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ISAIAH VALDOVINOS , 5, center, raises a fist during a Black Lives Matter rally in Los Angeles in June
against police brutality. Isaiah’s uncle Cesar Rodriguez was killed in an incident involving law enforcement.
‘We’re warriors for our sons’
East L.A. moms of slain children target police brutality
By Esmeralda
Bermudez
Rosa Moreno had heard
many stories in her neigh-
borhood about mothers
whose sons were killed by
police.
Their pain seemed un-
speakable. Their cases left a
trail of questions.
“Police are supposed to
keep us safe,” Moreno used
to think. “Why would they
hurt people and take away
their children?”
Then, in 2017, her 23-year-
old son, Cesar Rodriguez,
died brutally in an en-
counter with law enforce-
ment, and the mother of
three became yet another
COLUMN ONE
Bosses lending a sympathetic ear
Pandemic prompts
managers to take on
new roles: counselor,
supporter, coach.
By Deborah Netburn
ack in the pre-
B COVID-19 days,
Mitchell Spear-
man didn’t talk to
his staff much
about their feelings.
As senior director of
principal gifts for the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin,
he helped set goals for his
team of fundraisers, as-
sisted them in meeting
those goals and celebrated
their successes when they
did.
He aimed to be support-
ive and encouraging, but
delving into staffers’ person-
al lives? Inquiring about
their support networks?
That wasn’t part of the job
description.
But as the country
abruptly shut down in one
unimaginable week in
March, Spearman, like
many managers at compa-
nies large and small, found
himself taking on new roles:
counselor, supporter, well-
ness coach.
Goals and metrics tem-
porarily went out the win-
dow. The mental and phys-
ical health of his staff be-
came the priority.
As Spearman scheduled
one-on-one meetings with
each member of his team, he
wrote a checklist of things to
talk about: Where are you
living? How comfortable are
you going out? Are you
getting food delivery? Do
you feel safe?
He also invited each
team member to share their
biggest fears.
“That was a watershed
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TERESA DOMINGUEZ , left, and Rosa Moreno each
lost sons at the hands of law enforcement.
FELICIA JADCZAK, left, co-CEO of the Boston firm She+ Geeks Out, leads
a diversity summit. She has been attending more to her staff’s emotional needs.
Reading, writing and anxiety
Worried parents and
teachers in California
are split over logistics
of reopening schools.
By Howard Blume,
David Lauter
and Nina Agrawal
Weeks before the start of
school, Californians are
deeply split over whether
campuses can safely reopen
amid the ongoing co-
ronavirus surge — caught in
a collective moment of un-
certainty and anxiety also
reflected among teachers
Photographs by
and education leaders.
Parents, as indicated in a
new statewide poll, are grap-
pling with the prospect of
stressful, less effective learn-
ing at home — not to men-
tion continued child care
woes — and fears that chil-
dren exposed at school
could bring COVID-19 and
its potentially deadly risks
into their home.
Similar concerns among
school workers are expected
to crystallize in Los Angeles
on Friday morning when the
teachers union will recom-
mend a delay in reopening
campuses tentatively
planned for Aug. 18. For now,
learning from home — in
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
cautionary tale around East
L.A.
In recent years, she and
other women from Lincoln
Heights, Boyle Heights and
East L.A. who have lost their
sons to police violence have
found solace and a sense of
collective voice in one anoth-
er. Their group numbered
less than a handful when
they began about three
years ago, then gradually, as
law enforcement shootings
continued, grew to 15.
As protests against po-
lice brutality have spread
nationwide and the rallying
cry “Black lives matter” has
gone global, these Eastside
moms have pushed for
change, largely on their own.
[See Moms, A12]
Cara Brostrom
place since mid-March —
should continue, union lead-
ers said.
The California Teachers
Assn. on Thursday made a
similar but less explicit
statement, saying that con-
ditions for keeping students
safe have not been satisfied
statewide.
L.A. school officials have
not yet made a final decision
other than to say that in-
struction will begin on the
first day of school, one way or
another.
Yolanda Ford-Swinton,
who cares for an 8-year-old
granddaughter, exemplifies
the angst.
[See Schools, A7]
Trump loses
bid to keep
taxes secret
Justices reject claim of
immunity from grand
jury subpoenas. He
wins a partial victory
in congressional case.
By David G. Savage
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court dealt a de-
feat to President Trump on
Thursday by rejecting his
claims of presidential immu-
nity and upholding subpoe-
nas from New York prose-
cutors seeking his tax re-
turns and financial records.
In one of the most antici-
pated rulings on presi-
dential privilege in years, the
justices by a 7-2 vote ruled
the nation’s chief executive
is not above the law and
must comply with legitimate
demands from a grand jury
in New York that is investi-
gating Trump’s alleged
hush-money payments to
two women who claimed to
have had sex with him.
But because the grand
jury operates in secret, it is
unlikely the general public
will see Trump’s financial re-
cords before the November
election, if ever.
And in a second ruling,
the high court, also by a 7-2
vote, temporarily blocked
subpoenas from three
House committees on the
grounds that Democratic
lawmakers failed to show
how a decade’s worth of
Trump’s financial records
Jump in deaths
becomes part of
virus’ resurgence
State officials hope a
recent tightening of
restrictions will take
numbers back down.
By Hannah Fry,
Rong-Gong Lin II
and Luke Money
The surge of the co-
ronavirus in California over
the last month started with
an explosion of new cases,
then moved into hospitals
that rapidly filled with pa-
tients and is now beginning
to bring an increase in
COVID-19 deaths.
The question now is how
big the wave will get before it
crests.
June turned out to be a
grim month in the COVID-19
battle, with people begin-
ning to socialize again in
ways that allowed the virus
to spread rapidly across
communities. Hospitals are
being hit hard as patients
who were infected weeks ago
are now getting sick enough
to require medical care. Offi-
Biden pitches an
economic plan
He lays out a populist
vision, starting with a
$700-billion proposal to
revive the manufactur-
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were needed to formulate
new legislation. The justices
sent those cases back to
lower courts, giving Trump a
partial victory.
The split decisions re-
flect the high court’s differ-
ing assessments of a grand
jury and a congressional
committee. Traditionally,
grand juries have had broad
power to demand docu-
ments and records to aid in a
criminal investigation. And
they operate in secret.
By contrast, on Capitol
Hill, congressional investi-
gations are increasingly
caught up in partisan war-
fare and in scoring political
points, not in drafting legis-
lation. While all nine justices
agreed in theory that a presi-
dent must respond to valid
congressional subpoenas,
the limits imposed on such
requests by Thursday’s deci-
sion will likely be welcomed
by future White House occu-
pants.
The court’s opinion by
Chief Justice John G. Rob-
erts Jr. may be most signifi-
cant in its rejection of
Trump’s extravagant claims
of executive power. Trump’s
personal attorneys went to
court in New York and
argued the president was
“absolutely immune” from
any investigation or even
questioning while he was in
office, even if he shot some-
one on Fifth Avenue, evok-
ing Trump’s 2016 campaign
quip about his unwavering
popularity with his base.
Roberts said that view of
[See Subpoenas, A5]
cials are hoping public be-
havior changed toward the
end of June and early July,
but they won’t know how
that plays out for several
more weeks.
California this week hit
another troubling milestone
Wednesday, recording the
highest single-day COVID-19
death toll so far in the pan-
demic, with 149 fatalities re-
ported, according to The
Times’ California corona-
virus tracker. An additional
137 deaths were reported
Thursday, which would be
the second-highest daily
death toll in the pandemic.
Experts say deaths are a
lagging indicator of co-
ronavirus spread and prob-
ably reflect exposures to the
virus that occurred four or
five weeks earlier. Los Ange-
les County reported 48
deaths on Thursday, 61 on
Wednesday, 45 on Tuesday
and 50 on Monday. That’s
substantially higher than
the average of about 34
deaths per day reported in
June.
Yet there are also a few
[See Death toll, A7]
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Universities rethinking campus cops
Students and faculty
across the nation are
pushing for colleges
to defund the police,
but their goals vary.
By Julia Barajas
Students at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota im-
mediately condemned
George Floyd’s killing, com-
plained of clashes with offi-
cers and demanded that the
school end its relationship
with the Minneapolis Police
Department.
The department acts as if
“Black bodies are expend-
able,” students wrote in a pe-
tition after Floyd’s death in
late May while in police cus-
tody.
The university, however,
did not sever ties with Min-
neapolis police. University
President Joan Gabel an-
nounced a scaling-back of
reliance on the department
for services like support with
large events, but not with
some patrols and investiga-
tions.
Since Gabel’s announce-
ment, at least 44 public and
private universities in the
United States have circu-
lated petitions to remove po-
lice from their campuses.
These efforts represent a
small share of the approxi-
mately 3,700 degree-grant-
ing institutions identified by
the National Center for Edu-
cation Statistics, but they’re
prodding the public to re-
evaluate law enforcement’s
role at universities, activists
say.
Many of the petitions
calling for withdrawing
funds from police demand
that money be reallocated
toward resources that bene-
fit students and the wider
community.
At Columbia University’s
Mailman School of Public
Health, the Black and Lat-
inx Student Caucus pairs its
demands for more Black fac-
ulty members and a “racial
awareness and inclusion
curriculum” with calls for fi-
nancial aid for Black pro-
spective students from the
surrounding Washington
Heights and Harlem neigh-
borhoods.
Activists also oppose po-
licing these areas in the
name of “student safety,”
asking that funds instead go
toward mental health and
transportation services for
students and the communi-
ty.
Likewise, student activ-
ists at USC have mobilized
to dissolve the college’s De-
To nurses, not wearing a mask like a slap in the face
By Anna Almendrala
When an employee told a
group of twentysomethings
they needed face masks to
enter his fast-food restau-
rant, one woman fired off a
stream of expletives. “Isn’t
this Orange County?”
snapped another member of
the group. “We don’t have to
wear masks!”
The responses came as a
shock — but not really a sur-
prise — to Nilu Patel, a certi-
fied registered nurse anes-
thetist at nearby UC Irvine
Medical Center, who ob-
served the conflict while
waiting for takeout. Health-
care workers suffer these an-
gry encounters daily as they
move between treacherous
hospital settings and their
communities, where mixed
messaging from politicians
has muddied common-
sense public health precau-
tions.
“Healthcare workers are
scared, but we show up to
work every single day,” Patel
said. Wearing masks, she
said, “is a very small thing to
ask.”
Patel administers anes-
thesia to patients in the op-
erating room, and her hus-
band is a healthcare worker
as well. They’ve suffered
sleepless nights worrying
about how to keep their two
young children safe and
schooled at home. The small
but vocal chorus of people
who view face coverings as a
violation of their rights
makes it all worse, she said.
That resistance to the
public health advice didn’t
grow in a vacuum. Health-
care workers blame political
leadership at all levels, from
USC STUDENTS and allies protest last month, demanding the university take immediate steps to abolish
the campus police force and reinvest its funding in affordable housing for the surrounding community.
partment of Public Safety,
which they say “over-polic-
es” Black and brown stu-
dents and community mem-
bers. Activists also want the
university to invest in afford-
able housing for residents
and admit more students
from South Los Angeles and
Boyle Heights with full
scholarships.
At the University of Cali-
fornia, where tens of thou-
sands of students, faculty
and alumni have signed a pe-
tition calling for funds to be
redirected to “community
members in need,” outgoing
system President Janet Na-
politano warned against dis-
banding campus police.
“I think the better ap-
proach is to make sure that
our police are properly
equipped, that they have
nonlethal options and are
properly trained and super-
vised,” she said.
Late last month, the UC
Academic Senate Council,
which advises the president,
endorsed substantial de-
funding of campus police,
along with a ban on firearms
as standard equipment; the
dissolution of partnerships
with external law enforce-
ment agencies; and studying
modes of campus safety that
can minimize reliance on po-
licing.
Michael V. Drake, the in-
coming president of UC, said
this week that he plans to ex-
amine campus security.
Drake, who is Black, said he
JEWELL Harris Jordan, a nurse in Oakland, is dis-
traught that some see face masks as an infringement.
President Trump on down,
for issuing confusing and
contradictory messages.
“Our leaders have not
been pushing that this is
something really serious,”
said Jewell Harris Jordan, a
47-year-old registered nurse
at Kaiser Permanente Oak-
land Medical Center. She’s
distraught that some
Americans see mandates for
face coverings as an infringe-
ment upon their rights in-
stead of a show of solidarity
with healthcare workers.
“If you come into the hos-
pital and you’re sick, I’m go-
ing to take care of you,” Jor-
dan said. “But damn, you
would think you would want
to try to protect the people
that are trying to keep you
safe.”
In Orange County, where
Patel works, mask orders
PERSPECTIVES
has experienced the harsh
policing faced by people of
color and wants to work on
the relationships between
police and communities.
After the Los Angeles
Police Department used
UCLA’s Jackie Robinson
Stadium to process arrests
amid recent protests, educa-
tors formed the DIVEST/
INVEST UCLA Faculty Col-
lective and demanded that
campus police be replaced
with “anti-carceral” forms of
accountability like transfor-
mative justice, which seeks
to address conflicts and the
conditions that make them
possible. The collective also
wants the university to cut
ties with all external law en-
forcement agencies.
Chancellor Gene Block in
June informed faculty that
UCLA would expand the
role of its Public Safety Ad-
visory Council to review the
university’s ties to outside
law enforcement agencies
and examine the campus
Police Department’s re-
sponsibilities.
The university also an-
nounced the establishment
of a Black Resource Center,
something students have
been trying to achieve for
years.
Alexandria Davis, the
outgoing chair of the Afrikan
Student Union and a recent
graduate, considers the tim-
ing of the move politically ex-
pedient.
“I’d been advocating for a
are particularly controver-
sial. The county’s chief
health officer, Dr. Nichole
Quick, resigned June 8 after
being threatened for requir-
ing residents to wear them in
public. Three days later,
county officials rescinded
the requirement. On June 18,
a few days after Patel visited
the restaurant, Gov. Gavin
Newsom issued a statewide
mask mandate.
Meanwhile, cases and
hospitalizations continue to
rise in Orange County.
The county’s flip-flop il-
lustrates the national con-
flict over masks. When the
coronavirus outbreak
emerged in February, offi-
cials from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Pre-
vention discouraged the
public from buying masks,
which were needed by
Black Resource Center since
I was a freshman,” she said.
“And we were consistently
told, ‘We don’t have the re-
sources. We don’t have the
space.’ I think they think
that because they gave us
one thing, we’ll be satisfied
and not continue advocat-
ing for the other things. But
that’s not the case.”
In June, administrators
at Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore announced a
two-year hold on plans to
create a campus police de-
partment, saying they would
wait for pending legislative
efforts to advance police re-
form.
The plans to create the
Johns Hopkins Police De-
partment have been met
with sustained opposition.
“It didn’t feel attuned to
Baltimore as a city,” said Ju-
dah Adashi, professor of mu-
sic composition at the uni-
versity’s Peabody Institute.
“The idea of introducing
more police in a majority-
Black city where Freddie
Gray had just been killed by
six police officers felt off.”
Gray died in 2015 after suffer-
ing a severe spinal cord in-
jury while in the custody of
Baltimore police.
Some student and facul-
ty activists maintain that a
private police force would
jeopardize the welfare of
Black people on and off cam-
pus.
Lester Spence, professor
of political science and Afri-
healthcare workers. It
wasn’t until April that fed-
eral officials began advising
most everyone to wear cloth
face coverings in public.
One recent study showed
that masks can reduce the
risk of coronavirus infection,
especially in combination
with physical distancing.
Another study linked poli-
cies in 15 states and Wash-
ington, D.C., mandating
community use of face cov-
erings with a decline in the
daily COVID-19 growth rate
and estimated that as many
as 450,000 cases had been
prevented as of May 22.
But the use of masks has
become politicized. Trump’s
inconsistency and noncha-
lance about them sowed
doubt in the minds of mil-
lions who respect him, said
Jordan, the Oakland nurse.
That has led to a “very dis-
heartening and really disre-
spectful” rejection of masks.
“They truly should have
just made masks mandatory
throughout the country, pe-
riod,” Jordan said. Out of
fear of infecting her family
with the virus, she hasn’t
flown to see her mother or
two adult children on the
East Coast during the pan-
demic, she said.
But a mandate doesn’t
necessarily mean author-
ities have the ability or will to
enforce it. In California,
where Newsom left enforce-
ment up to local govern-
ments, some sheriff ’s de-
partments have said it
would be inappropriate to
penalize mask violations.
This has prompted some
healthcare workers to make
personal appeals to the pub-
lic.
After the Fresno County
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
cana studies, is among those
leading efforts against a po-
lice department.
“It’s important to know
that there are two angles to
this,” he said. “One is the
police themselves. The sec-
ond is people calling the po-
lice.”
Spence cited a 2011 case in
which security officers con-
fronted a Black student at
the school library. The stu-
dent, according to a witness,
was writing in a notebook
and listening to music on his
headphones. Three officers
approached him, demand-
ing a photo ID to prove that
he was a student. Afterward,
the witness told officials that
she heard a white student
admit to calling security be-
cause the Black student
“creeped her out.”
In 2019, activists staged a
sit-in protest at the Johns
Hopkins administration
building. The action, which
called for officials to cancel
plans to establish the cam-
pus police, resulted in the ar-
rest of seven protesters.
In January, resistance
mounted after over 100
faculty members issued a
letter of protest against the
project to the university’s
Board of Trustees. Even so,
the plans moved forward.
Then, when racial justice
demonstrations sprang up
across the country, activists
drafted a petition to stop the
project.
That petition has over
sheriff-coroner’s office an-
nounced it didn’t have the
resources to enforce New-
som’s mandate, Amy Ar-
lund, a 45-year-old nurse in
the COVID unit at Kaiser
Permanente Fresno Medical
Center, took to her Face-
book account to plead with
friends and family about the
need to wear masks.
“If I’m wrong, you wore a
silly mask and you didn’t like
it,” she posted on June 23. “If
I’m right and you don’t wear
a mask, you better pray that
all the nurses aren’t already
out sick or dead because
people chose not to wear a
mask. Please tell me my life
is worth a LITTLE of your
discomfort?”
Every negative interac-
tion about masks stings in
the light of her family’s sacri-
fices, Arlund said. She cited
a woman who approached
her husband at a hardware
store to say he looked “ridic-
ulous” in the N95 mask he
was wearing.
“It’s like mask-shaming,
and we’re shaming in the
wrong direction,” Arlund
said. “He does it to protect
you, you cranky hag!”
After seeing a Facebook
comment alleging that face
masks can cause low oxygen
levels, Dr. Megan Hall de-
cided to publish a small ex-
periment.
Hall, a pediatrician at
Conway Medical Center in
Myrtle Beach, S.C., wore dif-
ferent kinds of medical
masks for five minutes and
then took photos of her oxy-
gen saturation levels, as
measured by her pulse
oximeter. As she predicted,
there was no appreciable dif-
ference in oxygen levels. She
posted the photo collection
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6,000 signatures and is still
being circulated. In it, activ-
ists demand that Johns
Hopkins “abandon, not
pause” its plans.
Those opposed to the
presence of law enforcement
agencies at universities
often cite notorious encoun-
ters involving students, local
residents and campus po-
lice. These include the killing
of Samuel DuBose, an un-
armed Black man who was
shot in the head by a Uni-
versity of Cincinnati police
officer in 2015.
Activists also point to the
use of pepper spray to break
up a demonstration at UC
Davis in 2011 and the infiltra-
tion of a student protest at
the University of Chicago in
2013. Even when the encoun-
ters aren’t fatal, they argue,
they can be corrosive.
James Alan Fox, profes-
sor of criminology, law and
public policy at Northeast-
ern University in Boston
and author of the book “Vi-
olence and Security on Cam-
pus,” supports removing po-
lice from K-12 schools, but
considers densely popu-
lated universities another
matter.
“For the most part, cam-
pus security forces do a good
job,” Fox said. “Plus, they
provide things like escort
services for students who
need to walk home at night.”
In his view, the petitions are
an “overreaction to things
we are seeing in terms of po-
licing in America.”
But at schools like Port-
land State University and
the University of Chicago,
activists have sought to dis-
arm and withdraw funding
from campus police for
years, long before Floyd was
killed.
Adom Getachew, an as-
sistant professor of political
science at the University of
Chicago, is a member of
Scholars for Social Justice, a
coalition of nearly 500 aca-
demics calling for campuses
to cut ties with municipal
police departments and
gradually eliminate their
own. “Defund the police”
should be understood as
part of a process, she said.
“I don’t think that every-
one imagines that tomorrow
we’re going to wake up and
we’re going to get no more
police and all the invest-
ments we want in our com-
munities,” she said. “This is
about taking steps to get us
closer to our goal rather
than merely doing reforms
that leave us in the same
place.”
Times staff writer Teresa
Watanabe contributed to
this report.
June 22, and it quickly went
viral.
“Some of our officials and
leaders have not taken the
best precautions,” said Hall,
who hopes for “a change of
heart” about masks among
officials and the public.
South Carolina Gov. Henry
McMaster has urged resi-
dents to wear face coverings
in public, but he said a state-
wide mandate was unen-
forceable.
In Florida, where Gov.
Ron DeSantis has resisted
calls for a statewide order on
masks despite a massive
surge of COVID-19 cases and
hospitalizations, Cynthia
Butler, 62, recently asked a
young man at the register of
a pet store why he wasn’t
wearing a mask.
“His tone was more like,
this whole mask thing is ri-
diculous,” said Butler, a reg-
istered nurse at Fawcett Me-
morial Hospital in Port
Charlotte.
She didn’t tell him that
she had just recovered from
a COVID-19 infection con-
tracted at work. The ex-
change saddened her, but
she hasn’t the time to lecture
everyone she encounters
without a mask — about
three-quarters of her com-
munity, Butler estimated.
“They may think you’re
stepping on their rights,”
she said. “It’s not anything I
want to get shot over.”
Almendrala writes for
Kaiser Health News, a
nonprofit news service
covering health issues. It is
an editorially independent
program of the Kaiser
Family Foundation and is
not affiliated with Kaiser
Permanente.
L AT I M E S . C O M
A SIGN reads “No touching!” at Pike Place Market in Seattle. The WHO has faced pressure to acknowledge
aerosols as a coronavirus transmission risk in addition to larger respiratory droplets and tainted surfaces.
A warning on airborne spread
WHO acknowledges
that the coronavirus
could linger in the air,
raising the risk indoors
with poor ventilation.
By Richard Read
SEATTLE — Under
growing pressure from re-
searchers, the World Health
Organization acknowledged
Thursday that the co-
ronavirus can linger in the
air indoors and potentially
infect people even when they
practice social distancing.
The United Nations
agency had maintained that
such airborne transmission
occurred only during certain
medical procedures and
that nearly all infections oc-
cur when people inhale res-
piratory droplets expelled in
their immediate vicinity or
when they touch contam-
inated surfaces.
But mounting evidence
— including “super-spread-
ing” events in which multi-
ple choir singers, restaurant
diners or dance students
were infected — suggests
that the virus can be trans-
mitted through microscopic
droplets known as aerosols
that can float in the air, po-
tentially for hours.
This week, 239 research-
ers wrote an open letter to
the WHO, urging officials to
accept the possibility that
aerosols were an important
Australia ends extradition treaty
with Hong Kong, angering China
associated press
CANBERRA, Australia
— Australia suspended its
extradition treaty with
Hong Kong and extended
visa durations for Hong
Kong citizens in response to
China’s imposition of a
tough national security law
on the semiautonomous
city, the prime minister said
Thursday.
Premier Scott Morrison
announced a range of visas
that will be extended from
two to five years for Hong
Kongers, and of pathways to
permanent residency. It is
not clear how many people
are expected to get the ex-
tensions.
The move comes after
China bypassed Hong
Kong’s Legislative Council
to impose the sweeping se-
curity legislation without
public consultation. Critics
view it as a further deteriora-
tion of freedoms promised to
the former British colony, a
backlash by Beijing after
last year’s massive protests
in Hong Kong calling for
greater democracy and
more police accountability.
The national security law
prohibits what Beijing views
as secessionist, subversive
or terrorist activities or as
foreign intervention in Hong
Kong affairs. Under the law,
police now have sweeping
powers to conduct searches
without warrants and order
internet service providers
contributor to the spread of
the virus.
In revised guidelines is-
sued Thursday, the WHO
recommended avoiding en-
closed spaces with poor ven-
tilation as well as crowded
places. But it did not sub-
stantially change its posi-
tion on masks, maintaining
that they need to be worn
only when physical distanc-
ing of at least six feet is not
possible.
The organization said
airborne transmission had
not been definitively demon-
strated but granted that it
was a possibility in out-
breaks such as one that
sickened 53 of 61 choir mem-
bers who attended a March
10 practice in Washington
state. Two of them died.
“In these events, short-
range aerosol transmission,
particularly in specific in-
door locations, such as
crowded and inadequately
ventilated spaces over a pro-
longed period of time with
infected persons cannot be
ruled out,” the new guide-
lines say.
The WHO said that more
research is “urgently needed
to investigate such in-
stances and assess their sig-
nificance for transmission of
COVID-19.”
Scientists who signed the
letter said that the new
guidelines did not go far
enough in heeding the evi-
dence of airborne spread.
“WHO’s slow motion on
this issue is unfortunately
slowing the control of the
and platforms to remove
messages deemed to be in
violation of the legislation.
“Our government, to-
gether with other govern-
ments around the world,
have been very consistent in
expressing our concerns
about the imposition of the
national security law on
Hong Kong,” Morrison told
reporters.
“That national security
law constitutes a fundamen-
tal change of circumstances
in respect to our extradition
agreement with Hong
Kong,” he said.
The Chinese Embassy in
Canberra accused Australia
of a “serious violation of in-
ternational law and basic
norms governing interna-
tional relations.”
“We urge the Australian
side to immediately stop
meddling in Hong Kong af-
fairs and China’s internal af-
fairs,” an embassy state-
ment said. “Otherwise it will
lead to nothing but lifting a
rock only to hit its own feet.”
Britain also is extending
residency rights for up to 3
million Hong Kongers eligi-
ble for British National
Overseas passports, allow-
ing them to live and work in
the U.K. for five years.
Canada has suspended
its extradition treaty with
Hong Kong and is looking at
other options.
In Australia, the most
likely Hong Kongers to bene-
fit from the new policies are
the 10,000 already in the
THE WORLD
pandemic,” said Jose
Jimenez, a University of Col-
orado chemist.
He said that much of the
public is already ahead of
the WHO when it comes to
masks.
“Masks should be worn in
indoor settings, away from
home, at all times, no matter
the distance,” Jimenez said.
“Aerosols are most effective
in transmission at short dis-
tances, but they can mix
widely within a room and
lead to infection, as many
super-spreading cases have
shown already.”
At the heart of the scien-
tific debate is the size of the
particles that people exhale
and whether those particles
quickly fall to a surface or
hover in the air. The droplets
that humans expel when
they cough, sneeze or
breathe vary widely and can
break into smaller pieces in
the air.
Skeptics of airborne
transmission say particles
larger than 5 microns are too
heavy to travel more than six
feet.
But Jimenez said that
was shown to be incorrect by
studies conducted as early
as 1934. He said a 50-micron
particle might stay in the air
for 20 seconds, a 5-micron
particle for 15 minutes and a
1-micron particle for hours.
“It is shocking to see a
major international organi-
zation continue to propaga-
te this error,” he said.
Donald Milton, a Uni-
versity of Maryland aerosol
country on student and
other temporary visas.
Acting Immigration Min-
ister Alan Tudge said he ex-
pected the numbers of Hong
Kongers who would come to
Australia under the new ar-
rangements would be “in the
hundreds or low thou-
sands.”
Australia last offered
“safe haven” visas to Chinese
after the bloody crackdown
on pro-democracy pro-
testers around Beijing’s
Tiananmen Square in 1989.
More than 27,000 Chinese
students in Australia at the
time were allowed to stay
permanently.
Global Times, a pro-Bei-
jing Chinese newspaper,
warned this week that “no
one should underestimate
the repercussions to the
Australian economy from a
further deterioration of bi-
lateral ties.”
“If the Australian govern-
ment chooses to continue to
interfere in China’s internal
affairs, it should be expected
that the ‘safe haven’ offer will
result in a huge negative im-
pact on the Australian econ-
omy, making the issue much
more serious than many
people would have antici-
pated,” the newspaper said.
China accused Australia
of spreading disinformation
when the Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade is-
sued a travel advisory this
week warning that Austral-
ian visitors could be at risk of
arbitrary detention.
F R I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0 A3
Seoul mayor found
dead amid claim of
sexual harassment
64, rose to become one of the
By Victoria Kim most powerful politicians in
the country. As a human
SEOUL — Park Won- rights attorney and social
soon, the mayor of South justice activist, he worked
Korea’s capital, Seoul, and against political corruption
an often-discussed presi- and income inequality.
dential contender who was In 1993, he was one of the
recently accused of sexual attorneys who brought
harassment, was found South Korea’s first-ever civil
dead early Friday by appar- lawsuit for sexual harass-
ent suicide, police said. ment, on behalf of a teaching
Park — in his third term assistant at Seoul National
as mayor of the metropolis of University, winning a verdict
nearly 10 million — was dis- for the victim after a six-year
covered seven hours after he court fight.
was reported missing by his He was first elected Seoul
daughter. She said she was mayor in 2011 and focused on
unable to reach him after a environment and housing
phone conversation in which policies.
he made comments that In 2018, he and his wife
sounded like final remarks. lived for a month in a
He was found by rescue cramped, rooftop home in a
workers in a park in the poor part of the city, saying
northern part of Seoul just he wanted to experience the
Ted S. Warren Associated Press after midnight. daily life of less privileged
Police declined to give an citizens.
exact cause of death, saying Park was a vocal advo-
there were no immediate in- cate for the widespread pro-
dications of foul play and tests against then-President
that the investigation was
ongoing. They said no note
had been found.
Park’s death came a day
after a former secretary
Park Geun-hye in 2016 and
2017 amid a political corrup-
tion scandal that resulted in
her impeachment.
South Korea has had
expert, said “peer-reviewed went to police with reports past instances of high-pro-
scientific publications of being sexually harassed file politicians taking their
clearly demonstrate that while working for the mayor. own lives amid scandal.
particles even as large as The secretary told police she Former President Roh
30 microns can move on air had been harassed and as- Moo-hyun leapt to his death
currents and travel more saulted beginning in 2017, ac- in 2009 after leaving office in
than 10 meters indoors.” cording to several local me- the midst of a bribery inves-
He and other researchers dia reports. tigation involving family
said the basic concept has A police spokesman con- members.
been well established and firmed they were investigat-
that debating the finer ing the report.
points had wasted valuable Hundreds of emergency
time as the coronavirus workers using drones and
spread. search dogs combed a hill-
For years, scientists met side park along the Seoul
much the same resistance city wall for hours in search
concerning influenza, be- of the mayor late Thursday.
cause of the difficulty of cap- He was captured on security
turing samples of the virus in cameras entering the park
the air, Milton said. shortly before 11 a.m.
But two research groups A longtime liberal stal-
ultimately proved that in- wart who was imprisoned
fluenza was present, and and expelled as a college stu-
the understanding of air- dent in the 1970s for pro- Lee Jin-man Associated Press
borne transmission became testing against authoritari- PARK WON-SOON’S
commonplace. an rule in South Korea, Park, body was found in a park.
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Biden pitches manufacturing plan Major

