Today’s Headlines

• Instead of listening to protestor demands to end police brutality, police deploy tear gas and rubber bullets (SF Chronicle, Patch)
  • and cities impose curfews (CalMatters, Sacramento Bee)
• The violence experienced by black Americans is an every day occurrence (Grist)
• City planners cannot just ignore it (Planetizen)
• One Oakland protest was organized by high school students (EdSource)
• Cars are weapons (Vox)
  • and closing freeways is a tactic (Fox5)
• Transit agencies leave people stranded (LA Times)
  • which is not a good idea (Human Transit)
• The looming concern: protests and coronavirus (Sacramento Bee)
• Rural counties don’t want to shut down but tourism isn’t coming (LA Times)
• Rents are finally dropping (SF Chronicle)
  • but it won’t help much (Sacramento Bee)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF