City and county crews are preparing a sweep of homeless encampments near the Los Angeles River south of Anaheim Street in Long Beach, even as the city’s homeless shelters are near capacity and the temporary winter shelter is slated to close in a little more than a week.
One resident said he was kept from going to work even though he wasn’t sick, something the Long Beach Health Department says it didn’t recommend.
A judge today declared a mistrial when jurors deadlocked over whether to convict a CHP officer of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for crashing into and killing a 24-year-old man walking in the street.
Cezannie Mount was walking in the road when a CHP officer crashed into him at high speed, prosecutors allege. Mount’s family has questioned why the officer is facing only misdemeanor charges.
Police said an officer shot the attacker when he refused to drop the knife.