outbreak
The Democrat unveils
a $700-billion ‘made
such as tax cuts, rollbacks of
regulation and negotiations
of new trade deals.
He repeatedly knocked
hits state
in America’ economic
recovery proposal.
Biden, warning that the
Democrat would hike taxes
and carry out a “government
Capitol
takeover of healthcare.”
By Melanie Mason Biden’s speech came one
day after his campaign, in a At least 26 lawmakers,
Joe Biden laid out a pop- joint effort with Sen. Bernie
ulist economic vision on Sanders of Vermont, his for- including the leading
Thursday, starting with a mer rival, released policy Republicans, test
$700-billion proposal to re- recommendations for the
invigorate the nation’s man- Democratic Party platform. positive in Mississippi.
ufacturing sector, and laced Like Biden’s manufactur-
associated press
into President Trump for be- ing proposal, the recom-
ing out of touch with the mendations embrace robust
challenges facing the Ameri- government action but steer JACKSON, Miss. —
can public. clear of some of the more Packed elevators and
Speaking at a metal sweeping, and controversial, crowded committee rooms.
works plant in Dunmore, items on progressives’ wish Legislators sitting shoulder
Pa., the presumptive Demo- list, such as “Medicare for to shoulder on the House
cratic presidential nominee all,” a Green New Deal or de- and Senate floors. People
said the barrage of crises funding the police. standing close to one anoth-
pummeling the nation — the The framework was cre- er and talking, sometimes
COVID-19 pandemic, the ated by six task forces com- leaning in to whisper, with-
subsequent economic fall- posed of Biden and Sanders out a mask in sight.
out, the turmoil over racial allies, which was meant to Those were common
injustice — offer an opportu- smooth over lingering ten- scenes at the Mississippi
nity for sweeping improve- sions from the Democratic Capitol in June — a month
ment to “build back better,” primaries. that saw a historic vote to re-
as he dubbed his recovery Matt Slocum Associated Press Biden commended their move the Confederate battle
plan. JOE BIDEN, striking a populist tone in Dunmore, Pa., blasted President Trump’s work as “helping build a emblem from the state flag
“This is our moment to “nearly $2 trillion in tax breaks, predominantly handed out to the super-wealthy.” bold, transformative plat- — and now at least 26 law-
imagine and to build a new form for our party and for makers have contracted the
American economy for our $300 billion on research and by tightening rules on what talk and talk and talk, but our country.” coronavirus in the biggest
families and for our commu- development projects in products can be designated after 3 ½ years of big promis- “And I am deeply grateful known outbreak in any state
nities — an economy where clean energy, telecommuni- “made in America” and up- es, what do the American to Sen. Sanders,” he said in a legislature in the nation.
every American has the cations, artificial intelli- dating international trade people have to show for all statement, “for working to- That works out to about 1
chance to get a fair return for gence and other fields. rules around government the talk?” he said. gether to unite our party, in 7 Mississippi legislators.
the work they put in, an He would also commit to procurement. Never shy to use his biog- and deliver real, lasting Among those testing
equal chance to get ahead,” $400 billion in his first term It also includes previ- raphy to punctuate a point, change for generations to positive in the heavily Re-
he told his socially distanced for federal procurement of ously announced measures Biden referenced chapters come.” publican body are the GOP
audience of about 50 people. American-made products to manufacture more medi- in his own life — his middle- Sanders, acknowledging presiding officers, House
By turning his focus to ranging from clean vehicles cal equipment and other class upbringing in nearby the policy disputes he had Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt.
the economy, Biden aims to to construction materials. critical supplies to battle Scranton, his experience as with Biden, also compli- Gov. Delbert Hosemann.
chip away at one of the few The promise of government pandemics, after reliance on a single father raising two mented the outcome. None of the lawmakers
advantages the president purchases, the campaign international supply chains young sons after his first wife “Though the end result is has been hospitalized, ac-
still has. Polls have shown said, will give businesses the proved to be problematic in died in a car accident — to not what I or my supporters cording to state officials.
voters continue to trust confidence to hire additional the current COVID-19 crisis. show his familiarity with the would have written alone, President Trump has re-
Trump more to handle the workers. For months, the former challenges many are facing. the task forces have created sisted wearing a mask, and
economy than Biden, The campaign did not vice president has signaled a Trump, he said, couldn’t re- a good policy blueprint that many other Republicans
though overall the former specify how it would pay for shift in his economic think- late. will move this country in a have cast face coverings and
vice president has built the proposals, but Biden has ing spurred by the public “It’s unconscionable that much-needed progressive social distancing mandates
steady advantages in the na- broadly endorsed rolling health and financial crises he doesn’t even try to under- direction and substantially as infringements on their
tional matchup, battle- back some of the Trump ad- gripping the country. In- stand or empathize with the improve the lives of working freedom. But around the
ground states and key dem- ministration’s tax cuts and stead of promising a return struggling of so many mil- families throughout our Mississippi Capitol, not
ographics such as women said in his speech he would to normalcy — which de- lions of people out there,” country,” he said. wearing a mask — or wear-
and senior citizens. increase the corporate tax fined his message during the Biden said. Some in the party’s left ing one pushed below the
The manufacturing pro- rate to 28%. (Trump and Re- presidential primaries — He excoriated Trump’s flank say they’re heartened chin — was a bipartisan ac-
posal, the first plank of four publicans cut that rate from Biden began talking up bold, handling of the coronavirus by the moves Biden has tivity in recent weeks.
initiatives Biden is planning 35% to 21% in 2017.) transformational change as outbreak, which has killed made so far to follow Mississippi has seen a
to roll out in the coming Biden’s plan also aims to necessary to address the up- more than 133,000 people in through on his pledge for ag- rapid rise in confirmed cases
weeks, includes spending boost domestic production heaval brought by the co- the U.S., and accused him of gressive action. in the last two weeks, with
ronavirus. The manufactur- stoking tensions in the cur- “Biden’s bold moves re- the total hitting nearly
ing proposal offers a glimpse rent reckoning over racial cently seem less like a politi- 33,600 by Thursday, includ-
at how Biden is translating justice. cal hat tip to progressives ing at least 1,200 deaths.
that rhetoric into policy. “That’s the tragedy of and more him rising to this In addition to the legisla-
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions 2016 campaign, Biden struck president today,” he said. Adam Green, co-founder of work in the Capitol have
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of the California Commercial Code, Sections 7210(b), 7307,
advocate for the American son to lead us at this mo- Campaign Committee, a the state health officer said
and 7308(g), notice is hereby given that on Monday, July 27, worker who has seen manu- ment.” left-leaning group allied Wednesday. And the num-
2020 at 10:00 am at 26 La Porte Street, City of Arcadia, facturing job prospects de- In a sign of how crucial with Massachusetts Sen. bers could well be higher:
County of Los Angeles, State of CA, the undersigned will cline in the globalized econo- Pennsylvania, a longtime Elizabeth Warren. The figures are based only
sell at public auction for cash or cashiers check, in lawful my. But Biden used that line blue state that flipped to Green applauded Biden’s on Health Department test-
money of the United States, the following goods: to draw a contrast with Trump in 2016, will be in No- manufacturing plan for ing done in Jackson, includ-
Trump, painting him as sid- vember, Vice President Mike drawing inspiration from ing drive-through testing
1,491,000 Face Masks marked “KN95”, ing with elites and showing Pence was also in the state Warren’s proposal to use fed- Monday at the Capitol.
but not FDA EUA authorized, in 1,491 boxes of little interest in learning on Thursday, meeting with eral procurement to plow Some members were tested
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Trump loses bid to keep tax returns secret
[Subpoenas, from A1]
presidential supremacy has
never been part of America’s
history.
“In our judicial system,
the public has a right to ev-
ery man’s evidence. Since
the earliest days of the re-
public, ‘every man’ has in-
cluded the president of the
United States,” he said in the
opening words of the ruling
in Trump vs. Vance. “Begin-
ning with Jefferson and car-
rying on through Clinton,
presidents have uniformly
testified or produced docu-
ments in criminal proceed-
ings when called upon by
federal courts.”
Roberts recalled the
story of Aaron Burr’s 1807
treason trial in which Presi-
dent Jefferson was subpoe-
naed by Chief Justice John
Marshal to turn over private
letters Jefferson had re-
ceived that implicated Burr.
“Two hundred years ago,
a great jurist of our court es-
tablished that no citizen, not
even the president, is cat-
egorically above the com-
mon duty to produce evi-
dence when called upon in a
criminal proceeding,” Rob-
erts wrote. “We reaffirm that
principle today and hold
that the president is neither
absolutely immune from
state criminal subpoenas
seeking his private papers
nor entitled to a heightened
standard of need.”
Roberts agreed the presi-
dent and his attorneys may
still claim that “a particular
subpoena would impede his
constitutional duties.”
But Trump’s records are
held by his accountants, so it
will be hard to argue that
compiling or turning over
those documents would pre-
vent Trump from carrying
out his duties.
Only the court’s four libe-
rals — Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Stephen G. Brey-
er, Sonia Sotomayor and El-
ena Kagan — joined the chief
justice’s opinion.
Trump’s two appointees,
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh
and Neil M. Gorsuch, con-
curred in the outcome in the
New York case, but said they
would have gone further in
allowing the president to
“raise constitutional and le-
gal objections” to the grand
jury subpoena.
Justices Clarence Thom-
as and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
dissented in both cases.
They agreed the president
was not immune from inves-
tigation, but both said they
would have also blocked the
subpoena from the New
York grand jury. It “threat-
ens to impair the function-
ing of the presidency,” Alito
said.
Thursday’s decision cul-
A swath of Oklahoma is tribal land, justices rule
Supreme Court finds
the state can’t pursue
criminal cases against
Indians in some areas.
associated press
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court ruled
Thursday that a large chunk
of eastern Oklahoma re-
mains an American Indian
reservation, a decision that
state and federal officials
have warned could throw
Oklahoma into chaos.
The court’s 5-4 decision,
written by Justice Neil M.
Gorsuch, means that Okla-
homa prosecutors lack the
authority to pursue criminal
cases against American In-
dian defendants in parts of
Oklahoma that include
most of Tulsa, the state’s
second-largest city.
“Today we are asked
whether the land these
treaties promised remains
an Indian reservation for
purposes of federal criminal
law. Because Congress has
not said otherwise, we hold
the government to its word,”
Gorsuch wrote in a decision
joined by the court’s liberal
members.
The court’s ruling casts
doubt on hundreds of con-
victions won by local prose-
cutors. But Gorsuch sug-
gested optimism.
“In reaching our conclu-
sion about what the law de-
mands of us today, we do not
pretend to foretell the future
and we proceed well aware of
the potential for cost and
conflict around jurisdic-
tional boundaries, espe-
cially ones that have gone
unappreciated for so long.
But it is unclear why pes-
simism should rule the day.
With the passage of time,
PRESIDENT TRUMP tweeted Thursday that courts had deferred to previous presidents in such matters, complaining: “BUT NOT ME!”
minates a term in which the
chief justice took control in
all of the major cases. And he
did so in a way that few
would have predicted.
He joined with the court’s
liberals on major rulings in
favor of LGBTQ employees,
to strike down a Louisiana
abortion law and to block
Trump’s repeal of the
Obama administration pol-
icy that protects so-called
Dreamers. But he also
joined with the court’s con-
servatives in favor of several
religious liberty claims.
Although the New York
decision was a defeat for
Trump, there is a bright side
for him. Chances are high
that the details of his fi-
nances will remain a secret
from the public because
grand juries operate confi-
dentially and rarely leak.
Had House investigators re-
ceived Trump’s records, it
would have been far more
likely that some or all of the
information would have
leaked before the November
election.
Also, exactly when the
documents must be handed
over to the grand jury is un-
clear.
Trump blasted the deci-
sion, insisting that courts in
the past had deferred to
THE 1790 TREATY reached by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the United States is pictured on display at
the Smithsonian. The Supreme Court has ruled that much of Oklahoma is still Muscogee reservation land.
Oklahoma and its tribes
have proven they can work
successfully together as
partners,” he wrote.
Oklahoma’s three U.S. at-
torneys quickly released a
joint statement expressing
confidence that “tribal,
state, local and federal law
enforcement will work to-
gether to continue providing
exceptional public safety”
under the ruling.
Jonodev Chaudhuri, am-
bassador of the Muscogee
(Creek) Nation and a former
chief justice of the tribe’s
Supreme Court, said the
state’s argument that such a
ruling would cause legal hav-
oc in the state was
overblown.
“All the sky-is-falling nar-
presidents in such matters.
“BUT NOT ME!” he tweeted.
In the past, the court con-
sistently has rejected sweep-
ing claims of presidential im-
munity, ruling unanimously
that President Nixon had to
hand over the Watergate
tapes and that President
Clinton had to be deposed in
the Paula Jones sexual har-
assment lawsuit.
The election-year dis-
pute had an obvious political
significance, but it was also
the rare separation of pow-
ers case in which the powers
of the president, Congress
and the judicial system were
all at issue.
Regarding the House
subpoena, Roberts wrote in
Trump vs. Mazars USA that
there was a need for a “bal-
anced approach” in this
clash between the president
and Congress. He said a
lower court judge must take
a closer look at the subpoe-
nas and “carefully assess
whether the asserted legis-
lative purpose warrants the
significant step of involving
the president and his pa-
pers.” He also said the
amount of records should be
“narrowed” in scope.
He added that the House
had failed to explain why it
needed Trump’s financial
ratives were dubious at
best,” Chaudhuri said. “This
would only apply to a small
subset of Native Americans
committing crimes within
the boundaries.
“This case didn’t change
ownership of any land. It
didn’t impact the prosecu-
tions of non-Indians in any
way. All it did was bring clar-
ity to jurisdictional ques-
tions regarding the border,
and it enhanced the Creek
Nation’s ability as a sover-
eign nation to work with
other sovereign interests to
protect people and to work
in common interests.”
Forrest Tahdooahnip-
pah, a Comanche Nation cit-
izen and attorney who spe-
cializes in tribal law, said the
‘The public has
a right to every
man’s evidence.
Since the earliest
days of the
republic, “every
man” has included
the president.’
— Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr.,
ruling in Trump vs. Vance
records in order to legislate.
“It is impossible to con-
clude that a subpoena is de-
signed to advance a valid
legislative purpose unless
Congress adequately identi-
fies its aims and explains
why the president’s informa-
tion will advance its consid-
eration of the possible legis-
lation,” he said.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-San Francisco)
said the court’s rulings are
“not good news for President
Trump. The court has reaf-
firmed the Congress’ au-
thority to conduct oversight
on behalf of the American
people.” She said the House
ruling’s short-term implica-
tions are largely confined to
the criminal context and
that serious felonies com-
mitted by Native Americans
in parts of eastern Okla-
homa will be subject to fed-
eral jurisdiction.
“In the long term, outside
of the criminal context,
there may be some minor
changes in civil law,” he said.
“The majority opinion
points out assistance with
Homeland Security, histori-
cal preservation, schools,
highways, clinics, housing,
and nutrition programs, as
possible changes. The Creek
Nation will also have greater
jurisdiction over child wel-
fare cases involving tribal
members.”
F R I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
would press its case in the
lower courts.
After Democrats won
control of the House in the
2018 midterm election, three
separate committees — on
oversight, intelligence and
financial services — issued
subpoenas to Trump’s ac-
countants demanding re-
cords going back to 2010 on
his personal and family fi-
nances. A subpoena to
Deutsche Bank sought re-
cords on loans to Trump and
his organization.
Lawyers for the House
said Congress has the power
and duty to conduct over-
sight and investigations, in-
cluding into the chief execu-
tive. They said it was espe-
cially important to look fur-
ther since Trump appeared
to have far-flung business
dealings that were hidden
from the public, and said his
finances could reveal whe-
ther the president had con-
flicts of interest, including
business deals in Russia.
Separately, a New York
grand jury looking into po-
tential crimes involving
Trump’s personal and busi-
ness dealings had also is-
sued a subpoena seeking his
financial records.
Unlike other presidents
since the Watergate era of
Kevin Wolf Associated Press
The case, which was ar-
gued by telephone in May
because of the coronavirus
pandemic, revolved around
an appeal by an American
Indian who claimed that
state courts had no author-
ity to try him for a crime
committed on reservation
land that belongs to the
Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
The reservation once en-
compassed 3 million acres,
including most of Tulsa.
The Supreme Court, with
eight justices taking part,
failed to reach a decision last
term when it reviewed a fed-
eral appeals court ruling in a
separate case that threw out
a state murder conviction
and death sentence. In that
case, the appeals court said
A5
Evan Vucci Associated Press
the 1970s, Trump has refused
to disclose his tax returns
and has kept secret the de-
tails of his business dealings.
Investigators were particu-
larly interested in whether
Trump and his businesses
were heavily indebted to for-
eign banks.
Trump said during the
2016 campaign that he ex-
pected to release his tax re-
turns, but then refused to do
so.
Trump’s personal law-
yers filed suits in New York
and in Washington seeking
to block the subpoenas.
They argued that demands
for records were extreme
and unjustified, and that the
president had an “absolute
immunity” from investiga-
tors who sought personal
and confidential informa-
tion.
They lost in lower courts.
Federal judges and the U.S.
appeals courts in Washing-
ton and New York ruled the
president, like other citi-
zens, had no right to defy
subpoenas for records is-
sued by Congress or a grand
jury.
In December, the Su-
preme Court agreed to hear
Trump’s appeals and put
the lower court rulings on
hold.
the crime occurred on land
assigned to the tribe before
Oklahoma became a state,
and Congress had never
clearly eliminated the Creek
Nation reservation it cre-
ated in 1866.
The case the justices de-
cided Thursday involved 71-
year-old Jimcy McGirt, who
is serving a 500-year prison
sentence for molesting a
child.
Oklahoma state courts
rejected his argument that
his case does not belong in
Oklahoma state courts and
that federal prosecutors
should instead handle the
case.
McGirt could potentially
be retried in federal court, as
could Patrick Murphy, who
was convicted of killing a fel-
low tribe member in 1999 and
sentenced to death.
But Murphy would not
face the death penalty in fed-
eral court for a crime in
which prosecutors said he
mutilated the victim and left
him to bleed to death on
the side of a country road
about 80 miles southeast of
Tulsa.
Following the ruling, the
state of Oklahoma issued a
joint statement with the
Muscogee (Creek), Chero-
kee, Chickasaw, Choctaw
and Seminole nations in
which they vowed to work to-
gether on an agreement to
address any unresolved ju-
risdictional issues raised by
the decision.
“The nations and state
are committed to ensuring
that Jimcy McGirt, Patrick
Murphy and all other offend-
ers face justice for the crimes
for which they are accused,”
the statement read. “We
have a shared commitment
to maintaining public safety
and long-term economic
prosperity for the nations
and Oklahoma.”
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Taking care of employees’ well-being
[Bosses, from A1]
moment,” he said.
One of his employees is
married to an assistant
manager at a grocery store,
and the thought of him
going to work every day
terrified her.
Another feared that her
partner, who worked in the
hospitality industry, would
lose his job.
One person was scared of
being sick and alone, anoth-
er worried about an elderly
parent living in another
state.
At the same time Spear-
man shared his biggest fear:
that he would get sick and
not be able to get a test for
the virus.
It was the most vulnera-
ble he’d ever been with his
staff.
“I wanted to let them
know I’m in the same boat,”
he said.
b
As businesses grapple
with the economic fallout
and disruption caused by
the novel coronavirus, ex-
perts say the pandemic may
have a silver lining: Helping
to create a new breed of
managers — those who talk
less and listen more.
“There is an element of
this crisis that is forcing
managers to be the kind of
managers people always
wanted, which is really
caring about their team’s
welfare, and really listen-
ing,” said David Rock, direc-
tor of the Neuroleadership
Institute and author of
“Your Brain at Work.”
Inquiring after the well-
being of employees and
understanding their unique
challenges has always been
part of good management
strategy, said Samuel
Culbert, author of the book
“Good People/Bad Man-
agers” and a professor at
UCLA’s Anderson School of
Management. Before the
pandemic, it may have been
easier to gloss over.
Today, however, knowing
who may have recently lost a
loved one, and who is chas-
ing after a toddler half the
day, has become essential
information for any team
leader.
“Most managers may
intend to help their employ-
ees, but they don’t start off
with the most basic ques-
tions: What do you need?
How can I help you?” Cul-
bert said.
A manager may not be
able to solve everyone’s
problems, he added, “but
you can listen, give, support
and back them up.”
As the weeks passed and
Spearman’s team settled
into their new reality, he
gradually turned the focus
back to fundraising goals.
But the more intimate
relationships he established
in the early days of the pan-
demic remained.
“This has been a trans-
formative experience for
me,” he said. “We talk about
productivity, but we also
Deaths rise in states with surging COVID cases
Weeks of nationwide
declines reverse in
Texas, Arizona and
Florida, raising alarm.
By Noam N. Levey
WASHINGTON — Soar-
ing coronavirus infections in
Texas, Arizona and Florida
are pushing deaths from the
disease back upward, re-
versing two months of de-
clines and undercutting
claims by the Trump admin-
istration that the pandemic
is under control.
In Texas, where hospitals
are being swamped by a
wave of COVID-19 patients,
the seven-day average of
deaths hit 46 a day this week,
more than double the daily
average in mid-June, ac-
cording to data compiled by
Johns Hopkins University.
The average daily death
toll in Arizona has also more
than doubled in the last
month.
And in Florida, another
state where infections are
skyrocketing, the daily
average of coronavirus-
related deaths has jumped
60% in the last 2 ½ weeks.
“We should be very con-
cerned,” said Dr. Eduardo
Sanchez, a former Texas
health commissioner who
MERRICK LACKNER, one of four chief executives of the Los Angeles rental firm Rently, said the novel coronavirus has helped him
to get to know his 50 employees in a whole new way. With “everyone apart, we’ve been having deeper, more honest conversations.”
talk about canoeing and
coffee with friends. I’m
learning to manage that
whole person, not just the
performer.”
Studies suggest that the
stresses associated with
COVID-19 are affecting
people on every rung of the
corporate ladder.
In a global survey of 2,700
people, the technology
company Qualtrics found
that self-reported declines
in mental health in the early
days of the pandemic were
equally likely across all
seniority levels — from
executives (40.5%) to indi-
vidual contributors (44%).
“Nobody is going
through this unscathed,”
said Ryan Smith, chief
executive of Qualtrics.
Supervisors may worry
that inquiring after the
mental health of their em-
ployees is inappropriate, or
none of their business, but
the data suggest otherwise.
The Qualtrics survey
found that 57.7% of respond-
ents said they are comfort-
able with their manager
proactively asking them
about their mental health,
and 41% said they want their
managers to ask them
about it.
And when respondents
were asked who they would
rather talk to about mental
health issues, 35.6% said a
co-worker or peer, 33.5%
said a manager or supervi-
sor, and just 19.5% said
somebody from Human
Resources.
“Traditionally, mental
health has been one of those
taboo topics — don’t ask,
don’t tell,” said Michael
Thompson, president and
now serves as chief medical
officer for prevention at the
American Heart Assn. “And
we should be thinking about
what needs to be done to
change this trend.”
California, where infec-
tions have also been soaring,
hasn’t yet seen a sustained
increase in deaths, but on
Wednesday the state record-
ed 149 fatalities, according to
a Times county-by-county
tally, the highest number
since mid-May.
With other states across
the South and West
wrestling with surging infec-
tions, public health officials,
hospital leaders and experts
are eyeing the trends with
growing anxiety, fearful they
will soon see a reversal of
what had been declining
death tolls.
“The trend is very upset-
ting,” said Lisa McCormick,
associate dean at the Uni-
versity of Alabama at Birm-
ingham School of Public
Health.
Alabama, where the
number of new coronavirus
cases has quadrupled since
mid-May, has seen deaths
hold relatively steady, but
McCormick said few expect
that pattern to hold.
Nationally, a new forecast
from the Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation at
the University of Washing-
ton predicted that the U.S.
MITCHELL Spearman of the University of Texas
has gotten more personally involved with his team.
CEO of National Alliance of
Healthcare Purchaser
Coalitions, a nonprofit
employer group. “But when
you break the silence, em-
ployees like it. They think
more highly of you as an
employer.”
At the same time, many
managers are experiencing
their own fears and chal-
lenges, and experts say it is
important for them to moni-
tor their mental health as
well.
“You have to get your
own stress level low enough
so you can focus on some-
one else,” Culbert said.
He recommends a buddy
system in which managers
check in on one another and
share challenges and stress-
ors.
Smith is already doing
this. Before the pandemic
he had a standing weekly
call with 12 other tech CEOs,
but after COVID-19 upended
everything the conversation
took on a new tone.
“It’s turned into a ther-
would record more than
200,000 deaths related to the
coronavirus by November,
up from about 130,000 now.
“We can now see the proj-
ected trajectory of the epi-
demic into the fall, and many
states are expected to expe-
rience significant increases
in cases and deaths,” said
Dr. Christopher Murray, di-
rector of the institute, whose
disease models are closely
followed worldwide.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who
heads the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, suggested on
Wednesday that it may be
time to reinstate restrictions
on people’s activities.
“I think any state that is
having a serious problem,
that state should seriously
look at shutting down,”
Fauci said in an interview
with the Wall Street Journal.
The current uptick in
deaths doesn’t approach the
worst days of the pandemic
this spring, when nearly
1,000 people were dying each
day in New York.
And with deaths continu-
ing to trend downward in
some parts of the country,
total daily fatalities in the
U.S. remain significantly be-
low their peak this year.
President Trump and
others in his administration
repeatedly have cited the
overall downward trend in
Molly Spearman
apy group,” he said.
b Arbery and Breonna Taylor
Felicia Jadczak was
expecting 2020 to be a year
of growth for She+ Geeks
Out, the Boston company
she co-founded that helps
companies create a more
inclusive workforce and
runs networking events in
tech and tech-adjacent
fields.
As the country went into
lockdown, Jadczak’s anxiety
grew as client meetings got
canceled, contracts van-
ished and sponsors began
pulling out of She+ Geeks
Out events.
At the same time, she
and her co-CEO, Rachel
Murray, had to transition
their small staff to working
from home, which meant
ensuring everyone had a
functioning internet con-
nection and a suitable space
to work.
But the biggest hurdle
fatalities to argue that it is
safe to reopen businesses
and schools.
“We are encouraged that
the average fatality rate con-
tinues to be low and steady,”
Vice President Mike Pence
told reporters Wednesday
as administration officials
urged schools across the
country to allow students
back in classrooms this fall.
Health officials across
the country believe that co-
ronavirus deaths remain
much lower than their peak
in part because those in-
fected now tend to be young-
er and healthier than they
were in the spring, making
them better able to recover
from an infection.
Doctors and hospitals
have also developed better
methods to treat COVID-19
patients, including using
promising drugs such as
remdesivir and dexametha-
sone, and being more selec-
tive about the use of ventila-
tors for patients struggling
to breathe.
“We are smarter because
of the lessons we’ve learned
nationally,” said Dr. David
Lakey, chief medical officer
at the University of Texas
healthcare system.
But Lakey and others
noted that the steep in-
crease in patients being hos-
pitalized with COVID-19 sug-
gests that larger fatality
was emotional, Jadczak
said, “just understanding
what everyone was going
through — not just the team
but me and my business
partner too.”
Some employees had
small children at home,
others were supporting
older family members.
“Every meeting started
with, how are you? Is your
family safe? Are you OK?
And really listening,” Jad-
czak said.
The two women say they
don’t mind taking on these
additional responsibilities,
but they require emotional
energy.
As Jadczak put it, “It’s a
lot of lift.”
After the news of the
police killings of Ahmaud
began circulating, Jadczak
and Murray added a weekly
meeting to the team’s
agenda that they call “the
hang” — as in hang out.
“We found that our team
needed some time to come
together and process and
chat like we were in the
office, around the coffee
machine,” she said.
They also experimented
with giving everyone, in-
cluding themselves, a four-
day workweek.
Even as the demand for
their training services has
skyrocketed in the wake of
the national reckoning on
racism sparked by George
Floyd’s killing, Jadczak and
Murray plan to continue
with four-day workweeks.
“We don’t want anyone to
burn out,”Jadczak said.
Tracy Keogh, chief hu-
man resources officer at HP
Inc., which has 55,000 em-
numbers are likely in coming
weeks.
This week, there are
nearly 10,000 COVID-19 pa-
tients in Texas hospitals, ac-
cording to state data, more
than triple the total from
three weeks ago.
Deaths typically lag sev-
eral weeks behind infections
and hospitalizations, ex-
perts note. That means that
the widespread socializing
that occurred when the
governors of Texas, Florida,
Arizona and other states
began loosening restrictions
in the spring is only now
starting to be reflected in
death rates.
“The problem is that
many people do not under-
stand or recognize the time
delay and do not attribute
the hospitalization and
deaths to a specific time and
event where little social dis-
tancing and little masking is
happening,” said Dr. Manoj
Jain, an infectious-disease
physician who is advising
the mayor of Memphis,
Tenn., on the coronavirus.
Tennessee’s daily deaths
have been gradually trend-
ing up since May 22, when
the governor issued an exe-
cutive order allowing groups
of up to 50 people to partici-
pate in social and recre-
ational activities, the Johns
Hopkins data show.
The widespread rise in in-
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Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
ployees worldwide, said her
team has also worked to
alleviate burnout by urging
employees to shift 30-min-
ute Zoom calls to 25 min-
utes, and hour-long calls to
55 minutes. It may not seem
like much, but the small
breaks make a difference.
b
Here in Los Angeles,
Merrick Lackner, cofounder
of Rently, a company that
helps renters see homes and
apartments without a list-
ing agent, said the co-
ronavirus has helped him to
get to know his 50 employ-
ees in a whole new way.
“Ironically, it’s easier to
make surface-level assump-
tions about people when
you see them every day,” he
said. “But with everyone
apart, we’ve been having
deeper, more honest conver-
sations.”
Since the pandemic
started, Lackner has made
more of an effort to reach
out beyond his direct re-
ports to find out how other
staffers are doing, and hear
what they think should be
happening at the company.
“To be frank, I should
have been doing it all along,”
he said.
As for Spearman, he’s
learned that he doesn’t have
to pry into his employees’
lives to let them know he’s
available to talk if that’s
what they need.
It’s like having someone
to your house and offering
them coffee and a cookie, he
said. They don’t need to
take it, but it’s nice to know
it’s there.
fections and increasing
death tallies distinguish the
U.S. from most wealthy na-
tions in Europe and East
Asia that have much more
successfully managed the
pandemic.
Many of these countries
were much more careful
about reopening businesses
after the virus first hit this
spring.
But the U.S. experience is
not unique, said Ali Mokdad,
an epidemiologist at the In-
stitute for Health Metrics
and Evaluation who spent
two decades at the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Iran, which suffered one
of the worst coronavirus out-
breaks this spring, similarly
locked down but then pre-
maturely relaxed restric-
tions, Mokedad said, allow-
ing infections and deaths to
spring back. This week, the
country recorded its highest
number of COVID-19 fatali-
ties since February.
“This is a pattern we have
seen repeatedly,” Mokdad
explained. “We were lulled
into a false sense of security
here. People let down their
guard, and I’m very con-
cerned the message is now
coming out that we can be
reassured and just reopen
schools.
“We are heading in the
wrong direction.”
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COVID death toll has begun to surge too
[Death toll, from A1]
signs of hope on the horizon.
Even as coronavirus-re-
lated hospitalizations
reached all-time highs this
week in L.A. County, they’ve
been increasing at a slower
rate in recent days, said Dr.
Christine Ghaly, the coun-
ty’s director of health serv-
ices. Hospitalizations in the
county topped out at a high
of 2,037 on Tuesday before
dropping to 1,995 Wednes-
day — a decline of 2%.
L.A. County officials be-
gan sounding the alarm last
month, when the effective
transmission rate of the co-
ronavirus rose above 1,
which means that, on aver-
age, each person infected
with the virus transmitted it
to more than one other per-
son — setting the stage for a
dramatic worsening of the
pandemic.
The transmission rate
has now fallen back to
around 1. That’s good news,
and if that rate remains
steady, it’s likely that Los
Angeles County will have
an adequate supply of hospi-
tal beds through early Au-
gust.
The hope is that actions
taken by state and local gov-
ernments over the last few
weeks — closing down in-
door dining and bars in most
parts of California, requiring
masks in public settings
and shutting the beaches
during the Fourth of July
weekend — have slowed the
outbreak.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti warned this week
that if the trend isn’t re-
versed soon, he would con-
sider imposing stay-at-
home rules once again.
Los Angeles County Pub-
lic Health Director Barbara
Ferrer struck a more hopeful
note. “Nothing can be off the
table in the pandemic,” she
said. But, she added, “I hope
we never have to go back to
‘safer at home.’”
She said there are sen-
sible strategies that can be
effective but with fewer neg-
ative impacts than reverting
back to the strictest version
of the stay-at-home order.
“We don’t have to be in
crowds. We don’t have to
have a party. We don’t have
to get in a congested area.
We don’t have to have close
contact with people who ar-
en’t in our household, unless
it’s something that’s related
Parents are stressed over sending the kids back to school
[Schools, from A1]
“I do think she needs to
go back at least some of the
time,” said Ford-Swinton,
whose granddaughter at-
tends Cowan Avenue Ele-
mentary in the Westchester
neighborhood of Los Ange-
les. “But I’m so afraid be-
cause I don’t know what’s
going to be in place.
“Will everyone be tested
for COVID-19 when they en-
ter? If they have a fever, will
they be sent home? Will
there be a full-time nursing
staff? It just creates a level of
stress.”
Overall, Californians are
closely split on whether to
continue with distance
learning or go ahead with a
limited reopening, accord-
ing to the poll, which was
conducted in consultation
with The Times.
About 4 in 10 California
adults want to stick with full-
time distance learning this
fall. A similarly sized group
favors a limited reopening
with students in school on
alternating days or on half-
day schedules. The stag-
gered schedule would allow
schools to comply with so-
cial distancing require-
ments, which typically re-
quire students to remain six
feet apart.
Fewer than 2 in 10 sup-
port having students attend
classes full time in person on
a daily basis — even if they
follow social distancing
guidelines, the poll found.
Respondents took part
online in the California Com-
munity Poll from June 26
through July 6. The survey
was commissioned by the
Center for Asian Americans
United for Self Empower-
ment, Hispanas Organized
for Political Equality and the
Los Angeles Urban League.
Strategies 360, a California-
based polling and political
strategy firm, polled 1,184
adult citizens. The margin of
sampling error is 3 percent-
age points.
The question of when
and how to reopen cam-
puses has divided experts
and roiled politics up to the
White House, with President
Trump this week threat-
HOSPITALIZATIONS of coronavirus patients have risen in much of California. Los Angeles and Orange
counties have seen case numbers spike. Above, a hospital in San Jose, located in hard-hit Santa Clara County.
to our work,” Ferrer said.
“And I think if we can try to
take those steps, it allows us
to slow the spread.”
But for the short term,
L.A. County should expect
more bad news. Ferrer said
it’s likely that daily co-
ronavirus deaths will contin-
ue to go back up — a reflec-
tion of the worsened hospi-
talization numbers seen in
recent weeks.
While hospitalizations of
confirmed coronavirus pa-
tients have risen by 35% in
L.A. County — and 28% in
San Diego County — since
Memorial Day, they’ve more
than doubled in the subur-
ban counties of Orange,
Riverside and Ventura, and
more than tripled in San
Bernardino County.
The deteriorating condi-
tions in Orange County have
officials and health experts
increasingly alarmed. On
Wednesday, 691 people with
confirmed coronavirus in-
fections were hospitalized
there; there were 300 on Me-
CALIFORNIANS are split on whether to extend distance learning or to reopen
schools on a limited basis. Above, English teacher Kyle Tacsik at El Segundo High.
ening to withhold funding
for schools that don’t open
and challenging the advice
of his own experts. He ques-
tioned the need for social
distancing and labeled the
safety guidelines from the
national Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention as
too tough, expensive and im-
practical. The CDC on
Thursday refused to change
its guidance.
“It’s clear that most
Americans are much more
conflicted about how to pro-
ceed — whether it’s about
wearing a mask or sending
their children to school —
given the wide range of mes-
sages they’re hearing from
their elected leaders,” poll
director Dan Schnur said.
California officials are
contemplating, at best, a hy-
brid format, with students
combining online sessions
and work-at-home materials
with part-time classes on
campuses in small groups.
Alberta Brinson Moore of
Leimert Park explained her
conflicted sentiments.
Her 15-year-old son was
“having the time of his life” at
Dorsey High School, playing
morial Day.
The spike has prompted
hospitals countywide to be-
gin to prepare for a surge of
sick patients, said Orange
County Health Care Agency
Director Dr. Clayton Chau.
“These trends are very
concerning, and we can ex-
pect the impact on our
healthcare system to get
worse in the coming days
and weeks,” Chau said. “If
the surge goes up to — or be-
yond — their capacity to mo-
bilize resources, that will
cause a real strain. A strain
on the hospital systems
means a strain on the ability
to care for all patients, both
COVID-19 and non-
COVID-19 folks.”
The increase in hospitali-
zations comes as the num-
ber of new infections contin-
ues to rise in Orange County.
On Thursday, health offi-
cials reported 1,292 new co-
ronavirus cases, bringing
the total number of infec-
tions to 21,517. Officials also
reported 26 fatalities, push-
soccer, earning almost all A’s
and making friends, despite
having to work through at-
tention deficit hyperactivity
and a speech disorder.
Since the pandemic, he’s
had only three speech ses-
sions, and none of his online
instruction has been live:
“My son really needs some
kind of social engagement.”
“But I’m a realist — we
have to see what the num-
bers are,” she added, refer-
ring to the county’s surge in
coronavirus infections.
Moore, 58, has diabetes
and high blood pressure,
and she recently received ra-
diation treatment for breast
cancer. “I’m the person that
— something happens, it’s
not just gonna be a sniffle,”
she said.
In the poll, undertaken
before Trump began touting
reopening schools, residents
of Los Angeles, Orange and
San Diego counties — where
the toll from COVID-19 has
been heaviest — were signifi-
cantly more in favor of keep-
ing students off campus
than residents of other parts
of the state.
The poll found only small
ing the county’s death toll
past 400.
While those numbers
help paint an overall picture
of the virus’ toll on the re-
gion, Dr. Shruti Gohil, asso-
ciate medical director of epi-
demiology and infection pre-
vention at UC Irvine, has
kept her eye trained specif-
ically on hospitalization
numbers, which experts say
is a better indicator of severe
cases in the community.
“If you look at the num-
ber of people who are requir-
ing hospitalization, it gives
you a better sense of the tip
of the iceberg,” Gohil said.
“There’s a larger portion of
the population under that
tip that indicates wide-
spread community trans-
mission.”
The number of people in
intensive care units has also
continued to climb steadily
countywide, though not as
quickly as overall hospitali-
zations. As of Wednesday,
234 patients were being
treated in intensive care
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
differences between parents
and non-parents on the is-
sue, but significant differ-
ences among various groups
of parents.
Among parents earning
more than $75,000, about 3 in
10 supported a full reopening
this fall. Among parents
earning less than $75,000,
only half as many supported
reopening.
Black and Asian Pacific
American parents were es-
pecially supportive of stick-
ing with distance learning,
with half or more in those
groups in favor. Latino par-
ents were most in favor of a
partial reopening, with
nearly half supporting that
option. Whites, who have
been less likely than Black
people or Latinos to be hit by
the virus, were the most
evenly divided, with about 1
in 5 backing a full reopening.
Moreover, the political
polarization that has di-
vided Americans on nearly
everything in recent years
reinforces an urban-rural
split, the poll found. Self-
identified Republicans and
conservatives, who are more
likely to live in non-urban
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Justin Sullivan Getty Images
units. On Memorial Day,
there were 119 patients in Or-
ange County’s ICUs.
Gohil noted that Orange
County’s increasing hospi-
talization numbers corre-
late directly with the loos-
ening of stay-at-home re-
strictions that allowed in-
door dining at restaurants
to resume and bars to re-
open last month.
“If you look carefully, it’s
right within that incubation
period,” Gohil said. “In my
mind, the restaurants and
bars reopening really sent
this psychological message
that things were OK. People
started going out more, and
it provided a more level
playing field for this virus to
infect people.”
Orange County reopened
in-restaurant dining on May
23 and bars on June 12; Los
Angeles County allowed in-
door dining on May 29 and
let bars reopen on June 19.
Both counties were ordered
by Gov. Gavin Newsom to
close bars and indoor dining
parts of the state, were much
more likely to back reopen-
ing than were Democrats
and liberals.
“These poll numbers
show that Trump’s call for a
full reopening is most popu-
lar with men, seniors and ru-
ral white voters,” Schnur
said. “Trump will almost
certainly not win California
in November, but the demo-
graphic groups that are
most supportive of opening
the schools are the voters he
needs to win in more com-
petitive states.”
But for most — including
education leaders — the is-
sues are more pragmatic
than political.
“It seems to me that we
are ill-prepared for the re-
opening of schools,” said
Lynwood Supt. Gudiel R.
Crosthwaite. “Given the in-
crease in rates not only in
Southern California but
throughout the country, it
seems almost irresponsible
for schools to open.”
Lennox School District
Supt. Scott Price said he’s
been involved in discussions
with leaders of other school
systems, and some expect
they’ll be ready with some
form of hybrid learning,
while others say they prob-
ably will need to start the
school year using distance
learning. His district is work-
ing out its strategy for the
fall.
Las Virgenes Unified,
which straddles the border
of Ventura and L.A. coun-
ties, announced Thursday
that it would offer both a hy-
brid schedule and online-
only instruction — not that it
will be easy. The district al-
ready has spent $850,000 on
safety and health enhance-
ments, while cutting its dis-
trictwide budget.
“We’re still running about
70% to 30% in favor of being
on campus.” Supt. Dan Ste-
penosky said. “Schools are
critical for both public
health and the economy. … If
we don’t open or don’t do it
right, both the public health
and economy will struggle.”
Antonio Mendez can at-
test to the economic hard-
ship.
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‘These trends are
very concerning,
and we can expect
the impact on our
healthcare system
to get worse in
the coming days
and weeks.’
— Dr. Clayton Chau,
director, Orange County Health
Care Agency, on the jump in
county’s COVID-19 cases
last week.
Hospitalizations notice-
ably worsened statewide
starting in mid-June.
Orange County has been
a hotbed of resistance to
wearing masks, which might
have also played a role. Local
officials rescinded a mask-
wearing order on June 11; a
week later, Newsom issued a
statewide order to wear
masks in public.
One big unanswered
question is how much
deaths will spike in the state.
In L.A. County, the number
of coronavirus-related
deaths out of nursing homes
has declined, thanks to bet-
ter infection control prac-
tices and testing.
A greater percentage of
infected people are younger
adults, who are less likely to
need hospitalization. But
they could also end up
spreading the infection to
people highly susceptible to
severe illness.
Garcetti said Wednesday
that “more than 50% of the
people who are testing pos-
itive in Los Angeles County
are between 18 and 40 years
of age.” While “most young
people are doing the right
thing,” he said, “it’s clear
that a lot of them are not.”
“This isn’t complicated:
Do not get together with
someone who’s not in your
household,” he said. “These
weeks are absolutely critical
— critical to whether schools
open, whether our economy
and our economic recovery
path continues. These
weeks are critical for saving
lives.”
Times staff writer Ryan
Murphy contributed to this
report.
An independent trucker
who lives in the San Diego
area, Mendez took on re-
sponsibility for supervising
his children’s studies while
his wife holds onto her credit
union job. He doesn’t have
anyone besides his mother
to watch his sons, ages 7 and
12, and he doesn’t want to
risk exposing her.
“I don’t want to send my
kids to school if there’s any
threat of them catching
this,” Mendez said.
For now, he wouldn’t feel
comfortable even with a par-
tial reopening of schools:
“When I go pick up the gro-
ceries, I see people outside
with no masks on. Those
people might have kids. If
they’re acting that irrespon-
sibly … and I’ve gotta send
my kids to school with those
children, I’m not doing
that.”
But Danielle Simmons of
San Bernardino says her
children, ages 7 and 10, need
to get back to something as
close to normal as possible.
“The distance learning,”
Simmons said, “it really is a
headache.”
Though Del Rosa Ele-
mentary provided a laptop
and iPad, the family had
problems signing into
Google Classroom and mut-
ing microphones, eating up
time and causing frustra-
tion. Besides, her children
“need that interaction. …
They need to get out of the
house and go back to what
they’re familiar to,” she said.
But she will also consider
whether the school is op-
erating safely and will keep
watch for spikes in the virus,
she said.
“Remote education
doesn’t work very well for
very many kids,” especially
for young children and low-
income families, said Jesse
Rothstein, a professor of
public policy and economics
at UC Berkeley, who’s had to
help manage schoolwork for
his own children at home. All
the same, “you can’t go to
schools if it’s not safe.”
And when it comes to the
coronavirus, “there’s a lot of
science that we don’t under-
stand.”
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BUSINESS
Decision to toss
payday loan rule
has racist effect
DAVID LAZARUS
The Trump
adminis-
tration this
week threw
out a rule
aimed at
protecting
working peo-
ple from
payday lend-
ers.
This isn’t just the latest
example of a business-
friendly White House plac-
ing the interests of compa-
nies ahead of those of con-
sumers.
It’s also the latest exam-
ple of Trump ignoring the
economic disadvantages of
Black and Latino Ameri-
cans and other people of
color.
At issue is a common-
sense regulation formulated
by the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau under
President Obama.
It required payday lend-
FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images ers to “reasonably” make
THE VICEROY L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, a longtime celebrity haunt, was once owned by a highflying sure that low-income bor-
Malaysian investor who is now a fugitive accused of embezzling billions of dollars from his country. rowers can repay loans that
typically carry annual inter-
est rates as high as 400%.
economic landscape.
Whichever, consumer advo-
cates see an administration
implementing policies that
go out of their way to harm
people of color.
“Pure and simple, the
CFPB has put working
families of color at greater
risk of falling into debt
traps,” said Mike Litt of the
U.S. Public Interest Re-
search Group.
Along with racial dispari-
ties, Pew found use of pay-
day loans is higher among
renters, people without
college degrees, and people
who are separated or di-
vorced.
Knowing all this, the
CFPB originally intended
the new safeguard to take
effect last summer.
The Trump adminis-
tration delayed implemen-
tation of the rule in
response to complaints
from payday lenders
that the ability-to-pay re-
quirement was too burden-
some and would cut into
profits.
D. Lynn DeVault, chair-
man of the Community
Financial Services Assn. of

Famous hotel is for sale — The idea was to prevent

people from getting trapped
in endless cycles of high-
interest debt by repeatedly
taking out new loans to pay
America, the leading trade
group for payday lenders,
welcomed the adminis-
tration killing off the rule
entirely.

while ex-owner’s on the lam off the previous obligations.

