
Clippers’ rotations contrib-
uted to the Mavericks’ 27%
three-point shooting, with
Tim Hardaway Jr. making
just one of nine from deep.
Nine months before, the
Clippers’ offense sagged
when their stars couldn’t
score in the deciding game
against Denver. On Sunday,
George (10 assists) and
Leonard (nine) pinged the
ball around to open team-
mates, trusting a balanced
attack could overcome Don-
cic’s one-man magic. Ter-
ance Mann finished with 13
points. Luke Kennard, virtu-
ally stuck to the bench
through five games, scored
11.
“These games are not
won with just one or two
great players,” Leonard
said. “You need a whole 17 or
16 players that you have.
“I think we had trust at
the beginning, but we just
REGGIE JACKSON and the Clippers came up big at
home against Trey Burke and Dallas in Game 7.
Atlanta 128, Philadelphia 124
ATLANTA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Collins ..............33 7-9 4-4 1-4 2 4 21
S.Hill.................25 2-7 0-0 0-3 0 4 6
Capela ..............32 5-9 1-2 2-10 0 5 11
Bogdanovic........36 7-17 2-2 0-4 5 3 21
Young ...............39 11-23 9-9 0-2 10 3 35
Huerter..............28 6-9 0-0 0-5 4 3 15
Gallinari ............17 2-4 4-4 0-2 0 0 9
Okongwu ...........11 1-1 0-0 0-3 1 4 2
Williams ............11 3-6 0-0 0-2 1 0 8
Snell...................3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 44-86 20-21 3-35 23 26 128
Shooting: Field goals, 51.2%; free throws, 95.2%
Three-point goals: 20-47 (Bogdanovic 5-12, Young
4-11, Collins 3-4, Huerter 3-6, Williams 2-4, S.Hill 2-7,
Gallinari 1-2, Snell 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turn-
overs: 2. Blocked Shots: 3 (Capela, Okongwu, S.Hill).
Turnovers: 15 (Young 4, Bogdanovic 3, Collins 3, Capela,
Gallinari, Huerter, Okongwu, Williams). Steals: 10
(Collins 2, Okongwu 2, Young 2, Bogdanovic, Capela,
Huerter, S.Hill). Technical Fouls: None.
PHILADELPHIA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Green ...............29 2-7 0-0 1-2 4 4 4
Harris................35 8-13 3-4 2-10 3 0 20
Embiid ..............38 12-21 14-15 2-9 4 4 39
Curry ................36 7-12 2-2 0-4 3 2 21
Simmons...........37 7-7 3-10 0-4 10 4 17
Thybulle.............18 4-6 0-0 0-1 1 2 10
Maxey ...............13 2-8 2-4 0-2 0 3 6
Korkmaz ............10 3-5 0-0 1-4 0 0 7
G.Hill ................10 0-2 0-0 1-1 0 1 0
Howard ...............8 0-1 0-0 1-4 0 2 0
Milton .................0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 45-82 24-35 8-41 25 22 124
Shooting: Field goals, 54.9%; free throws, 68.6%
Three-point goals: 10-29 (Curry 5-9, Thybulle 2-4,
Korkmaz 1-2, Embiid 1-3, Harris 1-4, G.Hill 0-1, Maxey
0-2, Green 0-4). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers:
None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Embiid 3, Simmons, Thybulle).
Turnovers: 19 (Simmons 5, Embiid 4, Harris 3, Howard
2, G.Hill, Green, Korkmaz, Maxey, Milton). Steals: 12
(Simmons 4, Harris 3, Green 2, Embiid, Howard, Thy-
bulle). Technical Fouls: None.
Atlanta 42 32 25 29— 128
Philadelphia 27 27 29 41— 124
A—18,624. T—2:30.
had to dial in on what we
were doing.”
The official record will
show that this series began
May 22, but that is not quite
right. For the Clippers, it did
not truly begin until six days
later.
Down 19 points only sev-
en minutes into the third
game in front of Dallas’ howl-
ing crowd, the Clippers ap-
peared to be staggering
toward a second consecutive
offseason hearing jokes at
their expense and renewed
questions about how a ros-
ter reconstructed last fall to
win an NBA title could not
advance past the first round.
“Down 30-11, we were one
or two plays away from al-
most getting swept,” for-
ward Nicolas Batum said.
“And we find something in us
like resiliency and some
toughness, like, ‘OK, we
can’t go down like that.’ ... We
are a good team and we have
to show it.”
They showed it in Game 3
with a rally, then in Game 4
with a change to a small-ball
lineup. In Game 6, back on
the road facing elimination,
they evened the series again
behind Leonard’s big game.
And their two-week test of
will was capped Sunday.
Instead of reviewing how
another series had gone
wrong, Lue, who is now 4-0
coaching in Game 7s, left his
postgame videoconference
preparing for Utah.
“We can’t keep looking
behind at what happened,”
Lue said.
CLIPPERS 126, Dallas 111
DALLAS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Finney-Smith......39 7-13 0-1 6-10 2 5 18
Porzingis............42 6-12 4-4 1-11 1 3 16
Marjanovic.........31 7-11 0-1 6-10 3 4 14
Doncic ..............44 17-30 7-11 0-7 14 3 46
Hardaway Jr........42 5-14 0-0 0-3 1 3 11
Brunson ............10 1-3 0-0 2-4 1 0 2
Kleber.................9 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Burke..................7 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Richardson ..........6 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Powell.................5 2-2 0-0 1-2 0 1 4
Totals 45-91 11-17 16-47 22 21 111
Shooting: Field goals, 49.5%; free throws, 64.7%
Three-point goals: 10-36 (Doncic 5-11, Finney-Smith
4-7, Hardaway Jr. 1-9, Burke 0-1, Richardson 0-1, Kleber
0-2, Porzingis 0-5). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers:
None. Blocked Shots: 1 (Marjanovic). Turnovers: 14
(Doncic 6, Finney-Smith 4, Richardson 2, Hardaway Jr.,
Marjanovic). Steals: 4 (Porzingis 2, Hardaway Jr., Kle-
ber). Technical Fouls: None.
CLIPPERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Leonard.............42 10-15 7-7 1-10 9 5 28
Morris Sr. ..........30 8-15 0-0 1-5 2 3 23
Batum...............41 4-7 2-2 3-7 5 1 11
George ..............43 5-15 10-10 2-6 10 4 22
Jackson.............28 4-10 4-4 0-1 1 2 15
Mann................26 5-10 1-1 1-5 1 3 13
Kennard ............14 4-6 0-0 0-1 1 1 11
Rondo.................9 1-4 0-0 0-0 0 2 3
Zubac .................2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Coffey .................0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Ferrell .................0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Oturu..................0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 41-82 24-24 8-35 30 21 126
Shooting: Field goals, 50.0%; free throws, 0.0%
Three-point goals: 20-43 (Morris Sr. 7-9, Kennard
3-5, Jackson 3-8, Mann 2-3, George 2-8, Leonard 1-3,
Rondo 1-3, Batum 1-4). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turn-
overs: 1. Blocked Shots: 2 (Batum, Leonard). Turnovers:
8 (George 4, Batum, Jackson, Kennard, Zubac). Steals:
11 (Leonard 4, George 3, Batum 2, Jackson, Mann).
Technical Fouls: None.
Dallas 38 24 23 26— 111
Clippers 35 35 30 26— 126
A—7,342. T—2:27.
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
ANTHONY DAVIS will be back next season, and LeBron James, but who will the Lakers surround them with?
Big decisions, little cap room:
Fixing Lakers won’t be easy
By Dan Woike
On his way into free
agency, veteran Wesley
Matthews made it clear that
he wanted to re-sign, the
pain from the Lakers’ unre-
alized potential after a first-
round playoff exit forcing
him to declare his desire to
“run it back.”
While the Lakers univer-
sally said they thought this
team was good enough to
win it all had it not been for
key injuries, roster changes
are almost always assured.
The NBA is projecting a
$112.4-million salary cap for
next season, with teams
spending more than $136.6
million subject to luxury tax
penalties.
Here’s a quick look at
who is under contract, who
can walk in free agency and
how the Lakers can keep
some key role players.
The Core (2021-22 sala-
ries via Spotrac)
LeBron James — $41.2
million
Anthony Davis — $35.4
million
Any roster building hap-
pens around this founda-
tion, a good head start for
the Lakers’ front office.
Davis signed his max
deal last offseason, and
James re-upped by signing
an extension, keeping the
Lakers’ core under contract
without much drama. The
question becomes how to
surround these franchise
players with the best sup-
porting cast.
Locked up
Kentavious Caldwell-
Pope — $13 million
Kyle Kuzma — $13 mil-
lion
Serena loses at French Open; Federer withdraws
associated press
PARIS — Serena
Williams turns 40 in Septem-
ber. Roger Federer hits that
milestone the month before.
No one knows how many
more French Open appear-
ances each will make, and
this year’s tournament
ended for both Sunday.
Williams fell way behind
and could not put together a
comeback against a much
younger and less-experi-
enced opponent in the
fourth round at Roland Gar-
ros, losing 6-3, 7-5 to Elena
Rybakina — who wasn’t
even born when the Ameri-
can made her tournament
debut in 1998.
Asked whether that
might have been her last
match at the clay-court ma-
jor, Williams responded:
“Yeah, I’m definitely not
thinking about it at all. I’m
definitely thinking just
about other things, but not
about that.”
Her defeat came hours
after Federer withdrew, say-
ing he needed to let his body
recover ahead of Wimbledon
after a long third-round vic-
tory that ended at nearly
1 a.m. on Sunday.
Wimbledon — which Fed-
erer has won eight times and
Williams seven — begins
June 28.
Williams has won 23
Marc Gasol — $2.7 mil-
lion
In Caldwell-Pope and
Kuzma, the Lakers have two
key rotation players who
provide some shooting and
defensive versatility on the
wings. If the Lakers make a
trade, these are the names
you’d almost certainly hear
in order for the team to meet
salary requirements. Gasol
proved to be the most
trusted of the Lakers’ cen-
ters, though he sounded like
someone who could end up
not coming back during his
exit interview on Friday.
The ghost of contracts
past
Luol Deng — $5 million
The Lakers still have
some of Deng’s $72-million
contract on their books after
waiving him before the 2018-
19 season. Next season will
be the last time his name
shows up on the team’s sala-
ry-cap sheet.
The options
Montrezl Harrell — $9.7
million
Alfonzo McKinnie — $1.9
million
Harrell’s player option is
one of the most fascinating
decisions of the Lakers’ off-
season. Harrell followed up
his sixth-man-of-the-year
season with the Clippers by
providing the Lakers scor-
ing off the bench, but it was
pretty clear the Lakers
didn’t trust him defensively.
That meant he was largely
off the court against the
Phoenix Suns in the playoffs.
The question is, what’s his
market if he opts out? Can
he find a better situation
where he’ll make more mon-
ey? Charlotte was rumored
to be interested last off-
season, and the thought of
SERENA WILLIAMS reacts after she missed a shot during her 6-3, 7-5 defeat to
Elena Rybakina in the fourth round of the French Open on Sunday.
Grand Slam singles titles;
Federer has won 20. They are
two of the sport’s greatest
and most popular players, so
it was quite a blow to the
tournament, its TV partners
and tennis fans to see both
gone from the French Open
field one after the other —
and a week after Naomi
Osaka pulled out, citing a
need for a mental health
break.
Williams has won the
French Open three times,
but the American hasn’t
been past the fourth round
in Paris since she was the
runner-up in 2016.
Rybakina is a 21-year-old
Harrell running the pick-
and-roll with LaMelo Ball
and the Hornets’ guards is
pretty interesting.
McKinnie’s team option
is cap-friendly — he’s under
contract for the next two
seasons without any guar-
anteed money. In addition to
being a perfectly fine end-of-
roster wing, those nonguar-
anteed deals can be valuable
in making the financial as-
pects of a trade work.
Unrestricted free agents
