Criminal charges will not be brought against thousands of Los Angeles protesters arrested for violating curfew and other police orders, prosecutors announced Monday.
City Attorney Mike Feuer …
Criminal charges will not be brought against thousands of Los Angeles protesters arrested for violating curfew and other police orders, prosecutors announced Monday.
City Attorney Mike Feuer said his office will develop an alternative outside court that carries no punishment for those cited for violating curfew or failing to obey orders to leave demonstrations over George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey said she won’t file charges in protest misdemeanor cases from other parts of Los Angeles County.
The city had the largest number of the 10,000 protest arrests in the U. S. tracked by The Associated Press. Demonstrations over police brutality and racial injustice have gripped the nation for days.
LA police and sheriff’s deputies arrested more than 3,000 people over days of mostly peaceful protests.