L’Ermitage in Beverly Hills will fetch at least $100 million
In Los Angeles, Low was known as
By Roger Vincent a high roller who partied with Paris
Hilton and poured $100 million into
Bidding has commenced in an auc- Martin Scorsese’s film “The Wolf of
tion of the Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Wall Street.”
Hills, a legendary hotel last owned by a The L’Ermitage stands eight sto-
highflying Malaysian investor now on ries in a residential neighborhood on
the lam after being accused of embez- Burton Way and is unassuming on the
zling billions of dollars from his coun- outside but over-the-top plush on the
try’s government. inside.
The low-key boutique hotel has A $37-million renovation com-
been known as a celebrity haunt for pleted in 2016 helped it keep the cov-
decades, where the likes of Elizabeth eted five-star rating from Forbes
Taylor, Richard Burton and Laurence Travel Guide it has held since 2000. Its
Olivier have bunked for the night and 116 rooms are all suites, including the
dined in its fancy French restaurant. 3,328-square-foot presidential suite
It will sell for at least $100 million, that includes five balconies, a Stein-
federal representatives said Thurs- way grand piano, a formal dining
day, or perhaps more at an auction set room, dens and a kitchen.
for Aug. 19. The hotel has a rooftop swimming
Since it opened in 1975, the L’Er- pool with views of the Hollywood Hills,
mitage has had a series of owners — a spa and a restaurant and bar called
most recently the U.S. government, Avec Nous. The marble bathrooms
which moved to seized it in 2016 from have televisions inset in the mirrors.
Malaysian financier Jho Low. Federal Nightly rates start around $500.
investigators said Low bought the ho- The L’Ermitage is operated by lux-
tel and other properties, including a ury hotelier Viceroy Hotels & Resorts,
Hollywood Hills mansion, with money and the new owner will need to decide
embezzled from a Malaysian govern- whether to continue that relationship.
ment-owned fund intended to spur Interest from potential buyers has
economic development in the South- been “extraordinary,” said Matthew
east Asian country. Bordwin of Keen-Summit Capital
In 2012, Low turned heads when he Partners, who is conducting the sale
dropped a whopping $38.98 million on on behalf of a special master ap-
his Hollywood Hills estate, redefining pointed by the U.S. District Court for
what a home could sell for in the celeb- the Central District of California.
rity-filled Bird Streets neighborhood. “This is a unique, special property,”
Federal authorities seized the proper- Bordwin said. “We’ve had a significant
ty and sold it for $18.5 million in March. number of qualified offers.”
Low is accused of being the master- Bordwin announced Thursday
mind of a scheme to plunder $4.5 bil- that Special Master Michael M. Eidel-
lion from the fund known as 1Malaysia man had accepted a “stalking horse”
Development Berhad, money that bidder — an entity selected to make an
was supposed to be used to invest in initial bid — who set the floor for fu-
real estate, Middle East oil and other ture bidders at $100 million. Bordwin
sectors. declined to identify the bidder beyond
Low has denied any wrongdoing saying it is “a savvy real estate investor
but is a fugitive from Malaysian and with hospitality experience.”
U.S. authorities. The stalking horse bidder will pur-
More than 80% of payday
loans end up being rolled
over into new loans or fol-
lowed within days by a new
loan, the CFPB determined
in 2014. Half of all payday
loans result in 10 additional
loans to cover the original
chase the hotel for $100 million if no debt.
bids come in higher at the auction “Payday lenders prey on
next month. Higher bids must start at poor, low-wage earners and
$104 million, said Bordwin, who will people of color,” said Linda
spend the next few weeks putting Sherry, a spokeswoman for
other potential buyers through a the advocacy group Con-
qualification process to prove they are sumer Action.
able to pay what they offer. “The federal agency
Typically bidders would compete specifically tasked with
in a room eye to eye for such an auc- protecting consumers from
tion, he said, but because of the financial abuse has thrown
COVID-19 pandemic the sale will be consumers under the bus,”
conducted by an online video chat lim- she told me.
ited to the participants. Christine Hines, legisla-
Low bought the hotel for $46 mil- tive director for the National
lion in 2010, when the market was still Assn. of Consumer Advo-
depressed after the Great Recession. cates, echoed that senti-
The previous owner paid $68 million in ment.
2000. “Payday lenders dispro-
The hotel market is depressed now, portionately target Black
hobbled by the pandemic, which has and Latino communities,
damped travel around the world, in- hawking their high-cost
dustry analyst Alan Reay said. loans on working families
Sales of hotels in California were and trapping them in a cycle
down 90% from April 1 to the middle of of debt,” she said.
June compared with the same period The CFPB, under
last year, he said, “so for all intents and Trump’s appointee as direc-
purposes the sales market has come tor, Kathy Kraninger, says
to a grinding halt.” deregulating payday lend-
One of the last big luxury hotel ers will “maintain consumer
sales in the region was the $415-million access to credit and compe-
purchase in December of the Montage tition in the marketplace”
Beverly Hills by Maybourne Group, a by making it easier for peo-
London company that renamed the ple to get their hands on
property the Maybourne Beverly some fast cash.
Hills. At more than $2 million a room, “A vibrant and well-
the price was a California hotel sale functioning financial
record, Reay said. marketplace is important
At a similar price, the L’Ermitage for consumers to access the
would sell for more than $230 million, financial products they
but with the hotel market on its knees need and ensure they are
during the pandemic it may sell for protected,” Kraninger said
less and to someone who doesn’t even in a statement, ignoring her
want to run a hotel, Reay said. own agency’s data on the
Many hotel buyers these days plan dangers of payday and
to convert their properties to other car-title loans.
uses such as housing, he said. “I The CFPB has deter-
wouldn’t be surprised if the ultimate mined that many short-
buyer was looking at a condo play.” term loan recipients
are “likely to stay in debt for
11 months or longer,”
making them ongoing
sources of revenue for a
He said requiring payday
lenders to look into the
creditworthiness of loan
recipients is “simply un-
workable.”
Fun fact: Payday lenders
held their annual conven-
tion for the first time at the
Trump National Doral
Miami resort in 2018 and
returned to the Trump-
owned property last year.
The industry has con-
tributed more than $1.2
million so far in the current
election cycle, according to
the Center for Responsive
Politics. Three-quarters of
that money has gone to
Republicans.
Defenders of short-term
loans make a fair point in
saying borrowers often may
not qualify for traditional
bank loans, and that the
high interest rates merely
reflect the higher risk in-
volved in lending to people
living paycheck to pay-
check.
That’s why the CFPB
was correct in not cracking
down too heavily on payday
lenders. The companies
perform a service needed by
millions of Americans.
That said, it’s clear that
this business is predicated
for the most part on forcing
people to keep taking out
new loans and thus remain
financially enslaved — and,
yes, I use that word deliber-
ately.
Payday loans are a form
of economic servitude,
keeping borrowers behold-
en to companies that know
full well they profit most
handsomely when custom-
ers have no escape.
There is no rational
defense of such malicious
business practices.
The CFPB under Obama
was clear-eyed about the
utility of payday loans.
It repeatedly empha-
sized that it wasn’t trying to
put payday lenders out of
business.
Rather, it wanted the

Jobless benefit filings ease to 1.3 million $50-billion industry that

The level of layoffs
remains persistently
high amid a surge in
COVID-19 cases.
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WASHINGTON — More
than 1.3 million Americans
applied for unemployment
benefits last week, a histori-
cally high pace that shows
that many employers are
still laying people off in the
face of a resurgent co-
ronavirus.
The persistently elevated
level of layoffs is occurring as
a surge in COVID-19 cases
has forced California and
five other states to reverse
their move to reopen busi-
nesses. Those six — includ-
ing Arizona, Colorado, Flor-
ida, Michigan and Texas —
make up one-third of the
U.S. economy. An additional
15 states have suspended
their reopenings.
Collectively, the pullback
has stalled a tentative recov-
ery in the job market and is
probably triggering addi-
tional layoffs.
Thursday’s report from
the Labor Department
showed that the number of
applications for unemploy-
ment aid fell from 1.4 million
in the previous week. The
figure has now topped 1 mil-
lion for 16 straight weeks. Be-
fore the pandemic, the
record high for weekly un-
employment applications
was fewer than 700,000.
The total number of peo-
ple who are receiving jobless
benefits dropped 700,000, to
18 million. That suggests
that some companies are
continuing to rehire work-
ers.
An additional 1 million
people sought benefits last
week under a separate pro-
gram for self-employed and
gig workers that has made
them eligible for aid for the
first time. These figures ar-
en’t adjusted for seasonal
variations, so the govern-
ment doesn’t include them
in the official count.
Americans are seeking
unemployment aid against
the backdrop of a disturbing
surge in confirmed viral
cases, with increases re-
ported in 38 states. Case
counts have accelerated no-
tably in California and three
other states — Arizona,
Florida and Texas — that to-
gether now account for more
than half of reported new
U.S. cases.
The intensifying out-
breaks and more stringent
government restrictions
have slowed economic activ-
ity in much of the country
and may be weighing on hir-
ing. The government’s jobs
report for June showed a sol-
id gain of 4.8 million jobs and
an unemployment rate that
fell to 11.1% from 13.3%.
Yet even so, the economy
has regained only about one-
third of the jobs that van-
ished in March and April.
And the June jobs report re-
flected surveys of Ameri-
cans that were conducted in
the middle of that month —
before the pandemic flared
up again.
More recent data are
worrisome. Spending on
credit and debit cards is-
sued by Bank of America fell
in the week that ended June
27 compared with the previ-
ous week. Auto and existing-
home sales have slowed.
Restaurant visits have
also leveled off nationally, in-
cluding in states that
haven’t begun to close down
again, according to data
from OpenTable, the reser-
vations website.
“This suggests that re-
newed fears about the virus,
rather than government re-
strictions, are driving the
pullback in activity,” said
Andrew Hunter, senior U.S.
economist at Capital Econo-
mics, a forecasting firm.
preys almost exclusively on
the poor and financially
distressed.
The Pew Charitable
Trusts determined that 12
million U.S. adults take out
payday loans every year,
with the average borrower
receiving eight loans of $375
apiece and paying $520 in
interest.
It found that Black peo-
ple are at least twice as
likely as others to seek pay-
day loans.
Twelve percent of Black
Americans turn to the high-
interest loans to make ends
meet annually, Pew found,
compared with 6% of Latino
people and 4% of white
people.
Bartlett Naylor, financial
policy advocate for Public
Citizen, said reducing ac-
countability for payday
lenders “throws blood in
already turbulent waters.”
“And yes,” he told me, “in
the end it’s a racist deci-
sion.”
Maybe it’s a reflection of
the times, maybe just a
clear-eyed appraisal of the
lenders to behave in a re-
sponsible manner, making
funds available without
trapping people in perpetu-
al debt.
The CFPB under Trump
has different priorities, not
least giving providers of
financial services as long a
leash as they desire.
“The bureau protects
consumers from unfair,
deceptive or abusive
practices, and takes action
against companies that
break the law,” the CFPB’s
Kraninger declared.
“We will continue to
monitor the small-dollar
lending industry and en-
force the law against bad
actors,” she pledged.
If that rings hollow in
light of the administration’s
latest consumer-unfriendly
measure, you’re not mistak-
en.
David Lazarus’ column runs
Tuesdays and Fridays. He
also can be seen daily on
KTLA-TV Channel 5 and on
Twitter @davidlaz. Send
your tips to david.lazarus
@latimes.com.
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LONG BEACH Airport forced JetBlue Airways to give up nearly a third of its gate slots about a year ago.
JetBlue hub to depart from
Long Beach, land at LAX
By Hugo Martín
JetBlue Airways, once
the dominant airline at Long
Beach Airport, announced
plans to relocate its South-
ern California hub to Los An-
geles International Airport,
with an eye to expanding
service over the next five
years.
The New York-based air-
line plans to begin the relo-
cation to LAX in October.
JetBlue Airways Corp.’s last
day of operation in Long
Beach will be Oct. 6.
JetBlue put part of the
blame for the move on the
COVID-19 pandemic, saying
the financial hit caused by
the pandemic has made the
airline reconsider its future
in Long Beach.
“The impact of COVID-19
on our industry has forced
us to take a hard look at our
remaining Long Beach Air-
port operation, which con-
Ford’s CEO resists Walmart’s answer to Amazon Prime
calls to stop making
vehicles for police
bloomberg
Ford Motor Co.’s top exe-
cutive has pushed back
against some employees
calling for the top seller of ve-
hicles to U.S. police depart-
ments to exit the business.
Chief Executive Jim
Hackett sent a more than
600-word letter to senior
staff in response to mes-
sages he’s received both
from within and outside
Ford’s ranks to reconsider
producing police vehicles.
Hackett, 65, said that
while he and Executive
Chairman Bill Ford support
the Black Lives Matter
movement and believe po-
lice should operate with
more transparency and ac-
countability, first respond-
ers “play an extraordinarily
important role in the vitality
and safety of our society.”
“Our world wouldn’t
function without the brav-
ery and dedication of the
good police officers who pro-
tect and serve,” Hackett
wrote. “But safety of com-
munity must be inclusive of
all members and today, it is
not.”
“Holding these two
thoughts together in one’s
Seth Wenig Associated Press
CEO Jim Hackett stands
by Ford’s police business.
tinues to financially under-
perform our network despite
various efforts through the
years — including seeking to
bring international flights —
in order to make our opera-
tion at the airport succeed,”
JetBlue spokesman Philip
Stewart said, referring to a
decision by city lawmakers
in 2017 to kill a proposal to al-
low international flights.
In Long Beach, JetBlue
was popular as a low-cost
carrier that served smaller,
less-crowded airports. Its
biggest rival, Southwest Air-
lines, has over the years in-
creased the number of
flights out of Long Beach,
with plans to dominate that
niche on the West Coast.
In the last few years, the
relationship between Jet-
Blue and Long Beach has
been rocky.
JetBlue had proposed
adding international flights
from Long Beach to Mexico
and other Latin American
‘At a time when
consumers are
consolidating
mind is possible, but now
there is tension,” Hackett
continued. “It’s our belief the
recent issues surfacing from
the George Floyd tragedy
are bringing a very intensive
and necessary spotlight on
police training and reform.”
The second-largest U.S.
automaker by sales joins
household-name companies
including Facebook Inc. and
PepsiCo Inc. in being pres-
sured to change business
practices after the police
killing of Floyd, an unarmed
Black man, in May.
The fallout has been sig-
nificant for some — Face-
book is being hit by an adver-
tiser boycott, and Pepsi and
others have abandoned
brands rooted in racism.
Amazon.com Inc. has imple-
mented a one-year morato-
rium on police use of its fa-
cial recognition software.
Ford Police Interceptor
sedans and sport-utility ve-
hicles — souped-up versions
of its Fusion and Explorer
models — are a small sliver of
the more than 2 million cars
the automaker sells in the
U.S. every year. But its domi-
nation of the segment has
long been a point of pride.
The company boasted less
than a year ago that it ac-
counted for almost
two-thirds of U.S. police ve-
hicle sales.
“It’s not controversial
that the Ford Police Inter-
ceptor helps officers do their
job,” Hackett wrote. But he
pushed back against the no-
tion that supporting police
accountability and produc-
ing vehicles for departments
across the U.S. are mutually
exclusive.
“The issues plaguing po-
lice credibility have nothing
to do with the vehicles
they’re driving,” Hackett
said.
destinations, but the idea
was rejected by local law-
makers and residents who
feared the addition of inter-
national flights would lead
to more traffic, air pollution,
a drop in property values
and pressure to lift the city’s
restrictive noise limits.
About a year ago, Long
Beach Airport forced Jet-
Blue to give up nearly a third
of its gate slots after being
warned that it was in danger
of violating new city regula-
tions designed to prevent
airlines from sitting on un-
derused slots to keep com-
petitors out.
Several of its competi-
tors, including Southwest
Airlines, picked up most of
the slots JetBlue gave up.
At Long Beach Airport,
JetBlue now accounts for 17
of 41 permanent flight slots,
which airport officials say
are likely to be taken over
quickly by other carriers.
“We understand that the
The pending program
catches investors by
surprise. But the retail
giant has been testing
the waters for awhile.
bloomberg
The imminent introduc-
tion of Walmart Inc.’s new
subscription program took
investors by surprise this
week, sending the retailer’s
shares up the most in almost
four months.
Although details of the
program, dubbed Wal-
mart+, are still hazy, the
service is rooted in three ex-
periments the world’s big-
gest retailer has conducted
in recent years to gauge the
willingness of its shoppers to
deepen their allegiance. The
trials span the globe and in-
clude mobile checkout, un-
limited grocery delivery and
a social media-based mini-
app in China.
Although not always re-
sounding successes, the pi-
lot programs taught the
company valuable lessons
and gave it the confidence to
roll out Walmart+, which
could offer a variety of serv-
ices, including free same-
day delivery and virtual en-
tertainment for kids.
Walmart+ arrives as the
retailer picks up millions of
new customers during the
pandemic — a result of low
prices on food and es-
sentials, a ubiquitous store
network and improvements
to online shopping. Rival
Amazon.com Inc., mean-
while, suffered from some
high-profile delays early on
in getting stuff to customers.
Shopping trends
Amid lingering economic
lockdowns, virus-leery con-
sumers are consolidating
their shopping trips and
spending larger sums at
fewer retailers. This benefits
Patrick T. Fallon Bloomberg
aviation industry — now
more than ever — is con-
stantly changing and air-
lines nationwide are making
difficult business decisions
to stay competitive in light of
the pandemic,” Long Beach
Airport Director Cynthia
Guidry said in a statement.
“We expect strong interest in
the [JetBlue] slots as they
become available.”
In addition to consolidat-
ing its transcontinental
flights to LAX, JetBlue says
it plans to expand to about
70 flights per day by 2025, in-
cluding international
flights. JetBlue now flies
about 20 daily takeoffs from
LAX.
“While we recognize it is
bittersweet to say farewell to
a community that’s been
part of our company’s story
from our earliest days, this
move is the right one for Jet-
Blue and our future as we
think about our next decade
of growth,” Stewart said.
mass merchants such as
Walmart and Target Corp.,
which sell beer, broccoli,
baseball bats, office supplies
and many other products.
Holding on to those con-
verts is essential for Wal-
mart right now, and the
“stickiness” of a member-
ship program with speedy
delivery and other perks
might just be the way to keep
them in the fold. Five million
customers could join Wal-
mart+ off the bat, according
to a survey from Credit Su-
isse analysts and researcher
Numerator, and the poten-
tial audience could be as
large as 20 million.
Even for a company as
large as Walmart, with about
160 million weekly visits to its
U.S. stores and website,
that’s a big number. Ama-
zon’s Prime program, by
contrast, has more than 118
million members in the U.S.,
according to Consumer In-
telligence Research Part-
ners.
‘An opportune time’
“At a time when consum-
ers are consolidating pur-
chases, this seems like an
opportune time to roll out
this offering,” Credit Suisse
analyst Seth Sigman said in
a note. “We see it as a way to
retain incremental custom-
ers, create a higher level of
stickiness, as well as attract
new customers to its wider
offering. Walmart+ could be
a key driver to pull it all to-
gether.”
Walmart+ surprised
many when its existence
leaked out in February, but
the retailer has been laying
down the service’s founda-
tions for several years now. A
key building block is Scan &
Go, a mobile-checkout sys-
tem that enables shoppers
to ring up purchases on a
smartphone app and skip
the lines at the cashier.
Walmart started testing
the service in its U.S. stores
back in 2012. It found the
most adoption in its Sam’s
F R I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
MARKET ROUNDUP
Economic fears,
virus trends drag
most stocks lower
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Most of Wall Street wilted
Thursday on worries that
the economy’s recent im-
provements may be set to
fade as coronavirus cases
keep climbing.
The Standard & Poor’s
500 index lost 0.6%, with 3
out of 4 stocks within the in-
dex falling. The sharpest
drops hit oil companies, air-
lines and other firms whose
fortunes are most closely
tied to a reopening and
strengthening economy.
Treasury yields also sank in
another sign of increased
caution.
The Dow Jones industrial
average dropped 361.19
points, or 1.4%, to 25,706.09;
the 17.89-point fall for the
S&P 500 to 3,152.05 was just
its second loss in the last
eight sessions.
Smaller stocks sank
more than the rest of the
market, which often hap-
pens when investors are
downgrading their expecta-
tions for the economy. The
Russell 2000 index of small-
cap stocks lost 28.48 points,
or 2%, to 1,398.92.
The Nasdaq composite
was an outlier as investors
continue to bet big tech-ori-
ented stocks can keep grow-
ing almost regardless of the
economy’s strength. It add-
ed 55.25 points, or 0.5%, to
10,547.75 and hit another
record.
Thursday’s headline
economic report showed
that a little more than 1.3
million workers filed new un-
employment claims last
week. That is down from 1.4
million the prior week and
from a peak of nearly 6.9 mil-
lion in late March.
The U.S. unemployment
rate is currently 11.1%.
Major stock indexes
Index Close
Dow industrials 25,706.09
S&P 500 3,152.05
Nasdaq composite 10,547.75
S&P 400 1,748.61
Russell 2000 1,398.92
EuroStoxx 50 3,009.04
Nikkei (Japan) 22,529.29
Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 26,210.16
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purchases, this
seems like an
opportune time to
roll out this
offering.’
— Seth Sigman,
Credit Suisse analyst
Club warehouse division,
which carries a much
smaller assortment of prod-
ucts that are all bar-coded,
eliminating the hassle of
scanning a handpicked bag
of apples, for instance.
Walmart quietly shut
down Scan & Go in its name-
sake stores in 2018 but will
probably bring it back exclu-
sively for members of Wal-
mart+. Enhancements such
as computer vision and
machine learning have
made Scan & Go faster and
easier to use, reducing the
time required to scan an
item to about three seconds,
down from nine previously.
Another element of Wal-
mart+ came from China,
where the retailer rolled out
a service in 2017 over
WeChat, the wildly popular
messaging service owned by
Tencent Holdings Ltd. that
connects more than 1 billion
people.
Walmart developed a so-
called Mini Program, an ex-
ternal app that sits on top of
WeChat, which in this case
included Scan & Go and an-
other function that guided
consumers through the
store based on their shop-
ping list. The program,
which also facilitated same-
day deliveries, was a huge
hit, attracting more than 10
million monthly active users
in less than a year.
Another element was un-
A9
Investors are worried
that worsening infection lev-
els across swaths of the U.S.
South and West and in other
global hot spots could derail
the budding recovery. Some
states are rolling back their
reopenings, while others are
ordering people arriving
from hot spots to self-quar-
antine.
Thursday’s losses for
stocks accelerated after
Florida reported the largest
daily increase in deaths yet
from the pandemic, with its
cumulative death toll top-
ping 4,000.
Such concerns helped
push Treasury yields lower.
The yield on the 10-year note
sank to 0.60% from 0.65% late
Wednesday.
The price of gold also
held above $1,800 per ounce.
Gold tends to rise when in-
vestors are worried about
the economy, and on
Wednesday it touched its
highest price since Septem-
ber 2011. Gold for delivery in
August slipped $16.80 to set-
tle at $1,803.80.
In the stock market, the
sharpest losses hit compa-
nies whose profits tend to
rise and fall most closely
with the strength of the
economy. Energy stocks
dropped 4.9% for the biggest
loss among the 11 sectors
that make up the S&P 500.
Exxon Mobil sank 4.1%, and
ConocoPhillips fell 6.6%.
Benchmark U.S. crude
dropped $1.28 to $39.62 per
barrel.
Companies across the
country are preparing to re-
port second-quarter results
in coming weeks, and fore-
casts are uniformly dismal.
Stocks in overseas mar-
kets were mixed, though
China continued its huge
run. Stocks in Shanghai
added an additional 1.4%.
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change change change
-361.19 -1.39 -9.92
-17.89 -0.56 -2.44
+55.25 +0.53 +17.56
-26.25 -1.48 -15.24
-28.48 -2.00 -16.16
-21.94 -0.72 -11.58
+90.64 +0.40 -4.77
+80.98 +0.31 -7.02
earthed closer to home in
the form of Walmart’s Deliv-
ery Unlimited program,
which launched last year.
Shoppers paid $98 a year, or
$12.95 monthly, for the home
delivery service, which was
expanded from a few cities to
1,400 stores late last year. Al-
though not as popular as
Walmart’s curbside pickup
service, home delivery has
found new adherents during
the pandemic with shoppers
more likely to be home all
day, eliminating the hassle
of finding the right delivery
window.
Crucial data
The personalized nature
of the three services illus-
trates Walmart’s eagerness
to gather more data about
its customers. It can use the
information to tailor its
prices and product assort-
ment, while also packaging
and selling it to big con-
sumer product brands for
targeted digital ads. Having
watched Amazon build a
massive advertising busi-
ness, Walmart now is
looking to do the same, le-
veraging the long-standing
relationships it has with ma-
jor advertisers such as Proc-
ter & Gamble Co. and Coca-
Cola Co.
Walmart has never had a
loyalty club like most retail-
ers do — founder Sam Wal-
ton wanted to treat every
customer the same — but
the growing prevalence of
digital shopping, and the
growing threat of Amazon to
its grocery business, has
forced it to rethink its rela-
tionship with consumers.
“By not having a loyalty
program, Walmart has had a
data deficit to other retailers
and e-commerce operators,”
said Jordan Berke, who
spent 14 years with Walmart
and helped lead its Chinese
digital operations before de-
parting last year to start To-
morrow Retail Consulting.
“This is a big step toward
getting more personalized.”
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Chasing Trump’s tax returns

change management using
the ADKAR approach
(which stands for aware-
ness, desire, knowledge,
ability and reinforcement).
immune from subpoenas by state and local Step one is that our
The Supreme Court says the prosecutors. They also argued that congres- leaders must wear masks
sional subpoenas were invalid because the
president can be subpoenaed. But committees hadn’t shown that Trump’s pri-
and continue to restate
and reinforce the message,
his documents may stay hidden. vate papers were critically needed to serve a and police officers must
legitimate legislative purpose. also wear masks. Step two
Both of these issues were novel ones for is engendering trust, so
he Supreme Court took two the court, and had the justices accepted

T
police could hand out
cautious, balanced steps Thurs- Trump’s reasoning, they could have pushed masks to people not wear-
day to clarify something that Trump and future presidents well beyond ing them to gently reinforce
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times the importance.
was obvious to everyone but the reach of the law and the legislature.
President Trump and his law- Similarly, there was a real risk that placing NURSE Arnold Garcia tends to a patient with Finally, step three is to
yers: The president can’t dodge investiga- too few restrictions on subpoenas would COVID-19 symptoms at a hospital in Chula Vista. start citing people in 15
tions into his conduct, even while in office. embolden prosecutors and lawmakers to days or so. Like reopening,
it’s a phased approach.
But the rulings were so cautious and so
balanced that the justices didn’t resolve the
battles Congress and prosecutors are wag-
engage in even more frivolous, partisan at-
tacks than they already do (as hard as that
might be to imagine in Congress’ case).
The ills of distancing Wendy Winter
Altadena
ing with the White House over access to The justices steered clear of both traps. Re “Lowered fear could lead to virus disaster,” July 3 ::
Trump’s tax returns and other financial re- In the Vance case, they held that state and
cords. That all but guarantees Trump’s abil- local investigations into a sitting president This article had it partly right. Californians are afraid, Other than potentially
ity to keep his records secret until after the can continue even though he or she cannot but I think we are just tired of being afraid — of having contracting COVID-19, I
November election, if not longer. be prosecuted while in office. That’s a win those things that bond us pulled away from us, of being agree that there have not
The issues raised transcend Trump, for justice; as Chief Justice John G. Roberts afraid of other people. been enough consequences
speaking more fundamentally to the ques- Jr. observed for the majority, the passage of Since March my life has been more complicated and for people who refuse to
tions of who can oversee a president, when time could make it harder to obtain leads my work more stressful, but the things that once helped wear a mask. I think that in
and how. In the hyperpartisan environment and indict third parties, and even deprive me get through the day are no longer there. I work in the light of the recent protests
we live in, Trump will hardly be the last pres- grand juries of evidence that could protect libraries at the state prison here in Lancaster. It is against police brutality,
ident whose personal papers are targeted by the innocent. And as for Congress, the jus- sometimes satisfying but often stressful. My ways of officers now tend to back
lawmakers and prosecutors of the opposite tices set guidelines that aim to protect pres- cushioning that stress are visiting museums, church and off rather than confront
party. A strong majority of the justices of- idents from partisan fishing expeditions other places. Since March I have had none of these. anyone who is in public
fered some important guidance for how to while still giving lawmakers the ability to ob- barefaced.
At work we had a COVID-19 outbreak, and inmates
resolve those fights, even if they can’t pos- tain information that’s not available else- Some of the people so
could not come to the library. That led to more stress.
sibly avert them. where and that serves a valid legislative concerned about their
Human beings are not meant to be separate. When
The two cases revolved around efforts by purpose. personal freedoms being
trouble comes we huddle together. Now we are told that taken away probably don’t
Manhattan Dist. Atty. Cyrus R. Vance Jr. Trump will now fight the subpoenas in is dangerous. That lack of human touch is almost as know anything about the
and three congressional committees to ob- lower courts, following the rules the justices detrimental as the disease. Constitution. But they
tain overlapping sets of financial records laid out. That means his records won’t I’m sick to death of being responsible and under- should know that other
from lenders that did business with Trump emerge anytime soon, if ever. But all the standing. Does that mean I won’t wear a mask? No, countries seem to be doing
or his accounting firm. The president’s law- parties involved have a better idea now what because I am a responsible person. Does that mean I’ll much better than we are.
yers argued that as long as Trump was in the limits are, as well as the reassurance get close to other people? No, or at least not right now. The people there appear to
office, his personal papers were absolutely that no president is completely out of reach. Elizabeth Rocke have a different mind-set
Lancaster and care more about the
well-being of all.
Unless we do what it

L.A. Unified’s police misstep I am outraged at all

kinds of nonsense right
now, but especially at
people who have been
prehensive and appropri-
ate reopening plan.
Dillon Finan
Del Valle, Texas
takes to enforce mask
compliance, we will be
dealing with the COVID-19
pandemic indefinitely.
ere’s something the public ically to work with young people. minimizing this pandemic Barbara Segal

H doesn’t yet know: What’s the

best way to keep students safe
at Los Angeles schools? How
might the use of school police
be reformed so that campuses are secure
while students aren’t unnerved by the con-
stant presence of a uniformed officer?
In other words, testimony at a public
meeting doesn’t necessarily reflect how the
larger population of students and parents
feels. At minimum, that would require a sur-
vey in which all families can participate.
Even then, though family opinions are one
important factor, it’s ultimately the board’s
from the beginning. Their
contribution to the catas-
trophe unfolding in the
United States should never
be forgotten.
No, this is not just the
flu. No, the Swedish model
that we should reopen
campuses in a normal
fashion.
::

I am a retired public
school teacher and believe
Carlsbad

::

For those patriots who

truly believe mask wearing
is too great an imposition
wasn’t worth anything. No, Traditionally, school to bear, I would suggest
Here’s who else doesn’t know: the Los responsibility to keep schools safe and de- Bill Gates is not scheming. began after Labor Day. For issuing a citation for $500
Angeles Unified school board. Yet that termine what level of security is needed to You just picked and chose the 2020-21 year, this makes or requiring community
didn’t stop it last week from cutting the do that. your facts. sense as the current spike service consisting of eight-
budget of its police force by more than a That could well mean a reduction in, or The government isn’t in infections may have hour shifts changing lin-
third, deciding a key issue without the infor- even the near elimination of, the district’s trying to control you, and subsided by then. ens, emptying bedpans
mation it needed to act responsibly. police force. Some students believe they’re social distancing is neither School-age children and empathetic hand-
The vote, made without prior notice to under continual suspicion with an armed, a coercion technique nor a appear to face very little holding in a busy COVID-19
the public, reversed a far more reasonable uniformed officer patrolling campus, which grand plan to alter human likelihood of becoming ward.
approach taken just the week before, which should feel like a place where they’re moving psychology. Old people seriously ill from COVID-19. Dan Proctor
would have given an existing task force con- toward a brilliant future, not prison. The aren’t the only ones at risk, Teachers and other cam- Northridge
vened by Supt. Austin Beutner time to ana- money saved on officers could be used for and masks mandates are pus employees are the ones
lyze the issue and return with informed additional counselors and other services. not slavery. potentially at risk. If the
recommendations. But the board can’t make an informed Shame on you for con-
tributing to the torrent of
adults wear a quality mask
and wash their hands
Biden’s No. 2,
Instead, the board blindsided Beutner decision until the task force completes its
and rashly gave in to the passions of the mo- work. There was no pressing reason to make
ignorance and stupidity
that pushed us in the
frequently, the chances of
them being infected ap-
2024’s No. 1
ment after students, many of them Black, the cuts now. And with the district already Re “Stop worrying about
downward spiral we find proach zero.
testified about feeling intimidated by the in turmoil as a consequence of the COVID-19 Biden’s choice for VP,”
ourselves in today. Shame Students and parents
presence of police on campus. This level of pandemic, this wasn’t the time to add to the on you for wanting to be would benefit greatly from column, July 8
student activism is heartening to see, the disruption. right against science, for this scenario, and the risks
start of a new generation of civic involve- These are quick-moving times full of fear picking and choosing facts would be minimal. While presumptive
ment. Their voices should be taken into ac- and hope. That made it all the more impor- so you can teach and James Thurber Democratic nominee Joe
count. But that doesn’t mean those voices tant for the school board to both under- spread a controversy that Mountain View, Calif. Biden’s pick for vice presi-
alone should rule the day. Other students stand the justified concerns of students and exists in your head only. dent is important for the
feel safer on campus because of the pres- hold off on key decisions until they could be The alleged controver- :: 2020 election, it is more
ence of school police, who are trained specif- based on facts as well as feelings. sies you’re propagating important to think about
only serve to support the Trump’s demand that who will run for president
incompetence of those who schools reopen in the fall in 2024.
govern us. They actually will have little impact on If 77-year-old Biden

A redistricting embarrassment delay our return to a nor-

mal life and end up costing
lives and jobs.
Shame on you for
many parents. They will
decide for themselves
when it is safe for their
children to return to class.
wins in November, it is
unlikely he will run for a
second term due to his age.
His vice president will
ast week, the state auditor crease the percentage of Latino candidates playing a part in spreading But ardent Trump almost certainly run for

L stood behind a bingo cage filled

with ping-pong balls for a random
drawing of eight lucky winners
from among 35 names. The prize
wasn’t a million dollars, but one of the first
seats on the 14-member Citizens Redistrict-
ing Commission and the chance to shape
as it winnowed down the pool over the next
few months, but it couldn’t overcome the
early disadvantage — or the whim of legisla-
tive leaders from the two major parties, who
collectively whacked several Latinos off a
list of 60 semifinalists.
The random drawing of the first eight
stupidity.