(and what they counted
against Lakers’ 2020-21 cap)
Dennis Schroder — $16
million
Andre Drummond —
$554,988
Alex Caruso — $2.8 mil-
lion
Wesley Matthews — $3.6
million
Markieff Morris — $1.6
million
Ben McLemore — million per year. However,
$455,090
Jared Dudley — $1.6 mil-
lion
Now we get into the
weeds. The Lakers will be
over the salary cap, but
they’ll be able to exceed that
number to sign Schroder
and/or Caruso because the
team owns their “Bird
rights” — a provision that al-
lows teams to go over the cap
to re-sign their own players.
Schroder turned down an
extension during the season
and has sought a deal paying
him $100 million or more, but
after an uneven playoff run,
it’s tough to know his market
value. The Lakers, because
of their cap position, prob-
ably have to bring him back
because they’ll be unable to
replace him in free agency. A
sign-and-trade could be a
possibility, but that also has
from Kazakhstan who is
ranked 22nd. This was just
the seventh Grand Slam ap-
pearance for Rybakina —
and the first time she ever
made it so much as past the
second round.
“When I was small, of
course, I was watching her
matches on TV. So many
Grand Slams,” Rybakina
said.
Rybakina next will meet
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
with a semifinal berth on the
line. Pavlyuchenkova ad-
vanced with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 vic-
tory over two-time Austral-
ian Open champion Victoria
Azarenka.
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
cap implications.
Caruso’s free agency
could come down to factors
other than money, with a
bigger role possibly available
elsewhere. However, he’s
valuable to the Lakers and a
good fit as a combo guard
and two-way player.
Matthews, Morris and
Dudley could return on vet-
eran’s minimum contracts,
while McLemore could seek
more consistent minutes
somewhere else.
The Lakers don’t have
Bird rights for Drummond, a
late-season acquisition they
said they’d like to keep, and
without cap room, they’d
likely need to use a cap ex-
ception to sign him. They
could give him a deal similar
to the one they gave Harrell a
year ago or they could use a
mid-level exception, proj-
ected to be worth around $6
Drummond has com-
manded more than $20 mil-
lion per season each of the
last few years.
Restricted free agent
(2020-21 cap hit)
Talen Horton-Tucker —
$1.5 million
The Lakers have the right
to match any offer Horton-
Tucker gets in free agency,
though the team might not
want to let it get that far by
signing him to a deal before
he accepts an offer else-
where.
The Lakers clearly want
to keep him, but it could be
costly. Like Caruso and
Schroder, the Lakers have
Bird rights for Horton-
Tucker, but keeping all three
could be incredibly costly,
both in limiting roster flex-
ibility and in the luxury tax
bill the team would face.
Thibault Camus Associated Press
The other quarterfinal on
that side of the women’s
draw is going to be Paula Ba-
dosa against Tamara Zi-
dansek. Neither has been
this far at a major tourna-
ment either.
One of those four players
will become a first-time
Grand Slam finalist next
weekend.
Stefanos Tsitsipas is still
looking for his first major fi-
nal too, and he reached the
quarterfinals at Roland
Garros for the second year in
a row by eliminating 12th-
seeded Pablo Carreno Busta
6-3, 6-2, 7-5. Tsitsipas next
faces No. 2 Daniil Medvedev.
M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21 D7
GOLF
Teen, 19, makes
history at Open
associated press
Yuka Saso modeled her
golf game after Rory McIl-
roy, spending hours watch-
ing videos of his swing before
going to bed each night in or-
der to perfect her own.
All that work paid off and
now Saso is a U.S. Open
champion just like her idol
thanks to a clutch playoff
putt after a back-nine col- Jeff Chiu Associated Press
lapse by Lexi Thompson. YUKA SASO is the first
Saso’s 10-foot putt for player from the Phil-
birdie on the third playoff ippines to win a major,
hole Sunday helped her edge the U.S. Women’s Open.
out Nasa Hataoka and be-
come the second teenager to tact tracing protocol — and
win the U.S. Women’s Open. was withdrawn from the
Saso overcame back-to- tournament. Just like that,
back double bogeys early in Cantlay and Morikawa went
the round to make the play- from six shots behind to tied
off and then became the first for the lead.
player from the Philippines
to win a golf major. Champions
“I was actually a little up- Stephen Ames won the
set,” Saso said about her Principal Charity Classic in
poor start. “But my caddie Des Moines, Iowa for his sec-
talked to me and said, ‘Just ond PGA Tour Champions
keep on going; there’s many title, taking advantage of
more holes to go.’ That’s Tim Herron’s final-round
what I did.” collapse.
Both players made pars Seven strokes behind
at Nos. 9 and 18 in the two- Herron entering the round,
hole aggregate playoff, send- Ames shot a five-under 67 for
ing the tournament to sud- a one-stroke victory over fel-
den death back at the ninth low Canadian Mike Weir.
hole. That set the stage for “Everybody else kind of
Saso to win it just up the faltered coming in, unfortu-
road from Daly City, dubbed nately for those, but fortu-
“Little Manila” for its large nate for me,” Ames said.
population of Filipinos.
There were many on
hand for the final round, in-
cluding several with Filipino RESULTS
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pening in the Philippines Final 72-Hole Leaders
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RESULTS
$16-MILLION FRENCH OPEN and Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 0-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
At Paris Hugo Nys, Monaco, and Tim Puetz, Germany, def.
Surface: Clay-Outdoor Benoit Paire, France, and Romain Arneodo, Monaco,
MEN’S SINGLES (fourth round)—Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4.
(5), Greece, def. Pablo Carreno Busta (12), Spain, 6-3, WOMEN’S DOUBLES (second round)—Gabriela
6-2, 7-5. Daniil Medvedev (2), Russia, def. Cristian Dabrowski and Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, def.
Garin (22), Chile, 6-2, 6-1, 7-5. Alejandro Davidovich Zheng Saisai, China, and Ellen Perez (13), Australia,
Fokina, Spain, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-4, walkover. (third round)—Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania,
6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Alexander Zverev (6), Germany, def. Kei and Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, def. Chloe Paquet and
Nishikori, Japan, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Clara Burel, France, 6-3, 6-1. Barbora Krejcikova and
WOMEN’S SINGLES (fourth round)—Tamara Zi- Katerina Siniakova (2), Czech Republic, def. Gabriela
dansek, Slovenia, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 7-6 Dabrowski and Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, 6-3,
(4), 6-1. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (31), Russia, def. 3-6, 6-3. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, U.S., and Iga Swiatek
Victoria Azarenka (15), Belarus, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. Paula (14), Poland, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Elise
Badosa, Spain, def. Marketa Vondrousova (20), Czech Mertens (1), Belgium, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5. Magda Linette,
Republic, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. Elena Rybakina (21), Kaza- Poland, and Bernarda Pera, U.S., def. Lucie Hradecka,
khstan, def. Serena Williams (7), U.S., 6-3, 7-5. Czech Republic, and Laura Siegemund (10), Germany,
MEN’S DOUBLES (third round)—Pablo Andujar and 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5).
Pedro Martinez, Spain, def. Sander Gille and Joran MIXED DOUBLES (quarterfinals)—Desirae Krawczyk,
Vliegen (14), Belgium, 6-4, 7-6 (6). Rohan Bopanna, U.S., and Joe Salisbury, Britain, def. Robert Farah, Co-
India, and Franko Skugor, Croatia, def. Matwe Mid- lombia, and Darija Jurak, Croatia, 6-2, 7-6 (3). Demi
delkoop, Netherlands, and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof (3), Netherlands, def. Ken
El Salvador, walkover. Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Skupski, Britain, and Alexa Guarachi Mathison, Chile,
Herbert (6), France, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, 4-6, 6-3, 10-5.
Medvedev is a two-time
Grand Slam finalist — at the
2019 U.S. Open and this Today’s featured
year’s Australian Open —
but was 0-4 for his career in
matches
Paris until now. He ad-
vanced Sunday by eliminat- MEN
ing No. 22 Cristian Garin 6-2, 8 No. 1 Novak Djokovic
6-1, 7-5. vs. Lorenzo Musetti
The other quarterfinal on 8 No. 10 Diego Schwartzman
that side of the field will be vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
No. 6 Alexander Zverev of 8 No. 3 Rafael Nadal
Germany against unseeded vs. No. 18 Jannik Sinner
Alejandro Davidovich Fok- WOMEN
ina of Spain. Davidovich 8 Sloane Stephens
Fokina beat Federico Delbo- vs. Barbora Krejcikova
nis 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to reach 8 No. 25 Ons Jabeur
his first Grand Slam vs. No. 24 Coco Gauff
quarterfinal before Zverev 8 No. 4 Sofia Kenin
made quick work of Kei vs. No. 17 Maria Sakkari
Nishikori 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 at night 8 Marta Kostyuk
in a matchup between two vs. No. 8 Iga Swiatek
past U.S. Open runners-up.
D8 M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
DOLPHINS PLAYERS , from left, Kaia Kanan, Alexa Hogan and Maddie Neilson encourage one another
before the third set of the City Section Open Division championship match, a sweep over Granada Hills.
Palisades digs out of all doubt
Dolphins overcame
season uncertainty
and played on grass
courts on way to latest
girls’ volleyball title.
By Steve Galluzzo
Winning the City Section
girls’ volleyball champi-
onship is hardly news at
Palisades High. The Dol-
phins have done so 31 times
since the CIF sanctioned the
sport in 1973.
Palisades’ latest title
came Saturday in a three-set
sweep of Granada Hills, and
what made it unique from all
the others is that the Dol-
phins got to celebrate on
their home floor, even if the
gym was just one-fourth full.
Before this year the City
final was played in late No-
vember at a neutral site, but
the girls’ season did not
start until early April be-
cause of the pandemic and
matches were played out-
doors. As with all other
sports the higher-seeded
team got to host all the way
through the playoffs. Pali-
sades certainly seemed to
benefit from home-court ad-
vantage, dropping only one
set in its three playoff
NOTEBOOK
A week that could be twice as nice
By Eric Sondheimer
It could be a big week for
Corona Centennial. The
Huskies are in position to
win the Southern Section
Open Division boys’ and
girls’ basketball champi-
onships.
The 20-2 boys’ team, led
by guards Kylan Boswell,
Donovan Dent and Jared
McCain, will play unbeaten
Chatsworth Sierra Canyon
(15-0) on Friday at Sierra
Canyon. The unbeaten girls’
team (22-0) will play host to
unbeaten Santa Ana Mater
Dei (19-0) on Friday.
Wednesday is the day for
all Southern Section boys’
basketball championship
games except the Open Divi-
sion.
The boys’ schedule:
Division 1: No. 2 Chami-
nade at No. 4 Capistrano
Valley
NHL PLAYOFFS ROUNDUP
Streaking Canadiens win, take commanding 3-0 lead
wire reports
Joel Armia had two goals
and an assist, Carey Price
made 26 saves, and the Mon-
