Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:45 AM PDT on June 2, 2020

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

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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