Cover COVID-19
Eric Bescher
Hollywood
supporters are being asked
to make a decision: Are you
willing to risk the life of
your child to demonstrate
your faith in the president?
Paul Roud
Leverett, Mass.
president. Whoever he
picks this year must be
able to win the presidency
in four years.
I don’t want gains in the
areas of healthcare, cli-
mate change and immigra-

California’s political future. commissioners, who will pick the next six, is care for teachers ::
tion reversed in four years,
as has happened with the
Though it was the luck of the draw, the supposed to ensure a truly independent Re “Trump’s bluster on Trump administration.
results made for a pretty diverse octet. Half group chosen by chance, not by the machi- schools,” editorial, July 9 Trump pretends the Linda Rinaldi
of those picked were women, three were nations of politicians with their own agen- pandemic is waning in the West Hills
Black and more than half of the commission- das. But Proposition 11, which created the I work for a large urban face of astronomically bad
ers were nonwhite — just like the state itself. panel, didn’t envision a bunch of random school district in Texas and numbers and demands ::
But by one crucial measure, the lottery Californians. It mandated a group that feel that a major topic that that schools reopen.
failed miserably. None of the commissioners would fairly represent the diversity of this has been overlooked in the He insists that the My worrying about
selected in the drawing was Latino. Not one. vast state and ensure that no one was left discussion on reopening economy will bounce back Biden’s choice for vice
This shouldn’t have happened. Not in a out of the process of drawing the boundaries schools this fall is co- and that Confederate president began months
state in which Latinos are the largest ethnic of legislative and congressional districts — ronavirus-specific health- statues are monuments to ago, when he announced
group, accounting for about 40% of the and certainly not the state’s largest ethnic care coverage for school heroes. He calls demon- that selection of his run-
nearly 40 million residents. And it can’t be group. employees. strators thugs and ignores ning mate would be limited
chalked up to an astonishingly bad run of This outcome is not just embarrassing, Any reopening plans the fact that the vast ma- to women. And lately, he
should include absolute jority of protests were seems disposed to pick a
luck. The deck was stacked from the start. it’s unacceptable. This means the eight new
assurances that we and our peaceful and that most woman of color.
It became clear that Latinos were woe- commissioners must prioritize Latinos
immediate family mem- Americans want systemic To be sure, I feel that
fully represented in the pool, making up just when they pick the next six of their col-
bers will not be held re- racism to end. Biden’s best two vice presi-
14% of the applicants, even before the Au- leagues. sponsible for any co- This isn’t really about a dential options are fe-
gust deadline closed. The state auditor, who But that’s not enough. This can’t happen ronavirus-related health- lack of intelligence, but males, one a woman of
oversees the commission outreach and ap- again. The outcome suggests that the selec- care costs if any of us be- rather a lack of compas- color. Still, I do not think he
plication process, extended the deadline tion process for this important panel is both comes infected because of sion. This man thinks only should have foreclosed
under pressure from such groups as Califor- fundamentally flawed and inherently dis- mass reopenings. We of what he wants, and that consideration of a white
nia Common Cause, which said they hadn’t criminatory, like so many of our civic institu- should not compound the is reelection at any cost. male running mate.
been given enough time to do recruiting. tions have turned out to be under recent uncertainty we already feel Sue Robin I strongly support
But the extension was a dud, at least for scrutiny. Every step in the process must be by asking teachers and Los Angeles affirmative action in em-
Latino candidates whose percentages in- examined and, if necessary, revised long be- support staff to risk finan- ployment, college admis-
creased only slightly. fore applicants start applying for the 2030 cial ruin if they become sions, corporate boards
A state review panel did manage to in- commission. infected with COVID-19.
If President Trump and
Public buy-in and so on. But in selecting
the person who may sit one
Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos are demanding that
on mask fines heartbeat from America’s
highest office for four
public schools must fully Re “Time to enforce the years, neither gender nor
reopen and have students mask order,” Opinion, July race should limit a party’s
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OP-ED

SCOTUS
to Trump —
you’re not
above the law
HARRY LITMAN

T
he dual opinions that the
Supreme Court issued Thursday
concerning the release of Presi-
dent Trump’s financial records
amount to a sound defeat for the
White House’s claims for aggrandized execu-
tive power.
The court refused to break new ground to
alter the constitutional power of the execu-
tive branch or the balance between it and
Congress. Along the way, Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. demonstrated extraordinarily
strong and effective leadership of the court
that bears his name.
Roberts managed to achieve what has to
have been his primary goal in Trump vs.
Chris Carlsson For The Times Vance and Trump vs. Mazars, the pair of
BIDDY MASON and Black history get their due in the 1930s Bernard Zakheim mural now under threat of demolition. closely watched cases on the question of
whether the president can refuse subpoenas:
He got the justices to speak in a nearly united

Black history that needs saving voice. In each case, the vote was 7 to 2. Two
5-4 opinions, reeking of partisanship, would
have been terrible for the Supreme Court’s
institutional stature and the nation’s confi-
dence in the rule of law.
To achieve his ends, Roberts marshaled

UC San Francisco should use some of its endowment billions compromises between the often warring
wings of the court. His majority decisions
now join with unanimous decisions in the
to protect a mural that puts Biddy Mason front and center Watergate era’s U.S. vs. Nixon and during the
impeachment of Bill Clinton. In both those
instances, when presidents tried to resist
By Jackie Broxton she was seemingly destined for a life of hard 10 frescoes is prohibitive, one wonders answering to Congress and the law, the
and Kevin Waite labor and a death in obscurity. Like other where the university will find the funds for Supreme Court decisively rejected claims of
enslaved African Americans, she lacked a its proposed 1.5 million-square-foot expan- overweening authority.

A
s antiracist activists topple
statues of slaveholders across
the country, UC San Francisco
threatens to demolish a very
different kind of monument: a
mural depicting a celebrated former slave.
The work shows Biddy Mason, an Afri-
can American midwife who rose to fortune
in Los Angeles after winning her freedom in
the mid-1850s. Since the Great Depression,
the mural has been displayed alongside nine
others in UC Hall on the university’s main
campus. But now the building and its art-
work are slated for demolition to make way
for new office, medical and research space.
In the mid-1930s, UC San Francisco
commissioned the Polish-born artist
Bernard Zakheim to paint a set of murals of
California’s medical history. Zakheim, who
studied with Diego Rivera, had become re-
garded as one of the state’s major artistic
figures. Like his murals in San Francisco’s
Coit Tower, his UC San Francisco works
are landmarks in the bold, modern style of
the New Deal era. They have been hailed as
“the jewel of the university’s art collection.”
The panel featuring Biddy Mason is per-
haps the most historically significant of the
10 murals. In it, Mason tends to a malaria
patient alongside Dr. John Griffin, one of
Los Angeles’ preeminent early medical au-
thorities. Below, other patients await treat-
ment from Griffin and Mason, who formed
a renowned medical partnership in
mid-19th century Los Angeles.
What makes the mural unique is its
composition. Mason occupies center stage.
She’s surrounded by a group of white men
— soldiers, patients, doctors, city officials
— but she’s not subordinate to them.
Rather, she tends to the patient directly as
a medical authority in her own right. Za-
kheim depicts Mason as she was: a healing
presence and a pillar of early Los Angeles.
Biddy Mason began her days in radi-
cally different circumstances. Born into
slavery in the Georgia cotton belt in 1818,
legal family name. She was simply Bridget,
or Biddy.
In the late 1840s, Biddy began a long,
strange trip — one that took her out of the
South and across the continent. She went
as a slave, forcibly transported by her mas-
ter, along with several other Black women
and children. They arrived first in Utah be-
fore moving to a small Mormon colony in
San Bernardino in 1851.
Although California was technically a
free state, authorities turned a blind eye to
slaveholding settlers in their midst. Several
dozen slaves worked in San Bernardino
alone. Only in 1856 — six years after Califor-
nia outlawed human bondage — did Biddy,
along with 13 other African American wom-
en and children, win their freedom in a Los
Angeles courtroom.
Once free, Biddy took the last name Ma-
son and began an improbable rise through
the social ranks of early Los Angeles. She
used money earned as Dr. Griffin’s assist-
ant to invest in real estate, just as L.A. was
beginning to boom. Although illiterate and
subject to both racial and gender discrimi-
nation, Mason amassed a tremendous for-
tune. Some estimates place her total
wealth at $300,000 (equivalent to $8.5 mil-
lion today).
Mason is remembered not only for her
uncanny business acumen, but also for her
philanthropy. She gave liberally — of her
time, money and medical expertise — to
those in need around Los Angeles. She also
co-founded the first African American
house of worship in the city. First African
Methodist Episcopal Church remains a
mainstay of L.A.’s Black community to this
day.
Now, a piece of Mason’s legacy — the old-
est known artistic representation of the fa-
mous freedwoman — faces demolition.
University spokespeople claim that UC
San Francisco is unable to cover the costs
of removing and preserving the murals, es-
timated at $8 million. If the price of saving
sion project. Perhaps the university could
start by dipping into its nearly $4-billion
endowment.
Local residents have already begun to
protest the development project, set to
break ground in 2023. They argue that the
expansion will add thousands of workers to
the Parnassus Heights campus, further
straining the community’s overtaxed tran-
sit systems and housing options. Critics
can add the university’s destruction of his-
tory to their list of grievances.
The artist’s son, Nathan Zakheim, has
been given three months to propose a plan
to remove the murals at the family’s ex-
pense. After that, the university will solicit
proposals from the public to adopt the mu-
rals — again without financial support
from UC San Francisco. If no one comes
forward: demolition.
UC San Francisco proposes a Silicon
Valley solution: a digital re-creation of the
murals, which would later be featured in a
virtual reality display. Through goggles,
visitors would get a secondhand look at art
destroyed by the university.
The timing could not be worse. During a
crossroads in race relations, when Black
American voices are finding new purchase,
the university threatens an important
piece of Black women’s history.
The United States boasts vanishingly
few monuments to women of color. Fewer
still if the university is allowed to go forward
with its ill-considered plans to bulldoze the
Biddy Mason mural along with nine others.
Black Lives Matter. And so does Black his-
tory.
Jackie Broxton is executive director of
the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation,
which provides services and support to
L.A.’s foster youth population. Kevin
Waite is an assistant professor of history
at Durham University and co-director
of a National Endowment for the
Humanities-funded project on Mason.
In Vance and Mazars, the White House
argued for an extra measure of solicitude for
the executive branch, to protect presidents
from supposed harassment and overreach.
In Mazars, in which three House commit-
tees sought personal financial records of the
president, any such ruling would have put an
unprecedented judicial thumb on the scale
against the legislature and its powers. (It also
would have dovetailed with the political goals
of conservative lawyers who for 40 years have
tried to bolster the executive against the
power of the legislature.)
The court, and Roberts especially, would
have none of it.
In Vance, which concerned the Manhattan
district attorney’s attempt to subpoena
Trump’s personal financial records in a crimi-
nal case, the justices likewise unanimously
rejected (with dissents by Clarence Thomas
and Samuel A. Alito Jr. on other grounds)
Trump’s bid for solicitude, this time in the
form of a wacky assertion of “temporary
immunity” from criminal processes. Any such
privilege would run directly across the grain
of constitutional history, which Roberts laid
out in detail, going all the way back to Aaron
Burr and Alexander Hamilton (and adding to
the shoutouts the hit Broadway play received
in court decisions this term).
The Vance opinion makes clear that exist-
ing safeguards against the use of criminal
processes to harass, rather than investigate,
a criminal defendant provide ample protec-
tion even for presidents.
Most important, Roberts refused to take
what would have been a plausible step: re-
quiring a state prosecutor to make some
showing of “heightened need” in order to
subpoena a sitting president. Such a result
would have placed the president, however
slightly, above the law.
The Mazars case reflects a greater degree
of compromise and nuanced persuasiveness
on Roberts’ part. You can almost picture the
chief justice at conference announcing dual
principles to get his 7-2 majority, one to please
the liberal wing, the other to mollify at least
Brett M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch.
Roberts again began the opinion with a
long historical discourse, noting how unusual

Mary Trump’s presidential horror story
VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
deals and a more or less stolen
election.
consistent with what the world
knows of Trump. “Working the
Trump, who had supported
Hillary Clinton for president,
it was for disputes between Congress and the
president to wind up in court, rather than
getting settled in the “hurly-burly give and
take” of politics. (One senses here a mild
chiding of both branches — I would argue the
president more richly earned it — for failing
to play nicely in the constitutional sandbox.)

M
ary Trump’s
book about her
Uncle Donald is
dark. Right from
the get-go, when
it begins with this feel-good
epigraph from “Les Misera-
bles”: If the soul is left in dark-
ness, sins will be committed.
Already notorious, “Too
Much and Never Enough” is
Donald Trump’s story, written
by his niece, a clinical psycholo-
gist and Trump family dissi-
dent. It’s being released this
month after a failed effort,
nominally by Donald’s brother
Robert, to get a court to stop its
publication.
You can see why President
Trump doesn’t want anyone to
read this thing. It gives the lie to
many of his most cherished
myths about himself, including
the howler that he’s self-made.
According to the book, Uncle
Donald’s ineptitude goes so
deep it’s hard to fathom. Mary
reports that one of his sisters,
casting around for something to
give Donald credit for, proposed
his five bankruptcies.
That kind of revelation
produces a snicker from a
reader like me, but that’s all
that passes for levity here.
Horror clouds every page. I
expected to encounter some
seamy stuff in any history of the
Trump family’s fortune. After
all, the money comes from
brothels, tax evasion, bankrupt
casinos, sketchy real estate
But I also expected at least a
little gritty urban romance. If
not the sumptuous passions of
“The Godfather,” the Trump
saga would — I hoped — con-
tain a moment or two of “Sopra-
nos”-style wit.
Nothing doing.
The president’s life story is
narrow, provincial and grim — a
joyless grind of fraud and cru-
elty evoked not by the grue-
some glitz of Trump Tower but
by the dreary Trump apart-
ment Mary lived in as a child
with her mother and father,
Linda and Freddy Trump.
Sloppily installed air condition-
ers rotted the drywall, and no
amount of plastic sheeting
could keep out the bitter wind;
Trump Management, run by
Freddy’s father, Fred, and
brother Donald, refused to fix it.
As a piece of writing, Mary
Trump’s book is less investiga-
tive exposé than gruesome
family memoir. Typically, bar-
barous families who land in
memoirs barely scrape by,
feeding the kids cat food and
festering in the shadows. The
barbarous Trump family, by
contrast, runs the free world,
feeds the kids gold and festers
under klieg lights.
By now, you’ve probably
encountered the bullet-pointed
morsels from “Too Much and
Never Enough,” especially the
claim that Donald paid some-
one to take his SATs for him.
These are mini-bombshells
refs, lying, cheating” — this is
how the Trump empire op-
erates, Mary Trump writes.
Likewise, the Trump White
House and the president him-
self.
But even if Trump’s cheating
on the SAT is not exactly shock-
ing, it’s nonetheless satisfying
to confirm what we guessed all
along: The president never
acquired baseline competence
in math or vocabulary. (Seri-
ously, try to picture him con-
fronting even one polynomial.
Trump working through coeffi-
cients and variables — he could
sooner walk down a ramp.)
What’s most intriguing
about Mary Trump’s book is
not juicy revelations but its
thesis: The Trumps were so
deceitful and corrupt that
growing up among them meant
growing up “institutionalized,”
stuck in an m.o. that cripples a
person emotionally and cogni-
tively every bit as much as a
prison would.
And from his adolescence in
reform school to his dotage in
the Oval Office, as Mary writes,
Donald has also been literally
“institutionalized most of his
adult life.” The chief hallmarks
of that institutionalization were
deceit and unearned trophies:
“Honest work was never de-
manded of him, and no matter
how badly he failed, he was
rewarded in ways that are al-
most unfathomable.”
On election night 2016, Mary
says she was traumatized. She
waited and then watched as her
uncle was set loose “to turn this
country into a macro version of
my malignantly dysfunctional
family.”
At the heart of that dysfunc-
tion, Mary contends, is relent-
less and incongruous puffery of
Donald. First, Trump, though
fundamentally infantile and
mentally unwell, styled himself
a stable genius, all evidence to
the contrary. Then his father
backed him up. Then the media
spread the hype. Finally, and
most crucially, banks fell for it.
As Mary elegantly puts it,
“Their willingness (and then
their need) to foster his increas-
ingly unfounded claims to suc-
cess hung on the hopes of re-
couping their losses.”
That dynamic could apply
equally to Trump’s enablers,
dependents and supporters.
“Too Much and Never
Enough” isn’t a gossipfest. It
isn’t “rollicking.” It’s a bleak
story, and there’s no redemp-
tion. The country, like Donald
Trump’s creditors, will not
recoup its losses.
In the end, Mary Trump
stays true to the despair she felt
on election night. She manages
not to qualify it or wish it away.
Refusing to flinch from the
darkness of Trump’s story is no
small accomplishment. We
should all be so brave.
@page88
The Mazars decision pointedly rejects the
notion that the House of Representatives
must meet a heightened standard such as a
“demonstrated specific need” to get informa-
tion out of the president. But there follows a
section, designed to attract the conservatives,
that sets out an elaborate four-part test for
assuring that due weight is given to separa-
tion of powers concerns when Congress sub-
poenas the president.
It almost seems to make the president a
special case, but, critically, a close read of the
four elements reveals them to be essentially
exacting versions of familiar standards:
Carefully assess whether legislative purpose
warrants the info; be sure the subpoena is no
broader than necessary; be attentive to the
nature of Congress’ evidence that there is a
valid legislative purpose; be careful to assess
the burdens on the president.
The decision remands Mazars to the lower
courts to do all that painstaking reviewing.
And that will take time. The practical upshot
is that before the election neither Congress
nor the public is likely to see what the House
subpoenaed. Much the same is true in the
Vance case, but in that instance, Trump’s
record will remain out of view because the
records sought will be covered by grand jury
secrecy among other reasons.
The Vance and Mazars decisions will go
down in concert with the other historical
episodes Roberts set out as a rejection of a
president’s invitation to put himself above
the law. At the same time, these are conserva-
tive rulings. They prescribe a close, careful
look at current law; they don’t break new
ground. In the context of a splintered court, a
roiled presidency and white-hot disputes
involving fundamental questions of executive
power, not at all a bad day’s work for the chief.
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East L.A. moms find strength together
[Moms, from A1]
They comfort one another
while also pressuring law en-
forcement to overhaul its
use-of-force policies and bet-
ter its relationship with the
Latino community.
“We have no phrase, not
even a name,” said Moreno,
51. “But we’re warriors for
our sons. We support one an-
other like family.”
Some of them found each
other at their most desper-
ate moment, on the side of
road, in parking lots and
housing complexes roped off
by yellow crime tape, just
hours after their sons were
killed. Others connected in
support groups.
At one such group about
a year ago, 10 mothers were
brought together to talk
about the effects of gang vi-
olence in East L.A. But when
it came time to speak, the
women shifted to law en-
forcement brutality.
“It turned out that about
8 out of 10 of the women had
had a child killed by police,”
said Johnny Torres, an or-
ganizer with Soledad En-
richment Action, a gang in-
tervention program paid by
L.A. County.
Since Torres began serv-
ing the area in late 2017, he’s
spent a lot of time getting to
know the mothers. And
though his mandate in East
L.A. is gang intervention,
there’s been so much con-
cern about the violent be-
havior of the Los Angeles
Sheriff ’s Department that
Torres has become one of
the few people the commu-
nity turns to for help. His
phone rings at random
hours with desperate calls
from mothers, siblings,
aunts and uncles searching
for a loved one who they fear
may have faced off with dep-
uties.
Department officials sel-
dom release information on
shootings and fatalities,
Torres said, so he and the
families are left to piece to-
gether fragments. He often
rushes to crime scenes to be
sure their legal rights are be-
ing respected.
“A lot of times, there’s no
remorse, no compassion,
even if the guy deserved it,”
Torres said about deputies.
“They need to at least re-
spect the family’s pain.”
In the last three years, his
list of those killed by law en-
forcement on the Eastside
has grown: Jose Serrano, 23;
Omar Garcia; unnamed vic-
tim, 20; Paul Rea, 19; Ivan
Pena, 42; Fernando Cruz, 18;
Rene Herrera, 40; Anthony
Vargas, 21; Jesse Romero, 14;
Jose Mendez, 16; Christian
Escobedo, 22; Edwin Rodri-
guez, 24.
Some reportedly died as
they tried to run from au-
thorities. Others allegedly
engaged in a physical strug-
gle, carried a weapon and, in
some cases, reportedly shot
at law enforcement.
Nearly all the victims
died in East L.A., an unin-
corporated area of L.A.
County that’s 96% Latino.
The region is under the sher-
iff ’s jurisdiction. While in
nearby neighborhoods the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment has been scrutinized
for its use of force, including
over the last few months, the
Sheriff ’s Department has its
own long history of violence
and abuse, feeding the com-
munity’s wariness. Some of
the mothers have said they
and their families have been
harassed by deputies after
their sons were killed.
Officials with the Sher-
iff ’s Department did not re-
spond to requests by The
CDC won’t revise school guidelines Trump criticized
Agency director says
reopening decisions
should be made at
the local level.
associated press
ATLANTA — Federal
health officials won’t revise
their coronavirus guidelines
for reopening schools de-
spite criticism from Presi-
dent Trump, the head of the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said Thurs-
day. What they will do, he
said, is provide additional in-
formation to help states,
communities and parents
decide what to do and when.
“Our guidelines are our
guidelines,” Dr. Robert Red-
field said.
In draft CDC documents
obtained by the Associated
Press, the agency says there
are steps that schools can
LEAH GARCIA , whose son was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies last summer, receives a hug at a June vigil in Los Angeles. “At the end
of the day, we’re all in this together.” she said. “Our sons’ lives matter. But when you see no change, it feels like a harder, lonelier fight.”
LATINA moms gather with their children in June to protest police brutality. In
East L.A., 15 women who lost sons to law enforcement support one another.
Times seeking comment.
The Times this week filed a
lawsuit against L.A. County,
alleging that the depart-
ment has repeatedly refused
to turn over public records,
including those about depu-
ties involved in misconduct
or shootings.
Figures tracking fatal law
enforcement shootings by
race are tough to come by,
but statewide, according to
2018 numbers released by
the Office of the Attorney
General, about 47% of those
affected by incidents that in-
volved the discharge of a
weapon or use of force re-
sulting in death or serious
injury were Latino.
Torres said East L.A. is in
dire need of more resources
to help families with police
brutality and more over-
sight of the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment, particularly from
county officials.
“I think Hilda Solis is
fighting in her own way,”
Torres said of the L.A.
County supervisor. “She
came out and denounced
what happened to George
Floyd. That’s commendable,
but what about your own
backyard? There’s so much
take to safely reopen but
that it “cannot provide one-
size-fits-all criteria for open-
ing and closing schools or
changing the way schools
are run.”
“Decisions about how to
open and run schools safely
should be made based on lo-
cal needs and conditions,”
the documents say.
They also include a
checklist that encourages
parents to carefully consider
whether they should send
their kids back to school in
person or seek virtual in-
struction. Many districts
nationwide are offering par-
ents a choice of either mode
of instruction. New York
City, among other school
districts, has announced
that students will return
part time in the fall.
That runs counter to
Trump’s messaging. He has
been repeatedly pressuring
state and local officials to re-
open schools this fall, even
happening here, too.”
Solis, whose district over-
sees East L.A., said her office
is aware of community frus-
trations with the Sheriff ’s
Department. She holds
Sheriff Alex Villanueva ac-
countable.
“He really needs to take a
close evaluation of the peo-
ple he has at the East L.A.
station,” she said. “He came
in with a lot of rhetoric, but
he’s not listening. ... He’s in-
citing and harassing and in-
timidating, trying to shut
the voices out.”
Solis said she and others
established the Sheriff Civil-
ian Oversight Commission
and granted them subpoena
power to try to keep the of-
fice in check. She also said
she supported the inspector
general investigating the
department.
“I even went as far as
holding his budget,” Solis
said. “But he’s not been re-
sponsive.”
For mothers pushing for
answers about their sons’
deaths, it’s been a battle,
said Leah Garcia, whose son
was shot and killed by
deputies last summer dur-
ing an altercation after a
threatening to withhold fed-
eral funds from those that
keep teaching and learning
remotely.
Trump on Wednesday
criticized the CDC’s guide-
lines as “very tough and ex-
pensive” and said the agency
was “asking schools to do
very impractical things.”
Speaking of CDC officials, he
tweeted, “I will be meeting
with them!!!” And Vice Pres-
ident Mike Pence said re-
vised guidelines would be is-
sued next week.
But in an appearance
on ABC’s “Good Morning
America,” Redfield firmly
stuck to the existing CDC
guidelines.
“It’s really important, it’s
not a revision of the guide-
lines, it’s just to provide ad-
ditional information to help
schools be able to use the
guidance that we put for-
ward.”
Asked about the appar-
ent discrepancy between
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traffic stop.
“At the end of the day,
we’re all in this together.
Black lives matter. Our sons’
lives matter. But when you
see no change, it feels like a
harder, lonelier fight.”
The grieving mothers in
her group are the only ones
who understand the
trauma, she said. Together,
they keep a running calen-
dar of their sons’ birthdays
and the anniversaries of
their deaths. They hold Mas-
ses at one another’s homes
or vigils where their sons
were shot down.
At home, many put up al-
tars as a tribute. Garcia
keeps her son Paul Rea’s im-
age everywhere: His por-
traits hang on her walls. His
life-size cutout stands in her
living room. Stickers of his
face deck her laptop and her
car.
The group has gotten
support from those in the
Black Lives Matter move-
ment and also from the
American Civil Liberties
Union, but most days, their
efforts are spontaneous and
informal, without too much
thought for an overall strate-
gy. Most of the moms hardly
Redfield’s and Pence’s state-
ments, White House spokes-
woman Kayleigh McEnany
said they were on the same
page. She said “supplemen-
tal guidelines” would be
forthcoming.
Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos has said that
schools will be failing kids if
they don’t provide full-time,
in-person instruction.
But the draft CDC docu-
ments, which have yet to be
released publicly, say deci-
sions like that should be left
to local officials. They say,
“Each school and each com-
munity will have different
needs and should imple-
ment the strategies best de-
signed to meet them.”
The documents say that
in-person schooling will lead
to at least some infections
but that there are steps
schools can take to lessen
the risk.
A graph of the CDC’s dis-
ease modeling indicates
consider themselves activ-
ists. Some struggle with
their English. Others worry
about their immigration
status. A few have faced
criticism for posting their
son’s image on social media.
Still, staying home and
staying quiet is not an op-
tion, so they carry rally signs
and banners in their cars, al-
ways ready to bring atten-
tion to their cause.
At many protests — out-
side the Hall of Justice and
the Sheriff ’s Department —
Lisa Vargas, a mother
known for having a nice way
with words, often leads the
way. Her son Anthony Var-
gas, 21, was killed by depu-
ties in August 2018.
The day Anthony was
killed, Lisa was frantic. She
said she had to wait nearly 24
hours at the site of the shoot-
ing before getting confirma-
tion that her son had been
killed. At some point,
Moreno showed up and in-
troduced herself. So did
other women whose sons
had been killed by author-
ities.
“They knew how I felt be-
cause the same thing had
happened to them,” Vargas
said. Weeks later, the women
held one of their first pro-
tests. About 300 people
showed up.
Vargas, like Moreno, now
tries to rush over whenever
there is a police shooting on
the Eastside to offer her
help. She connects families
with attorneys willing to
help or sets up money drives
to cover funeral expenses.
Their goal moving for-
ward, she said, is to reform
the Sheriff ’s Department,
make it more transparent,
have it provide better train-
ing to deescalate situations
and get deputies to wear
body cameras. Many women
also want charges brought
against the officer who killed
their son.
Carlos Montes, an organ-
izer with Centro Community
Service Organization, began
working with the moms a
few years back. His Boyle
there’s likely to be signifi-
cantly more virus spread if
all students attend school
five days a week. The graph
projects alternate schedules
could cut infections by as
much as 80%, although the
agency acknowledges there
is much more to learn about
the disease.
“Scientists are still learn-
ing about how it spreads,
how it impacts children and
what role children may play
in its spread,” the introduc-
tion to the parent checklist
states.
Redfield said the upcom-
ing reference documents in
part would cover how to
monitor for symptoms and
use face masks in schools.
The CDC’s current guid-
ance recommends that stu-
dents and teachers wear
masks whenever feasible,
spread out desks, stagger
schedules, eat meals in
classrooms and add phys-
ical barriers between bath-
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Heights grass-roots group
focuses on immigrant rights
and education, but it shifted
its focus to police brutality
after a rash of killings in 2016.
At 77, Montes has a long
history of activism on the
Eastside. He’s been pro-
testing sheriff ’s deputy mis-
conduct for five decades,
dating back to the Chicano
civil rights movement and
through the Rodney King
uprising. Over the years, he
said, he’s seen moms in East
L.A. and Boyle Heights take
on leadership roles to fight
gangs, the construction of
prisons and toxic environ-
mental waste sites.
This is the first time he
recalls a group of women
holding law enforcement ac-
countable for killing people.
“These mothers are tak-
ing on the big guns,” he said.
“They’re going up against
forces that others consider
too controversial. I’m in-
spired by them.”
Three years after her son
Cesar’s death, Moreno
struggles with how little
she’s accomplished.
She constantly plays out
the day Cesar walked out of
their East L.A. home to head
to Long Beach. Three days
later, after not hearing from
him, she learned that her
son had allegedly not paid
his train fare and reportedly
ended up in a struggle with a
Long Beach police officer.
Cesar wound up pinned be-
tween a train and the plat-
form. Moreno filed a federal
wrongful-death lawsuit in
April, alleging assault and
battery, excessive force and
inadequate training.
For days after his death,
Moreno said she lost her
voice. “I couldn’t get a word
out. I hardly recognized my-
self or anyone around me,”
she said.
Now, when she feels
adrift, she calls on the other
mothers. She marches
alongside them.
“No matter what hap-
pens, I know I’m not alone,”
Moreno said. “I see myself re-
flected in them.”
room sinks.
When asked about
the documents the Associ-
ated Press obtained,
CDC spokesman Benjamin
Haynes wrote in an email
that the agency would dis-
tribute more guidance next
week and pointed to what
has already been released.
In his tweet on Wednes-
day, Trump did not clarify
which of the CDC guidelines
he opposed. But McEnany
said, for example, that the
president takes issue with
the CDC’s suggestion that
students bring their own
meals to school when feasi-
ble.
Democrats have warned
Trump to keep out of the
CDC’s work. Sen. Patty Mur-
ray of Washington, ranking
Democrat on the Education
Committee, said the agency
needs to be trusted to make
decisions based on scientific
evidence, “not on President
Trump’s Twitter outbursts.”

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CALIFORNIA
INTENSIVE CARE nurse Lynda Tegan leaves a negative-pressure room after checking on a COVID-19 pa-
tient Wednesday at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. Only two of the hospital’s ICU beds are unoccupied.
Surge stretches nurses thin
As ICU beds rapidly fill up, health staffers at Inland Empire
hospitals say they are struggling to keep up with the pressure
By Kristi Sturgill
and Stephanie Lai
Arrowhead Regional
Medical Center took drastic
measures in anticipation of
a coronavirus surge follow-
ing the holiday weekend and
statewide reopenings.
In the last few months,
administrators set up an
outside temporary screen-
ing area for emergency pa-
tients to open up space in
the emergency room within
the hospital, and they con-
sidered relocating other sec-
tions of the hospital to ac-
commodate the growing in-
crease of patients — any-
thing to alleviate the space
concerns.
The number of COVID-19
inpatients in the San Ber-
nardino County trauma cen-
ter nearly tripled from 20 in
UC Berkeley fall
classes imperiled
Outbreak of COVID
cases tied to fraternity
parties could scuttle
in-person instruction.
By Rong-Gong Lin II
SAN FRANCISCO — An
outbreak of coronavirus in-
fections tied to parties con-
nected to fraternities at UC
Berkeley is imperiling the
prospect of in-person fall se-
mester classes, university of-
ficials warned.
In just one week, there
have been 47 COVID-19 cases
confirmed by the University
Health Services system, the
school said in a letter to the
campus community.
Most of the 47 new cases
“stem from a series of recent
parties connected to the
CalGreek system, which in-
cluded students both within
the CalGreek community
and others, and led to some
secondary spread within
households and within other
smaller gatherings,” said the
letter written by Anna
Family sues in
kneeling death
Lawsuit alleges that
Sacramento arena
guards and police used
excessive force in an
alleged trespassing
incident last year. B3
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THE NUMBER of COVID-19 inpatients at the
Colton, Calif., hospital has nearly tripled since May.
Harte, medical director of
the campus’ health clinic,
and Guy Nicolette, an assist-
ant vice chancellor.
“Generally, these infec-
tions are directly related to
social events where students
have not followed basic safe-
ty measures such as physical
distancing, wearing face
coverings, limiting event
size, and gathering outside,”
the letter said.
The outbreak under-
scores how California’s new
coronavirus surge is being
fueled by much younger peo-
ple who are getting back to
summer social events and
contracting COVID-19.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said
this week that younger peo-
ple who think “they are in-
vincible” are falling ill never-
theless. Adults ages 18 to 49
have made up 6.4% of Cali-
fornia’s coronavirus-related
deaths.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti underscored that
point Wednesday, saying
“more than 50% of the peo-
ple who are testing positive
in Los Angeles County are
[See Berkeley, B5]
Pot vendors drop
licensing lawsuit
Entrepreneurs had
argued that the city
of L.A.’s application
system was fatally
flawed. B3
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Photographs by
RUNAWAY dogs end up in L.A. shelters every Fourth of July. Booming fireworks
cause panicked canines to run in fright from their homes. Some remain missing.
L.A. dogs lost and found
July 4 busy for shelters as scared pets fled fireworks
By Jake Sheridan
Mollie ran off as the Pasa-
dena sky exploded in fleet-
ing, fiery colors, and Karen
Hirst, who owns and loves
that silver gray Yorkie-Shih
Tzu, hasn’t stopped think-
ing about her since.
“I’ve cried till I thought I
couldn’t cry anymore. We
went everywhere together. I
took her to the bank, shop-
ping, to the doctor. When I
got ready to go to work, she
would lay on my clothes and
make sure I was going to
take her,” said Hirst, who got
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
May to 55 as of Wednesday.
“On the floors, the med-
ics are telling us every bed is
full,” said Sharon Brown, as-
sociate chief nursing officer.
Two of the hospital’s 16
intensive care beds are un-
occupied, and the center has
additional beds designated
if needed. But nurses said
the crowding was wors-
ening.
Throughout San Bernar-
dino County, hospitals have
seen a steep increase in co-
ronavirus hospitalizations,
rising from about 276 inpa-
tients a month ago to about
579 inpatients Tuesday.
But the trend isn’t
unique to San Bernardino —
each county in the Inland
Empire has reported that its
licensed ICU hospital beds
are nearly full. Nurses in
short-staffed hospitals
[See Nurses, B5]
Mollie as a puppy 13 years
ago.
Alongside New Year’s
Eve, Independence Day is
the biggest day for canine
runaways and the busiest for
Los Angeles’ animal shelters
as dogs flee their homes be-
cause of booming fireworks.
On the holiday, shelters and
rescue organizations work
overtime to reunite man
with man’s best friend.
Hirst went to a Fourth of
July barbecue on Saturday,
and Mollie escaped near
Navarro Avenue and West
Howard Street when the
neighbors watching her let
Man’s death
by hanging is
ruled a suicide
Investigators reject
theory that Robert
Fuller was lynched,
saying he had talked
of taking his own life.
By Colleen Shalby
and Matthew Ormseth
Los Angeles County
Sheriff ’s Department inves-
tigators have concluded that
Robert Fuller, a Black man
whose body was found hang-
ing from a tree in Palmdale
last month, died by suicide,
saying a thorough investiga-
tion found no signs of foul
play and showed the 24-
year-old had previously ex-
hibited suicidal behavior.
The findings, announced
Thursday, upheld the pre-
liminary determination of
suicide that Fuller’s family
and many residents of the
Antelope Valley had called
into question. Pointing to
the region’s history of racism
toward Black people; the
backdrop of unrest
prompted by George Floyd’s
death; the hanging death a
week earlier of another
Black man, Malcolm
Harsch, in nearby Vic-
torville; and the setting
where Fuller’s body was
found — hanging in a public
square outside Palmdale’s
City Hall — they voiced a
suspicion that Fuller had
been lynched and de-
manded a more thorough in-
vestigation, monitored by
outside agencies.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva
complied, and on Thursday,
Cmdr. Chris Marks laid out
his detectives’ findings,
culled from medical records
and interviews with family
and social workers. Fuller,
Marks said, had a docu-
mented history of mental ill-
ness and self-harm, having
been admitted to hospitals
in California, Arizona and
Nevada after expressing a
[See Fuller, B2]
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her out to relieve herself.
“I came back here, and it
was like a war zone. Not just
firecrackers; it sounded like
bombs going off,” Hirst said.
As the amateur pyrotech-
nics raged on, Hirst’s hus-
band sat on the porch wait-
ing for the green-eyed pooch
to come back. He stayed out
there until 3 in the morning.
“I just can’t bear the
thought of my dog, knowing
how emotional she is, that
she can’t get back to me,”
Hirst said.
The couple reached out
to shelters and posted notic-
[See Dogs, B5]
B
ROBERT FULLER had
previously exhibited
suicidal behavior, sher-
iff’s investigators said.
ACTRESS
MISSING
IN LAKE
FEARED
DEAD
Naya Rivera of ‘Glee’
disappeared on boat
trip with young son. A
search is continuing.
By Jake Sheridan,
Alejandra
Reyes-Velarde
and Luke Money
Actress Naya Rivera is
presumed to have drowned
as authorities continue to
look for her body in the wa-
ters of Lake Piru after she
went missing Wednesday
afternoon.
The 33-year-old was re-
ported missing after her
4-year-old son was found in a
rental boat by himself. While
authorities focused Wednes-
day’s search efforts along
the shoreline, hopeful she
had made it out of the lake,
Thursday became a recov-
ery effort in the dark, murky
waters of Lake Piru. Officials
said the search of the lake
could take up to a week.
“Our hearts and our
prayers and thoughts go out
to the Rivera family,” said
Ventura County Sheriff ’s
Sgt. Kevin Donoghue at a
Thursday news conference.
“This is a terrible tragedy....
We’re going to do everything
we can to find her.”
Ventura County Sheriff ’s
Department officials re-
leased video footage Thurs-
day afternoon showing Rive-
ra and her son boarding the
rental boat alone, as well as a
recording of the 911 call made
by marine personnel report-
ing the “Glee” actress miss-
ing.
Rivera parked near Con-
dor Point and exited the ve-
hicle, the video shows, walk-
ing around to the passenger
side to lift her son out of the
car. Wearing shorts and a
baseball cap, she opened her
trunk, swung a bag over her
shoulder and walked toward
the boat ramp. Rivera
looked over her shoulder,
watching her little boy as he
trailed steps behind her, his
own bag in tow.
The mother and son were
guided by staff to their rent-
al boat, and at about 1 p.m.
they departed onto the lake.
The boat soon became a
spot on the lake’s horizon.
Hours later, the staff no-
ticed she didn’t return her
boat on time and went out to
search for her. At 4:47 p.m., a
woman told 911 dispatchers,
“We have a missing person.
We found a little girl in one of
the boats by herself and her
mom is nowhere to be
found.”
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B2 FR I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
A COAST GUARD helicopter searches the Lake Piru shoreline for missing ac-
tress Naya Rivera, who set out in a boat on Wednesday with her 4-year-old son.
Actress presumed drowned
[Rivera, from B1]
Sheriff ’s officials later
learned that Rivera and her
son were swimming together
in the lake. The boy was able
to get back on the boat, but
his mother did not. He was
found sleeping on the boat
by himself, wearing his life
vest. After speaking with the
boy, deputies determined he
was the last to see his
mother, but couldn’t deter-
mine whether he saw her go
underwater.
“He’s in good health,”
Capt. Eric Bushow said of
Rivera’s son Wednesday eve-
ning.“The family is going
through a very traumatic
time right now.”
Search teams raced to
scour the lake Thursday be-
fore nightfall, when winds
and lack of light would com-
plicate their undertaking.
The search effort includes
100 personnel, including 25
divers, two helicopters and
six pontoon boats, said Ven-
tura County Deputy Chris
Dyer.
At a Thursday afternoon
briefing, Dyer said Lake Piru
isn’t more dangerous than
other lakes, but can be deep
in some areas and has tall
underwater vegetation that
could entangle swimmers.
“If the body is tangled in
something beneath the wa-
ter it may never come back
up,” Donoghue said. The
“underwater trees” com-
bined with cold weather and
poor visibility could lead to
danger.
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a suicide, coroner rules
[Fuller, from B1] rope from a Dollar Tree — a wounds, although detect-
desire — and on at least one rope consistent with the one ives noted scarring on his
occasion attempting — to found at the scene of Fuller’s left wrist that indicated self-
hurt himself. death, Marks said. harm, Marks said. Investiga-
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medical examiner-coroner was made more than one footage that shows the tree
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writing in a report that a lack store showing Fuller buying the initial finding of suicide
of “significant trauma” to the rope, Marks said, al- with skepticism would ac-
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“coupled with the existence tigators have found video ment’s conclusion. When
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times of evidence of prior suicidal from subsequent weeks Robert Fuller’s half-brother,
ideation and a history of showing Fuller using the Terron Boone, died in a
mental health issues,” sup- same EBT card at various shootout with sheriff ’s dep-
ported that conclusion. stores. uties one week after Fuller’s
Jamon Hicks, an attor- In the early morning body was found, rumors and
ney representing Fuller’s hours of June 10, a homeless speculation about a cover-
family, said he would re- person walking through up ricocheted through social
spond to the sheriff ’s and Poncitlán Square, near media.
coroner’s findings Friday. Palmdale’s City Hall, found Villanueva praised his
Hicks has commissioned an Fuller’s body hanging from a detectives’ work and de-
independent autopsy of tree, a coroner’s report said. clared that “people should
Fuller’s body, the results of Judging by how and where not translate a lack of infor-
which have yet to be re- the rope was tied to the tree mation to a conspiracy,” but
leased. A private investiga- limb, detectives determined he said the finding of suicide
tor is also attempting to re- Fuller “was not hoisted into does not change the tragedy
trace Fuller’s last steps. that position,” Marks said. that is a young man’s death.
Marks said Fuller’s fam- His body showed no signs of “There are no winners or
ily was very cooperative, pro- a struggle or defensive losers in this,” he said.
viding detectives with medi-
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Family sues in kneeling death
Arena guards, Sacramento police used excessive force, lawsuit says
By Alejandra
Reyes-Velarde
The family of a man who
died after a security guard
allegedly kneeled on his neck
for four minutes in Sacra-
mento’s Golden 1 Center in-
door arena has filed a wrong-
ful death lawsuit against the
security guards and police
officers involved.
The lawsuit, filed in a
Sacramento court Tuesday
by the man’s parents, Eliza-
beth Avila and Mark
Matthews, alleges that three
security guards and three
Sacramento Police Depart-
ment officers used “maxi-
mum restraints” on the
“non-threatening” 125-
pound man for a total of at
least 20 minutes.
Mario Matthews, 39, lost
consciousness and did not
wake up. He died days later
in the hospital, according to
the lawsuit.
The city of Sacramento,
security guard company
Universal Protection Serv-
ice and Sacramento Down-
town Arena were also in-
cluded as defendants. Attor-
neys Dale Galipo and Stew-
art Katz are seeking
unspecified damages.
The lawsuit comes as the
killing of George Floyd, who
died in Minneapolis after a
police officer kneeled on his
neck for nearly eight min-
utes, has sparked nation-
wide protests and scrutiny
of law enforcement that have
led to calls to defund police
forces.
In this case, Matthews, a
warehouse worker and
sports fan, is believed to
have attended a concert fea-
Mobile home parks have lax oversight, audit warns
By Patrick McGreevy
SACRAMENTO — Cali-
fornia’s state housing
agency did not conduct full
inspections at more than
half of the state’s mobile
home parks from 2010 to 2019
and should improve over-
sight to protect residents, a
state audit said Thursday.
Although the state De-
partment of Housing and
Community Development
met its statutory goal of con-
ducting park inspections at
5% of parks annually, 55% of
the 3,640 active parks did not
receive a full inspection in
the 10-year period reviewed,
state Auditor Elaine Howle
said.
“Long gaps between in-
spectors’ visits to a park in-
crease the risk that health
and safety violations remain
undetected and unre-
ported,” Howle said in a let-
ter to the governor and Leg-
islature. “By improving its
selection process for annual
park inspections to include
some parks that it has not
visited in recent years and
implementing guidance for
informal visits, HCD could
reduce the risks posed by
health and safety violations
at parks.”
A DISNEY RE OPENING
MARIO MATTHEWS
died in July 2019 after he
was restrained at Golden
1 Center in Sacramento.
turing T-Pain outside the
arena after a basketball
showcase with players from
the Sacramento Kings,
Golden State Warriors and
Los Angeles Lakers, accord-
ing to the lawsuit.
About 3:30 p.m. the shirt-
less man walked into the
center through a door that
had been propped open by
cleaning staff. Matthews lay
down on top of the Sacra-
mento Kings logo in the mid-
dle of the court “and then
ran around the basketball
court as if he were dribbling
and shooting a basketball,”
the lawsuit states.
Video footage of the inci-
dent released by the Sacra-
mento Police Department
shows security guards,
listed in the lawsuit as de-
fendants Drake Quitugua
and Chaz Hayes, chasing
Matthews into a hallway,
pushing him against a wall
and bringing him down to
the floor.
Quitugua put his knee on
In addition to finding in-
adequate rates for full park
inspections, the auditors
said some parks were not
even visited by inspectors to
follow up on complaints in-
volving individual units.
The agency’s data indi-
cated that it did not visit 9%
of parks, or 330 parks repre-
senting 5,700 mobile home
units, for any reason during
the decade reviewed, the au-
dit said.
Infrequent inspections
can allow mobile home
parks to fall into disrepair,
housing advocates have
warned.
Auditors also found in-
consistency in its inspection
process and said the agency
closed three of the 54 inspec-
tion files reviewed by audi-
tors before park owners and
residents had corrected
some violations.
Some mobile home parks
have been severely damaged
in wildfires in recent years,
and the report noted that in-
spectors are tasked with
making sure parks abide by
fire safety rules.
In one case, a Los Angeles
County Fire Department
station submitted a com-
plaint with multiple allega-
tions, including concerns
about the location of gas me-
CITY & STATE
Matthews’ neck for four and
a half minutes, the lawsuit
alleges. About 10 minutes af-
ter Matthews was restrained
by the two security guards,
Sacramento Police Officer
Mason McCann arrived to
help.
“By that time, it was ap-
parent that Mario was in se-
vere distress, including res-
piratory distress,” the law-
suit states.
Two additional officers
arrived with “max re-
straints” to bind Matthews’
legs together, at the request
of McCann, according to the
lawsuit. The two officers
took the place of the security
guards on top of Matthews.
Within seconds of the re-
straints being placed on his
body, Matthews became
nonresponsive, according to
the lawsuit.
“Perhaps in denial of
Mario’s now catatonic state,
defendants McCann, [Lo-
renzo] Vidales and [Ter-
rance] Gordon attempted to
pull Mario to his feet, but he
immediately flopped back to
the ground. At this point, it
was clear to everyone pre-
sent that Mario was incapa-
ble of getting up and in need
of urgent resuscitation ef-
forts,” the lawsuit states.
Paramedics arrived and
performed CPR on
Matthews. He was taken to
Sutter General Hospital,
still unconscious.
Video footage from what
appears to be one of the offi-
cers’ body cameras records
him saying that Matthews
was “probably high” and “for
whatever reason, he was act-
ing a fool.”
A security guard can be
heard saying, “We took him
CAPISTRANO Terrace Mobile Home Park. Many
parks were not inspected from 2010 to 2019.
ters that blocked access to
the lanes emergency vehi-
cles need in order to drive
through the park, the audit
said. “However, the inspec-
tor failed to address this alle-
gation in her inspection re-
port,” the report said.
The state agency often
did not share important in-
formation with park resi-
dents, including identified
violations, or provided it
late, the audit found. The
agency also sometimes
failed to tell residents about
their rights and resources
available to them.
Howle’s office also rec-
ommended the state agency
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
down pretty hard.”
“Based on what I am talk-
ing to the officers, no use of
force on our part,” one offi-
cer is recorded saying
through a body camera. “He
was already detained by se-
curity here when we showed
up. So it’s probably one of
those excited delirium type
deals.
“Plan is to pull the video
to see what I got,” he contin-
ued. “I still need to watch the
body cam videos to make
sure we’re in the clear so that
we didn’t use any force or
anything like that.”
Matthews died July 4,
2019. Citing the Sacramento
County coroner, the lawsuit
states there was “deep bruis-
ing of Mario’s back as a re-
sult of the weight and pres-
sure that had been placed
upon him.”
Tim Swanson, a spokes-
man for Sacramento’s city
manager, said the city is re-
viewing the lawsuit and con-
sidering its next steps.
The security company
that employed Quitugua
and Hayes said in a state-
ment that Matthews had re-
fused to comply with orders
to leave the stadium and
“appeared to threaten” the
guards.
“They attempted to de-
tain him pending the arrival
of the police. He continued
to actively resist efforts to
restrain him until he was
taken into custody by Sacra-
mento police,” the state-
ment said.
The company declined to
provide further comment,
citing the ongoing lawsuit.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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do a better job of making
sure inspectors don’t have
conflicts of interest by re-
porting their financial inter-
ests as required by law.
The audit looked at re-
cords for 77 inspectors and
found three had financial in-
terests related to mobile
home parks, including one
who owned property near a
park.
The housing agency re-
sponded to the audit by say-
ing it agrees improvements
to the inspection program
are needed.
“We concur with the rec-
ommendations and have al-
ready completed and imple-
F R I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
Pot vendors will
drop suit over
licensing process
Entrepreneurs had
argued that L.A.’s
application system
was fatally flawed.
By Emily Alpert Reyes
Cannabis entrepreneurs
have agreed to drop a law-
suit over Los Angeles’ bit-
terly contested process for
handing out licenses, after
the city agreed to process
more of the applicants vying
to open new shops.
The Social Equity Own-
ers and Workers Assn. and
one of its members sued the
city in April, arguing that the
application process to open
new shops was fatally
flawed. Hundreds of people
flooded the first-come, first-
served system within min-
utes, hoping for a shot at just
100 licenses.
The association con-
tended that more than 200
applicants who accessed an
online platform before 10
a.m. — the official start time
for applications — got an un-
fair edge over others who
waited until 10 a.m. to log on.
It had pushed for the city to
stop handing out licenses for
new shops as its lawsuit
played out in court.
The group argued that “it
is fundamental to any fair
race that the competitors
must start at the same time
or, at the very least, be given
accurate information
about when the race will be-
gin.”
City attorneys countered
that few people actually
started their applications
before 10 a.m. and that Los
Angeles pushed their appli-
cations back in line to where
they would be if they had
started on time — a process
it called “normalization.”
L.A. also pointed to an audit
that found the city took rea-
sonable and appropriate
steps to prevent unfairness.
Halting the rollout of li-
censes for new shops as the
lawsuit played out would
only “allow the illicit market
to gain a stronger foothold in
the community in the mean-
time” and hurt entrepre-
neurs waiting to open their
businesses, the city argued.
This week, a group of suc-
cessful applicants also
sought to intervene in the
case, arguing that halting
the licensing process or
overturning it would hurt
them financially. Some com-
petitors, they argued, had
simply been quicker to ap-
ply.
Under the settlement
agreement with the Social
Equity Owners and Workers
Assn., L.A. agreed to make
changes to its cannabis
rules, including vetting the
next 100 applications that
were in line for licenses —
possibly doubling the num-
ber of licensees from this
round of applications.
mented many of the recom-
mendations provided in the
report that illustrate areas
of improvement to better
protect the health and safety
of California mobile home
park residents, park owners,
and help secure the sustain-
ability of property,” said
Zack Olmstead, the housing
agency’s chief deputy direc-
tor.
The audit was requested
by state Sen. Connie M.
Leyva (D-Chino), chair-
woman of the Senate Select
Committee on Manufac-
tured Home Communities,
after she heard complaints
from mobile home owners
about lax state oversight.
On Thursday, Leyva
called the findings “disturb-
ing” and “unacceptable” and
said her committee will pro-
vide its oversight to make
sure there is follow-up ac-
tion.
“As mobile homes are a
vital option for affordable
housing in California, it is
clear that the state must im-
prove both the quality and
frequency of these inspec-
tions so that we can keep the
approximately 2 million
mobile home residents living
at nearly 5,000 mobile home
parks healthy and safe,” she
said.
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Those changes were ap-
proved by the City Council
last week, after the associ-
ation signed off on the settle-
ment. Mayor Eric Garcetti
signed the agreement this
week. Kika Keith, co-found-
er of the association, called it
“a great victory for us.” She
is among the applicants in
L.A.’s social equity program,
which aims to help cannabis
entrepreneurs from commu-
nities hit hardest by the war
on drugs.
The added licenses will
benefit many entrepreneurs
who didn’t get their applica-
tions in the quickest — in-
cluding Keith, who is among
the next 100 applicants in
line — but hundreds more
will still be out of luck. Madi-
son Shockley III, another
founder of the association,
described it as a compro-
mise.
“We made the decision to
settle because we don’t see
any way to make what hap-
pened fair — it’s kind of too
late for that,” said Shockley,
who is also among the 100 ad-
ditional applicants now up
for licenses.
If they had won, “we
would only get a redo of 100 li-
censes,” Shockley said. “So
we felt it was for the greater
good to accept the settle-
ment that included 200 li-
censes” because “more fam-
ilies’ lives would be changed
with this outcome.”
TYNDALL
FACES SIX
MORE
CHARGES
New counts are linked
to other sex assaults at
USC health center,
prosecutors say.
By James Queally
Los Angeles County
prosecutors have filed six
more counts of sexual as-
sault and battery against
disgraced USC gynecologist
George Tyndall, who was ar-
rested last year after he was
accused of sexual miscon-
duct by hundreds of former
students.
Tyndall, 73, was charged
with five counts of sexual
penetration of an uncon-
scious person and one count
of sexual battery by fraud in
an amended complaint
made public Thursday, ac-
cording to a news release is-
sued by the Los Angeles
County district attorney’s
office.
The longtime physician
was arrested in June 2019
and charged with 29 felonies
based on allegations of sexu-
al misconduct made by 16
women regarding incidents
from 2009 to 2016. Detectives
from the Los Angeles Police
Department’s Robbery-Ho-
micide Division presented
145 cases to prosecutors con-
cerning the alleged sexual
abuse of Tyndall’s former
patients, but many were out-
side the statute of limita-
tions.
The new charges relate to
attacks that took place from
2011 to 2015 at a USC health
center, prosecutors said. If
convicted of all charges,
Tyndall faces up to 64 years
in prison. He is due back in
court in late July.
A 2018 Times investiga-
tion revealed Tyndall had
been the subject of com-
plaints of sexual misconduct
at USC dating from the
1990s, with students repeat-
edly accusing him of engag-
ing in sexual harassment
during pelvic exams. But it
wasn’t until 2016, when a
nurse reported him to a rape
crisis center, that he was
suspended. He was allowed
to quietly resign with a hefty
payout the following year.
Tyndall has denied all
wrongdoing. An email to
his attorney, Leonard
Levine, seeking comment
Thursday was not immedi-
ately returned.
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LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Inglewood, California, will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at the hour of 2:00 p.m., to consider the following matters associated with the Inglewood
Basketball and Entertainment Center (IBEC) that includes an arena intended to promote the enjoyment and recreation of the public by providing access to the City’s residents in the form of spectator sports, specifically basketball,
with up to 18,000 fixed seats to host National Basketball Association (NBA) games, and with up to 500 additional temporary seats for other events such as family shows, concerts, corporate and community events, and other sporting
events; an up to 85,000-square foot team practice and athletic training facility; up to 71,000 square feet of LA Clippers office space; an up to 25,000-square foot sports medicine clinic; up to 63,000 square feet of ancillary and related
arena uses including retail and dining; an outdoor plaza adjacent to the arena; parking facilities; relocation of a City of Inglewood groundwater well; and various circulation, infrastructure, and other ancillary uses (the Project). The
Project will also include a limited service hotel. The actions to be considered by the City Council with respect to the Project include:

1. Certiication of the Project Environmental Impact Report No. EA-EIR-2020-045, State Clearinghouse No.: SCH2018021056, and adoption of a Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program, and California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations.
a. Recommended for Certification and Adoption by the Planning Commission (PC) on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1868).

2. General Plan Amendment No. 2020-003 to modify the Land Use Element, Circulation Element, and Safety Element of the Inglewood General Plan with conforming map and text changes to reflect the plan for the
Project, including:
a. Redesignation of certain properties in the Land Use Element from Commercial to Industrial;
b. Addition of specific reference to sports and entertainment facilities and related and ancillary uses on properties in the Industrial land use designation text;
c. Updating Circulation Element maps and text to reflect vacation of portions of West 101st Street and West 102nd Street and to show the location of the Project; and
d. Updating Safety Element map to reflect the relocation of the municipal water well and related infrastructure.
e. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1869).

3. Speciic Plan Amendment No. 2020-001 to amend the Inglewood International Business Park Specific Plan to exclude properties within the Project Site from the Specific Plan Area.
a. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1870).

4. Zone Change No. 2020-001 to apply the Sports and Entertainment (SE) Overlay Zone on the entire Project Site, and Rezone certain parcels in the Project Site to conform with the existing General Plan Land Use Des-
ignation.
a. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1871).

5. Zoning Code Amendment No. 2020-002 to Chapter 12 of the Inglewood Municipal Code to establish regulations for the Sports and Entertainment Overlay Zone, including text amendments to create an overlay zone
establishing development standards including standards for height, setbacks, street frontage, and lot size, permitted uses, signage, parking and loading, public art, design review process under the Project SEC Develop-
ment Guidelines (discussed under #7, below), addressing parcel map procedures, and other land use controls.
a. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1871).

6. Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Inglewood Municipal Code Chapters 2 (Administration), 3 (Motor Vehicles and Traffic), 5 (Offenses, Miscellaneous), 10 (Public Works), and 11 (Building Regulations) to permit
development and operation of the Project, including provisions regarding public art, truck routes, noise regulations, traffic demand management, and disposition of municipal real property.
7. Sports and Entertainment Complex Design Guidelines and Infrastructure Plan (SEC Development Guidelines), including:
a. Implementation and Administration,
b. Design Guidelines, and
c. Infrastructure Plan.
The SEC Development Guidelines will address certain design elements, including building orientation, massing, design and materials, plaza treatments, landscaping and lighting design, parking and loading design,
pedestrian circulation, signage and graphics, walls, fences and screening, sustainability features, and similar elements.
d. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1872).

8. Development Agreement between Murphy’s Bowl LLC and the City for the development of a Sports and Entertainment Complex, addressing community benefits and vesting entitlements for the Project.
a. Recommended for Approval by the Planning Commission on June 17, 2020 (PC Resolution No. 1873).

You are receiving this notice because you own property in or within 500 feet of the Project Site, you requested notice, or you are a Local Agency required to receive notice under Government Code 65091. A copy of this notice will
also be published in a newspaper of general circulation, and posted at City Hall. Below is a map of the Project Site.

The Project Site includes properties with the following Assessor Identification Numbers:

ADDRESS AIN ADDRESS AIN

3915 W 102nd St 4032001048 10108 S Prairie Ave 4032001908

3843 W 102nd St 4032002915 No Address 4032001900

3901 W 102nd St 4032001902 10116 S Prairie Ave 4032001904

3851 W 102nd St 4032002916 10112 S Prairie Ave 4032001907

3821 W 102nd St 4032002917 10104 S Prairie Ave 4032001910

3822 W Century Blvd 4032002913 No Address 4032001006

3921 W 102nd St 4032001911 No Address 4032001901

3930 W Century Blvd 4032001913 10022 S Prairie Ave 4032001005

3831 W 102nd St 4032002914 10020 S Prairie Ave 4032001906

3665 W 102nd St 4032003912 10004 S Prairie Ave 4032001039

3700 W Century Blvd 4032003914 10200 S Prairie Ave 4032008001

No Address 4032004914 3940 W 102nd St 4032008907

3922 W Century Blvd 4032001912 4018 W 101st Street 4034005905

3703 W 102nd St 4032003915 4015 W 101st Street 4034004904

NO ADDRESS 4032004913 3947 W 102nd St 4032001905

3832 W 102nd St 4032007903 3940 W Century Blvd 4032001049

3850 W 102nd St 4032007905 4020 W Century Blvd 4034004912

3836 W 102nd St 4032007901 No Address 4032001033

No Address 4032008034 10117 S Prairie Ave 4034005900

3812 W 102nd St 4032007904 4039 W 101st Street 4034004903

3818 W 102nd St 4032007900 4026 W Century Blvd 4034004913

3844 W 102nd St 4032007902 4036 W Century Blvd 4034004910

3838 W 102nd St 4032007035 4044 W 101st Street 4034005910

3926 W 102nd St 4032008901 4019 W 101st Street 4034004902

3936 W 102nd St 4032008908 4032 W Century Blvd 4034004909

3910 W 102nd St 4032008900 4031 W 102nd Street 4034005904

3900 W 102nd St 4032008902 4025 W 102nd Street 4034005907

3930 W 102nd St 4032008904 4022 W 101st Street 4034005912

3920 W 102nd St 4032008905 4030 W 101st Street 4034005901

3941 W 102nd St 4032001909 4037 W 102nd Street 4034005903

3939 W 102nd St 4032001903 4036 W 101st Street 4034005909

4040 W Century Blvd 4034004905 4026 W 101st Street 4034005911

4043 W 101st Street 4034004906 4023 W 102nd Street 4034005906

4037 W 101st Street 4034004901 4043 W 102nd Street 4034005902

4042 W Century Blvd 4034004908 4019 W 102nd Street 4034005908

4033 W 101st Street 4034004911 10220 S Prairie Ave 4032008903

4045 W 101st Street 4034004900 10212 S Prairie Ave 4032008035

4046 W Century Blvd 4034004907

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as follows:

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A Final Environmental Impact Report has been prepared under the California Environmental Quality Act, a copy of which is available for public review online at the following link:
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And at the following physical location:

Inglewood City Hall

Information Desk, First Floor Lobby
One West Manchester Boulevard, 1st Floor
Inglewood, CA 90301

Pursuant to Government Code Section 65009, if you challenge the proposed environmental documents, General Plan Amendment, Specific Plan Amendment, Zone Change, Zoning Code Amendment, other Inglewood Municipal
Code Amendments, SEC Development Guidelines, or Development Agreement in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written corre-
spondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing.

This notice is given by the order of the City Council of the City of Inglewood and is dated this 7th day of July 2020.