treal Canadiens defeated
the Winnipeg Jets 5-1 on
Sunday to take a 3-0 lead in
their second-round playoff
series.
Corey Perry, Artturi
Lehkonen and Nick Suzuki
also scored for the Canadi-
ens, who have won six
straight playoff games and
haven’t trailed in a game
since losing Game 4 against
Toronto in the first round.
Montreal will try to complete
a four-game sweep of Win-
nipeg on Monday at home.
“It’s a different kind of
confidence you get in the
game when you know that
you can trust the guy in the
net, and I think he’s been un-
believable,” Armia said of
S L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
matches.
In the end, though, play-
ers were happy they got to
have a season, which was up
in the air for much of the
2020-21 school year.
“Overall, outside it’s a
whole different game,” Pali-
sades junior setter Kaia
Kanan said. “It’s harder to
jump, harder to move, the
ball’s lighter and you have to
deal with the sun and wind.
A lot of us play beach, but it’s
still way different than the
grass.”
The uncertainty sur-
rounding the pandemic and
whether high school sports
would be played at all was
another challenge for ath-
letes. Not to mention that
many sports were overlap-
ping, creating scheduling
conflicts and limited prac-
tice time.
“There were so many dif-
ficulties,” Kanan admitted.
“When are we going back to
the gym? What days do we
have to get tested? What
days the boys [volleyball]
get to use the gym, what
days basketball gets to use
it. There was a lot being
thrown at us that we had no
control of, lots of things
messing with our season,
but we didn’t let any of it
shut us down.”
Palisades suffered its
only setback early in the sea-
Division 2AA: No. 3
Rolling Hills Prep at Los Al-
tos
Division 2A: Agoura at
No. 1 Crean Lutheran
Division 3AA: No. 2
Aquinas at King
Division 3A: No. 3 Glen-
dora at Marina (Thursday)
Division 4AA: No. 1 Pasa-
dena Poly at Arcadia
Division 4A: No. 1 Lin-
field Christian at No. 3 Pili-
bos
Division 5AA: Costa
Mesa at No. 1 Santa Ana Cal-
vary Chapel
Division 5A: Faith Bap-
tist at Desert Hot Springs
Thursday’s girls’ sched-
ule:
Division 1: Esperanza at
Long Beach Poly/Fairmont
Prep winner
Division 2AA: Cajon at
No. 1 Bishop Alemany
Division 2A: Eisenhower
at No. 2 Paloma Valley
Price, who got his eighth
playoff shutout in Montre-
al’s 1-0 win in Game 2.
The Canadiens lead a
playoff series 3-0 for the first
time since 2015, when they
beat Ottawa in the opening
round.
Adam Lowry scored for
the Jets, and Connor Hel-
lebuyck made 28 saves. Win-
nipeg was without top cen-
ter Mark Scheifele, who is
serving a four-game suspen-
sion for a charging penalty in
the series opener. The Jets
got Paul Stastny back after
he missed the first two
games with an undisclosed
injury.
The Canadiens opened
the scoring at 4:45 of the first
period on a grinding shift by
the fourth line of Perry,
Armia and Eric Staal.
Caught in the middle of a
change following a turnover,
the Jets were hemmed into
son outdoors at Woodland
Hills Taft and Kanan said
the turning point was when
teams were allowed to start
playing indoors. In fact, the
Dolphins closed the season
winning 42 of their last 43
sets.
“We’re a really good team
indoors and we’re a young
team, but we also have some
older players and with a
younger team it was a lot
harder to mesh outside,”
Kanan said. “I’ve played this
sport a long time, but never
experienced playing indoor
volleyball outdoors. So when
we finally went back inside
we were all used to the envi-
ronment and we pushed
ourselves to make the most
of the time we had.”
Senior middle blocker Al-
exa Hogan remembers
where she was the moment
she found out that there
would be a season: “We were
on Zoom and I was half-
asleep in my bed!”
Hogan, who will head to
UC Davis on a full schol-
arship in the fall, also la-
mented playing outside.
“Even though Kaia is a
great setter, sometimes I’d
go to hit the ball and the
wind would push it way over
here to where I had to adjust
my swing in midair,” Hogan
said. “Honestly, winning
City has made my whole sen-
Division 3AA: No. 1 On-
tario Christian vs. Sage Hill/
La Quinta winner
Division 3A: San Dimas
at Ayala
Division 4AA: No. 2 Ag-
oura at No. 4 Mary Star
Division 4A: Rancho
Christian at No. 2 Newport
Harbor
Division 5AA: Faith Bap-
tist at No. 2 Trinity Classical
Division 5A: Louisville/
Capistrano Valley Christian
winner at No. 1 Newport
Beach Pacifica Christian
City Section
semifinals
The City Section holds its
basketball semifinals on
Wednesday, with the title
games Saturday. In Open
Division boys, King/Drew
will be at Westchester while
Fairfax is at Birmingham. In
Division I, it’s Palisades at
Chatsworth and Crenshaw
Results,
schedule
Sunday’s results
8 at Montreal 5, Winnipeg 1
(Canadiens lead
series 3-0)
8 at Vegas 5, Colorado 1
(Series tied 2-2)
Today’s games
8 N.Y. Islanders at Boston,
3:30
(Series tied 2-2)
8 Winnipeg at Montreal, 5
(Canadiens lead
series 3-0)
All times PDT and p.m.
their own end for 30 seconds
before Perry’s shot — the Ca-
nadiens’ third chance of the
sequence — went off Win-
nipeg defenseman Jordie
Steve Galluzzo For The Times
ior year. Prom was yesterday
and I told my coach I’m get-
ting my hair done, I’m get-
ting my nails done so I’m not
coming to practice.”
The hardest part for Pali-
sades coach Carlos Gray,
who also assists with the
boys’ program, was not
practice but getting players
to practice.
“The kids weren’t on
campus, they had virtual
studies, then had to hustle
over here for random prac-
tices — it was tough,” Gray
said. “Also, not having JV
this year meant I’d have 18-
24 girls coming at a time and
it was a real challenge get-
ting everyone enough court
time.”
For Granada Hills senior
opposite Nikki Eaves, who
graduated days earlier, the
season was a success even
though it ended in defeat.
“It was so sad thinking we
wouldn’t have a season,”
Eaves said. “Playing on
grass is a lot different … you
worry about rolling your an-
kles when you dive and it’s
harder to control passes.
Also it felt weird coming to
their house for the finals, but
I’ve been in the program
since my freshman year, so
winning our league and
making the finals with all of
my teammates one last time
was very special.”
at Venice.
For Open Division girls,
it’s El Camino Real at Pali-
sades and Hamilton at
Birmingham.
Baseball, softball
playoffs continue
The Southern Section
baseball playoffs resume
Tuesday with second-round
games. San Juan Capistrano
JSerra, seeded No. 1 in Divi-
sion 1, makes its tournament
debut at home against Mis-
sion Viejo Capistrano Valley.
Ace Gage Jump is expected
to start for JSerra.
The Southern Section
softball playoffs will hold
quarterfinal games on Tues-
day. Norco, seeded No. 1 in
Division 1, travels to Los
Alamitos.
The City Section begins
its Open Division baseball
playoffs Wednesday, while
softball begins Monday.
Benn’s stick and past Hel-
lebuyck.
Lehkonen made it 2-0 at
9:24 of the second on a
scramble after Phillip
Danault hit the post.
At Vegas 5, Colorado 1:
Jonathan Marchessault had
his fourth career hat trick to
help the Golden Knights tie
their second-round series at
two games apiece.
Two days after his tying
goal sparked a come-from-
behind win in Game 3,
Marchessault got his third
three-goal game with the
Golden Knights. The eight-
year veteran also had one
while with Florida.
Max Pacioretty and Pat-
rick Brown also scored for
Vegas, while Marc-Andre
Fleury made 17 saves for his
87th career playoff victory —
one shy of tying Ed Belfour
for fifth on the all-time list.
He’s improving
as a track star
by leaps, bounds
Harvard-Westlake
football standout
Thompson has taken
to triple jump quickly.
ERIC SONDHEIMER
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
At the end of football
games, wide receiver Jason
Thompson of Studio City
Harvard-Westlake breaks
away from teammates and
makes his way to the end
zone alone.
“I’ll go to the goal posts.
I’ll say a prayer,” he said.
It’s his moment to honor
his father, Bobby, who died
at the age of 42 when
Thompson was 5. Bobby
was Arizona State’s all-time
basketball assists leader
and used to take his son to
the park to shoot baskets.
Thompson’s mother,
Shelitta, used to run track
at Playa del Rey
St. Bernard. His grand-
father, Robert, is a member
of Arizona’s Hall of Fame for
his exploits in football and
track in the 1960s. Jason
clearly has the genes to do
great things in athletic
competition, and it’s hap-
pening.
On May 1, only two weeks
after football season ended,
he went 45 feet 7 inches in
the triple jump, breaking a
29-year-old school record.
On May 8, he won the Arca-
dia Invitational with a
school-record leap of 47-2.
Not bad for someone who
competed in two triple
jumps last year because of
COVID-19 restrictions and
continues to learn the
meaning of hop, step and
jump.
“It’s spectacularly amaz-
ing,” track coach Jonas
Koolsbergen said. “No one
does that. No one goes from
never having done it to
Arcadia champion in two
years, especially when one
year didn’t exist and the
second year he played foot-
ball half the [track] season.
It’s sort of unprecedentedly
impressive, especially for an
event that is as technical as
the triple jump.”
Thompson will get to add
to his growing list of track
accomplishments when he
competes Saturday at the
Eric Sondheimer Los Angeles Times
JASON THOMPSON won the Arcadia Invitational
triple-jump event with a school-record leap of 47-2.
THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS ’ Jonathan Marchessault,
left, celebrates his goal in the first against Colorado.
Southern Section Division 3
championships at Estancia
High in Costa Mesa. It’s a
full day of track and field,
with the Division 1 finals at
Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills,
Division 2 at Moorpark and
Division 4 at Carpinteria.
Thompson’s improved
speed and strength from
working out for football
have boosted him in the
triple jump. In football, the
6-foot, 175-pound junior had
eight touchdown catches
and averaged 20.2 yards per
catch in a six-game season.
Then he joined the track
team, for which his sister,
Jessica, is a sophomore pole
vaulter and discus thrower.
She was 3 when their father
died from an asthma attack
after a hike.
“Me and my sister, we
grew a lot closer relying on
each other,” Thompson
said. “My mom has done
everything for us. Him pass-
ing away sucks. It always
sucks, but me and my sister,
we developed together.”
Thompson’s athleticism
can be seen when he runs
the 200 or helps Harvard-
Westlake in the 400-meter
relay. But what he has done
in the triple jump — his
rapid improvement — con-
tinues to amaze.
“It’s one thing to come
out and say, ‘I’m fast,’ but
then working on your craft,
doing the best you can — it’s
tremendous,” Koolsbergen
said. “We hope there’s a lot
more. If you watch him
jump, there’s things you can
say, ‘That can be better.’ So
the notion he can jump
farther is very real.”
There’s no doubt
Thompson’s mother will be
the loudest fan.
“She’s a big sports per-
son,” he said. “Sports is our
thing. Half the time, she’s
the one, ‘Hey there’s a game
on TV. Let’s watch.’ ”
Thompson has a big
summer ahead trying to
finalize a college choice for
football. His success in the
triple jump has added to his
sports options.
And he feels at peace
knowing what his father
would have told him after
winning the Arcadia Invita-
tional.
“I think he’s up there
looking at me now really
proud,” he said.
John Locher Associated Press

