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Construction began this week on a temporary wall that’s designed to catch sliding soil and debris from a San Clemente hillside near Mariposa Point. The major coastal rail corridor has been routinely hit with hillside problems.The San Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail is closed from the North Beach parking lot to the trail’s bridge while construction continues. The Orange County Transportation Authority expects it to be completed by mid-March, with crews working 12 hours a day.
The idea, spokesperson Kevin McManus says, is that it’s inherently stressful for the dogs to be in a shelter, so playing music or reading to them one-on-one helps create a “calming, more serene environment.” A few rows over, volunteer Stefan Bucher was seated near a 2-year-old black and white pitbull named Twizzler, a “real sweetheart” whom he checks in with every week.As for what he reads to the dogs, Bucher says it’s a wide variety. “They seem to like British society mysteries.” But his book that day was a bit more on the serious side — “Right now I'm reading to them about inclusive language. You know, because they’ve got to be ready for the world.
The officers question Sutherland. When he tells them he can’t remember why he’s under court supervision, Afanasiev says, “The drugs probably have something to do with it.” But Zalunardo and Afanasiev didn’t do that. The body camera footage shows them holding Sutherland belly-down for more than eight minutes. For nearly half that time, Afanasiev lays across Sutherland’s back. Sutherland panics, alternating between moaning and screaming for help as Zalunardo, who uses his baton and body weight to help keep Sutherland’s shoulder down, repeatedly tells him, “Relax!”
We really shouldn't have any of these deaths. Any time there's prolonged prone restraint, something's going wrong. It should not happen.Many training manuals have since been updated to address the risks of prone restraint and the importance of using the recovery position. Ohio State Police officers are forbidden from using prone restraint. A Nevada law forbids the practice.
“My general disgust that we're still having to talk about this,” he said. ”It's a little depressing that we're coming up on 30 years of making the same mistake over and over again. That's really frustrating.” ● Mario Gonzalez, who died on April 19, 2021, in Alameda, California. When police responded to a call about a man sitting in a park and talking to himself, officials said they found Gonzalez so intoxicated he couldn’t. He refused to take his hands out of his pockets, according to official reports, leading two officers to hold him down on his stomach while another held his legs.
“It's horrible because you're just watching a preventable death, and you know the person's suffering,” said Dr. Alon Steinberg, a California cardiologist who studies prone restraint and has viewed hours of footage of people being held stomach-down by police. Despite widespread agreement about the dangers of positional asphyxia caused by prone restraint, some studies have argued that the restriction of airflow caused by prone restraint is not, in most cases, enough to kill.
“In no cases did I see that the individuals were destined to die on that day, if not for the interaction with law enforcement and the prone restraint compressive asphyxia,” Wohlgelernter said. “What some people don’t realize is that a cause-of-death is a medical opinion,” he said. “It’s based on deductive reasoning.”
“We're talking about literally the difference between taking someone from their stomach and rolling them 90 degrees onto their side,” he said. “If there is any increase in risk at all , it is so marginal that it is vastly outweighed by the potential of saving that person's life.” The San Joaquin County medical examiner’s office determined that Shayne Sutherland’s cause of death was cardiac arrest due to “acute methamphetamine toxicity” with a contributing factor of “physical restraint by law enforcement.” In other words, meth, not police, was primarily responsible for Sutherland’s death.
In the year leading up to her son’s death, Karen managed to get Shayne into rehab for a stint, but finding mental health care and ongoing treatment was a struggle. When people like Shayne reach out for help, she said, “They're turned away, or they're told they have to wait.”Last December, Karen pulled into Park View Cemetery in Manteca — about 20 minutes south of Stockton — and walked to her son’s grave.
The Stockton Police Department did not respond to our requests for comments and interviews with the officers. Feldman said the “number one predictor” of misreported deaths was when officers didn’t shoot someone, such as when they used prone restraint or a Taser.Additional reporting by Bella Arnold, Hanisha Harjani, Simmerdeep Kaur, Grace Marion, Adam Solorzano and Krissy Waite of Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program; Leila Barghouty, Jacqueline Munis and Camryn Pak of Stanford University's Big Local News; and Brian Krans of The California Newsroom.
First up is Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains at 6,759 feet. It was largely snow free in December, but from January through February, 25.2 inches of snow fell. The average annual snowfall for the mountain is typically around 54 inches, so they're still quite far behind.About 70 miles to the north there's Mt. Baldy, the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains at 10,064 feet.The mountains around the L.A. Basin have changed as well, greening with the heavy rains.
Onyx says she made good money as a stripper and liked the scheduling flexibility she got as an independent contractor. Then, everything changed in 2020, when California passed AB5, a controversial labor law that caused many strip clubs to re-classify their dancers as employees, and as a result, let many of them go.
“I sat at a potter's wheel with eight other potters making about 10 different things over and over and over again. And it was fantastic. People say, ‘Why would you do that?’ It was my first experience having to some great degree mastered something.”on FOX, which first aired from 1993-2002, left little time for Carter to work on his art.
LAHSA’s leadership “parted ways” with two of the three executives “after careful consideration,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement to LAist. The other recently departed executives — Dixon and Hill — could not immediately be reached for comment. LAist also reached out to spokespeople for the top local officials overseeing homelessness and LAHSA: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, county Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, and Supervisor Kathryn Barger, all of whom sit on LAHSA’s governing commission; as well as the five L.A. city council members on the council’s homelessness committee: Nithya Raman, Bob Blumenfield, Rodriguez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and John Lee.
Vaughn Henry, as the agency’s former data chief, fielded questions from council members at a heated discussion about it in August., council members learned the city may be paying for services that were never used, such as motel rooms that sat empty under a program they approved for $300 million. That means the city might not know if it’s paying for empty motel rooms after people leave, council members were told by Mercedes Marquez, who at the time was the mayor’s top homelessness advisor.“So we could be paying for weeks for an empty room, when somebody left two weeks earlier, and we could be using that room to house somebody?” he asked.“If there was nothing else that was being done, you would be absolutely correct,” Marquez said in response to Blumenfield’s question.
Then, Carter had just been released from prison after three years of incarceration in Virginia, where he was born. He had made his way to California, which he heard might have more job opportunities. Job placements for service members range from a few months to about a year, a timeline that’s set by each participating city or county depending on the region’s needs. The idea is to create a pathway to careers that may have been previously out of reach for them.
Kaelyn Carter, right, works is part of a community beautification program in the city of Richmond as a service member with California Volunteers’ Youth Job Corps.Service members are paid at least the state hourly minimum wage, now $16, but their city or county of residence can increase their wages. For example, most of the service members in the Los Angeles County city of Maywood were high school seniors or in their early college years, and one was a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
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