Yvonne Horton, City Clerk

City of Inglewood, California

In the event that the City Council meeting of July 21, 2020 is not held, or is concluded prior to this public hearing agenda item being considered, the public hearing will automatically be continued to the next regularly scheduled City
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Outbreak
imperils
in-person
classes
[Berkeley, from B1]
between 18 and 40 years of
age.” Adults 18 to 40 make up
35% of L.A. County’s popula-
tion.
While “most young peo-
ple are doing the right
thing,” he said, “it’s clear
that a lot of them are not.”
“This isn’t complicated:
Do not get together with
someone who’s not in your
household,” he said. “These
weeks are absolutely critical:
Critical to whether schools
open, whether our economy
and our economic recovery
path continues. These
weeks are critical for saving
lives.”
More than 100 residents
of Los Angeles County ages
18 to 40 have died from the
coronavirus.
“While the rate of death is
significantly less for younger
people, unfortunately,
younger people die pretty
much almost every day,”
Barbara Ferrer, the director
of public health for L.A.
County, said Thursday. “And
some of the people who are
dying don’t have any under-
lying health conditions, ei-
ther.”
About 7% of the people
who have died in L.A.
County with a coronavirus
infection had no underlying
health conditions.
Younger adults can also
be a significant spread of the
coronavirus to more vulner-
able people.
A study published by the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
found that in Japan, it was
most often adults in their
20s or 30s — who were in-
fected but not showing signs
of illness — who were re-
sponsible for spreading the
coronavirus among 61 clus-
ters of illness.
“As a young person, you
inadvertently, unknowingly
could be infecting people,
even in your age cohort, who
then go on and infect some-
body else who’s at risk and
has a terrible outcome and
actually may even die,” Fer-
rer said.
Even those who do sur-
vive COVID-19 can suffer
from months of complica-
tions, Ferrer added.
A growing number of
campuses are rethinking fall
on-campus plans as the co-
ronavirus has surged again.
Last week, USC
announced it will no longer
bring all undergraduates
back to campus for the fall
semester and will move to
mainly online classes, re-
versing an earlier decision to
welcome students back for a
hybrid model.
Only 10% to 20% of
courses during the fall se-
mester will be conducted in
person and on campus.
These courses include cer-
tain labs, studios and per-
formance classes, and re-
search studies that require
hands-on work.
Times staff writers Nina
Agrawal, Tomas Mier and
Luke Money contributed to
this report.
Surge at hospitals is stretching nurses thin
[Nurses, from B1]
across the Inland Empire
said they bear the brunt of
the pressure.
Arrowhead Regional
Medical Center has hired
more nurses to meet grow-
ing demands but still strug-
gles to keep up.
“We’re trying to get [an]
agency to help with the
staffing, but all the other
hospitals are experiencing a
surge and they’re using the
agency to get more staffers
as well, so that presents a
challenge,” Brown said.
In Imperial County, 93
suspected and confirmed
coronavirus patients were
hospitalized Monday, a
number that has remained
steady for months. But in
just five weeks, 500 co-
ronavirus patients from Im-
perial County had already
been transferred to other
counties for treatment —
San Francisco, Riverside
and Santa Clara among
them.
More than 20% of the
COVID-19 tests adminis-
tered in Imperial County
come back positive, a rate
much higher than the
threshold of 8% to be re-
moved from a state
watchlist. During a news
conference June 26, Gov.
Gavin Newsom singled out
A RUNAWAY pit bull mix stands outside the Chesterfield Square animal shelter
in South Los Angeles. Like many other dogs, it ran away on the Fourth of July.
Runaway dogs returned
to families, but not all
[Dogs, from B1]
es of the missing dog across
the internet. On Monday
evening, Hirst made fliers
and prepped a list of animal
stores to put them in. As he
ran at South L.A.’s Harvard
Park on Sunday morning,
Danny Rivera came across a
gray pit bull mix.
“I went to pet her and
then looked around and
didn’t see anyone,” Rivera
said.
He said firework explo-
sions have rocked his neigh-
borhood nightly since early
June but picked up Sat-
urday night.
“The day of the Fourth,
they were really going at it,”
Rivera said.
The dog wore a studded
blue collar and looked taken
care of. He guessed she had
just run away, so he started
walking with his new com-
panion in hopes she would
find its owner nearby. After
four fruitless hours, he and
the dog — whom he’d named
Sunny — went home.
“The way that she smiled
at everyone and everything,
you can’t help but smile at
her too,” Rivera said. He
bought canned dog food and
potty pads for his guest. On
Monday, he took Sunny to
the Chesterfield Square Ani-
mal Services Center, where a
scan showed she didn’t have
a microchip.
“I really did bond with the
dog. I was really crying my
heart out after I dropped her
off at the shelter,” Rivera
said. He described Sunny as
sweet and curious and said
she never barked while he
had her. He’s gotten permis-
sion from his apartment
manager to foster Sunny
when she becomes available
if her owners aren’t found.
Annette Rodriguez, di-
rector of field operations at
Chesterfield Square, said
Fourth of July runaways end
up in her facility every year.
She blames the fireworks.
“We’ve had animals actu-
ally break through windows
because they’re so panicked,
so scared. They’re sensitive
to the noises: They’re loud
bangs for us, and our ears
are not as sensitive as a dog’s
ears, so it can really scare an-
imals. That’s why they end
up getting out of their yards,
NURSE Lynda Tegan checks on a COVID-19 patient
Wednesday at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.
Imperial County as the area
hit hardest by the co-
ronavirus in all of California.
And in Riverside County,
hospital beds have hovered
above 90% capacity each day
throughout early July. The
county reached a record
high of 518 coronavirus hos-
pitalizations Tuesday.
Six of the county’s 17
acute-care hospitals have al-
ready exceeded their li-
censed ICU bed capacity, ac-
commodating additional
patients in surge bedding.
Michael Ditoro, chief op-
erating officer at Desert Re-
gional Medical Center, says
the hospital’s surge beds are
just as equipped to serve pa-
tients as standard ICU beds.
trying to get away from all
the noises,” Rodriguez said.
Since July 1, her shelter
has reunited 38 dogs with
owners. Fewer dogs came in
this week than expected.
“It has been the calmest
Fourth of July we have ever
had, which is absolutely sur-
prising due to the amount of
fireworks going on, and it
really has been because of
the number of partners out
there supporting us and
helping us with scanning
[microchips] and interven-
ing with animals not coming
into the shelter,” Rodriguez
said. “We’ve had so many re-
unifications where they ne-
ver even came into the shel-
ter.”
Microchips, tiny im-
plants placed under a pet’s
skin, have individual codes
that are uploaded with the
pet’s ownership information
into online databases. Shel-
ters, vets and rescues scan
for such chips as a way to
quickly get pets back to their
owners.
One of Chesterfield
Square’s partners, Paws for
Life K9 Rescue, scored 18 re-
unions Saturday. The group,
which works with incarcer-
ated people to train therapy
dogs, set up seven mi-
crochip-scanning stations
across the city. They di-
rected finders of lost pups to
the sites and contacted own-
ers as information came in.
The process was born out
of creativity and necessity,
founder Alex Tonner said.
“On Fourth of July, there
are so many dogs that get
turned in to the shelter, and
normally rescue groups are
outside the shelter helping
the public there, but be-
cause of COVID, no one was
allowed to do that,” Tonner
said. Shelters are closed to
the public because of the
pandemic.
Los Angeles Animal
Services scanned lost dogs,
too. Their officers gave iden-
tified pets free rides back
home.
Rodriguez called re-
unions the most emotional
part of her job.
“People think of their
pets as family members,”
she said. “It’s such a beauti-
ful thing to connect that
family back together.”
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
“There’s all this hubbub
in the press about running
out of ICU beds,” said Erik
Andrews, a rapid response
nurse at Riverside Commu-
nity Hospital. “If you’ve ever
had surgery before, the
entire pre-op and post-op
area, you can convert those
into ICU beds with almost
no effort.”
But the hospital doesn’t
have nearly enough nurses,
Andrews said.
California laws prescribe
minimum nurse-to-patient
ratios in the state, but those
numbers haven’t been suffi-
cient during “this novel,
deadly, highly contagious
disease,” Andrews said.
For a while, Riverside
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
After his chihuahua went
on the lam Saturday eve-
ning, Los Angeles City Coun-
cilman Herb Wesson experi-
enced that joyful homecom-
ing.
“They saved my family
and my sanity by finding my
littlest,” he said.
Wesson’s dog ran off as he
did yard work and grilled
steaks. He realized Waldo
was missing when he let his
other two dogs inside as fire-
works picked up.
“It’s like a kid: You think
the worst. He’s been eaten
by a coyote. A hawk flew
down and grabbed him. He’s
underneath a bush shiver-
ing. You don’t think any-
thing good. You do a lot of
praying,” Wesson said.
He searched for the dog
for six hours, trolling the
streets by foot and truck as
fireworks erupted in the
night sky, forgetting to eat
the food he’d cooked for the
holiday. “They were every-
where, illegal fireworks. On
every corner, every little cul-
de-sac, on major streets,”
Wesson said.
About 11:45 p.m., he got a
call from Tonner. She knew
where Waldo was. A neigh-
bor three doors down and
across the street had found
the dog and brought him to a
scan station run by Angel
City Pit Bulls and Paws For
Life. Wesson, who pledged to
support the organizations
and expressed gratefulness
for the neighbors who took
care of Waldo, credited his
dog’s microchip for Waldo’s
return.
“If it wasn’t for that, I’d be
out looking for him right
now,” he said. Now, the fam-
ily lap dog— who is “4 1⁄2
pounds, maybe 5 depending
on what he’s eaten that day,”
Wesson said, and whom he
described as “a little minia-
ture heating pad” — is back
home, safe and sound.
Hirst is still searching for
Mollie, whom she calls her
California girl “because she
liked to have the wind blow-
ing in her hair.”
“I can’t explain the joy I
would have having her back.
I think about everything I
could’ve done,” Hirst said.
“She understood us, and
we understood her. God, I
miss her.”
Community Hospital had
increased its ratio during
the pandemic, but it
dropped back after a few
weeks.
With thin staffing, An-
drews said he hardly gets to
take a bathroom or lunch
break. He’s gone up to 11
hours wearing one mask.
“The first thing I do when
I show up to work is I fill up
my water bottle. There’s
definitely been times at the
end of the day where I look at
it, and I’m like, ‘Holy crap,
it’s still full.’ I haven’t taken
my mask off and taken the
time to drink,” he said.
Erin McIntosh, 37, a rapid
response nurse at Riverside
Community Hospital, said
she often fears for her and
her colleagues’ mental
well-being.
Nearly every shift, she
witnesses nurses over-
whelmed from the demands
of their job. She often pro-
vides a shoulder to cry on as
nurses debrief after their
shifts.
“We don’t have the ade-
quate staff to take the pa-
tient, and I can’t leave their
bedside,” McIntosh said. “I’ll
be in a room with a patient
by myself for eight hours. We
don’t have support, and it’s
causing nurses to not want
to be nurses anymore.”
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DE LA TORRE, Michael
Mark
November 7, 1951 - July 3, 2020
Michael M. De La Torre, beloved
husband, father, and grandfather
passed away peacefully on July 3rd,
2020 at the age of 68. Michael is
survived by his wife Maria Elena, his
son Steven, and his 3 grandchildren.
Michael proudly spent over 30 years
working in the city of Los Angeles in
governmental affairs and community
development. Before his passing he
served as an Executive Board Member
with Foothill Transit and worked
for the SoCal Gas Company until his
retirement in 2015.
FURUYAMA, , Randall
Yoshio (Randy)
Randall Yoshio Furuyama (Randy)
54, of Northridge, CA, passed away
June 13, 2020. He was born in 1966
to Tomio and Teruko (Akita) Furuyama
in San Fernando, CA. Randy graduated
from Sylmar High School in 1984, and
studied computer science at UCLA.
Randy is survived by his siblings,
Alice (David) Kuroda, Dennis (Terry)
Furuyama, Steve (Diana) Furuyama,
Ron (Nancy Kawahara) Furuyama, and
Gary Furuyama, and five nephews and
four nieces.
Randy was employed at the office
of Bradley & Gmelich in Glendale, CA.
Randy was a member of Crossway
Church of the San Fernando Valley,
where working with youth ministries
was his passion. He is fondly
remembered for his uproarious
laughter and incredible knowledge of
trivia.
Graveside services will be private
at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills. A
memorial service will be arranged at a
later date when it is safe to do so. In lieu
of flowers or koden, please consider
making a donation in Randy’s memory
to his church or to Zoe International,
two of his favorite charities.
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LOCKE, Paula Mullé Zoss
Paula was born in Sherman Oaks,
California to Sherman and Shirley
Mullé. A devoted Catholic, Paula
married Gary Zoss in 1973 and was a
fun-loving mother to three: Amy Aline
Zoss, Anthony Mullé Zoss(Audrey), and
Katherine Jayne Zoss.
While raising her children, Paula
became a Registered Nurse, her
true calling. An accomplished
businesswoman, Paula established
multiple board & care facilities, which
operate to this day. Unique, classy, and
beautiful, Paula loved her fur coats,
diamond rings, and Cadillacs; but what
truly fulfilled her was giving back to
others.
She was also the grandma you
always wanted, a true friend, a
caring aunt, and a loyal sister. Paula
passed away after a short battle
with pulmonary fibrosis, and was
preceded in death by her second
husband and soulmate: Jack Locke.
Survived By: Brothers: Peter Mullé and
Christopher Mullé; Sisters: Jane Mullé
and Antoinette Mullé Bee (Mike);
Grandchildren: Ian Anthony Gisborne;
Fiona Zoss, Claire Zoss; Nieces: Michelle
Deleon, Breanna Mullé, and Sareena
De Leon. Paula is finally at peace with
her beloved Jack and joins her siblings:
Mary Mullé Caruso, Charlie Ignatius
Mullé, and Francis Mullé Rycerz. She
will always be missed and loved, but
never forgotten.There will be a private
gathering in Studio City on Saturday,
July 11th. Please email aalineg444@
gmail.com for more information.
In Memoriam
Robbie Bronston Block
In memory of Robbie
Bronston Block. Born
June 27, 1947, died
February 12, 2020. She
was a beloved daughter, wife, mother,
grandmother, and friend. She will
always be remembered with love.
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SCHREIBER, Walter MD
August 21, 1925 - April 25, 2020
Walter Schreiber, MD passed away
on April 25, 2020 due to complications
of COVID19, at the age of 94. Walter
was born in Chicago, Illinois, the
second of four children of Morris and
Ida Schreiber, and from an early age
took care of everyone. He started
working at age 12 in an ice cream
shop and took his younger siblings
with him while playing baseball as a
teen. He was drafted into the United
States Army and served faithfully as a
bomb diffuser in Europe until 1945. He
returned to join his family in California
and began a west coast life that
ultimately led him to medical school
at UC Irvine, graduating in 1964 and
beginning what would be a 55 year
career in medicine. Walter specialized
in hematology and oncology and
took wonderful care of thousands
of patients. He also kept his close
bonds with medical school classmates
throughout his life.
At a bowling league match in 1961,
Walter’s sister Doris introduced him
to his future wife, Arlene. A month
after their first date, they were
engaged and married 5 months later.
Walter and Arlene were married for
38 wonderful years until Arlene’s
passing in 1999. They had two
children, Jennifer (husband Bill) and
David, plus had extended family as a
central and meaningful part of their
life: older sister Doris (and husband
Leo), younger brother Leonard, and
youngest sister Gloria; nieces Barbara
(husband Michael), Ellin (husband
Mark), and Alisa and their children,
great nieces/nephews Jason, Robyn,
Jessica, Zack, Erik, and Kylie; and
grandchildren Emmie and Theo. In
later years, Walter also enjoyed visits
with cousin Jay. All time spent with
family brightened Walter’s day. Walter
also had many friends who were like
family and Walter cared deeply about
them including the Schneirs and the
Stansons.
Walter took exceptional pride in
his family and friends and was a
wonderfully generous man. He put
others ahead of himself and always
had an optimistic attitude that
everything would work out. He loved
to sing anywhere at any time, enjoyed
trying new restaurants while returning
to old favorites, and had a unique
sense of humor that he thoroughly
enjoyed. He is remembered as a great
family man, friend, doctor, colleague,
teacher, and was loved by all. We miss
him dearly.
Walter was buried beside Arlene on
May 8, 2020 at Mt. Sinai Mortuary.
A celebration of his life will be held
at a later date when it is possible for
us all to be together. Contributions in
Walter’s honor to the American Cancer
Society, the City of Hope, or to the Dr.
Walter Schreiber Memorial Scholarship
at Vista Visions Academy (contact
Jessie Magana at jessieestrada@
vistausd.org) are welcomed.
STRIBLEY, William Joseph
February 9, 1948 - June 7, 2020
William Joseph Stribley, 72, was
welcomed into heaven on June 7th,
2020. Bill grew up in Rolling Hills
and lived in Escondido. He graduated
from Carson High School and earned
a BA from Whittier College in Political
Science.
Bill taught Science and Math at
Lincoln Middle School. The love of
reptiles was evident in the extensive
herpetarium in his classroom; Rocks,
arrowheads, and artifacts also covered
every wall. Being an adventurist,
he traveled the world from Iran,
Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Qatar, South
America, China, Europe, to French
Polynesia and everywhere in between!
Bill had many hobbies that included
an extensive gem, rock, arrowhead,
foreign currency, and coin collecting.
In 1988, he married the love of his
life, Robin Doering. Together, they
left behind, Sean (30) and Ryan (26)
Stribley. Also, a brother, Art Stribley
(wife Kathleen), sister Laura Haight
(husband Jerry), brother-in-law John
Doering (wife Chris), and twelve nieces
and nephews. Bill was extremely
loving, kind, and had a tremendously
generous heart. He passed peacefully
in his home surrounded by loved ones.
Celebration of his life will be delayed
until after the Covid-19 stay at home
order is lifted. If you would like to join
the celebration of his life or share a
story please contact his son Ryan at
ryan.stribley1@gmail.com.
TAYLOR, Eunice Lillian
June 15, 1915 - June 15, 2020
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VAUGHN, Joe
March 19, 1952 - June 27, 2020
Joe Vaughn, born in Chanute, Kansas
left us way to soon.
He left broken hearted his wife,
Mary Vaughn. His children were his
everything: Joey Vaughn (Kelly), Katy
Reiter (Tim), and Alison Meadows
(Erick). Joe was blessed to have 7
grandchildren: Molly Reiter, Emma
Reiter, Regan Vaughn, Emmett
Meadows, Reese Vaughn and Noah
Meadows.
Joe worked hard all his life and his
family came first. Will forever live in
our hearts.
WAGNER, Richard Philip
April 17, 1927 - April 13, 2020
Richard Philip Wagner Laguna
Woods, California St. Nicholas Catholic
Church 24252 El Toro Rd. Laguna
Woods, CA 92637
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B6 FR I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
CODY BELLINGER got off to a blistering start in 2019 before cooling down late, including in the postseason.
DODGERS REPORT
Bellinger knows he can
have more valuable stats
By Jack Harris
Cody Bellinger’s first 60
games last season were
near-historic: a .370 batting
average, 20 home runs, 54
RBIs and a 1.177 on-base-
plus-slugging percentage.
All of which made his fi-
nal 60 games somewhat
head-scratching: a .257 bat-
ting average, 13 home runs,
38 RBIs and an .890 OPS.
The 24-year-old out-
fielder still won the National
League’s MVP award, still
became the top player on a
106-win team and still
emerged as one of baseball’s
biggest stars.
But he recognized his
game wasn’t a finished prod-
uct either, his potentially
masterful mold had yet to to-
tally dry.
So, as he waited for
baseball to begin during
this summer’s pandemic-
prompted shutdown, Bell-
inger worked on his swing
and reexamined his ap-
proach, fine-tuning his five-
tool skill set at the Dodgers’
spring training facility in Ar-
izona.
ANGELS REPORT
Rendon is no fan of fake crowd noise
By Maria Torres
During a 2½-hour intra-
squad game this week, the
Angels experimented with
piping artificial crowd
noise through the stadium’s
speaker system. Other teams
around baseball have tried
the same thing. They all won-
der if piped-in ruckus can off-
set the absence of fans, who
aren’t expected to attend
many games this season, if
any.
Anthony Rendon, the
Angels’ top free-agent acqui-
sition last winter, didn’t need
long to offer his opinion on the
idea.
“It was stupid,” he said.
So playing in a silent ball-
park might be better?
“Definitely. Without a
doubt,” Rendon said Thurs-
day. “It’s like you have two of
your senses that aren’t coinci-
ding with one another. It’s like
you’re looking at a pizza, but
you’re smelling a hamburger.
You hear noise, but you know
nobody’s in the stands. You
don’t see anybody.
“I think it was dumb. I’d
rather listen to music.”
In his first video confer-
ence with reporters since the
outbreak of the coronavirus
shut down spring training in
mid-March, Rendon was all
smiles. He joked about pawn-
ing his 2019 World Series ring,
which he received via mail
from the Washington Nation-
als that morning, and poked
fun at himself for not doing
much baseball activity during
the hiatus.
“A lot of mental hacks,
mental ground balls, mental
throws. Not really too much,”
said Rendon, whose wife gave
birth to the couple’s second
Now, a week into the
team’s preseason training
camp at Dodger Stadium, “I
feel really good,” Bellinger
said during a Thursday vi-
deo conference, his wavy
brown hair long overdue for
a trim after the three-month
quarantine period. “It could
be a blessing in the long run.”
Not to mention a night-
mare for the rest of the
league, especially if Bell-
inger replicates his start to
2019 during this slimmed-
down 60-game season.
“That would be cool,” he
said, chuckling at the ab-
surdity of those early season
numbers. “But that was the
thing, figuring out why I was
so good and then remember-
ing the feeling but also not
getting too caught up on last
year.”
Bellinger didn’t make any
major changes to a swing
that produced a full-season
47 home runs and .305 bat-
ting average. But, “there’s al-
ways small things in your
swing you realize [are] what
make you good,” he said.
“You just try to be as consis-
tent with those as you can. I
just had that extra time to
child in February. “I’d throw a
tennis ball against the wall,
maybe. I have a machine that I
could put on and simulate
some swings.”
But during his 20-minute
virtual sit-down, the 30-year-
old third baseman provided
an introspective look at the
state of baseball. He took ex-
ception with the negotiations
between the league and play-
ers being characterized as a
battle over salary. He said it
was more important to play-
ers that appropriate health
and safety protocols were es-
tablished so they could pro-
tect the well-being of family,
staff and team members.
“At this time, we have to be
selfless toward everyone
around us because we don’t
know what everyone’s situa-
tion is,” he said. “And I think
this is a good opportunity for
us as a world to realize that
selfishness doesn’t go a long
way, so we have to look out for
one another.”
He also supported the
statement made by his former
teammate and current Col-
orado Rockies player Ian
Desmond, who criticized
MLB’s “puzzling lack of focus”
in its attempts to improve mi-
nority representation when
he opted out of the 2020 sea-
son last week.
“I definitely felt for him,”
said Rendon, who is of Mexi-
can descent. “Black individu-
als aren’t the only ones that
are part of this racism. Brown
people get frowned upon just
as much as Black people do, or
any other race, whatever
other color that anyone says
they are. Racism is still very
much alive in this world, and
it’s unfortunate. … If we stop it
at the youth and we change it
from the youngest generation,
SPORTS
work on it in a stress-free en-
vironment.”
Some days during the de-
lay were tougher than oth-
ers, especially as specu-
lation swirled around
whether the season would
ever start. Bellinger wore a
mask during his Camelback
Ranch training sessions,
working out in socially dis-
tanced groups with team-
mates Kiké Hernández,
Max Muncy and Matt
Beaty.
But by the time he ar-
rived in Los Angeles two
weeks ago, Bellinger felt his
late-2019 struggles — which
extended into a four-for-19
postseason performance —
were behind him.
“You’re always growing
and you’re always evolving,”
he said. “I feel really good at
where I’m at this year.” And
despite the uncertainty cre-
ated by the coronavirus, he
is looking forward to a sea-
son he expects to be both
“weird” and “fun” — or, as he
also described it, “a once-in-
a-lifetime thing.”
One of the many anoma-
lies: Bellinger isn’t even sure
how many home runs could
Ashley Landis Associated Press
ANTHONY RENDON
says he is about 80%
ready for opening day.
then it has no opportunity to
grow. I loved his explanation.”
On the baseball front, Ren-
don is not concerned about
the little he did to prepare for
the abbreviated season. He
said he is roughly 80% ready to
go with two weeks remaining
until opening day.
“If you played a sport [as a
kid], a coach always tells you
that you can’t turn it on and
off like it’s a light switch,” he
said. “You can’t just decide to
show up whenever you want.
But I think as we get older, we
know what we need to do to
prepare ourselves for a game.”
Roster adjustments
Left-handed pitcher Pat-
rick Sandoval and infielder
Jared Walsh joined Angels
camp after missing the first
six days of workouts. The rea-
sons for their absences were
not disclosed. They were well
enough to participate in base-
ball activities at Angel Sta-
Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times
lead MLB this season. When
asked if he could eclipse
teammate Alex Wood’s re-
cently tweeted suggestion of
17, Bellinger smirked.
“That would be crazy,” he
said. “I hope I’m that guy,
but we’ll see.”
Short hops
Pitcher Tony Gonsolin
joined the Dodgers’ training
camp, becoming the first of
the team’s seven yet-to-re-
port players to arrive after
his undisclosed absence.
“We expect him to be a guy
[who goes deep into
games],” manager Dave
Roberts said. “So to get him
back in camp and resume
business as usual I think is a
great thing.” … Bellinger
said adjustments are being
made to the new batter’s eye
at Dodger Stadium, which
some players have com-
plained about. Roberts said
the changes could include a
more matte black paint col-
or on the new center-field
structure that was part of
the stadium’s offseason
renovations as well as a
modification to the seating
portion of the backdrop.
dium and Blair Field in Long
Beach.
Outfield prospect Bran-
don Marsh, pitchers Jose
Suarez and Julio Teheran,
and infielders Matt Thaiss
and Luis Rengifo were still
missing. The team did not say
why.
Only veteran starter Tehe-
ran has publicly explained his
whereabouts, telling ESPN
Deportes on Wednesday that
he was awaiting the results of
a coronavirus test.
In coming to grips with
what could be lengthy ab-
sences from pitchers ex-
pected to play key roles, the
Angels added right-hander
Adrian De Horta and left-
hander Adam Seminaris to
their 60-man pool. Seminaris,
from Chino Hills, was the An-
gels’ fifth-round pick in last
month’s draft. He had a 3.58
ERA in 1732⁄3 innings at Long
Beach State.
He shared on Twitter a
photo of his new Angels jer-
seys in a locker at Blair Field.
Short hops
A hint of what to expect
from home run celebrations:
air elbow bumps. Top
prospect Jo Adell hit an op-
posite-field home run in a
three-inning intrasquad
game that featured primarily
minor leaguers. As he crossed
the plate, he lifted his arm par-
allel to the ground and mimed
bumping elbows with the hit-
ter on deck. … Manager Joe
Maddon disagreed with Ren-
don’s assessment of piped-in
crowd noise. “I liked it be-
cause I felt my focus was on
the field. … I think you can be
distracted by the quiet. I think
you have a better chance of
locking in with noise. It’s dif-
ferent. It’s not playing golf.”
Case (still
not) closed
for Dodgers
BILL PLASCHKE
It’s a won-
drous warm
summer late
afternoon at
Dodger Sta-
dium, shad-
ows creeping
in across left
field, a breeze
picking up
from the Elysian Hills, a
blue-clad baseball team
warming up on the bright
green field.
Yet all around them,
ghosts.
There are four people
seated in the 56,000-person
stands, endless empty rows
of yellow and blue, a master-
piece become a mausoleum.
There are seven people in
the press box, the wide and
bustling room reduced to the
sound of a few souls breath-
ing heavily through masks
and clacking on sticky key-
boards.
As the Dodgers worked
out Thursday in preparation
for the July 23 opening day of
a pandemic-shortened,
fan-free 60-game season,
nearly everything felt
strange, from the audible
swish of the players’ slides to
the audible cries of them
calling for fly balls.
It was a far different scene
from the last time they
played an official game here,
precisely nine months earli-
er, a 7-3, 10th-inning loss to
the Washington Nationals in
the deciding Game 5 of the
National League Division
Series.
Well, actually, one thing
was exactly the same.
The Dodgers still don’t
have a closer.
OK, it’s weird to so
abruptly switch the tone of
this column from the co-
ronavirus to baseball, but the
two national stories will
weirdly be roommates
throughout the rest of this
weird season, so get used
to it.
If the Dodgers are going
to be serious about winning
this oddball championship,
then the rest of us might as
well be serious about evalu-
ating their chances. And
right now, they’re missing
the one thing they’ve always
been missing, the one thing
that has haunted them
throughout the last seven
years of October disappoint-
ment.
Who is going to finish
their biggest games? Who is
going to save their season
when that season is on the
line? Who is going to make
sure the ending was different
from the last time they ended
a game here?
Surely you remember the
Nationals and those last
three innings. Leading by
two runs, the Dodgers tried
to save the game with relief
appearances by two starting
pitchers and a setup man.
Kenley Jansen was sup-
posed to be the closer, but he
wasn’t summoned until the
game was already closed.
Pedro Báez was supposed to
be one of his wingmen, but he
never left the bullpen. That
pretty much described the
organization’s confidence in
two of their strongest arms.
Nine months later, both
players are still out of the
picture. Neither has yet to
show up at summer camp for
officially undisclosed — likely
medical — reasons. If the
season began today, the
closer would likely be off-
season acquisition Blake
Treinen, a right-hander who
was one of best closers in
baseball in 2018 but lost the
job in Oakland last year with
a 4.91 ERA. He did well in the
shadows, struggled a season
later in the hot lights, so who
knows?
After that, well, there is
really no established “after
that,” unless the Dodgers
want to put Joe Kelly in that
tenuous position again,
Howie Kendrick nightmares
be darned. Or they could
hold their breath and give
the ball to hard-throwing
new kid Brusdar Graterol.
Anyway, in a year of the
new normal, the Dodgers’
relief situation is the same
old, same old.
When asked if he had
confidence in his bullpen
Thursday afternoon, man-
ager Dave Roberts even gave
the same old answer.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Mark Terrill Associated Press
KENLEY JANSEN had
eight blown saves in 2019,
and a 4.44 ERA in the
second half of the season.
“Very much so,” said
Roberts. “As far as quality of
arms, [I’m] really excited
about these guys.”
His excitement still fo-
cuses on Jansen, even
though last season was the
worst of his career, eight
blown saves in 41 chances
with a 4.44 ERA in the second
half. Jansen was so con-
cerned about his decline that
he ramped up his spring
training work and was pitch-
ing in February for one of the
few times in his career. So
even if he comes in by this
weekend, how can he be
ready in time?
“It’s different in sense of
position player versus
pitcher,” Roberts said, add-
ing, “I talked to Kenley [to-
day], he is in really good
spirits, feeling good, expect
to see him soon, he’s been
moving around, so I think
that he’ll be ready.”
But, seriously, how ready?
“Obviously every day off
the calendar we don’t see
them certainly makes it a
little bit more difficult, but
I’m still confident that we
have enough time,” Roberts
said.
And if and when Jansen
comes back, Roberts con-
firmed he will be the closer,
even though he wasn’t sum-
moned for that duty in their
biggest game last season.
“Kenley is our guy, I ex-
pect him to be back,” Rob-
erts said. “If it doesn’t hap-
pen for some unforeseen
reason, then we can certainly
adjust.”
It appears they are lean-
ing toward adjusting with the
veteran Treinen, although he
has scuffled a bit during
workouts, giving up a long
home run to Edwin Rios
while struggling during an
intrasquad game.
“I think he’s been working
on some things in the ’pen
with the coaches, but he’s
close,” said Roberts of the
new guy. “[He’s] somebody
who’s been around long
enough. There’s certainly
plenty of time for him to get
locked in.”
You want to really lock it
in? Make Julio Urias your
closer. Yeah, do that. Do it
now. The 23-year-old left-
hander is plenty valuable as a
fourth starter with David
Price opting out, but right
now he’s needed in the
bullpen more. He not only
has better career numbers as
a reliever, but last season out
of the bullpen he had a 2.01
ERA with 48 strikeouts and
19 walks in 491⁄3 innings.
“I think that there’s a
chance for anything, but
right now we see Julio as
being a starter for us,” said
Roberts, to which one
replies, c’mon!
Urias, with his hair dyed
blond, said he was willing to
make other drastic changes.
“When I was in spring
training they originally told
me I would have a spot in the
rotation, but I know things
change, whatever is best for
the team, I’ll respect it, I
know it’s a short season so I’ll
do whatever they need,” he
said through an interpreter.
He could be exactly what
they need.
In the meantime, during
his Zoom conference with
reporters Thursday, Roberts
was asked by ESPN’s Marly
Rivera to close his eyes and
imagine one moment he was
most anticipating. Roberts
actually closed his eyes and
played along.
“I’m looking forward to
winning that 11th game in the
postseason and popping
champagne,” he said.
Unless they figure out
their closer, he can keep
dreaming.
L AT I M E S . C O M
SOME NBA PLAYERS will be spending three months at the Wide World of Sports Complex in Walt
Disney World if they go deep into the playoffs. And teams want to make them comfortable.
They’re talking about practice?
Real games are weeks away, but five NBA teams get on court for first time since March
By Dan Woike
The Magic walked into a
carpeted hotel ballroom
Thursday in Orlando, Fla.,
outfitted with two NBA
courts and four baskets, and
made a little news.
Even though they never
played five-on-five, even
though they never did any
drills that required contact
and even though they didn’t
travel far to get there, the
Magic became the first NBA
team to hold an actual prac-
tice since the league shut
down March 11 because of the
global coronavirus outbreak.
“Honestly,” Orlando for-
ward Aaron Gordon said, “it
feels strange.”
After months of writing
and revising plans and nego-
tiating with the league’s play-
ers (and then doing it over
and over again), the NBA’s
ambitious bubble concept be-
gan in earnest, with Orlando,
Brooklyn, Utah, Washington
and Phoenix holding prac-
tices.
To get to this point, those
teams had to clear quaran-
tine in Orlando — approxi-
mately 36 hours — by passing
a pair of coronavirus tests, in-
cluding one submitted almost
immediately upon arrival.
The Clippers arrived in
Orlando without Kawhi
Leonard and Landry Shamet
on Wednesday night and are
Nashville also out of MLS tournament
Nine players test
positive for the
coronavirus, days
after Dallas’ removal.
By Kevin Baxter
ORLANDO, Fla. — Major
League Soccer withdrew a
second team from its MLS Is
Back tournament Thursday,
expelling Nashville SC after
nine players tested positive
for the coronavirus.
FC Dallas was withdrawn
from the tournament Mon-
day after 10 of its players
tested positive. Both teams
remain under quarantine at
Disney’s Swan and Dolphin
Resort, where MLS teams
and their staffs are staying
during the five-week event.
It remains unclear how or
when MLS will remove the
teams from the league’s pro-
tective bubble. Per the
league’s protocol, players who
test positive are to be con-
fined to the isolation wing of
the sprawling resort complex.
Nashville’s participation
in the tournament was trou-
bled from the start with test-
ing issues delaying the team’s
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He bounces back from
first missed cut to lead
Workday Charity
Open by one shot.
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DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin
Morikawa didn’t get rattled
by his first missed cut as a
pro or his first time playing
Muirfield Village.
Morikawa finally had a
forced weekend off two
scheduled to practice Friday
afternoon. The Lakers de-
parted Los Angeles on Thurs-
day and will practice for the
first time at Disney World on
Saturday.
They might not return un-
til mid-October. “Just left the
crib to head to the bubble ...
felt like I’m headed to do a bid
man!” LeBron James
tweeted.
Center Dwight Howard is
set to meet the Lakers in Or-
lando on Thursday night.
Guard Avery Bradley opted
out of the restart and assist-
ant coach Lionel Hollins
won’t attend because of
health concerns.
Clippers center Montrezl
Harrell is one of a handful of
players who have taken to so-
cial media to complain about
the food served while in quar-
antine. And Lakers guard Ra-
jon Rondo posted a photo of a
room at the Gran Destino,
where the Lakers and Clip-
pers are staying, and com-
pared it to a Motel 6.
Magic big man Nikola
Vucevic, who is inside the
bubble away from his son and
pregnant wife, said the condi-
tions are better than some so-
cial media posts make them
out to be. For a player who has
spent time in Wi-Fi-less
rooms with the Montenegro
men’s national team, it’s all
relative. “I’ve seen guys com-
plaining about the food and
everything,” Vucevic said.
trip to Orlando, Fla., by two
days. On Sunday, two players
tested positive, and a day lat-
er three others failed tests,
causing MLS to call off
Nashville’s game with Chi-
cago, which was to be the sec-
ond match of an opening-
night doubleheader Wednes-
day.
Four more players were
confirmed positive Tuesday,
forcing the team out of the
competition. In addition to
the 10 Dallas players and the
nine from Nashville, one play-
er from the Columbus Crew
also has tested positive since
arriving in Orlando.
“Due to the number of pos-
itive tests, the club has been
unable to train since arriving
in Orlando and would not be
able to play matches,” MLS
Commissioner Don Garber
said. “For every decision we
make in our return to play, the
well-being of our players,
staff, officials and all partici-
pants is our top priority.”
As a result of the with-
drawal of Dallas and Nash-
ville, MLS has reconfigured
the group stage of the tourna-
ment, moving the Chicago
Fire from Group A to Group B
to replace FC Dallas. The rest
of the group consists of San
weeks ago after 22 consecu-
tive cuts to start his PGA
Tour career, three short of
the standard set by Tiger
Woods. He bounced back
Thursday in the Workday
Charity Open with a seven-
under-par 65 for a one-shot
lead over Adam Hadwin.
It was a quiet day of work,
typical for the PGA Tour
with no spectators allowed
in the return from the
COVID-19 pandemic shut-
down. Morikawa goes about
his work quietly in any cir-
cumstances, and he was di-
“We just got here. It wasn’t
that bad. It was fine. It’s not
what we’re used to eating at
home, sure. But you also have
to consider they’re making
food for over 1,000 people. It’s
not easy to do that.”
Perspective is under-
standably hard to come by in
a situation that’s unlike any-
thing most NBA players have
ever gone through — poten-
tially more than three months
away from home, with the
possibility of family joining
Aug. 30.
“It’s a surreal feeling. I
woke up this morning and I
was in Utah. I didn’t know
where I was at,” Jazz guard
Mike Conley said. “It’s going
to take an adjustment period.
For us, we’ve got to kind of
think of it as a summer house
that we’re going to be working
out in. We’re going to be away
from people for a little bit. It is
unique because we’re going to
be in the same place for so
long and around the same
people in this bubble-type at-
mosphere. But it’s new for
everybody.”
That’s not to say early con-
cerns weren’t heard. Once
players clear quarantine, they
have access to in-room din-
ing, hotel restaurants and
some pre-approved off-cam-
pus delivery.
Player comfort might be
the second-biggest concern
for teams, obviously behind
safety. And some have al-
‘For every decision
we make in our
return to play, the
well-being of our
players, staff,
officials and all
participants is our
top priority.’
— Don Garber,
MLS commissioner,
after announcing
Nashville SC’s removal from
the MLS Is Back tournament
Jose, Seattle Sounders and
Vancouver.
Nashville was also in
Group A. Its withdrawal
leaves that group with four
teams: Orlando City, Miami,
New York City FC and the
Philadelphia Union.
The Athletic reported
Thursday that Nashville play-
ers took a vote and the over-
whelming majority wanted to
play in the tournament with-
out the nine players who
tested positive. That would
have been risky, though, since
aled in from the start of a
relatively calm and steamy
afternoon. His shot into the
par-five fifth settled three
feet away for eagle. All but
one of his birdie putts was in-
side 12 feet. The only setback
was a bogey from the fairway
on the 18th.
“It’s a beautiful track. It’s
a very tough course, obvi-
ously, but you just have to
map your way around it,”
Morikawa said. “You’ve got
to be really smart. If you’re
not in the fairway, you’ve got
to make sure you play smart.
‘It’s going to take an
adjustment period.
For us, we’ve got to
kind of think of it as
a summer house that
we’re going to be
MediaPunch/IPX
working out in.’
— M IKE C ONLEY, Utah Jazz guard
ready indeed made them-
selves comfortable: Clippers
guard Lou Williams set up a
space to record music in his
room. Teammate Patrick
Beverley brought gaming sys-
tems and even some calming
sage to burn.
And as teams had to trim
their traveling parties to 35
(in some cases cutting from
70-plus), emphasis was
placed on staffers who have
direct impact on players’
lives, physically and mentally.
“The value, first and fore-
most, was player health and
wellness,” Milwaukee Bucks
general manager Jon Horst
said. “Everything we decided
on was to try and make sure
the guys perform at the high-
est level, that they’re taken
care of, from soft tissue work,
to physical therapy work, to
nutrition, to their routines
and their vitamins for their
basketball reps and coaching.
Player health and wellness
drove every decision in terms
of who went to the group.”
Teams loaded up trucks to
get players as much as pos-
sible, whether it was an extra
weight room like the Jazz sent
to Florida or the photos off
the wall of the practice facil-
ity, something the Bucks are
bringing. “I don’t know if
there are 21 other teams that
are doing this or not, but
some of the details we’ve put
into ... we have photos every-
where,” Horst said. “We have
the team could have had more
positives or an injury, further
depleting the roster. Nash-
ville had not practiced in nine
days.
The competition opened
Wednesday with Orlando
City defeating Inter Miami 2-1,
making MLS the first profes-
sional male sports league in
the U.S. to play a competitive
game since March 12, when
the COVID-19 pandemic shut
down much of the country. On
that day, 1,323 Americans had
been diagnosed with the virus
and 38 people had died.
Today nearly twice as
many Americans test positive
for COVID-19 every hour, and
the U.S. is averaging nearly 15
times as many deaths per day.
Florida is the epicenter of the
new surge with the state’s sev-
en-day average of daily new
cases at 9,255, a jump of nearly
30% since last week. Florida
also had a spike in the per-
centage of positive COVID-19
tests at 18.4%.
Despite the surge, the
NBA is scheduled to resume
its season in Orlando later
this month.
“It seems premature to be
starting up sports again given
the rates of infection that are
spiraling out of control right
I was playing smart but I felt
good with my irons, so I was
able to attack some pins
when they were accessible.”
Most of the good scoring
came in the morning. Had-
win had five birdies over his
last eight holes for a 66. Nick
Taylor, a new father who
chose to stay home in Cana-
da for an extra month after
the tour resumed, had an
eagle at No. 11 and kept bo-
geys off his card for a 67. He
was joined by past Muirfield
Village winner Hideki Mat-
suyama.
F R I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
Rick Bowmer Associated Press
really intentional, specific
photos of our guys in different
actions and different things.
We have different sayings, dif-
ferent niceties that they’re
used to — all the things that
matter to our players in an op-
eration — we’ve tried to repli-
cate and take with us put
there.”
On the floor, teams are
taking different approaches.
The Jazz opened practice
with live action, Conley said.
The Magic won’t even start
playing three-on-three until
the second practice.
“We’re going to build it
up,” Orlando coach Steve Clif-
ford said. “We’ve spent a lot of
time talking about this. I
think we have a good plan.”
The NBA thinks it has a
good one too, one that gives
the NBA its best chance pos-
sible to finish its season in a
wildly unique way.
“It’s hard to organize big
events and for everything to
go perfect,” Vucevic said. “For
me, so far, it’s been good. And
I’m sure it’s going to get better
as we figure out all the little
glitches that will happen
along the way. I think it’s go-
ing to be fun, fun to be a part of
this — because we’re going to
talk about this forever.”
Woike reported from Los
Angeles. Times staff writers
Andrew Grief and
Broderick Turner
contributed.
now,” said Dr. Anne W. Ri-
moin, a professor of epidemi-
ology at UCLA and director of
the school’s Center for Global
and Immigrant Health. “The
state’s numbers are moving in
the wrong direction with no
sign of abating.”
Dr. Zachary Binney, an ep-
idemiologist at Oxford Col-
lege of Emory University, says
the next week could be key.
“What I’m really watching
out for is any series of cases in
the bubble outside of Dallas
and Nashville among teams
that have been there at least
five to seven days,” he said.
“That would suggest spread
of the virus inside the bubble
— rather than just single-
team outbreaks or individual
cases introduced from the
outside — which would be a
signal to me that things need
to be shut down. I’m holding
my breath at least through
the end of this week or so.”
In games Thursday,
Philadelphia defeated New
York City FC 1-0 as Union
players wore jerseys with the
names of people killed by po-
lice; New England beat Mon-
treal 1-0.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
Workday Charity
Open
FIRST-ROUND LEADERS
Muirfield Village Golf Club
Dublin, Ohio
Par 72 | 7,456 yards
Out In Total
Morikawa 32 33 65 -7
Hadwin 31 35 66 -6
Matsuyama 32 35 67 -5
Taylor 35 32 67 -5
Z. Johnson 34 33 67 -5
Wise 32 35 67 -5
Other notables
Spieth 38 34 72 E
Mickelson 32 41 73 +1
Koepka 33 41 74 +2
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Virtual
track
meet
strange
but true
American Felix shines
at Inspiration Games
held simultaneously at
seven global venues.
By David Wharton
Three runners take their
place in the starting blocks
for a hurdles race; two are
bathed in sunshine, the other
shadowed by gloomy skies.
A pole vaulter makes her
winning attempt in a stadium
so empty and quiet, you can
hear her say “Yes” as she
clears the bar.
A world-record time in the
men’s 200 meters has to be
scratched after officials dis-
cover the winner started 15
meters closer to the finish
line.
The Weltklasse Zurich In-
spiration Games were more
than a bit unusual.
The international compe-
tition featured world-class
talent in seven venues around
the globe, from Mt. San Anto-
nio College in Walnut to
Zurich, Switzerland. Most of
the athletes ran and jumped
by themselves, but competed
against one another by way of
a high-tech virtual format.
Each of the eight events on
the program Thursday fea-
tured three athletes, with
three teams entered in the
women’s 300 relay. In most
cases, thousands of miles and
several time zones separated
the opponents in a given race.
Starting guns fired simul-
taneously in different venues
as television engineers ma-
nipulated the feeds so viewers
could watch, for instance,
three sprinters go side-by-
side on a split screen. Athletes
crossed the finish line without
knowing if they had won.
“It is a good experience,”
French pole vaulter Valentin
Lavillenie said. “But it is very
strange.”
In addition to Mt. SAC and
Switzerland, there were ven-
ues in France, Sweden, Portu-
gal, the Netherlands and
Bradenton, Fla.
Six-time Olympic champi-
on Allyson Felix was a big win-
ner Thursday, taking first in
the women’s 150 and anchor-
ing her U.S. team to victory in
the 300 relay. Pedro Pablo
Pichardo of Portugal upset
four-time world champion
Christian Taylor of the U.S. in
the triple jump. American
Sam Kendricks, a two-time
world champion, won the
men’s pole vault.
American Noah Lyles ap-
peared to shatter Usain Bolt’s
world record in the 200 with
an 18.90 clocking until officials
realized that — competing
alone in Bradenton — he
started from the wrong line
on the track. Christophe
Lemaitre of France was
bumped into first place.
“You can’t be playing with
my emotions like that,” Lyles
tweeted.
There was no risk of a mix-
up in the men’s 100, the only
event that had all three ath-
letes in the same place. Andre
De Grasse, a three-time
Olympic medalist from Cana-
da, pulled away for the win.
As with others in the meet,
De Grasse was relieved to
compete after months of
COVID-19 lockdown, saying:
“I’m glad to come out here
and get a run in.”
Weather was a variable in
some races, with sunny skies
over Southern California —
where Felix ran — but cool,
gray conditions at other
places.
Shifting winds blew across
the Florida track. Most of the
venues — except for Karlstad,
Sweden, where scattered on-
lookers used noisemakers —
were quiet.
“It feels sort of like prac-
tice,” Felix said. “It’s hard to
challenge yourself. That’s the
big thing running solo.”
For all the oddities, and
one major glitch, the meet
came off as planned. There
were no problems with the
timing.
Television viewers might
have found it difficult to iden-
tify a leader on the split
screen, but the broadcast
went smoothly enough.
When organizers first ap-
proached Lea Sprunger, who
took second to American
Georganne Moline in the
women’s 300 hurdles, she re-
called thinking: “How are
they going to do it?” On
Thursday, she got an answer.
“I was really curious,” said
the Swiss star. “And it actu-
ally ended pretty well.”
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The Big Ten Conference
announced Thursday it will
not play nonconference
games in football and several
other sports this fall, the most
dramatic move yet by a power
conference because of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The league cited medical
advice in making its decision
and added ominously that the
plan would be applied only “if
the conference is able to par-
ticipate in fall sports.”
“As we continue to focus on
how to play this season in a
safe and responsible way,
based on the best advice of
medical experts, we are also
prepared not to play in order
to ensure the health, safety
and wellness of our student-
athletes should the circum-
stances so dictate,” the league
said.
The Atlantic Coast Con-
ference, meanwhile, is putting
fall competitions on hold until
at least Sept. 1 due to the pan-
demic, a move that won’t af-
fect football as of now.
The California community
college board of directors
overwhelmingly approved
shifting all sports, including
football, to the spring season.
“I know I speak for the en-
tire CCCAA Board that mov-
ing fall athletics to spring 2021
is a huge disappointment,”
said Erika Endrijonas,
board chair and president of
Pasadena City College. “How-
ever, the need to keep our stu-
dent-athletes and the amaz-
ing coaches and athletic train-
ers who work with them safe
was simply the only option
available with the virus spiral-
ing out of control across the
state.”
ETC.
Woods to return
at Memorial
Tiger Woods announced
on Twitter he will play next
week at the Memorial, a tour-
nament he has won a record
five times, as he goes after his
record 83rd victory on the
PGA Tour.
“I’ve missed going out and
competing with the guys and
can’t wait to get back out
there,” said Woods, who last
played a PGA Tour event Feb.
16 at the Genesis Invitational,
where he shot 76-77 on the
weekend at Riviera Country
Club to finish in last place.
USC and men’s golf coach
Chris Zambri have agreed to
“mutually part ways” after 14
years, the university an-
nounced Thursday. Zambri,
who also played golf at USC
from 1989 to 1993, coached the
Trojans to three Pac-12 titles,
three NCAA regional victories
and a runner-up finish at the
NCAA championships in
2008.
— Ryan Kartje
Austin Cindric held off
Chase Briscoe to earn his
first Xfinity Series victory of
the season in the Shady Rays
200 at Kentucky Speedway. A
spin by Harrison Burton
with five laps remaining set up
the overtime restart, which
lined up Cindric on the out-
side, while Briscoe took the in-
side lane. Briscoe slid through
Turns 1 and 2, losing ground
and allowing Cindric to sail to
the win. Riley Herbst held on
to finish second,
The New Jersey Devils
hired Lindy Ruff as coach
and removed Tom Fitzger-
ald’s interim tag to give him
the full-time general manager
job.
New England Patriots re-
ceiver Julian Edelman said
he hopes recent anti-Semitic
social media posts by Phila-
delphia Eagles receiver De-
Sean Jackson can be a teach-
ing moment, not just for him
but others as well.
“I know he said some ugly
things, but I do see an oppor-
tunity to have a conversation,”
Edelman said in the video.
“I’m proud of my Jewish herit-
age and for me it’s not just
about religion, it’s about com-
munity and culture as well.
There’s no room for anti-Sem-
itism in this world.”
A former Ohio State stu-
dent health director is facing
potential discipline from the
state medical board for know-
ing but failing to report at
least three sexual misconduct
complaints in the mid-1990s
about Richard Strauss, the
late team doctor now accused
of abusing young men at the
university for two decades.
The citation makes former
director Ted Grace the first
individual to face such action
in the wake of allegations that
Ohio State officials turned a
blind eye to Strauss’ behavior
for years.
North Carolina State said
five people tied to Wolfpack
sports have tested positive for
the coronavirus.
A spokeman said the
school tested 315 athletes,
coaches and staff starting
May 29.
NFL teams will be prohib-
ited from postgame interac-
tions within six feet of each
other, which means players
won’t be allowed to exchange
jerseys after games as part of
the guidelines to help limit the
spread of the coronavirus.
The Brooklyn Nets filled
one of the openings on their
roster by signing veteran
Michael Beasley as a substi-
tute player.
Mel Hein Jr., a pole vault-
er at USC who set the world
indoor record of 16 feet, 5 3⁄4
inches in 1965 at the Cow Pal-
ace in San Francisco and went
on to win two City Section
girls’ track championships
and one boys’ title as coach at
Woodland Hills Taft, died
Wednesday in Reno after a
brain infection, according to
his son, Gary. He was 79.
Hein was the son of Hall of
Fame football player Mel
Hein Sr., who played 15 years
for the New York Giants and
was an eight-time All-Pro as a
center and linebacker.
—Eric Sondheimer
10 p.m. 2019, World Series, Game 1, Washington at TV: MLB Network The California Horse
Houston Racing Board has called an
emergency meeting for Fri-
BASKETBALL
day to discuss the possibility
11 a.m. The Basketball Tournament, quarterfinal, Brotherly TV: ESPN of shutting down Los Alami-
Love vs. Golden Eagles tos Race Course temporarily
1 p.m. The Basketball Tournament, quarterfinal, House of TV: ESPN in light of a rise in horse
’Paign vs. Red Scare deaths.
8 p.m. 1988, NBA Finals, Game 7, Detroit at Lakers TV: SpecSN Since May 26, nine horses
COLLEGE FOOTBALL have died racing and/or
training at the Orange
10 p.m. 2017, Pac-12 championship, Stanford vs. USC TV: Pac-12
County track. Twenty-one
GOLF horses in total have died
Noon Workday Charity Open, second round TV: Golf since the season started
2 p.m. American Century Championship, first round TV: NBCSN Dec. 27.
HORSE RACING This will be the first
meeting called under ex-
Noon America’s Day at the Races TV: Prime panded powers given to the
7 p.m. The Quarters, Los Alamitos TV: TVG CHRB by the legislature last
SOCCER year after the rise in deaths
10:30 a.m. Spain, Real Sociedad vs. Granada TV: bein1, beinES at Santa Anita. Before SB
469, the CHRB would have
11:15 a.m. Portugal, Sporting CP vs. Santa Clara TV: GOLTV
to give 10 days’ public notice
1 p.m. Spain, Real Madrid vs. Alaves TV: bein1, beinES before it could hold a meet-
1:30 p.m. Portugal, Pacos de Ferreira vs. Braga TV: GOLTV ing regarding the suspen-
6 p.m. MLS tournament, group stage, San Jose vs. TV: ESPN, ESPND sion of a racing license. Now,
Seattle FC it can be done on a day’s no-
TENNIS tice.
“The CHRB was con-
8 a.m. UTR Pro Series Liga MAPFRE, Day 1 TV: Tennis
cerned with what seemed to
be an uptick in equine fatali-
ties,” said Scott Chaney, exe-
cutive director. “We thought
WEEKEND SOCCER ON TV it was worthwhile to have a
The top televised soccer games from Europe this weekend discussion on how to de-
feature a Barcelona-Real Madrid battle for the top spot in crease those numbers and
the La Liga standings. In England, longtime rivals Totten- reverse the trend.”
ham and Arsenal meet in a neighborhood derby in which Chaney filed a petition
little more than bragging rights will be at stake. for the meeting at 9:25 a.m.
Thursday, five minutes be-
La Liga: Real Madrid (23-3-8) has won seven straight games fore the deadline to hold a
since soccer resumed in Spain last month, with goalkeeper 9:30 a.m. teleconference on
Thibaut Courtois giving up just a goal in the last six matches. Friday.
While that has lifted Real over Barcelona and into first place “Nothing is predeter-
in the league race, it hasn’t been able to shake Barca, which mined, there is no fait ac-
lies just a point back. Real will try to extend that lead when it compli as to what the board
plays host to Deportivo Alaves (9-17-8) on Friday (beIN may do,” Chaney said. “They
Sports, 1 p.m. PDT), but anything short of a victory would can do nothing, to putting
open the way for Barcelona (23-5-7) to move back into first restrictions on them, to clos-
with a win or draw at Real Valladolid (8-12-15) on Saturday ing them down.”
(beIN Sports, 10:30 a.m. PDT). Barca’s Lionel Messi, who Chaney, who said he de-
leads the league in goals and assists, has scored or set up 11 of cided on the emergency
his team’s 17 goals over the last 10 games. One more assist will meeting after consulting
make him just the second player in league history with 20 in a with chairman Greg Ferraro
season. and vice chair Oscar Gonza-
les, is not a member of the
EPL: A chance to grab a European tournament berth is likely six-person board. He said he
beyond Arsenal and Tottenham, but records mean little has not discussed it with any
heading into Sunday’s North London Derby (NBCSN, Tele- other board members. The
mundo, 8:30 a.m. PDT). Eighth-place Arsenal (12-8-14) is CHRB has to make a deter-
one spot and one point ahead of the Spurs (13-11-10), with the mination within five days of
teams playing to draws in their last two meetings. But the special meeting, but also
Arsenal is unbeaten in its last four EPL games, having could do it immediately.
allowed just a goal, and Tottenham, which will be at home, Los Alamitos did not im-
has won just two of its last seven. mediately respond to a re-
— Kevin Baxter quest for comment.
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SARAH (Cristin Milioti, who all but steals this delightful rom-com) and newfound pal Nyles (costar/producer Andy Samberg) have nothing but time on their hands.