CALENDAR
SCREEN-PRINTING at Immaculate Heart College. The school’s Sister Mary Corita created work that echoed calls for social justice.
The ‘Pop Art nun’
is still blazing trails
The L.A. printmaking studio of Corita Kent — who sat at the nexus of art,
activism, politics — has gained city monument status, a rarity for a woman.
CAROLINA A. MIRANDA
If you drew a
Venn diagram
that brought
together
Charles
Eames, Pop
Art, commer-
cial printing,
social justice movements, the
Second Vatican Council and
1960s Los Angeles, only one
person could inhabit the space
where those areas intersect:
Corita Kent.
A nun in the order of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary for
more than three decades, Sister
Mary Corita was a well-known
educator and artist dubbed the
“Pop Art nun” by the press. A
key mentor was Eames; she
went on to mentor Sister Karen
Boccalero, who founded the
Chicano art center Self Help
Graphics & Art in East L.A.
In her classroom at Immacu-
late Heart College, Kent taught
the art of silkscreen printing, a
commercial form she adapted to
the era of Pop. In the wake of the
1960s’ Second Vatican Council,
A spirited union of grace and magic
Philip Glass turns the
circus into opera that’s
profound, eloquent
and entertaining.
MARK SWED
MUSIC CRITIC
A drum beats. An accor-
dion joins in, like the music
of a clown. A trombone fur-
ther adds a circusy effect. A
bearded lady, an aerial acro-
bat, a juggler, a lion tamer
and a trapeze artist all mate-
rialize under the big top.
“Circus Days and
Nights,” Philip Glass’ latest
opera, is having its premiere
by Malmö Opera through
Sunday in a livestreamed
coproduction with the
Swedish city’s Cirkus Crikör.
The libretto is by David
Henry Hwang, who based it
on the autobiographical cir-
cus poetry of Robert Lax.
This is thought to be the
M O N D A Y , J U N E 7 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
CORITA KENT, who withdrew from the order for a secular life
in the late 1960s, pauses in front of artwork in an undated photo.
first opera written for a cir-
cus. Circuses do, however,
show up in operas from time
to time, mainly as a portent
of nasty business. “I Pagli-
acci” and “Lulu” come to
mind. I can’t help but further
associate Swedish circuses
with the lice-infested, dis-
ease-ridden one in Ingmar
Bergman’s “Sawdust and
Tinsel,” so memorable is his
1953 film. Ever ready to up-
end conventional mores,
one manifestation after an-
other of the irreverent
Pierrot pops up with un-
avoidable regularity on the
modern lyric stage.
Then again, ever since his
first opera, “Einstein on the
Beach,” 45 years ago, Glass
has been upending opera on
a reliable basis (averaging a
new opera every 18 months
or so). “Circus Days and
Nights,” which miraculously
elevates the circus to godli-
ness, brings him full circle.
This “Circus” is free in its
[See ‘Circus,’ E6]
Photographs from Corita Art Center / Immaculate Heart Community
which called for a liberalization
and modernization of the Cath-
olic liturgy to the realities of
20th century life, she delved into
creating work that echoed calls
for social justice, be it antiwar
efforts, labor campaigns or
Black and Chicano civil rights.
Her work at its most innova-
tive took vernacular culture —
commercial logos and graphics,
bits of corporate slogans, im-
ages from mass media — and
reconfigured them into fine art.
Art that not only advanced the
ways in which these elements
were used formally but also that
grounded Pop, a form that could
be too enamored of its own
cleverness, in currents as spir-
itual as they were political.
As independent curator
Michael Duncan wrote of her
work in a 2013 catalog: “She
addressed consumers not of
products but of life.”
(That catalog, incidentally,
was published in connection
with the engaging Kent retro-
spective “Someday Is Now: The
Art of Corita Kent,” at the Pasa-
dena Museum of California Art
[See ‘Pop Art nun,’ E3]
Mats Backer
THE SHOW goes on in Malmö Opera’s production of “Circus Days and Nights.”
E
LAPD
ex-chief
reflects
on his
legacy
Bill Bratton, author of
new memoir, defends
profession as police
come under scrutiny.
By Joel Rubin
Over his three-plus dec-
ades running police depart-
ments in Boston, New York
City and Los Angeles, Bill
Bratton branded himself as
America’s top cop. At the
time, that was generally a
good thing: He won acco-
lades for overseeing big-city
police departments during a
historic decline in crime in
the U.S., ushering in changes
that reshaped how the job is
done and confronting the
LAPD’s history of racism
and abuse a decade after the
Rodney King beating.
Throughout, he was an
improbable blend of prog-
ressive reformer and ideo-
logue, someone who didn’t
hesitate to call out the fail-
ures of the profession and in-
dividual cops while also in-
sisting that aggressive,
data-driven policing would
lower crime and improve
race relations.
Today, of course, things
are more complicated and
fraught. Since the murder of
George Floyd by a Minneap-
olis cop, American policing
has become as polarizing as
politics at large.
With his new book, “The
Profession,” Bratton weighs
in with what he freely admits
is his large ego and loud
voice. With assistance from
co-author Peter Knobler, he
[See Bratton, E6]
MOVIE REVIEW
Beneath
the seen
lies the
unseen
Theo Anthony’s doc
brilliantly interrogates
body cameras, ethics
of surveillance age.
JUSTIN CHANG
FILM CRITIC
More than once during
“All Light, Everywhere,” you
may find yourself wondering
exactly what you’re looking
at. This is entirely appropri-
ate, since one of the key
points of this expansively
brainy cinematic essay con-
cerns the limitations of hu-
man vision, perception and
understanding.
You’ll puzzle over some of
the images, many of them ar-
restingly shot (by Corey
Hughes), gradually tease
out their meanings and per-
haps even synthesize them
into a narrative. Curious
metal gadgets pass through
an automated assembly line.
Throngs of people don pro-
tective glasses and gaze sky-
ward on a hot day. A veiny,
pulsing blob of light reveals
itself as a closeup of an optic
[See ‘All Light,’ E2]
It’ll satisfy your
‘Sweet Tooth’
This plague story is a
bingeworthy escapist
fantasy treat. E3
Comics ................... E4-5
What’s on TV .......... E6
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TELEVISION REVIEW
Beware those obsessive, misguided fans
Beautiful? Tiresome?
Stephen King’s spin
on his novel ‘Lisey’s
Story’ is in between.
ROBERT LLOYD
TELEVISION CRITIC
For the Apple TV+ mini-
series “Lisey’s Story,” Ste-
phen King has taken it upon
himself to adapt what he has
described as one of his own
favorite books, the tale of a
writer (dead, not quite de-
parted) and the woman who
loves him.
It’s an A-list cast. Clive
Owen plays Scott, the writer,
successful on par with King
himself, but with a Pulitzer
Prize and a National Book
Award besides. He has been
dead a couple of years when
the story begins — the novel
was partly inspired by King’s
brushes with death — but
will appear plenty, in flash-
backs, dreams, visions and a
sort of purgatory where
much crucial action will take
place, and in and out of
which certain characters will
travel with relative ease.
Julianne Moore plays
Lisey, Scott’s widow. Joan
Allen is her sister Amanda,
who has some psychological
problems, and Jennifer Ja-
son Leigh is her sister Darla,
who doesn’t. Dane DeHaan
plays the demented fan who
drives one of two violent
storylines; Michael Pitt is
Scott’s father, who drives the
other. Ron Cephas Jones
plays an academic with an
outsize sense of entitlement
— another brand of mis-
guided admirer. (The story
plays in parts like a variation
Vantage points
are limitless
[‘All Light,’ from E1]
nerve — a disorienting,
brain-tickling image that in-
vites your eye to regard
someone else’s.
The eye on the screen be-
longs to the filmmaker, Theo
Anthony; his decision to
turn the camera on himself
at the outset immediately
establishes an ethos of self-
critique. He packs a lot into
this documentary’s heady
not-quite-two hours: a peek
inside the nonlethal weap-
ons and mass surveillance
industries; a critical portrait
of American policing, par-
ticularly in Anthony’s home
city of Baltimore; interlock-
ing lessons in astronomy,
criminal identification and
avian flight patterns.
But given Anthony’s cen-
tral aim — to expose the falli-
bility of the moving image
and its endless potential for
manipulation — he sensibly
begins with himself, a maker
and manipulator of moving
images, someone in whose
hands the camera can be not
just an instrument but a
weapon.
The connection between
cameras and weapons is not
made facetiously in a movie
as rife with associative tan-
gents as “Rat Film” (2016),
the director’s equally nimble
debut feature. One disqui-
eting subthread surveys
early inventions like Jules
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volume accordingly.) actual pools, ordinary and
King begins the novel, magic — is expanded upon
which is dedicated to his here, with good effect, as a
wife, author Tabitha King, portal to Boo’ya Moon, the
with “To the public eye, the story’s other world.)
spouses of well-known writ- As the miniseries’ screen-
ers are all but invisible.” Yet writer, King — who can go on
he gives Lisey little life of her for pages relating what
own; she is an appurtenance, might easily be said in a
a helpmate, sometimes a paragraph — has done a
savior to her well-known good job of trimming scenes
writer spouse and a little bit to their essence, and what
of an action heroine, but he’s added tends to enlarge
without intellectual inter- and clarify the narrative.
ests, hobbies or even any sort That Leigh’s Darla has been
of job of her own. (“From the given more to do here, closer
first she felt interest coming to the action, is a happy
from him … that she could change, as she is not afflicted
hardly believe,” King writes, with otherworldly heebie-
“because he’s so much jeebies or saddled with great
smarter and so talented.”) pain or, for that matter, in
She is not even arranging his thrall to some great love, but
papers, the MacGuffin that she is real and funny, in an
triggers the present-day plot eight-hour series in which al-
and sets DeHaan’s obsessed most nothing else is, and
Apple psycho spinning. Notwith- grounds the story whenever
JULIANNE MOORE plays the title character to Clive Owen’s successful writer standing Scott’s declaration, she shows up.
Scott in Stephen King’s miniseries adaptation of his own novel, “Lisey’s Story.” “You are every story,” among DeHaan’s character has
oft-repeated mutual pledges also been given new scenes
from its pacing, composition its foot off that pedal; it is of love, she’s barely a muse. to shore up his obsessive-
and camerawork, with a sim- spooky nearly all the time, This is true of the televi- ness. Like the book, the tele-
‘Lisey’s Story’ ilar emphasis on scenes that even when characters are sion version, but Moore, be- film is nonlinear and multi-
put a few bodies in a big briefly enjoying themselves, ing the actress she is, gives planar, and it is not that too
space. In any case, it swings which has the effect of under- Lisey presence and force. much happens, but that
Where: Apple TV+
for something big and cin- cutting the spookiness. And She goes all in without going what happens happens
When: Any time ematic and artistic and deep, where the story on the page over the top. Indeed, the per- slowly — which means the
Rating: TV-MA (may be which you may take as a good is full of King’s stream-of- formers are committed from (very) violent parts play out
unsuitable for children plan or a bad one. It is the consciousness quotidian their head down to their toes, at length — and that the
under age 17) sort of work some will find in- asides — like the cost of a and if Owen fares less well as story circles back upon itself.
effably beautiful and others plastic bucket and where it King’s quasi-stand-in, it is a It can feel like a bit of a slog.
on the themes of King’s “Mi- unbearably tiresome. Ac- was bought — that suggest less profitable role, in which Still, unless they are par-
sery.” One imagines he has knowledging its prettiness the characters sometimes do he is regularly called on to ticularly attached to some
had plenty of experience of and production values, and normal things normally, the stare off into space, speak in excised minor characters
readers who think he is send- some excellent perform- miniseries is nearly all peaks the voice of his much young- and plot digressions, fans of
ing them messages or steal- ances, I found it better than and valleys, agonies and ec- er self — a little boy growing the novel should appreciate
ing their thoughts or owes unbearable but something stasies, with a mournful up in a strange, haunted the screen translation.
them something for making less than beautiful. score and muted palette. It household — and speak for Boo’ya Moon is nicely ren-
them feel they owe him Directed throughout by gets very dark — literally the author on matters cre- dered — it has the feel of 19th-
something.) Chilean filmmaker Pablo dark — at times; anyone who ative: “Every poet, artist, century fantasy paintings —
Though King has stated Larraín (“Jackie” is one of his had difficulty with the final storyteller, they go to the and its monster more elabo-
his dislike of Stanley American films), it estab- season of “Game of Thrones” pool; it’s dangerous, but it rately imagined than in the
Kubrick’s film adaptation of lishes an atmosphere of is forewarned. (There is a lot also heals and renews, like novel, which will have you
“The Shining,” “Lisey’s mournful dread from the of whispering too, plus a bit the human imagination.” looking up the definition of
Story” seems to take cues first frame and rarely takes of howling, so adjust your (The water motif — there are “piebald.”
