The cities covered by this decision include Long Beach, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Torrance, Burbank, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach.
L.A. City Atty. Mike Feuer also said Monday he won’t seek criminal or financial penalties against those arrested under those circumstances and would instead divert them into a program of dialog discussion. Most of the more than 2,000 arrests for those alleged offenses occurred in the city.
Lacey’s opponent in the upcoming race for district attorney, George Gascon, has called for all such cases to be dismissed. Feuer said he knows the anxiety associated with arrests and wants to reassure protesters that this is about positive change from what happened. She said Feuer should provide more information to those who were arrested soon, because “a lot of people are concerned, a lot of people were swept up.”
Those advocates said the city’s new stance does not resolve all the concerns outlined in the lawsuit. They added that officials shouldn’t waffle on repercussions but rather dismiss the charges immediately.
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