STUART
CORNFELD,
1952 -2020
He sure
could
produce
laughs
By Sonaiya Kelley
Stuart Cornfeld, who
produced “Zoolander,”
“Dodgeball” and “Tropic
Thunder” with Ben Stiller,
has died of cancer. He was 67.
His death on June 26 was
confirmed by his actress
friend Liliana Greenfield-
Sanders and others on so-
cial media. “He was the fun-
niest person on the planet,”
she wrote. “I will miss him
terribly.”
The Hollywood native
was born in 1952 and gradu-
ated from the American
Film Institute in 1975. After
working with Anne Bancroft
on two projects at AFI, he
was introduced to her hus-
band, Mel Brooks, and be-
came his assistant on the
1977 film “High Anxiety.”
Cornfeld went on to work
with the couple on several
more projects and got his
first executive producing
credit on Brooks’ 1980 film
MOVIE REVIEW
End to
Another day
music’s
boys’
... in paradise? club?
In ‘Groundhog’-riffing ‘Palm Springs,’ desert
Recording Academy
invites 2,300 to its
Grammy-voting ranks
wedding attendees do the time warp again to better reflect biz.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
BY JUSTIN CHANG FILM CRITIC >>> Whether through mere coincidence or some eerie
disturbance in the universe, there are two new movies this week featuring characters who More than 2,300 people
in the music industry — half
have been cursed to live forever. of them women and half
One of them is “The Old Guard,” a moody existential thriller about a group of warriors who under age 40 — have been
die frequently but always come back to life. The one up for review today is “Palm Springs,” a invited to join the organiza-
tion behind the Grammy
breezily entertaining romantic comedy about a pair of misfits who die frequently but always Awards, which have been
come back to life. I smell a promising crossover sequel — who wouldn’t want to see Charlize frequently criticized in re-
Theron take Andy Samberg on a boozing-and-killing spree? — though it would require a few cent years as a bastion of
old-white-guy values.
conceptual tweaks. Time passes swiftly in “The Old Guard,” sweeping up its characters in the The Recording Academy
inexorable forward march of history. By contrast, the same day repeats itself again and again announced Thursday that it
had offered membership to
in “Palm Springs,” trapping us in a desert getaway where life has come to a sun-drenched
more than 2,300 “estab-
standstill. lished music professionals
There are admittedly worse places to spend limbo, as Nyles (Samberg) and Sarah (Cristin from wide-ranging back-
grounds, genres and disci-
Milioti) will soon discover. Neither one of them is thrilled to be at the Palm Springs destina- plines” — a significant
tion wedding of Sarah’s angelic younger sister, Tala (Camila Mendes). The black sheep of her uptick from 2019, when
family, Sarah drinks and bumbles her way through the nuptials, only to find herself thrown about 1,300 musicians, tech-
nicians and executives were
off-balance — in ways both charming and mildly annoying — by Nyles, a [See ‘Springs,’ E6] invited to join.
In a statement, the acad-
emy said the new class is 48%
female and 37% from “tra-
ditionally underrepresent-

How women
“The Elephant Man.” ed communities,” including
In the early days of his ca- Black, Latino and Asian
reer, Cornfeld produced American people. That com-
“National Lampoon’s Euro- pares to a current member-
pean Vacation” (1985), David ship of around 21,000 that
Cronenberg’s “The Fly”
(1986), Steven Soderbergh’s
“Kafka” (1991) and Gui-
llermo del Toro’s “Mimic”
of ‘P-Valley’ fly the academy says is 26% fe-
male and 25% nonwhite.
“It’s really a new era for us
and a time of transformative

high and true

(1997). He also had bit parts
in several movies including
“Fast Times at Ridgemont
High,” in which he played
the Pirate King of Captain
Hook Fish ‘n Chips.
Cornfeld was introduced
[See Cornfeld, E2]
‘Made in L.A.’
is being remade
The Hammer biennial
is being retooled for
the COVID era, eyeing
September dates. E2
Margo Price
courts ‘Rumors’
The country-rock
singer tries a new
sound. Is it ’70s L.A.?
A conversation. E3
Comics ................... E4-5
What’s on TV .......... E6
Creator Katori Hall
spotlights dancers’
artistry in the Starz
adaptation of her play.
By Ashley Lee
If you’re wondering what
the ‘P’ in ‘P-Valley’ stands
for, look no further than the
title of Katori Hall’s 2015
play: “Pussy Valley.” Starz
urged the playwright-
turned-showrunner to ab-
breviate the name of her new
series, which debuts Sun-
day.
“We were gonna go for it,
Diane Zhao but when conversations
“IT’S THE story of the underdog in American soci- started happening between
ety,” says Katori Hall of strip-club series “P-Valley.” the network and the cable
change,” Kelley Purcell, the
academy’s senior director of
member outreach, said. “It’s
important for us to not only
be reflective of what’s hap-
pening in the music industry
carriers, they were basically but also to be a leader and to
saying they were not going to [See Grammys, E2]
list the show if it was in the ti-
tle,” Hall explained. “So it
was actually censorship on
the part of the carrier, not
the network.
“Starz made a business
decision: ‘We don’t want to
make a great show and not
have people see it because
people are afraid of this
word,’ ” she continued. “But
that’s just a reflection of
where we are as a culture
about anything that is con-
nected to women and the fe-
male body. Sure, it’s not the
most elegant of words, but
it’s raw and it’s real.”
The same can be said of Frazer Harrison Getty Images
“P-Valley,” which, though tit- TYLER, the Creator has
illating, presents the stars of decried Grammy’s view
[See ‘P-Valley,’ E6] of hip-hop and R&B.
E2 FR I DAY , J U LY 10 , 2 0 2 0
KAHLIL JOSEPH describes his “BLKNWS” (2018-ongoing) as “a two-channel fugitive newscast” to be broadcast where people gather.
Fresh vision for ‘Made in L.A.’
The Hammer pivots
on indoor installations
for its biennial, adds
Huntington displays.
By Deborah Vankin
The Hammer Museum’s
fifth biennial, “Made in L.A.
2020: a version,” will be just
that — a departure from
what was initially planned for
this year.
The exhibition — targeted
for an unspecified date in
September when the Ham-
mer expects to reopen follow-
ing its closure in mid-March
— is being retooled in re-
sponse to the COVID-19 cri-
sis.
“Reality feels like a ver-
sion of itself right now,” co-
curator Lauren Mackler said.
“So the version-ing extends
to the exhibition. The title
proved to be sort of pre-
scient.”
“Made in L.A.,” this year
spotlighting 30 emerging and
underrepresented local art-
ists, always has reflected the
pressing issues of the day
through painting, sculpture,
photography, performance,
textile, multimedia, assem-
blage and installation. Pre-
senting live performance
during a pandemic will be a
particular challenge.
The free exhibition, which
originally was set to open
June 7 and which will for the
first time also take place at
the Huntington Library, Art
Museum, and Botanical Gar-
dens in San Marino, includes
five performance works,
most meant to take place
multiple times. Curators
Mackler and Myriam Ben
Salah, along with assistant
curator of performance Ike-
chukwu Onyewuenyi, had
planned to bundle perform-
ances into three weekends —
one each in June, July and
August. Performances now
will be spaced out so as not to
draw large crowds. They also
will be viewable virtually on
both museums’ websites.
“The artists are really tak-
ing part in the conversations
around documentation,”
Ben Salah said. “We’re not
Stuart Cornfeld, a producer of laughs
[Cornfeld, from E1]
to Stiller through a mutual
friend, writer Jerry Stahl,
whom Stiller portrayed in
the 1998 indie drama “Per-
manent Midnight.” “Stuart
had met Jerry at the Holly-
wood YMCA,” Stiller said.
“Stuart recognized him and
just came up to him and
started talking because he
liked his writing and then
they became really good
friends.”
At the time, Stiller was
working toward launching a
production company and at
Stahl’s behest had lunch
with Cornfeld. The two im-
mediately hit it off. In 1999
they launched Red Hour
Films, under which they en-
joyed success with the come-
dies “Zoolander” (2001),
“Duplex” (2003), “Starsky &
Hutch” (2004), “Dodgeball”
(2004), “Tenacious D in the
Pick of Destiny” (2006),
“Blades of Glory” (2007) and
NICOLA L’S “La Chambre en fourrure” (1969) will
be re-created for “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.”
just placing a camera in front
of the performer and letting
it roll but thinking about
lighting, cinematography,
angles and editing. It should
live online as a proper object
in and of itself.” Two months
before the exhibition open-
ing, many of the artists are
reworking their perform-
ances.
Aria Dean had planned to
present a four-person play
inside a two-way-mirrored
cube, with performers wear-
ing body cameras to capture
their point of view. The artist
was going to broadcast ed-
ited footage on screens
above the cube. She has
since reinvented the piece as
a one-person, three-episode
“television play,” recorded in
advance without an audi-
ence — a quarantine-like en-
vironment that’s been en-
riched by the challenges,
Mackler said.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gor-
don’s performance was
meant to take place in a two-
“Tropic Thunder” (2008),
the last of which earned an
Academy Award nomina-
tion for Robert Downey Jr.
and won best comedy at the
Broadcast Critics Film
Awards and the Hollywood
Film Awards.
“Someone [described
him as] a great companion
to experience life with,”
Stiller said. “He always had
an interesting take on some-
thing. I always wanted to
show him a script or hear
what he’d say about a scene
because he’d always have a
point of view that you just
knew would get to the meat
of the issue. And writers
loved him because he was a
really good writer himself.
His emails were kind of leg-
endary. He wrote amazingly
funny, great emails.
“He was just a good
friend. He was such a smart
and funny guy who really en-
joyed doing what he did and
convention of the fourth wall,
as well as concepts that seem
prescient now, such as “viral-
ity and viruses and political
horror,” Ben Salah said.
“Lots of artists were al-
ready dealing with the condi-
tions we’re living in now,” she
added. “But some of the
works have evolved to ac-
knowledge the new condi-
tions in which they’ll be pre-
sented. We were lucky to be
working with artists showing
a level of resilience and flex-
ibility.”
Justen LeRoy, who works
under the name SON., is pre-
senting a biweekly podcast
dealing with Black male
identity. Some of the content
will come from a conversa-
tion series held in the back of
a South L.A. barbershop. It
was intended to be listened
to as artgoers traveled be-
tween “Made in L.A.” venues.
Now a percentage of the au-
dience likely will be listening
at home, and the content will
be more fluid. Instead of re-
cording about six hours of
the podcast in advance and
launching segments
From Nicola L Estate throughout the summer, the
artist plans to record about
half of the content as the
summer goes on, to be re-
room structure inside of sponsive to current events.
which different materials — Artist Kahlil Joseph, co-
felt or PVC curtains, for ex- founder of L.A.'s Under-
ample — manipulated the ground Museum, will pre-
sound. Performers were to sent “BLKNWS,” a news feed
circulate through the rooms, spotlighting original video
mixing with the crowd while footage and a mix of found
vocalizing AI-manipulated film clips, music videos, aca-
speech. Now the perform- demic lectures and other im-
ance will feature just one per- ages. It was supposed to be
son in a mask, with only four broadcast at locations where
audience members at any people congregate, where
given time. And the artist, they would stumble on it un-
for whom materials are a expectedly, such as restau-
point of inquiry, is designing rants and hair salons. That’s
a custom mask for the per- still the plan, but with busi-
former. ness closings and changes to
Ligia Lewis is rechore- where people congregate, lo-
ographing her “Deader Than cations are more limited.
Dead” dance to incorporate With COVID cases spik-
masks and social distancing. ing again, “It’s very touch-
The work, Ben Salah said, and-go,” Onyewuenyi said.
“was already about dancers “Kahlil wants to focus on
dying onstage, so it reso- places that have a communi-
nates with the current ty ethos, spaces connected to
times.” the Underground Museum
This year’s exhibition and BLKNWS. It’s a matter
highlights conceptual of do they still have foot traf-
throughlines in the artists’ fic? And that’s changing day
work, including entertain- by day.”
ment and the theater-film Immersive works also
Noam Galai Getty Images
MOVIE PRODUCER Stuart Cornfeld in 2016. His
credits include “Tropic Thunder” and “The Fly.”
was incredibly good at it. He for interesting art, had a
could be really, really incisive really eclectic group of
but also kind and human. He friends and had a super
loved movies. He was a cin- dark, cynical sense of humor
ephile but loved weird, ob- that was always so spot on. ...
scure movies. That was his He had a really great sense of
thing. He was always looking the irony in show business.”
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
From Kahlil Joseph
presented challenges.
A re-creation of the late
French-Moroccan artist
Nicola L’s 1969 sculptural in-
stallation, “La Chambre en
fourrure” (“The Fur Room”),
is a freestanding structure
covered with purple fur. It
features pockets into which
viewers can slide their faces
and arms, “wearing” the
work as if it were a costume.
That’s no longer possible.
The curators are working
with the artist’s estate to
“neutralize the piece, make it
inactive,” Mackler said. “It’s
not what was intended, but it
makes it more poignant be-
cause it highlights the limita-
tions of this moment.”
Writer-curator Sabrina
Tarasoff built an immersive
haunted-house installation
with a narrow maze to be
shown at the Huntington.
The work — a nod to the
Venice literary arts center
Beyond Baroque and its ’70s
and ’80s poetry scene —
hasn’t changed physically
but now will accommodate
only one visitor at a time.
Both the Hammer and
the Huntington are imple-
menting safety precautions
similar to other museums
around the U.S., including
timed ticketing with online
reservations, reduced ca-
pacity to improve social dis-
tancing, floor markers to re-
duce cross-traffic, hand sani-
tizer stations and the man-
datory wearing of masks.
The Huntington — which re-
opened outdoor areas to the
public on July 1 and will re-
open indoor galleries incre-
mentally starting in Septem-
ber — instituted one-way
garden pathways to avoid
congestion.
But whether the biennial
— and the Hammer — actu-
ally opens in September is a
question mark. The date
may seem overly optimistic
to those fearing a second
wave of coronavirus infec-
tions this fall.
“We’re not ready to talk
about a second wave when
the first isn’t over,” museum
spokesperson Nancy Lee
said. “We’re just being super
cautious. If we have to push
back an opening, we would.
Safety is a priority.”
Toward the end of his ca-
reer, Cornfeld produced
Jack Black’s 2017 film “The
Polka King” and did work in
television. He was awarded
the Franklin J. Schaffner
Alumni Medal by AFI in 2013
and most recently produced
the documentary “Have a
Good Trip: Adventures in
Psychedelics” for Netflix.
“I always felt, for him, the
movies and the art of it came
before the business,” Stiller
recalled. “That was the way
he worked. After we stopped
working together because
he was battling cancer for a
few years, he had no self-pity.
He never wanted to talk
about it, he just wanted to
talk about things that were
interesting to him. And so
we’d go have lunch together,
go to the movies, just talk
about life.”
Cornfeld is survived by
his ex-wife, Johanna Went,
and sisters Lois and Ellen.
A new
era for
music
group
[Grammys, from E1]
set a positive example for the
music industry.”
The effort, which is being
headed by Purcell and the
academy’s first chief diver-
sity and inclusion officer,
Valeisha Butterfield Jones,
comes after a bruising few
months in which the organ-
ization was described by
its former leader, Deborah
Dugan, as perpetuating a
toxic boys club culture.
Dugan, the academy’s
first female chief executive,
was ousted in a scandal in-
volving charges of bias and
vote-rigging just weeks be-
fore January’s annual Gram-
mys ceremony. Her interim
replacement, Harvey Mason
Jr., has said that he’ll stay in
the job at least through May,
in part because the search for
a permanent chief executive
has been hampered by the
COVID-19 pandemic.
In a dramatic speech at a
well-attended party the night
before the Grammys, veteran
producer and executive Sean
“Diddy” Combs complained
to a roomful of insiders that
the academy had long disre-
spected Black musicians and
gave the group a year — until
the 2021 ceremony — to “get
this s— together.” Other art-
ists such as Drake, Frank
Ocean and Tyler, the Creator
have described what they
view as the Grammys’ sys-
temic marginalization of hip-
hop and R&B.
Butterfield Jones, who
took up her post in May, said
she welcomes the criticism.
“I believe that honesty
and transparency is the only
way that we’re going to build
trust, drive change and do
the necessary work,” said the
executive, who formerly over-
saw inclusion initiatives at
Google.
Butterfield Jones said the
academy based its targets for
the new class on U.S. demo-
graphic data but added that
it’s working to compile more
specific information about
the makeup of the music
business, which is dominated
creatively by people of color.
“The goal for us moving
forward — and this is gonna
take some time — is to reflect
the available talent pool in
the music industry,” she said.
New members were in-
vited to join as part of what
the academy calls its “com-
munity-driven and peer-re-
viewed membership model,”
in which hopefuls must sub-
mit two “strong recom-
mendations” from peers in
the business. And what
about potential members
who might not have raised
their hands? Purcell said the
group extends “supplemen-
tal invitations” to “make sure
we’re reaching all qualified
people, even if they haven’t
submitted.”
In 2018, according to Bill-
board, only about 20% of
those invited actually joined
the academy — one indica-
tion of the perception prob-
lem Combs referred to. Pur-
cell said she couldn’t esti-
mate how many would ac-
cept the academy’s
invitation but added, “I’m
just happy that the new
member class signifies prog-
ress for us in terms of helping
our membership demo-
graphics move forward.”
Asked about any resist-
ance to those shifts among
the academy’s old guard,
Butterfield Jones said she
hadn’t encountered any. “In
fact, I’ve been met with noth-
ing but appetite, desire and
motivation to change — and I
mean that,” she said.
Yet Dugan voiced similar
optimism before she was
fired in what many have de-
scribed as a culture clash.
In response, Butterfield
pointed to a series of Gram-
mys rule changes the acade-
my announced last month
(including doing away with
the controversial term “ur-
ban” in one category) as
proof that it’s moving swiftly
this time.
“I’ve done this work for 20
years, and I would not have
joined [the academy], quite
frankly, had I not seen the sig-
nals of an organization that’s
ready for change,” she said. “I
always follow the data.”
The new members have
until Sept. 15 to accept their
invitations if they want to
take part in the voting proc-
ess for next year’s Grammys
ceremony, which Mason Jr.
recently told The Times will
take place on Jan. 31 in a form
yet to be determined because
of the pandemic.
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Ready for her COVID comeback

Americana singer
Margo Price is eager
to play her new album
live — when it’s safe.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC

With her wise and tender

new album finally out on Fri-
day, Margo Price woke up the
other morning determined to
focus on the positive.
Then she went to the gro-
cery store.
“I drove to this one I like
downtown — it’s pretty clean,
and everybody there wears a
mask,” the country-rock
singer said by phone from her
home outside Nashville. “But
coming back up Broadway,
there were a bunch of dumb
tourists wandering around
with straw hats and fanny
packs and no masks on, like
they don’t have any idea
what’s going on.”
You can understand her
distress: In March, Price, 37,
pushed her third LP, “That’s
How Rumors Get Started,”
from its original May 8 re-
lease date after her husband
and guitarist, Jeremy Ivey,
contracted COVID-19. (Price
suspects that Ivey — with
whom she has a 10-year-old
son, Judah, and a 1-year-old
daughter, Ramona — picked
up the virus in late February
in New York when the couple
played the Tibet House bene-
fit concert at Carnegie Hall.)
Caring for Ivey and their kids Bobbi Rich
put the demands of promo- MARGO PRICE says she’ll be “labeled country until I die,” even though she stretches out toward a ’70s-rock vibe on her latest album.
tion far from Price’s mind.
Even now, with Ivey having preach,” she sings over fuzzy like every girl. have separate radio stations, good. I’m not really worried state] 65! Gotta go.
recovered — Price herself was electric guitar in the homily- you know? Even now, some- about losing a few fans. I
asymptomatic — she’s liable ish “I’d Die for You,” “Some Did you discover rock and times it feels like people want think I’m gaining an equal You’re an avowed Bob Dylan
to steer a conversation away learn hate that others teach.” country at the same time? to take a side. But these amount. And I’m seeing fan. What do you think of his
from music toward the To cut “That’s How Ru- My grandmother always country purists can be so some of my peers, maybe new album?
alarming scarcity of Ten- mors...,” Price’s debut for played country music. And nauseating. You don’t like they posted a black square on Somebody said it’s like
nessee’s intensive-care beds. Loma Vista Recordings after my mom listened to the Aretha Franklin? Some- their page, maybe they’re everybody’s snowed in in a
“I think the s—’s about to a stint on Jack White’s Third radio stations that were thing’s wrong with you. Be- hiding stuff in their [Insta- cabin in the middle of no-
hit the fan,” she said of the Man label, the Illinois native playing what was current. cause of the way that I sound, gram] Stories: “Oh, I’m doing where and Bob’s like, “I got
pandemic — and at a mo- convened a crack studio Hearing Tom Petty and the I’m gonna be labeled country something.” But it’s obvious these songs, guys.” We were
ment, of course, when nation- band that included drummer Heartbreakers, that spoke to until I die. It doesn’t matter who doesn’t wanna mess up just waiting on pins and
wide protests against racial James Gadson (known for me more than the Disney what instruments I put be- their page of photos with needles, and it’s such a gift
injustice are further elevat- his work with Bill Withers boy-band era, which was hind it. It could be a fiddle or some blunt truth that every- right now. The night that
ing America’s temperature. and Marvin Gaye), bassist kind of a painful time. My it could be a synth, and peo- body needs right now. “Murder Most Foul” came
On Instagram, Price has Pino Palladino (the Who, dad listened to a lot of classic ple are gonna be like, “Well, out, my husband and I were
been alternating photos of D’Angelo) and keyboardist rock; sometimes it would she’s country.” What did you make of the sitting outside getting drunk
herself wearing a mask — “I Benmont Tench of Tom Pet- drive me nuts, but that’s fact that country singers by the fire and we were just
can’t believe that’s become a ty’s Heartbreakers. where I heard the Rolling And obviously because Chase Rice and Chris Jan- blown away. I bet I’ve listened
political act,” she said — with Together they crafted a Stones and the Beach Boys you’re white. son recently played shows to the record 20 times, easy.
posts in support of Black polished but deeply felt and all those bands. I struggled with that for a with little apparent thought It’s a little unhealthy, the
Lives Matter, including one sound that leaves behind long time. A Black performer about the spread of COVID? obsession.
marking what would have some of Price’s earlier retro- How did the members of like Etta James — that’s how It’s completely irresponsi-
been the 27th birthday of the country stylings in favor of a your live band react when I wanted to sound. But ble. And it’s going to set live Are you inspired by an artist
late Breonna Taylor. ’70s-rock vibe to which Tench you said you were hiring there’s Dolly Parton records shows back further because making such vital work so
None of this figures ex- said her high, pleading voice others for this album? from her really early days this is not going away any late into his career?
plicitly into the songs on was naturally suited. “This It was an awkward con- that are so doo-wop-sound- time soon. I don’t even know Without a doubt. I’ve been
“That’s How Rumors Get wasn’t a stretch for her,” he versation at first. I have a ing, not country at all. Her if I can have my kid go back to a little worried, just feeling
Started,” which Price record- said. “It just flowed.” loyalty to my band; we’re song “Busy Signal” is com- school in the fall, and people like I’m missing out on some
ed in late 2018 at L.A.’s storied family. And we’d been pletely a soul song. are partying in Nashville at of the best years of my per-
EastWest Studios with pro- The new album feels very playing some of these songs Kid Rock’s bar, who’s such a forming. But when it comes
duction help from her friend L.A. to me, but maybe I just on the road. But I wanted to Do you ever worry about misogynist, racist piece of s— down to it, I think I’ve only
Sturgill Simpson. think that because you do something different so I alienating those country anyway. I don’t understand gotten stronger as a writer
Yet like her first two al- made it here. Was ’70s L.A. could maybe break the purists? Either through how they just get a slap on and a singer.
bums — 2016’s “Midwest Far- in your mind? Americana glass ceiling. your music or through your the wrist and a fine. We need
mer’s Daughter” and 2017’s Oh, yeah. I’ve had people And, you know, when I told posts on social media? to start thinking about actual Missing out because of
“All American Made,” which tell me that this album is them I got Benmont Tench I see the comments. I put consequences because peo- COVID, you mean?
led to a Grammy nomination countrypolitan or sounds and James Gadson, they up a photo of Obama smok- ple are dying. Yeah, missing touring and
for best new artist — “That’s like Rosanne Cash. I’m like, were like, “Ohhh, OK.” ing a cigarette, looked like he being able to perform these
How Rumors...” places pri- “Really?” I wasn’t going for was enjoying it, and these How about seeing Confeder- songs. And being a woman
vate struggles in a broader that at all. Gadson’s career in particu- people were arguing for days. ate monuments come down? my age, it feels like there’s
social context. It’s a record lar demonstrates how But I’m not gonna get in- That’s been really satis- even more stress. But I’ve
about hitting the bottle and I mean, the title contains closely rooted gospel, R&B, volved because you can’t fying. The one in Nashville of been making the joke that
about staying too long in a the word “Rumors.” country and rock are. Did argue with stupid. There Nathan Bedford Forrest — I’m gonna come out of this
dead-end relationship that’s How much more obvious you realize that as a kid? have been so many times it’s not only an eyesore, it’s like Tina Turner after she left
also a record about sexism could I be? I love Tom Petty When I was really young I where I’ve put in some kind of embarrassing. He was the Ike. Ike is the coronavirus,
and income inequality. and Linda Ronstadt and thought about them as thoughtful response to some- leader of the Ku Klux Klan and I’m gonna have a serious
“Some folks do and others obviously adore Stevie Nicks separate traditions. They body, and it rarely does any and he’s just sitting on [Inter- comeback moment.