Royal
couple
Janssen’s photographic re-
volver and Étienne-Jules
sprout
Marey’s chronophoto-
graphic gun, the latter mod-
eled on the Gatling gun and
capable of “shooting” 12 im-
a Lili
ages per second. These
primitive, pioneering devic-
es were meant to revolution- Harry and Meghan
ize scientific study, to help
observe, deconstruct and name new daughter
quantify matters — dis- after the queen and
tances between celestial
bodies, patterns of bodily Princess Diana.
movement — that the hu-
man eye alone could not. But Memory By Los Angeles Times
the data they produced were THE FILMMAKER’S camera holds fast on a face in “All Light, Everywhere,” staff
often wildly inconclusive, which explores the limitations of human vision, perception and understanding.
prone to varied interpreta- Her name is Lilibet “Lili”
tions and acquired from edges.” His intent here is to based facilities is one of Ax- Diana Mountbatten-Wind-
shifting, irreproducible per- explore how, whether in the on’s principals, though as he sor.
spectives. name of public service or pri- drops one casually contra- ‘All Light, The second child of Prince
Back in the present day, vate enterprise, that exclu- dictory statement after an- Harry and Meghan, the Duke
where most of this docu- sion is often exploited and other — extolling the com-
Everywhere’ and Duchess of Sussex, was
mentary resides, the image- weaponized. pany’s commitment to total born at 11:40 a.m. Friday at
capture industries continue And so Anthony takes us transparency one minute Not rated Santa Barbara Cottage Hos-
apace. And although the inside a Baltimore Police and pointing out its top-se- Running time: 1 hour, pital in Santa Barbara, the
technologies they’ve pro- Department meeting where cret R&D department the 52 minutes press secretary for the couple
duced are vastly more so- officers are trained in the use next — you start to wonder if Playing: The Landmark, said.
phisticated than their 19th of body cameras, lingering he’s leading the filmmaker West Los Angeles Mother and child are well
century forebears, Anthony not on the body-cam footage around or vice versa. and “settling in at home,” the
argues, they are no less likely (which is pointedly ex- One of the movie’s unspo- announcement said. Lili,
to sow confusion and impre- cluded) but on the officers’ ken insights seems to be that who weighed 7 pounds, 11
cision. Invoking Frederick often-revealing reactions to the more a person or corpo- For your safety ounces, is named after her
Douglass’ 1862 quote that the directives they’re given. ration harps about objectiv- great-grandmother, Queen
“beneath the seen lies the He also shows us where the ity and accountability, the The Times is committed to Elizabeth II, whose family
immeasurable unseen,” he cameras are made, taking us less they can be trusted to reviewing theatrical nickname is Lilibet. The mid-
rephrases that insight on an extended tour of Axon, evince any. That observa- film releases during the dle name, Diana, honors
within the specific context of the manufacturer of Tasers tion speaks directly to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harry’s mother, the late Prin-
the photographed image: and other products regu- debate around body cam- Because moviegoing cess of Wales.
“Every image has a frame,” larly used in law enforce- eras, which often have been carries risks during this On their website, the cou-
he notes, “and every frame ment. Our guide to the com- held up as neutral observers, time, we remind readers ple posted a statement about
excludes a world beyond its pany’s Scottsdale, Ariz.- their footage entered into to follow health and safety their new daughter:
court evidence as an unas- guidelines as outlined by “On June 4th, we were
sailable record of the truth. the CDC and local health blessed with the arrival of our
But Anthony handily de- officials. daughter, Lili. She is more
molishes that assumption, than we could have ever
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equipped with a distorting residents, most Black. They grateful for the love and
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4:20 7:10 The Conjuring: The Devil lance Systems to produce vestiges of a substantial nar- 17 million viewers. The couple
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TELEVISION REVIEW
‘Sweet Tooth’
the ideal treat
(with antlers)
No taste for a plague
story? Bingeworthy
escapist fantasy series
might change that.
LORRAINE ALI
TELEVISION CRITIC
A plague with no anti-
dote. Conspiracy theories
gone mad. Apocalyptic con-
sequences. Netflix’s revela-
tory “Sweet Tooth” takes all
the nightmarish “what ifs”
that have rendered us sleep-
less for more than a year and
turns them into a vivid es-
capist fantasy series that
pits darkness and despair
against innocence and hope,
then dresses it up in antlers.
Narrated by Josh Brolin
and executive produced by
Susan and Robert Downey
Jr., the streamer’s latest,
which premiered Friday, is
adapted from the DC comic
book series of the same
name by Jeff Lemire. The
comic has been described as
a cross between “Mad Max”
and “Bambi,” which is also a
fine way to frame this de-
lightfully feral eight-part se-
ries, created by Jim Mickle.
It imagines a world 10
years after “The Great
‘Pop Art nun’ is still blazing trails
[‘Pop Art nun,’ from E1]
in 2015.)
Almost 35 years after her
death, Kent is still breaking
new ground. On Wednes-
day, the L.A. City Council
approved historic-cultural
monument status for the
artist’s former studio, a
humble storefront on
Franklin Avenue near West-
ern Avenue that in recent
years had been inhabited by
a dry cleaner.
The designation is im-
portant not just because
Kent was an artist whose
work was a critical part of
the artistic dialogues Los
Angeles was having in the
1960s but also because she
represents the rare woman
to be honored in the city’s
landscape.
As the Los Angeles Con-
servancy noted in its advo-
cacy for preserving Kent’s
studio building, only 3% of
the city’s more than 1,200
historic-cultural monu-
ments are associated with
women’s heritage. (And as
my colleague Makeda
Easter reported in April,
only 6% are associated with
communities of color.)
In fact, L.A. generally
has relatively few historic-
cultural monument sites as-
sociated with visual arts
history. Among them are
the Tom of Finland House
in Echo Park, the Santa
Monica residence and stu-
dio that once belonged to
artist Don Bachardy and
writer Christopher Isher-
wood, and the rambling hill-
side estate that is the for-
mer site of the Hollywood
Art Center School, an inde-
pendent art school estab-
lished by Henry Lovins in
the early 20th century.
There are fewer sites as-
sociated exclusively with fe-
male artists. A cursory scan
of the lengthy historical-
cultural monuments list
produced by the Depart-
ment of City Planning turns
up the Woman’s Building in
Chinatown, which served as
a hub of feminist art pro-
duction in the 1970s and ’80s.
Even at a national level
it’s hard to find studios that
belonged exclusively to
women. Painter Georgia
O’Keeffe’s former home and
studio in New Mexico is one
of the rarities. Historic stu-
dio spaces that do incorpo-
rate women tend do so as
part of a pair, such as the
home that once belonged to
Abstract Expressionist
painters Lee Krasner and
Jackson Pollock on New
York’s Long Island or the
Charles and Ray Eames
House in L.A.’s Pacific Pali-
sades.
The designation is re-
flective of a shift in preser-
vationists’ thinking about
how we acknowledge his-
tory, thinking that is less
preoccupied with the pris-
tine historical details of a
site than in making sure a
wide range of histories are
acknowledged in a city’s
Crumble,” when a large
swath of the human race
was wiped out by a mysteri-
ous plague. I know, anything
involving face masks and
quarantining seems like the
last thing you’d want to
watch now (aside, perhaps,
from another Meghan and
Harry tell-all/reveal-noth-
ing special), but “Sweet
Tooth” takes us places far
more beauteous, exciting
and bizarre than real-life
lockdown — and, more im-
portant, offers an escape
from our own abnormal
norm in the form of a quirky,
well-told story about a deer
boy.
He’s part of a new phe-
nomenon that arrived with
“The Sick”: an inexplicable
baby boom of half-human,
half-animal newborns, some
with wings, others with
hooves. A politically moti-
vated theory arises that the
hybrids are responsible for
the plague (they aren’t), so a
bounty is put on the heads of
the poor animal children,
who are hunted by power-
drunk Gen. Abbot (Neil
Sandilands) and his army,
the Last Men.
The hybrid we follow is
Gus, a scrappy yet innocent
wild child played by talented
newcomer Christian Con-
“POP ART NUN’S” storefront studio in the 1960s. The site has gained historic-cultural monument status.
CORITA KENT, then known as Sister Mary Corita, at studio in undated photo.
landscape. Late last year,
the 1970 protest route of the
Chicano Moratorium was
listed in the National Regis-
ter of Historic Places; early
this year, the Church of the
Epiphany in Lincoln
Heights — a key site of Chi-
cano activism — was added
to the list.
In April, the Getty Con-
servation Institute an-
nounced that it was teaming
with the Office of Historic
Resources at the Depart-
ment of Planning to help
identify and preserve sites
connected with Black herit-
age. The Getty’s Susan Mac-
donald told The Times that
this was a moment to reeval-
uate how sites are deemed
historic and examine the
“processes and practices”
that might serve as “barri-
ers to social justice.”
The storefront that Kent
inhabited, where she taught
GUS (Christian Convery) is a scrappy yet innocent wild child in “Sweet Tooth.”
‘Sweet Tooth’
Where: Netflix
When: Anytime
Rated: TV-14 (may be
unsuitable for children
under age 14)
very. He’s been sheltered
from the ravages of the end
times while living deep in
the forest with his protective
father (Will Forte), but when
circumstances force him to
venture into the outside
world, he befriends the
fierce, jaded loner Jepperd
(Nonso Anozie). Their
search for lost family takes
them across the post-apoc-
alyptic West, where nature
has reclaimed most of the
land from Yellowstone Park
and collaborated with stu-
dents and created some of
her most memorable work,
no longer bears traces of her
presence.
Kent left the space — and
Los Angeles — after she
withdrew from the Immacu-
late Heart of Mary order in
favor of a secular life in the
late 1960s. Part of her depar-
ture may have been from
pressures related to her in-
creasingly high profile: At
one point, she was featured
on the cover of Newsweek. It
may have also stemmed
from simmering tensions
between the liberal Immac-
ulate Heart order and the
staunchly conservative
Archbishop James Francis
McIntyre, who once com-
plained that the work pro-
duced by Kent and the col-
lege’s art department was
“an affront to me and a scan-
dal to the archdiocese.” In
to urban centers. The land-
scape is full of decaying and
natural beauty, as well as
kindness and treachery.
Other characters include
Dr. Singh (Adeel Akhtar),
who lives in a suburb with a
terrifyingly ardent neigh-
borhood watch, and social
shut-in turned freedom
fighter Aimee (Dania Ra-
mirez), who adopts a hybrid
pig baby and takes up resi-
dence at the old zoo. As their
stories converge, mysteries
about Gus’ origin, the Sick,
hybrids and more are an-
swered and compounded,
giving followers plenty to
look forward to should
“Sweet Tooth” land a second
season.
There are moments in
“Sweet Tooth” that are chill-
ingly close to the bone: doc-
tors covered head to toe in
Photographs from Corita Art Center / Immaculate Heart Community
1970, Immaculate Heart
split from the church and is
today an independent ecu-
menical community.
The studio storefront,
currently unoccupied, sits
on a small corner of a 1.7-acre
parcel that also contains a
shuttered Rite-Aid. Re-
cently, the plot was acquired
by a pair of real estate devel-
opment companies that in-
tend to turn it into a Lazy
Acres natural foods market.
Part of their original plan
had been to tear down the
studio to make way for addi-
tional parking. (Yes, park-
ing.) That has since been
amended to leave the old
studio building intact.
This comes thanks to the
work of many L.A. preserva-
tionists, among them the
staff at the Corita Art Cen-
ter, across the street in a
complex still inhabited by
the Immaculate Heart
S M O N DAY , J U N E 7 , 2 0 21
Kirsty Griffin Warner Bros.
protective gear and face
shields, working on patients
in hermetically sealed
rooms. Aged signage urging
people to socially distance.
Toilet paper supplies trans-
ported by an armed guard.
Reflecting what we’ve just
been through is not a central
theme of this series, which
was shot in New Zealand be-
fore and during the
COVID-19 pandemic, but
when it does hit those
chords, it does so with a sen-
sitivity and weightiness
that’s not easy to achieve in
the realm of fantasy.
Plague aftershock as en-
tertainment seems prepos-
terous right about now, but
when transformed by the
weirdo extremes of “Sweet
Tooth’s” universe, the sub-
ject becomes a post-apoca-
lyptic joyride.
Community.
“The big question is
what’s next,” says the cen-
ter’s director, Nellie Scott.
It’s too soon to say what the
developers will do with the
property — whether they
sell it or lease it for the pur-
pose of an arts center. “We
know that there are a thou-
sand more conversations to
happen.”
Scott hopes the result is
something in keeping with
Kent’s spirit, which wasn’t
simply about showing off
polished works but instead
was more focused on
spurring collaboration and
thinking around social ac-
tion.
“It’ll be a shared vision
with our neighbors, and the
larger community as well, as
how do we center artistic
process and community,”
