Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Aram Westergreen, a construction worker idled last month in the COVID-19 pandemic, filled out an online Washington state form recently to report a pawn shop open despite a ban on nonessential businesses.Westergreen lives in Tacoma, Wash., less than an hour from the where the first COVID-19 death in the United States was reported in late February. With more than 900 deaths statewide since, and a stay-at-home order in place since March 23, Westergreen, like many of his neighbors, has suffered from lost income, but regards social...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Aram Westergreen, a construction worker idled last month in the COVID-19 pandemic, filled out an online Washington state form recently to report a pawn shop open despite a ban on nonessential businesses.Westergreen lives in Tacoma, Wash., less than an hour from the where the first COVID-19 death in the United States was reported in late February. With more than 900 deaths statewide since, and a stay-at-home order in place since March 23, Westergreen, like many of his neighbors, has suffered from lost income, but regards social...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The tension was palpable Sunday in Santa Monica.What started as a peaceful protest along Ocean Avenue devolved into chaos around 1 p.m., as looters smashed storefronts in the Santa Monica Place mall and other downtown businesses. Police said they made hundreds of arrests and that the National Guard had arrived to help.Couples sitting and enjoying meals at recently opened restaurants looked stunned as cars dropped off people, many of them wearing masks and hoodies, who then broke into a pharmacy on 7th and Broadway. Several looters...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The tension was palpable Sunday in Santa Monica.What started as a peaceful protest along Ocean Avenue devolved into chaos around 1 p.m., as looters smashed storefronts in the Santa Monica Place mall and other downtown businesses. Police said they made hundreds of arrests and that the National Guard had arrived to help.Couples sitting and enjoying meals at recently opened restaurants looked stunned as cars dropped off people, many of them wearing masks and hoodies, who then broke into a pharmacy on 7th and Broadway. Several looters...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The hashtag began to appear on social media not long after the man first spoke on national television Wednesday: #JayBakerResign.As the nation clamored for answers in the deadly shootings of eight people at Atlanta-area spas — six of them women of Asian descent — the spokesman for the sheriff’s department in Cherokee County, Ga. seemed to play down the news.After the arrest of , a 21-year-old charged with murder for the deaths, Capt. Jay Baker told reporters that Long was having “a really bad day.” He described a man suspected of a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The hashtag began to appear on social media not long after the man first spoke on national television Wednesday: #JayBakerResign.As the nation clamored for answers in the deadly shootings of eight people at Atlanta-area spas — six of them women of Asian descent — the spokesman for the sheriff’s department in Cherokee County, Ga. seemed to play down the news.After the arrest of , a 21-year-old charged with murder for the deaths, Capt. Jay Baker told reporters that Long was having “a really bad day.” He described a man suspected of a...WW…