New news gig for Joy Reid

‘AM Joy’ host will be
evening anchor on
MSNBC show, a first
for a Black woman.
By Stephen Battaglio

MSNBC weekend host

Joy Reid is joining the chan-
nel’s weekday lineup, mak-
ing her the first Black wom-
an to anchor an evening ca-
ble news program.
Reid, 51, will take over
the slot vacated by Chris
Matthews, who left the net-
work abruptly in March after
reports surfaced about in-
appropriate comments he
made to female guests
booked on his program.
The promotion of Reid —
who has hosted “AM Joy”
on Saturday and Sunday
mornings since May 2016 —
has been in the works since
Matthews departed.
But the announcement
advances the mandate of
NBCUniversal News Group
Chairman Cesar Conde to
increase diversity among the
ranks of his division in front
of and behind the camera.
Reid’s show, “The Read-
out,” will begin July 20.
A former Miami talk ra-
dio host who joined MSNBC
in 2014, Reid survived a con-
troversy of her own two
years ago when a series of
homophobic blog posts she
wrote years ago showed up
JOY REID will helm “The Readout,” taking over the slot vacated by “Hardball.”
on social media.
“Most straight people
cringe at the sight of two
men kissing,” said one post
captured on an archival
website.
Reid maintained that the
posts were planted by hack-
ers and even hired a cyber-
security expert to investi-
gate the matter. But she
eventually devoted an hour
of her program to apologiz-
ing for other comments she
made regarding sexual ori-
entation and gender iden-
tity, saying that her views on
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LGBTQ rights had evolved
over time.
Reid previously had a
daytime MSNBC program,
“The Reid Report,” in 2014,
but it was canceled a year
later because of low ratings.
She remained with the
network as a national corre-
spondent and got a second
chance when she replaced
weekend host Melissa
Harris-Perry, who parted
ways with MSNBC after a
public dispute over her
program being preempted
by presidential primary
coverage in 2016.
Reid, a Harvard graduate
and native of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
has built a strong following
on MSNBC as a weekend
host, especially as the net-
work became more focused
on progressive viewpoints
critical of the Trump admin-
istration.
Currently, the only other
Black woman with a daily
cable news platform is Fox
News Channel’s Harris
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KENKEN
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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):
Because you are determined
to work for hours at a thing
even without a clue where
you’ll end up, you’re bound
to turn out something en-
tirely creative today.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): You’re likely to persuade
others with your example.
Keep it in the realm of what
would benefit the world.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
Avoid staying busy for the
sake of looking busy. Paus-
ing for perspective is the
smartest thing you can do.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Don’t discount what you
know. You’ll find strength in
your roots. Cancer energy
teaches that home is home
for a reason; embrace it.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): A
romantic connection ignites
your creativity or a creative
connection ignites your spir-
it of romance.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Kevin Salat
ACROSS
1 Stockpile
6 “Fuller House” actor
12 Proof letters
15 Perfume name
16 IdeaPad maker
17 Sch. in Charlotte
18 Embrace Love?
20 Time often named for a
philosophy
21 Approached
22 Estate beneficiary
23 Rental garage array
26 Basic nature
28 “Cancel the mission!”
29 Anxious med. condition
32 Iberian capital, locally
33 “Lawdy!”
34 Ready to go back?
36 Writer Rand
37 Joint protection ... or, in
a way, creators of four
puzzle puns?
38 Civil War prez
41 Educated in the
classroom as opposed
to the street
43 Wrinkle
44 Hybrid utensils
46 Nevada copper town
47 Bizet opera priestess
48 Friendly greeting
50 Virgil epic
51 Love god
52 Snobs
56 Hosp. test
57 Is unable to sign the
top-billed star for an
“Ocean’s 13” sequel?
61 It may not be intended
62 Melodious
63 Physique
64 Springs for a vacation?
65 __ fly
66 Nikon setting
DOWN
1 “Very cute”
2 Spanish bear
3 CDC headquarters city
4 Soccer ejection
indicator
5 Pour to purify
6 Swing around
7 Gull relative
8 Start-up money?
The right attitude makes life
about living, not judging.
You’ll be sure to stock your
life with enough interesting
endeavors to keep you fo-
cused on your own business.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Anything you call out today,
the universe will answer.
Whatever your opinion, just
type it into a search engine
to discover there’s someone
who feels the same way.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Doing everything at once
isn’t advised, though some-
times it can’t be helped. The
more you try to do, the more
capable you become.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): Little by little,
you’re letting go of a past
pain. Soon, you’ll be free of it.
You do this somewhat con-
sciously; your subconscious
is working on it too.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Today, you’ll find your-
self in a situation that re-
quires more courage than
experience. Dive in and
learn as you go.
9 Janelle of “Moonlight”
10 Stayed out too long?
11 __ milk
12 Casual topper for
Elizabeth II?
13 Tenor Caruso
14 Takoma Park, Md., is
part of it
19 Yoga chants
22 Gas company with toy
trucks
23 Long story
24 Site with PowerSellers
25 Consume some deli
meat?
27 Gentlemen
29 Washington’s bills?
30 __ fraîche: dairy product
31 Helmet sticker
34 Concern for lefty writers
35 Change
37 Gorilla who learned
modified 50-Down
39 Hanes brand
40 “Jiminy cricket!”
42 Tolkien beasts
43 They may pick up speed
44 Cleans, in a way
COMICS
7/10/20
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You can put up a social
media post and then take it
down. But once you hit send,
it’s a matter of public record.
Share advisedly.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): You know how to com-
pliment people. It’s not
about what you admire but
what they need to hear.
Today’s birthday (July
10): You’ll enjoy a degree of
worldly success, though it’s
the personal success you ex-
perience with loved ones
that means the most to you.
You’ll find yourself in an en-
tirely different realm in Sep-
tember, and new faces will
change your journey. The fi-
nancial part gets better in
October. An investment will
keep paying you through
2021. Leo and Virgo adore
you. Your lucky numbers
are: 8, 30, 22, 14 and 9.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
© 2020 Tribune Content Agency
45 Get excited
47 Allow to go free
49 Commercial cow
50 Syst. with hand signals
53 “What am __ getting?”
54 Chuck
55 Brand written in frosty
letters
57 Uniform part, maybe
58 __ Geo
59 Angsty genre
60 “For sure”
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
7/10/20
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
Test your defense: Cover
the West and South cards
and try to beat four hearts.
West leads a diamond in def-
erence to your opening bid:
10, jack, three. How do you
continue? (Hint: correct de-
fense beats the contract by
two tricks.)
In real life, East shifted to
the ace and five of trumps to
prevent South from ruffing
diamonds in dummy. South
drew trumps and took the
three top clubs, discarding a
diamond. He ruffed a club
and returned to the ace of
spades to pitch another dia-
mond on the good fifth club.
He lost two diamonds and a
trump.
East had the right idea —
almost. He needs to stop dia-
mond ruffs, but since the
ASK AMY
Marriage isn’t in his cards
Dear Amy: I have been in a
relationship with a man for
10 years. He is 71 and lives in
another state (50 miles
away). I am 70. I am divorced
and he has never married.
We both own our homes.
When I had a job in an-
other state, I would come
home on weekends, and he
would come to my house on
Friday and leave on Sunday.
We spent most weekends
and holidays together and
went on vacations (at my ex-
pense, because he lives on a
low fixed income and I make
much more money than he).
Since I retired in October,
he is content to keep our ar-
rangement intact.
He does not stay any
longer than Sunday unless
we have special plans for
Sunday night, or go on vaca-
tion together.
I want to spend more
time with him, but on Sun-
days he seems anxious to re-
turn to his hometown.
He is retired, and when
he gets home, he spends his
time hanging out at barber-
shops with his friends. Then
he comes back to my house
most Fridays.
When we are together, he
seems content with our rela-
tionship, and we talk on the
phone often.
I recently learned from a
reliable source that he was
asked when we would marry.
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
clubs are a threat, East
mustn’t give up control of
the trump suit.
At Trick Two, East must
lead the five of trumps.
There is no escape for de-
clarer. If, for instance, he
takes three clubs to pitch a
diamond, West ruffs and
leads his last trump, and
East takes the ace — and two
more diamonds.
Did you find the winning
defense?
Question: You hold: ♠ A J
5 3 ♥ Q 10 ♦ K 10 ♣ A Q 10 8 3.
You are the dealer. What is
your opening call?
Answer: An increasing
tendency among some ex-
perts is to open 1NT with im-
perfect hands -- even hands
with a singleton honor that
otherwise would be awk-
ward to describe. Some
would open 1NT here though
the pattern is not balanced.
He replied, “Never. I have
loved only one woman in my
life, and if I didn’t marry her,
I will never marry.”
I was devastated to hear
this because he knows I
want to marry him.
Should I confront him
with what I have learned, or
keep quiet as if I don’t know?
Anonymous Woman
Dear Anonymous: Let’s
recap: You have been in this
relationship for 10 years.
Ten. Years. A decade.
Logic would tell you that
a man who reaches 70 with-
out marrying (and has spent
10 years with you without
marrying) would remain un-
married. And that a man
who loves his home and bar-
bershop hang time would ei-
ther invite you to join him or
would continue to enjoy this
arrangement alone, because
it works for him.
You have now heard that
your guy has loved only one
woman in his life — and pre-
sumably she is not you.
You seem to have surren-
dered your rights in this rela-
tionship. I’m talking about
the right to use your voice, to
ask questions, to state — out
loud — what you want, and
to leave a relationship if it
doesn’t serve your needs.
Dear Amy: We adore our
two college-age nieces and
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
To open anything except
one club would not occur to
me. If partner responds in a
red suit, a second bid of one
spade is easy.
East dealer
Both sides vulnerable
NORTH
♠AJ53
♥ Q 10
♦ K 10
♣ A Q 10 8 3
WEST EAST
♠ K 10 7 6 2 ♠Q94
♥742 ♥A5
♦752 ♦AQJ9
♣74 ♣J952
SOUTH
♠8
♥KJ9863
♦8643
♣K6
EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH
1♦ 2♥ Pass 4♥
All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ 7
Tribune Media Services
have always supported
them as equally as possible.
However, their needs are
now very different, as the
older one is starting med
school. With exorbitant tu-
ition and housing costs, she
will need family support for
at least four more years.
Her sister soon will com-
plete her undergrad degree
and does not plan to contin-
ue her education now.
It has been our intent to
help both girls as long as
they are in school, but this
will create a vastly different
amount of money needed by
each. Another relative plans
to give them an equal dollar
amount, to remain fair.
Are both of our views
equally valid, or is it unfair
for us to give one girl so
much more?
Doting Aunt
and Uncle
Dear Doting: In my opin-
ion, both of your positions
are valid — because you are
all adults, it is your money,
and you have the right to
spend it as you wish.
Presumably, if your
younger niece chooses to go
to grad school at some point,
you would consider granting
her financial support then.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.
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COMICS

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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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How ‘P-Valley’ flies high, true TV Highlights

[‘P-Valley,’ from E1]
strip clubs in all their ath-
letic, artistic glory. These are
not the seedy spots of Los
Angeles’ industrial districts;
these are the communal hot
spots of the South, where
scantily clad acrobats —
queen bee Mercedes
(Brandee Evans), cherubic
Keyshawn (Shannon Thorn-
ton) and newcomer Autumn
(Elarica Johnson) — defy so-
cietal norms and gravity in a
single stunt. The poles at the
Pynk are their pulpits; the
Mississippi crowds’ showers
of money are valuable ap-
plause.
Hall talked to The Times
about carefully capturing
these women’s artistry, giv-
ing thanks to Cardi B and
Jennifer Lopez and finding
the answer to the series in
the most important meal of
the day. The following has
been edited for clarity and
condensed.
The Pynk is unlike any
strip club I’ve ever seen on
screen.
I think what a lot of
people don’t know about
Black Southern strip clubs
specifically is that it’s not
taboo. It’s the thing to do.
I’m a Memphis native, so
being from the South, I
frequented strip clubs all
the time. You celebrate
bachelorette and bachelor
parties there. I’ve even been
to a baby shower at a strip
club! It’s truly a central hub
where you can cross paths
with friends and politicians
and rappers, and it’s very
much part of the fabric of
social activity down South.
I was always so en-
thralled by what I saw,
because it goes beyond just
women taking the clothes
off. The women who are up
on those stages, they were
putting forth a theatrical
experience. I felt like I was at
Cirque du Soleil. They were
pulling themselves up poles,
hanging themselves upside
down — they were showcas-
ing the expertise that is
needed in order to accom-
plish these athletic feats.
And the throwing of the
money showers are a show
of affection for the experi-
ence these women are giv-
ing you.
Magic City in Atlanta has
the Snack Pack, a group of
women who do these com-
plicated routines where
they’re lifting each other up
on the pole. It’s much more
of an acrobatic act than a
strip tease, a lot of them
don’t even take off their
floss. They’re scantily clad
— it is a strip club so that’s
part of the costume — but
you’re really seeing a blend
of burlesque and gymnas-
tics versus just a female
body that’s naked onstage.
What did it take to shoot
CREATOR and showrunner Katori Hall on the “P-Valley” set with Nicco Annan, who portrays Uncle Clifford.
‘P-Valley’
Where: Starz
When: 9 p.m. Sunday
Rated: TV-MA (may be
unsuitable for children
under age 17)
these sequences?
Oh, my God, that was the
most challenging piece of
the entire production. Num-
ber one, casting actresses
who were comfortable
enough with the require-
ments and had a certain
level of strength. They each
took pole dancing classes on
their own.
Once everyone was in
Atlanta for filming, we
paired them with each other
so that they could not only
get their acting chemistry
but also get their dance
chemistry. These women
were going to have to learn
how to trust each other if
they were going to be up on
that pole together.
Our choreographer
Jamaica Craft is Atlanta-
based and has such a re-
spect for exotic dancing.
She first tested the routines
with a core group of dancers
who used to work at these
clubs, and then they would
teach the stunt doubles.
Each actor had two doubles
— the work is so strenuous
we didn’t want to wear
anyone’s body out.
All of those things had to
come together to create a
believable moment where
you’re like, “Mercedes is
actually upside down on the
pole, holding herself and
twerking on the ceiling.”
Luckily, Brandee [Evans]
has a background in dance,
having performed with Katy
Perry, Usher and Beyoncé.
She came into the role phys-
ically ready and ended up
doing quite a lot of her own
stunts. That big billboard in
L.A. off the 405? That’s not
her double, that’s her.
What research did you do
to create these characters?
I went to clubs in [Wash-
ington] D.C., Atlanta, Mem-
phis, L.A., all over the na-
tion, and interviewed about
40 women over six years, but
because of the volume of
research I had, I really
struggled with landing on
just one story. It became
this three-hour play —
which, really, was this smor-
gasbord of characters and
plot that we could follow for
years.
I pivoted to a [series]
pitch and luckily had a great
meeting at Starz. Some
people wouldn’t even hear
my pitch or even allow me in
the room because, back in
2015, the subject matter was
still largely taboo. But these
women are human beings,
just like you and me. Sex
work is work — you may not
agree with the work, but it’s
putting food in their fam-
ilies’ mouths, putting these
people through school. It is
saving lives. I think the
world is now ready to hear
their stories in a more re-
spectful way.
How so? What’s changed
over these past few years?
Pole fitness has gotten
more respect as a real sport.
I started writing the play
after I took a class and
almost vomited — like, this
is some hard work, this is
art, this is a craft, this de-
serves to be an Olympic
sport. And the explosion of
Cardi B: this stripper-
turned-rapper and her kind
of unapologetic personality
brought people a new per-
spective on who these wom-
en are. She has no shame
that she used to dance, and
even claimed respect for it in
hip-hop, a predominantly
male space.
And even though there
were many movies already
— “The Players Club,”
“Striptease,” “Showgirls,”
“Magic Mike” — “Hustlers”
centered the perspective of
these women; they weren’t
being used as props in
someone else’s story. I
mean, J.Lo was on a pole
during the Super Bowl!
That’s the biggest sign of
how far strip club culture
has come, from these seedy
places to a stadium.
It’s been done by others,
but how did you adapt a
play into a TV show?
It took me four years to
develop it into a show, so I’ve
been on this odyssey for 10
years, but it’s been well
worth it. It’s still about this
group of women and their
workplace, but because
we’ve added this David-
versus-Goliath fight against
these people who want to
tear down the strip club and
build a casino, that work-
place exists within an envi-
ronment where there are so
many levels of conflict:
political, social, economical.
Tina Rowden
It’s the story of the
underdog in American
society, with this unexpect-
ed, in-depth investigation of
all these systems of oppres-
sion: racism, sexism, class-
ism. We always joke in the
writers room, “This is ‘The
Wire’ with women!”
You’re one of the hundreds
of theater makers who
signed the open letter
titled “We See You, White
American Theater.” What
do you want people to know
about this initiative?
When that letter started
circulating, it felt like those
were the words that I have
been wanting to say to vari-
ous theaters, and I very
quickly signed my name. I
have experienced on so
many levels the hypocrisy of
working in American thea-
ter, and we have come to a
point where it has to
change.
Change is happening,
whether you like it or not.
There is a reckoning hap-
pening in our world, and our
society is on the precipice of
extreme cultural transfor-
mation.
And if theater wants to
continue actually reflecting
our society, it must acknowl-
edge the roots of supremacy
that are embedded in the
very way that they do their
business, and work to dis-
mantle those roots. If not, I
don’t even know if it can
even survive.
My hope is that people
move away from performing
diversity and actually strive
towards equality. I do not
want any more perform-
ances. I want action.
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‘Palm Springs’ offers sun-kissed fun

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[‘Springs,’ from E1]
suave goofball of a guest who
navigates the festivities with
light-footed ease. Is it just
Sarah, or does Nyles have
some kind of sixth sense, as if
he knows in advance every-
thing that’s going to hap-
pen?
Well, not everything.
(Keep your eye out for a ter-
rific jack-in-the-box per-
formance from J.K. Sim-
mons.) But Sarah gets the
answers she seeks when she
follows Nyles into a desert
cave that night and suddenly
wakes up in bed the next
morning — only it isn’t the
next morning; it’s the same
morning as before. The day
of the wedding is repeating
itself, and the only ones who
seem to realize it are Sarah
and Nyles — who, in one of
the script’s cleverest tou-
ches, has already been stuck
here for God knows how
long. Lazily summing up the
plot for Sarah’s benefit, he
notes, “It’s one of those infi-
nite-time-loop situations
you might have heard
about.”
Indeed, you might have.
An ingenious debut feature
for the director Max Bar-
bakow and the screenwriter
Andy Siara, “Palm Springs”
has the crack comic timing
and pop-savvy sensibility
you would expect from Sam-
berg and his Lonely Island
collaborators Akiva Schaffer
and Jorma Taccone. (All
three are credited as produc-
ers.) It knows its target audi-
ence has likely seen
“Groundhog Day” a few doz-
en times and may have a
passing familiarity with
more recent infinite-time-
loop stories like “Edge of To-
morrow,” “Before I Fall” and
Christopher Willard Hulu
PETER GALLAGHER and Jacqueline Obradors
anchor the smart rom-com’s stellar supporting cast.
Day,” Sarah initially leaps to
the conclusion that a day of
‘Palm Springs’ perfectly selfless behavior
will get her out of this night-
mare; alas, no. She tries a few
Rated: R, for sexual
other escape routes — a long
content, language
throughout, drug use and drive home to Austin, a few
some violence suicide attempts — only to
have Nyles tell her each time
Running time: 1 hour,
that he’s tried everything
30 minutes
and has finally made peace
Playing: Van Buren
with the matter of their eter-
Cinema 3 Drive-In,
nal entrapment. Since
Arlington; De Anza Mission
Four Drive-In, Montclair; they’re stuck here together,
De Anza Rubidoux Drive-In he suggests, shouldn’t they
3, Riverside; Paramount just relax and enjoy the
Drive-in, Paramount; view?
Vineland Drive-In, City of And so they do, and
Industry; also available on “Palm Springs” makes it
Hulu easy to share their enjoy-
ment. You can see where the
story is headed, and you
the dazzlingly intricate Net- don’t mind in the slightest.
flix series “Russian Doll.” Sarah and Nyles turn out to
Sarah and Nyles might have a lot in common, includ-
have seen a few of them too, ing a sick sense of humor,
which is why a lot of the usual and their centerpiece mon-
exposition — and potentially tage is a joyous celebration of
tedious repetition — can be risk-free mischief: Every re-
reduced to shorthand. Tak- cycled day promises a wild
ing a page from “Groundhog new adventure, whether
they’re going on desert
drives, goofing around in
bars or devising ways to
freak out the oblivious wed-
ding guests. (They’re played
by terrific actors including
Peter Gallagher, Dale
Dickey, June Squibb and
Meredith Hagner, doing her
utmost with the walking-
punchline role of Nyles’ actu-
al girlfriend.)
Soon enough, of course,
Sarah and Nyles realize
there’s no one they’d rather
spend this pointless exist-
ence with than each other —
for a while, anyway. Bar-
bakow and Siara have effec-
tively fashioned their Palm
Springs purgatory into a
metaphor for a young rela-
tionship, where everything
seems wonderfully strange
and new until doubt and te-
dium inevitably set in. The
inevitable conflict is in some
ways a philosophical one:
Sarah is tormented by past
wrongs and doesn’t see a way
forward without addressing
them. Nyles, who’s been
stuck here for eons, cares
only about the present, since
moving forward doesn’t
seem to be an actual option.
There’s a familiar gender
dynamic at work here, and
“Palm Springs” can be read,
admiringly or critically, as a
romantic comedy in which a
woman has to expend a dis-
proportionate amount of
emotional and intellectual
energy to push her boyfriend
to a place of bare-minimum
maturity. This dynamic is
both reinforced and sub-
verted by the casting: Sam-
berg, amusing as ever in his
designated role as the think-
ing millennial’s man-child,
may be the big-name draw
here, but he is eclipsed at ev-
ery turn by the terrific Mili-
oti, a versatile actor who won
a Grammy for the Broadway
show “Once” and turns out
to be the movie’s secret
weapon. It’s terrific that that
she gets both the story’s
emotional high point and its
purest, giddiest moment of
comic anarchy.
At times I found myself
wondering if this stretch of
Coachella Valley desert were
being presented as some
sort of inverted Eden, where
it’s Adam who exposes Eve
to the curse of eye-opening,
shame-inducing knowledge
— and where Eve effectively
spends the movie trying to
find her way out of that
(man-)cave. Maybe that’s
too tortured a reading — but
then, for a movie this fleet
and funny (it’s a snap at 90
minutes), “Palm Springs” is
surprisingly ripe for meta-
phorical plucking.
Some of those metaphors
are surely accidental. The
movie premiered this year at
Sundance, one of the last
major film festivals to be held
before concern over the
COVID-19 pandemic set in.
Arriving now at a moment of
mass quarantine, Barbakow
and Siara’s vision of stasis
and isolation can’t help but
take on suggestive new lay-
ers. Up until the unpre-
dictable final scene, you may
wonder if you’re meant to
side with Nyles, resigned to
an impossible situation, or
with Sarah, determined to
see light at the end of the tun-
nel if she has to blast the tun-
nel open herself. All of which
forces me to revise my earlier
statement: If there’s anyone
I want to see cross cinematic
dimensions and join a league
of Theron, it’s her.
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Romijn; Mark Consuelos. (N) 9 a.m. KABC thy Olyphant. rescue Zeus from the underworld, defeat the Titans and save mankind.
(R) (6) Å (PG-13) Å
The Talk Ben Platt; Jack Osbourne. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS BET I Can Do Bad Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? ›› (2010) Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal. While on vaca- Tyler Perry’s The Oval (TV14)
All By Myself tion in the Bahamas, the unexpected arrival of one’s ex-husband causes some longtime Å
The Dr. Oz Show Breaking COVID-19 news; near-death (5) Å friends to examine the strength of their own marriages. (PG-13) Å
experiences. (N) 3 p.m. Fox Bravo Below Deck (TV14) (7:16) Å Couples Retreat ›› (2009) Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman. (PG-13) (8:18) Couples Retreat (2009)
The Doctors Country music artist Drake White collapses CMT Last Man Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14) Mom (TV14)
onstage from a rare brain disorder; Seth Rogen’s mom. Standing Å Å Å Å Å Å Å Å Å
3 p.m. KCOP Comedy South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park Chappelle’s Chappelle’s Chappelle’s Chappelle’s
Animated. Å Animated. Å Animated. Å Animated. Å Animated. Å Show Å Show Å Show Å Show Å
Washington Week (N) 7 p.m. KOCE and 1 a.m. KOCE Discovery Bering Sea Bering Sea Gold (TV14) The Dino Hunters (TVPG) Clayton Mysteries of the Deep (TVPG) Mysteries of the Deep (TVPG)
The Issue Is ... With Elex Michaelson (N) 10:30 p.m. and Gold: Dredged Heat is Off. (N) Å must haul his 20,000-pound (10:05) Å (11:06) Å
Up fossil over 200 miles. (N) Å
1:30 a.m. KTTV
Disney Coco ››› Disney Channel Radio Disney Presents ARDYs Disney Channel Summer Sing- Radio Disney Presents ARDYs Jessie (TVG)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Hugh Jack- (2017) (PG) Summer Sing- Summer Playlist (TVPG) (N) Along (TVG) (9:39) Å Summer Playlist (TVPG) (11:45) Å
(6:10) Å Along (N) Å (8:45) Å (10:24) Å
man; Rose Byrne; Will Ferrell; Kristen Wiig; Ke$ha performs;
best of Fallon. 11:34 p.m. KNBC E! Overboard ›› (1987) Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell. (PG) (7) Overboard ›› (1987) Goldie Hawn. A yachtsman’s wife falls overboard, for-
Å gets who she is and becomes an Oregon carpenter’s mate. (PG) Å
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Journalist John Food Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive- Diners, Drive-
Dickerson; Black Pumas perform. 11:35 p.m. KCBS Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives Ins and Dives
(TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) (N) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Anthony Anderson; Tracee Ellis Freeform Puss in Boots ››› (2011) Voices of Antonio Shrek ››› (2001) Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy. The 700 Club (N) Å
Ross; Muriel Bowser. 11:35 p.m. KABC Banderas, Salma Hayek. (PG) (7) Å (PG) Å
Amanpour and Company (N)midnight KCET; 1 a.m. FX Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ››› (2017) Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart. The New York Times Presents The New York Mission: Im-
(PG-13) Å (Premiere) (N) Å Times Presents possible Å
KLCS
FXX The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers
Nightline (N) 12:06 a.m. KABC (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TV14) Å (TVPG) Å
Hallmark Write Before Christmas Under Wraps (2014) Candace Cameron Bure, Crown for Christmas (2015) Danica McKellar, Rupert Pen-
Late Night With Seth Meyers Tiffany Haddish; Brad Christmas David O’Donnell. Å ry-Jones. Å
Paisley talks and performs. 12:36 a.m. KNBC
HGTV My Lottery My Lottery My Lottery Color Splash: Hot or Not (N) Å My Lottery My Lottery My Lottery My Lottery
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Anthony Anderson guest hosts; Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home
(TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) (N) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å
D.L. Hughley; Bubba Wallace. 12:36 a.m. KABC
History Unidentified Unidentified: Inside America’s Unidentified: Inside America’s Unidentified: Inside America’s
Unidentified: Inside America’s
The Late Late Show With James Corden Beanie Feld- (TVPG) (7) UFO Investigation Å UFO Investigation Å UFO Investigation Å UFO Investigation Å
stein; Machine Gun Kelly; Travis Barker. 12:37 a.m. KCBS IFC Old School ›› (2003) Luke Wilson, Will Fer- Grown Ups › (2010) Adam Sandler, Kevin James. (PG-13) Å Grandma’s Boy
rell. (R) (7) Å (11:15)
MOVIES Lifetime He’s Watching Obsession: Stalked by My Lover (2020) Celeste Desjardins, Tempted by Danger (2020) Keshia Knight Pulliam, Gabrielle
Obsession: Stalked by My Lover When a woman’s room- (2018) (6) Travis Nelson. Å Graham. Å
mate situation falls apart, she uses a roommate-finder app MTV Big Daddy › (1999) Adam Sandler, Joey Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness
Lauren Adams. (PG-13) (7) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å
and lands a roommate who seems ideal in this 2020 thriller.
Celeste Desjardins and Travis Nelson star. 8 p.m. Lifetime Nat Geo Life Below Zero Life Below Zero (TV14) Å Life Below Zero (TV14) Å Life Below Zero (TV14) Å Life Below Zero (TV14) Å
(7) Å
Ma Tate Taylor directs this 2019 psychological thriller Nickelodeon Ice Age: Con- Henry Danger (TVG) Å Tyler Perry’s SpongeBob Friends Friends Friends Friends
about a group of teenagers who befriend a lonely, middle- tinental Drift Young Dylan (TVY7) Ani- (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TV14) Å (TVPG) Å
aged woman (Octavia Spencer). Diana Silvers, McKaley (6) Å (TVG) Å mated. Å
Miller, Corey Fogelmanis, Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans, Missi OWN Presumed 20/20 (TV14) 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 20/20 (TV14)
Pyle and Allison Janney also star. 8:20 p.m. Cinemax Dead (7) Å (TV14) (TV14)
Paramount 2 & 1/2 Men Yellowstone (TVMA) Å Yellowstone (TVMA) Å Yellowstone (TVMA) Å The Expendables 3 ›› (2014)
Dirty Dancing (1987) 9:40 a.m. Epix (TV14) Å Sylvester Stallone. Å

King Kong (2005) 10 a.m. Showtime Sundance Law & Order (7) Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å
Syfy Spider-Man 3 Law Abiding Citizen › (2009) Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler. Knowing ›› (2009) Nicolas Cage, Rose
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) 10:30 a.m. (4:54) Å Byrne. (PG-13) (10:27) Å
FXX TBS We’re the Millers ›› (2013) Jennifer Aniston. (R) (7) Å Identity Thief › (2013) Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy. (R) Å
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 11 a.m. FX TCM Arrowsmith ››› (1931) (7) Å The Informer ›››› (1935) Victor McLaglen. Å Deathsport ›› (1978) (R) Å
TLC 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Elizabeth’s discovery 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever 90 Day Fiancé
Almost Famous (2000) 11 and 11:15 p.m. TMC (TV14) (7) threatens the wedding; Colt comes clean to his mother. (N) (TV14) After? (TVPG) (TV14)
A Few Good Men (1992) 11:15 a.m. AMC TNT Bones (7) Å The Accountant ›› (2016) Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick. (R) Å The Town ››› (2010) Ben Affleck. (R) Å
Toon Teen Titans Go! Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers American Dad American Dad Rick and Morty Rick and Morty Family Guy Family Guy
Into the Wild (2007) 11:16 a.m. Encore (7:45) (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) (TV14) Animated. Å Animated. Å
300 (2006) 1 p.m. FXX Travel The Dead Files The Dead Files (TVPG) Å The Dead Files (TVPG) Investigating demonic activity threat- The Dead Files (TVPG) Å
(7) Å ening the life of a cancer survivor in California. (N) Å
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 2 p.m. FX TruTV Jokers (TV14) The Hangover ››› (2009) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. Å Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14)
Blinded by the Light (2019) 2:25 p.m. HBO TV Land Andy Griffith Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens
USA Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. (TV14) Å Chicago P.D. (TV14) Å Chicago P.D. (TV14) Å Modern Family Modern Family
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 3 p.m. TCM
VH1 RuPaul’s Drag RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars (TV14) The contestants join The Devil Wears Prada ››› (2006) Meryl Streep, Anne Ha-
Romancing the Stone (1984) 4 p.m. Ovation Race (6:30) RuPaul’s family for the Charles Backyard Ball. (N) Å thaway. (PG-13) Å
WGN A Last Standing Last Standing Last Standing Married ... Å Married ... Å Married ... Å Married ... Å Married ... Å Married ... Å
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) 4 and 10 p.m. VH1
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The Natural (1984) 5 p.m. MLB 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11:00 pm 11:30 pm
Coco (2017) 6:10 p.m. Disney ESPN MLS Soccer (Live) SportsCenter Å SportsCenter Å SportsCenter
ESPN2 UFC (7) Å UFC Unleashed (TV14) Å NBA: The Jump UFC Live UFC 251 Countdown
The Babadook (2014) 6:25 p.m. TMC
FS Prime High School Football From July 10, 2009. (7) High School Football From July 10, 2009.
The Pelican Brief (1993) 6:30 p.m. Showtime FSW Angels Classics From Oct. 11, 2009. (7) Cuba Poker WPT Choctaw - Part 3.
Puss in Boots (2011) 7 p.m. Freeform MLB The Natural Trouble With the Curve ›› (2012) Clint Eastwood, Amy MLB Baseball From Oct. 22, 2019. Å
(1984) (5) Å Adams. (PG-13) Å
Arrowsmith (1931) 7 p.m. TCM NBC Sports Tour (N) (5) Ultimate Tour Highlights of stages from past cycling events. (N) American Ninja Warrior
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) 7:30 p.m. FX NFL Around NFL (7) NFL Total Access (TVG) Å NFL Total Access Move Sticks Move Sticks Around the NFL Å
SNLA Dodgers (7) SN: Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers SN: Dodgers
Bumblebee (2018) 8 p.m. Epix
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