she says. “The finished
product on the wall is great.
The art is what we center
around. But the process is
what we are interested in. So
how do we center that?”
The location couldn’t be
better for something of that
nature: It’s one block from a
Metro stop, and there’s a
high school right across the
street. (And for those who
like a bit of the unholy, it’s
also right around the corner
from Charles Bukowski’s fa-
vorite Hollywood liquor
store, the Pink Elephant.)
Plus, there is something
poetic about being able to
catch a bit of art on a trip to
the grocery.
“It’s how do you incorpo-
rate art into the everyday,”
says Scott. “That was at the
core of Corita.”
Art preoccupied with the
spiritual and the political?
In an easily accessible place
that isn’t dominated by the
art market? We could all use
a bit more of that.
E3
Spotify
put that
on my
playlist?
Wait ...
Music streamer’s new
features purport to
reveal a user’s tastes.
Cheers, jeers follow.
By Suzy Exposito
How special of a snow-
flake are you?
Last week, Spotify rolled
out a feature for mobile users
called Only You, a collection
of data based on your stream-
ing activity over the last six
months. In what’s essentially
a midyear remix of Spotify’s
end-of-year Wrapped feature,
Only You purports to show off
the vast range of your musical
taste, with splashy person-
alized graphics and playlists
to match.
Features include Your
Song Year, which spotlights
your favorite artists across
different scenes and time pe-
riods; Your Dream Dinner
Party, which whips up a
playlist based on the three
artists you’d supposedly
most like to dine with; and
Your Artist Pair, in which
Spotify reveals the two most
disparate artists on your re-
cent plays.
“Who else but you would
play Sech after The Dismem-
berment Plan?” reads one of
my personalized cards.
Touché, Spotify. While I’m far
from the only alt Latina on
this planet, I cannot think of
anyone I know who’d chase
cerebral D.C. indie rock with
Panamanian reggaetón in
one sitting. But on a platform
with 356 million users, it can’t
be completely outside the
realm of possibility.
Although some users
shared their Only You results
with glee, skeptics abounded.
“Spotify is genius at creating
shareable bulls— that we all
eat up. I respect it and don’t
think I’ve seen something
else as good at what it is,”
wrote comedian Dave Mc-
Namee. Members of the
Union of Musicians and Al-
lied Workers, who are cam-
paigning for Spotify to raise
its artist royalty rates, used
the social media trend as a
launchpad for their activism.
“#OnlyYou Spotify would re-
duce artist royalties the same
year your stock price tripled,”
tweeted Galaxie 500 drum-
mer Damon Krukowski.
The most buzzed-about
feature is the Audio Birth
Chart, which maps your per-
sonality through the artists
you’ve recently listened to.
The concept is loosely in-
spired by an astrological
birth chart, which is a snap-
shot of where the planets
were at the minute you were
born. This map is said to re-
flect certain aspects of your
character, as well as opportu-
nities and challenges you may
face on a daily, weekly or
monthly basis until you shuf-
fle off this mortal coil.
Spotify’s Audio Birth
Chart, however, has nothing
to do with the planets, nor the
time and date of your birth.
It’s really just three artists
culled from your listening
habits over the last six
months: Your “sun” artist is
the one you’ve listened to the
most; your “moon” artist is
the “most emotive” (as per
Spotify) of the batch; and
your “rising” artist is a recent
discovery or an artist newly
introduced to your library. (In
astrology, your sun sign re-
lates to your personality, your
moon sign to how you experi-
ence your emotions and your
rising sign to how you inter-
act with the outside world.)
Spotify has used astrology
to market its streaming serv-
ice before: In 2019, astrologer
Chani Nicholas curated offi-
cial Spotify playlists to de-
scribe each of the 12 sun signs
through song. Personalized
algorithms may be Spotify’s
bread and butter, but per-
haps they should leave those
of the cosmic variety to the
astrologers.
Spotify
SPOTIFY’S Audio Birth
Chart, in screenshots.
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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):
The item is worth what peo-
ple will pay for it; it has zero
inherent worth, only what is
perceived. You’ll drum up in-
terest and make a sale.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Nothing is lost, though
things have drifted beyond
reach. It gives you room and
reason to stretch yourself.
You’ll have what you need
when you need it.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
The more fun you have, the
more effective you’ll be with
the serious work of the day.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
You let go of one attachment
and life gets more interest-
ing. The offerings get even
better the longer you can
hold an opening.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You want many to be lifted
by what you put into the
world but if you’re too gen-
eral, you’ll speak to no one.
Focus on the core few who
CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By John R. O’Brien
ACROSS
1 10-year-old Oscar
winner O’Neal
6 Head lock
11 Title for Lee or Grant:
Abbr.
14 The Colosseum, e.g.
15 Beyond bad
16 Messenger molecule
17 *Selling point for a used
car
19 Homer’s “rosy-fingered”
dawn goddess
20 Jacob’s twin
21 “Young Sheldon”
network
22 Beauty’s beau
24 Part-time player
26 Raise, as sails
28 *Going out with another
couple
32 In the stars
35 Lena of “Alias”
36 Expected in
37 Old-school “OMG!”
38 With “the,” rare batting
feat whose components
begin the answers to
starred clues
40 Note to the staff
41 Villain Luthor
42 Work bound to sell?
43 Former Swedish cars
44 *High club in a deli
48 Krall of jazz
49 Power failures
53 Former senator Lott
55 Bad firecracker
56 Hair clump
57 Anthem contraction
58 *Metaphor for the
perfect person for the
job
62 Printer problem
63 Chris of “Captain
America”
64 Arnie __, Don Draper’s
neighbor on “Mad Men”
65 Suffix with direct
66 Dentist’s request
67 Wind: Pref.
DOWN
1 Uses a stun gun on
2 Come about
3 Coffee break hr.
4 Like a tour without a
leader
5 Prefix with ware
6 Pair of shillings, in
British slang
will really get what you offer.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Don’t wait for permission to
move forward. Asking for it
only alerts others to the fact
that you don’t have it.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
You don’t have to worry
about who owns what. No ef-
fort to cling, save, hide or
hoard can keep what be-
longs together from finding
its way back together.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You’re fun to be around. The
positive emotions you emit
are a joy for others to soak in.
The appreciation of new
people will invigorate.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): Terms of endear-
ment like “honey” come as a
comfort from the lips of
loved ones. Perhaps they are
even more so coming from a
perfect stranger today.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): The more you study a
topic, the more of it you find
to study. Your study of a
thing that gives you energy
is better for your vitality.
7 Uses oars
8 West end?
9 Fresno-to-L.A. dir.
10 Belgrade native
11 “Wish I’d thought of
that!”
12 Grandson
of Adam
13 Creator of the GOP
elephant
18 Hosiery hue
23 Approx. number
25 Whale group
26 Satan’s realm
27 “Garfield” canine
29 Age of Reason
philosopher John
30 Anesthetized
31 Most ’90s Prizms
32 Pool table surface
33 Stress or worry,
it’s said
34 Wildlife preservation
method
38 Either “Fargo” director
39 Film wise man with his
own grammar
40 Very long race
42 Nonsense
43 Wimbledon unit
COMICS
6/7/21
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): The cost of having a
thing is greater than your
current accounting shows.
What about the time in-
volved? You won’t know if it’s
worth it until you consider
the entire picture.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): Inspiration strikes. You
act on it, creating quickly by
hand and then delivering it
before you have time to sec-
ond-guess yourself.
Today’s birthday (June
7): The best way to ensure
that you get your piece of the
pie is to make the pie your-
self. Your gift from the stars
is a cosmic peach to start the
recipe. Your creations bring
good times and fortification
to all who share in the work.
Financial growth and reno-
vations happen too. Virgo
and Pisces adore you. Lucky
numbers: 8, 40, 15, 35, 22.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency
45 Bowling target
46 Golfing venue
47 Spiral-horned antelope
50 Pretense
51 Zimbalist Jr. of “77
Sunset Strip”
52 Shorthand pro
53 WWII Japanese general
54 Raise, as kids
55 Animal lairs
59 Egg: Pref.
60 __ cave
61 New Deal agcy.
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
6/7/21
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
If Cy the Cynic loses a
makeable contract, he
shrugs it off. He says you
learn nothing by doing
something right. In that
case, Cy may be my club’s
most learned player.
At today’s four spades,
Cy took the ace of diamonds,
thought for all of three sec-
onds and led a heart to his
jack and a heart to dummy’s
queen. East took the ace and
returned a diamond to dis-
lodge the king.
Cy next led a club to his
ace and conceded a club.
East won and led the ace and
his low trump. When Cy won
in dummy and threw his last
club on the king of hearts,
West ruffed. Down one.
Cy can’t succeed by tak-
ing the ace of clubs at the
ASK AMY
A recovering addict’s guilt
Dear Amy: I’m a wife and a
mother. Six years ago, I had
an affair. It went on for about
three months. At the time,
my son was 3 years old and I
was an active addict, making
so many bad decisions.
My husband found out
about all of it and wanted to
work through it. I fully ex-
pected him to divorce me
and to take our son away be-
cause I was not a good
mother or wife.
I’ve been sober for six
years now, and I still feel so
guilty. I used to have dreams
at least once a week about
infidelity, whether it was me
or my husband being un-
faithful. After these dreams,
I would wake up crying and
hyperventilating. Now the
dreams occur every four to
six months.
How do I stop this? My
husband has forgiven me,
and I thought I had forgiven
myself but clearly there are
still some unresolved feel-
ings on my part.
Guilty Dreamer
Dear Dreamer: My first
thought is that you are mak-
ing great progress. You are
married to a graceful man
and have the privilege of be-
ing a parent to your son.
You are having these
dreams less frequently. You
are sober, you are taking re-
sponsibility for your own ac-
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
second trick and conceding
a club; East can clear dum-
my’s trumps again.
To make four spades, Cy
ducks a club at Trick Two.
Then, if East leads the ace
and a low trump, Cy draws
trumps, loses a heart to the
ace and pitches a club on
dummy’s high heart. If East
doesn’t lead trumps, Cy
ruffs his last club in dummy.
A trump lead, ducked by
East, always beats four
spades.
You hold: ♠ J 3 ♥ K Q 6 3 2
♦ A K 5 2 ♣ 9 2. You open one
heart, your partner re-
sponds two clubs, you bid
two diamonds and he tries
two spades. What do you
say?
Answer: Partner’s new-
suit bid of two spades is forc-
ing. I would bid the obvious
2NT now. But since partner
may not have spades for his
tions, and you are working
on the next step toward
greater health and healing.
Forgiving yourself is a big
job, and tapping into your
own mothering skills might
help. When your son makes a
mistake, feels guilty and
beats himself up for it, you
likely tap into your gentlest
self in order to comfort him.
You need to learn how to
apply this skill, this very pa-
rental sort of gentleness,
toward yourself. Your tend-
ency to be unforgiving
toward yourself likely goes
back further than your ad-
diction and infidelity.
Your addiction might
have been one way of anes-
thetizing or numbing these
tougher feelings and reac-
tions. A sobriety counselor
or support group would help
you to continue to put your
past into your past.
I hope you will continue
to work this through in order
to be the very best version of
yourself.
Dear Amy: I have three
long-term friends who have
planted big Black Lives Mat-
ter signs in their front yards.
I have invited them to rallies
and to help out at five sepa-
rate NAACP events.
They always have an ex-
cuse not to engage. We all go
to churches with all-white
congregations and send our
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
“fourth-suit” two spades,
some players would be reluc-
tant to bid 2NT with no
spade stopper.
North dealer
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children to all-white private
schools.
I am starting to make
some efforts to try to bring
about change. They only
showboat with signs that
they bought from Staples.
Any suggestions?
Cheesed
Dear Cheesed: You should
probably stop trying to drag
your three friends into ally-
ship. They are obviously not
interested in doing this with
you. Stop asking.
The institutions you be-
long to might be good places
for you to try to continue
your advocacy.
You could start an activ-
ist reading group and/or
connect with Black (or at
least less white) institutions
in other neighborhoods to
offer support and allyship,
or to simply spend time with
and listen to the stories and
lessons offered by people
whose experience moving
through this world might be
radically different from your
own.
Read “How to Be an An-
tiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi.
Part memoir, part polemic,
Kendi’s book provides pro-
vocative talking points and
concrete action plans.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.
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COMICS

DOONESBURY By Garry Trudeau Doonesbury is on vacation. This is a reprint. DILBERT By Scott Adams

LA CUCARACHA By Lalo Alcaraz BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers

HALF FULL By Maria Scrivan

JUMP START By Robb Armstrong

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis

9 CHICKWEED LANE By Brooke McEldowney

LIO By Mark Tatulli BLONDIE By Dean Young & John Marshall

ZITS By Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman GET FUZZY By Darby Conley

TUNDRA By Chad Carpenter BIZARRO By Wayno and Piraro

PRICKLY CITY By Scott Stantis DRABBLE By Kevin Fagan

FRAZZ By Jef Mallett MUTTS By Patrick McDonnell

NON SEQUITUR By Wiley PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz

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Spirited
union
of grace,
magic
[‘Circus,’ from E1]
associations with our time.
Glass long ago licensed Lax’s
circus poetry. The compos-
er’s collaboration with Cirkus
Crikör, which commissioned
the opera, well predates the
COVID-19 pandemic. The
magical score, discerning li-
bretto and enchanting pro-
duction do not specifically
bespeak timeliness or autobi-
ography. Yet embedded in all
this is a guide to how we can
best put one post-pandemic
foot in front of the other to
ensure our survival and that
of our planet.
The revelation of “Circus
Days and Nights” is existen-
tially simple and direct. Cut
through a thin layer of taw-
driness and cheap tinsel that
may be on its surface, and you
discover that a circus can ex-
ist only thanks to absolute
trust. The life of every acrobat
lies in unerring balance. Bal-
ance is the religion of circus
life. Trust and balance, of
course, are the two essential
things our polarized societies
need to regain.
MOODS OF THE TIMES
“Circus Days and Nights”
is the Glass method for how
that can be done. All and all,
the last year has been a time
of Glass lost and Glass found,
the first time a peripatetic
composer stopped in his
tracks. But his infinitely
adaptable music that so eas-
ily captures the moods of
the times — melancholic or
merry and all points in be-
tween — has nonetheless pro-
vided a pandemic sound-
track from just about every-
where. New recordings have
come along: Of particular
value are the recent Piano
Sonata, written for and per-
formed by Maki Namekawa
(which also got a lovely,
streamed performance by
the Center for the Art of Per-
formance at UCLA), and a su-
perb recording of parts of the
soundtrack to the film “Mi-
shima,” performed by violin-
ist Pekka Kuusisto.
Glass operas have been
everywhere. The Metropoli-
tan Opera’s nightly streams
have included “Satyagraha”
Ex-chief talks LAPD, Floyd, his memoir
[Bratton, from E1]
revisits his career with an eye
toward explaining and de-
fending his approach. And he
tries to wrestle with the cur-
rent moment, arguing that
Floyd’s killing has set policing
back decades while sticking
to his long-held, but now
highly controversial, belief
that a civil society depends on
robust enforcement.
Bratton spoke with The
Times last week about the
movement to defund the po-
lice, the responsibility and the
burden of his profession, and
what’s become of old boss
Rudy Giuliani. This conversa-
tion has been edited for clarity
and length.
It’s a timely book.
It was originally sched-
uled to come out before
George Floyd was killed.
Thank God we weren’t ready.
I would argue so much of
what is out there about polic-
ing has been from the other
side. This is from an inside
policing perspective.
The headline in the New
York Post this morning is
about the return of the
squeegee guys who cleaned
windshields at red lights. In
1994, I came to New York
when Giuliani was mayor and
he told me, “We’ve got to get
rid of the squeegee pests.” So
here we are. This is what the
book is about; in some re-
spects, we’re right back
where we started. In the ’70s,
it was the depolicing, decrim-
inalization and deinstitution-
alization. In 2021, what are we
talking about? We’re talking
about defunding, we’re talk-
ing about decriminalization
of many of the laws we used
to work with and, in many
respects, we’re talking about
deinstitutionalization. But
this time, instead of emptying
out the mental institutions,
we’re emptying out the pris-
ons. It’s deja vu all over again.
Is that disheartening to you?
It’s the optimist in me that
I see this as a real opportuni-
ty. In many respects, this
crisis is worse than back in
the ’70s or back in the ’90s.
The good news is we’ve
PERFORMERS take to the air in Malmö Opera’s production of Philip Glass’ latest, “Circus Days and Nights.”
and “Akhnaten.” Opéra Nice
Côte d’Azur has posted Lu-
cinda Childs’ luminous new
virtual production of
“Akhnaten” on YouTube. A
week before the “Circus” pre-
miere, Long Beach Opera
mounted Glass’ Cocteau op-
era, “Les Enfants Terribles,”
atop a shopping center ga-
rage; it was excellently per-
formed, and, despite a futile
attempt at layering angst, it
had more substance than the
silly new Eisenhower-era pro-
duction that the Hungarian
State Opera in Budapest
streamed months earlier.
The best Glass has been
archival high-quality films
from the composer’s own fes-
tival in Big Sur, Days and
Nights (now we know where
its name comes from).
Among the offerings are
“Whistleblower,” a startling
off-kilter look at the art of
surveillance (CAP UCLA had
to cancel it during the pan-
demic), and an elegantly un-
settling “Godot”-esque
pocket opera, “Drowning,”
which opens with a heart-
warming ode to the print
newspaper.
But nothing has matched
the profound amalgamation
of eloquence and entertain-
ment found in “Circus Days
and Nights.” In the opera, an
old Lax, sung by a baritone,
ponders his younger circus-
fixated self, sung by a so-
prano, with wise bemuse-
ment. The circus comes to
town as an engine of wonder.
BILL BRATTON, left, with City Council member
Eric Garcetti and L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn in 2003.
Antonio Sammarone
PETER KNOBLER, above, co-wrote the memoir.
learned so much in the last
50 years. I would argue that
in 2016, when I was leaving
policing, we had arrived at a
good place. And it all blew
apart with George Floyd. We
had not realized how thin the
scab was over the race issue.
So much of the book is a
defense of policing …
I don’t see it as defending
the police. I don’t think they
need defending. I’m advocat-
ing for their importance,
their essentiality. Almost
everything that I have advo-
cated for, created, imple-
mented in Boston, New York
twice, L.A. is now under
attack. I wanted to make
sure that my voice was not
lost.
Lax likens it to the Genesis,
an act of celestial creation.
In his libretto, Hwang be-
gins where Lax does, with the
line: “Sometimes we go on a
search/and do not know what
we are looking for, until we
come again to our beginning.”
Whether conscious or not
(and I suspect not), Glass
goes back to his beginnings.
The circus tinge to Glass’
score, which is written for a
small ensemble and a drama-
tic accordionist, Minna Weu-
lander, brings to mind the
composer’s early studies with
French composer Darius
Milhaud, and especially Mil-
haud’s popular surrealist
Cocteau ballet score, “Le
Boeuf sur le Toit” (The Ox on
the Roof). The Paris pre-
miere featured circus clowns.
Glass also notably refer-
ences his operatic start. Like
“Einstein on the Beach,” an
opera in the form of cycles,
there is no real drama, just, in
this case, a deepening insight
into the meaning of the circus
and its representation of life
as repeating cycles. The op-
era ends where it begins, with
the opening lines. Just as the
circus pulls up tent, moves on
and begins again.
“The traveling circus is al-
ways in motion, even when it
seems to be standing still,” is
another of Lax’s memorable
lines that finds its way into
Hwang’s libretto. The oppo-
site is also true with Glass’
late-style music. There are
parts of the new score that
From Bill Bratton
Penguin Random House
Reading the book, one thing
that jumped out is how
policing in America goes
through cycles of progress
and setbacks or crisis. Do
you think it will always be
like this?
Policing is like medicine.
It’s a practice. It’s never going
to arrive at a final destina-
tion. We’re still wrestling, for
example, with what the ap-
propriate police role should
be with the mentally ill, the
homeless, the drug-addicted.
And that’s 50 years after
those responsibilities were
first dumped on us in the ’70s.
There isn’t a police chief in
America who wouldn’t like to
get rid of that responsibility,
but I’ll predict for you that
most of it is not going to be
sound remarkably fresh, and
there are patches of note-
spinning, the noodling he has
done a million times.
This is no place to dismiss
the noodling, as it too often
has been dismissed. It ac-
companies circus acts and
operates on the level of neces-
sary trust and love. It trusts
that music need distract nei-
ther performer in a great
acrobatic or juggling act nor
the audience. Everyone and
everything in a circus is use-
ful and necessary.
On the other hand, several
aspects of the Glass score
sound new and original. The
opening is a knockout. A
trombone solo in the second
act dazzles. Instrumental
combinations are boldly col-
ored. A ballerina walks on the
heads of acrobats while mys-
terious vocalise from an ethe-
real soprano seems to lift her
in the air.
A LA ‘EINSTEIN’
Again, like “Einstein,” this
is an opera of choreographed
movement. It can’t be a coin-
cidence that when the young
Lax removes her suit coat,
she is wearing a white shirt
and suspenders, looking very
much like the Einsteins in the
original Robert Wilson pro-
duction.
Also Wilsonian is the light,
seemingly effortless touch of
“Circus.” A wedding of spirit
and flesh, in which neither
leads, is, we learn, what a cir-
cus performer must realize.
taken away, because they
won’t fund it. If that’s the
case, then train us better
how to deal with it.
You mentioned Giuliani
earlier. In the book, you say
he is not the man you knew
in the 1990s.
Giuliani was smart. He
was hard charging. And from
what he did as U.S. attorney,
I saw him as a man with
great integrity. He was a man
with a big ego. I have a big
ego, so I understand people
with big egos. And I honestly
don’t know what happened
to him. The Rudy I knew
would never subjugate him-
self to anybody. Whether it
was him trying to get back in
the game or to make money
as he was going through a
very expensive divorce —
whatever happened, he
became a caricature of him-
self.
Throughout your career,
and again in the book,
you’ve rejected the idea
that crime rates are driven
up or down by larger soci-
etal and economic forces.
Police, you believe, are the
deciding factor. After years
of declines, violent crime is
rising again in L.A., New
York and elsewhere. Why?
Basically, the police are
being handcuffed. Hand-
cuffed in the sense that
because of the abuses of
some, Derek Chauvin [the
former officer convicted of
murdering Floyd] and oth-
ers, police are not trusted by
the community to effectively
enforce laws.
And it’s also the continu-
ing failure of governments to
deal with the emotionally
disturbed, the homeless, the
drug addiction problem.
Government is failing very
badly at that. And who ends
up being the net catching all
of that debris? The police.
I would say that we have
the formula. We know what
works. We should build on
that formula, rather than
some of the mistakes we’ve
made in the past. These are
incredibly tough times. But,
God, we have the opportuni-
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
Mats Backer
When attempting to balance
body, soul and mind, if you try
to hold on, you fall. The circus
achieves everything through
grace.
The first art of the circus
is the art of preparation, and
the magic of Cirkus Crikör is
preparation. The company’s
acts have been refined and
refined. Having turned 84
and having written at least 30
operas (how you count de-
pends on what you chose to
call an opera), Glass has re-
fined and refined his tech-
nique. Lax’s poetry, not as
well-known as it should be, is
the soul refinement, the poet
a paragon of simplifying life
to its essence.
Malmö Opera captures all
that. The performers, from
circus and opera, are superb,
the two art forms functioning
as a piece. Swedish COVID-19
regulations allow an audi-
ence of only 50, but it’s still an
audience. Unlike other opera
companies, which typically
stream one performance and
then archive it, each perform-
ance from Malmö is a
livestream (a reasonable
$12), so every night (in L.A., it
will be morning when you
watch) will be different. The
first performance had techni-
cal glitches, the second, a few
days later, went smoothly.
Every night has room for
the unexpected. From wher-
ever we watch, we as an audi-
ence must know “Circus
Days and Nights” is not just
about whom to trust but how.
ty to get it right. I wish I was
a little younger, to get back in
the game.
You write that George
Floyd’s killing was “100% a
murder,” but you also say
there is no epidemic in the
U.S. of police killing Black
men. That puts you at odds
with many who see this as a
systemic problem. Do you
think any good has come
out of the country’s reckon-
ing last summer?
Certainly. I think Blacks,
to borrow from [Los Angeles
community leader] Sweet
Alice [Harris], are being
seen, being heard. Look at
the societal change in the
last year. And, going forward,
we hopefully will evolve in a
better way. And I really
believe that out of this chaos,
out of all this turmoil, we’ll
come out the better for it.
But you also say the dam-
age done to policing has
been dramatic.
A tremendous, tremen-
dous amount. And, so it’s
going be a matter in some
respects of the phoenix
rising from the ashes. But
we’ve got a very strong
phoenix in those ashes. In
Los Angeles, the LAPD is a
minority-majority depart-
ment, and there’s a very
heavy Latino influence.
You’ve got a lot of gay offi-
cers. You’ve got a much
stronger foundation now to
build on. But I’ve never seen
morale as bad as it is at this
moment, and it’s having an
impact on recruiting new
officers.
I arrived in Los Angeles in
2002. Starting a few years
before that, until effectively
the George Floyd demon-
strations, there were no
large-scale, racial disturb-
ances in Los Angeles. Think
about that in the city of Los
Angeles, nearly 20 years
where things had quieted
down. And I felt very good
about that because it was a
lot of work that we had done.
So similarly, coming out of
the turmoil this time, maybe
we can go forward.
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American Greed The sea-
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(N) 8 p.m. NBC
The Bachelorette Quick-
witted marketing manager
Katie Thurston, who be-
came an instant fan favorite
on “The Bachelor,” is in the
driver’s seat in this new
season. 8 p.m. ABC
Hell’s Kitchen The contest-
ants prepare meals for
boxing legend Mike Tyson
and NASCAR driver Kurt
Busch. 8 p.m. Fox
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Fox
Best Baker in America
Judges Gesine Prado and
Jason Smith and host Carla
Hall choose the season’s
winner. 9 p.m. Food Net-
work
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American Pickers (N) 9
p.m. History
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NBC
The Good Doctor In the
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p.m. ABC
Infamy: When Fame Turns
Deadly Singer-songwriter
Monica hosts this new true-
crime series. 10 p.m. VH1
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Legacy Anderson Cooper
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College Baseball 10 a.m., 1, 4
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2021 Women’s College Soft-
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First Lady Jill Biden and Dr.
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The Daily Show (N) 11 p.m.
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Conan Don Cheadle. (N) 11
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The Tonight Show Robert
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KNBC
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The Late Late Show
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KABC
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UZO ADUBA on “In
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Hell’s Kitchen The contestants have their first dinner
EPIX Jungleland War of the Worlds (TVMA) Domina The story of Livia Enslaved Cultures Left Be- Enslaved Samuel L. Jackson
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Mike Tyson and NASCAR driver Kurt Busch. 8 p.m. Fox lie Hunnam, transmission, humankind is Rome’s most powerful and atlantic slave trade; divers nalists to go on a mission to
Jack O’Con- all but wiped out by a devas- influential empress. Å from search for wreckage of understand the process that
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feature dishes from the Southwest and Pacific regions of the HBO Kajillionaire ››› (2020) Evan Rachel In Treatment In Treatment Pause With Axios (TV14) In Treatment In Treatment
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During a desperate and hastily conceived sessions with apy sessions talk about apy sessions apy sessions
Jason Smith and host Carla Hall choose the season’s winner. heist, they charm a stranger into joining various pa- with various current cul- with various with various
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The Good Doctor In the conclusion of the two-part sea- by her boyfriend, a New York art gallery assistant creates an exhibit for souvenirs from work, live and play in Harlem as they strive
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ture (5:30) (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å
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Central Korea (7) Now With Lisa Ling (TV14) Å a Dictator (N) Å a Dictator (N) Å a Dictator (TV14) Å
Nickelodeon Loud House Danger Force Danger Force Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å
Conan Don Cheadle. (N) 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. TBS
OWN Deadline (7) Deadline: Crime (TV14) Deadline: Crime (TV14) Deadline: Crime (TV14) Deadline: Crime (TV14)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Robert De Paramount The Hunger Games ››› (2012) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. A The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ››› (2013) Jennifer Law-
Niro; Anthony Ramos; Anne-Marie and Niall Horan. (N) resourceful teen takes her younger sister’s place in a brutal contest in rence, Josh Hutcherson. After their victory Katniss Ever-
11:34 p.m. KNBC which youths from each of 12 districts fight to the death on live television. deen and Peeta Mellark embark on a Victors Tour. (PG-13)
(PG-13) (7) Å Å
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Chris Matthews; Sundance The Karate Kid ››› (1984) Ralph Macchio. Terminator 2: Judgment Day ›››› (1991) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton. Two
Cynthia Erivo performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS A New Jersey teen moves to California, cyborgs from the future battle over the life of a teen who will someday lead humanity
meets bullies and learns karate from a against the machines. (R) Å
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11:35 p.m. KABC handyman, Mr. Miyagi. (PG) (6) Å
Late Night With Seth Meyers Patrick Wilson; Quinta Syfy Jurassic Park Hellboy › (2019) David Harbour, Milla Jovovich. (R) Å The Chronicles of Riddick ›› (2004) Vin Die-
III (6) Å sel, Colm Feore. (PG-13) Å
Brunson; Brendan Buckley. (N) 12:36 a.m. KNBC
TBS Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy American Dad Final Space Conan (TV14) Seinfeld Å
The Late Late Show With James Corden Julianne TCM Married Before Beg, Borrow or Steal › (1937) Frank Morgan, Double Wedding ›› (1937) William Powell, Myrna Loy. A At the Circus
Moore; Rufus Wainwright performs. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS Breakfast ›› Florence Rice. An American con man invites dress designer falls for a lazy artist after deeming him un- ››› (1939)
(1937) (6:30) his estranged wife and daughter to visit him worthy of her sister. Å (11:15) Å
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC Å in Paris at a chateau he does not have. Å
TLC Seeking Sister Seeking Sister Wife (TV14) sMothered (TV14) Crossing Germophobia (TV14) (N) Extreme Sisters (TV14) Can’t
MOVIES Wife (7) One Nation. (N) the Line. (N) Live Without You.

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Toon Apple & Onion American Dad American Dad American Dad Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Rick and Morty Family Guy Family Guy
First Blood (1982) 10:30 a.m. Showtime (7:45) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TV14) Animated. Å Animated. Å

Krisha (2015) 11 a.m. TMC Travel Mysteries of Mysteries of the Unknown (TVPG) Don Wildman investigates Nostradamus: End of Days Nostradamus: End of Days
the Unknown a mysterious purple goo that inspired a classic movie. (N) (TV14) Visions of cata- (TV14) Visions of massive
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) 11:55 (TVPG) (6) Å strophic floods. (N) Å earthquakes. Å
a.m. TruTV Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) The Change-Up ›› (2011) Ryan Reynolds. (R) Å
TV Land Andy Griffith Raymond Å Raymond (TVG) (8:45) Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å King of Queens King of Queens
Back to the Future Part II (1989) 12:30 p.m. MTV
USA Chicago P.D. WWE The superstars of the WWE square off in the ring and behind the scenes. (N) Å Queen of the South (TV14)
Monster’s Ball (2001) 1:05 p.m. Epix VH1 Black Ink Crew Black Ink Crew (TV14) (N) Å Cartel Crew (TV14) (Season Infamy: When Fame Turns Dead- Black Ink Crew (TV14) Å
(7) Å premiere) (N) Å ly (Premiere) (N) Å
Ad Astra (2019) 2:20 p.m. Cinemax
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Back to the Future Part III (1990) 3 p.m. MTV BSSC 2021 Roland-Garros Tennis Day 9: Men’s and Women’s Round of 16. (N) (7) Fight Sports: Boxing
BSW MLB Baseball Kansas City Royals at Angels. (Live) (6:30) Postgame Angels Weekly Flamethrowers Poker
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 5 p.m. Freeform
ESPN MLB Baseball Chicago Cubs at San Diego Padres. (Live) (7) SportsCenter (N) Å SportsCenter (N) Å
Megan Leavey (2017) 5:04 p.m. Encore ESPN2 College Baseball NCAA Regional/Super Regional: Teams TBA. (Live) (7) Around Horn Interruption NFL Live Å
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 6 p.m. Showtime FS1 NASCAR Cup Skip and Shannon: Undisputed Å TMZ Sports PBC Collection From Jan. 19, PBC Collection Å
Series (5) (TV14) (N) Å 2019. Å
The Karate Kid (1984) 6 p.m. Sundance MLB MLB Tonight (N) (7) Å Quick Pitch (N) Å Quick Pitch Å
The Hunger Games (2012) 7 p.m. Paramount NBC Sports NHL Overtime To Be Announced Super High Roller Bowl: London Poker After Dark Mecum Top 10 Mecum Top 10
SNLA Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Sports Shrines of LA Sports Shrines of LA
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