Los Angeles County beaches will close to the public during the Fourth of July weekend to limit the spread of COVID-19, but the county sheriff announced Monday his department won't enforce the closure order. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the order on Monday which will close the beaches for all recreational activities -- as well as prohibit fireworks displays to deter large crowds. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department wasn't consulted on that order and they will only enforce parking lots and traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Beaches will be closed from July 3 to July 6 at 5 a.m. The department announced more than 2,900 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, which it said was "the single largest one-day case count since the pandemic began." The order will include "all public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths that traverse that sanded portion of the beach, and beach access points."
Authorities in the California Bay Area said Monday that they are investigating another incident where a person is accused of intentionally coughing on someone during the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The most recent incident occurred when police said an unidentified woman intentionally coughed on a bartender. The woman was aggravated that she was told to put on a mask and to stop hugging people at the establishment. The bar released a video of the alleged incident in hopes to identify the woman. It is unclear if the bartender will press charges. Last week, police in San Jose said they were searching for a woman who appeared to cough on a 1-year-old at a Yogurtland after becoming “upset the female was not maintaining proper social distancing, so the suspect removed her face mask, got close to the baby’s face, and coughed 2-3 times."
A Missouri couple under fire for brandishing guns in the front yard of their home as protesters passed told police the group broke a gate to get onto the private street, and the pair say they only retrieved their firearms when they spotted “multiple” people who were already armed. The pair called the St. Louis Police Department shortly before 7:30 p.m. Sunday. They told arriving officers that they had heard a "commotion" and, upon investigating further, “observed a large group of subjects forcefully break an iron gate marked with ‘No Trespassing’ and ‘Private Street' signs”. Based on the couple’s account, police labeled the incident a case of trespassing and assault by intimidation, according to the incident summary. No other police reports were filed that night. “This is all private property. There are no public sidewalks or public streets,” McCloskey said. “We were told that we would be killed, our home burned and our dog killed. We were all alone facing an angry mob.”
France -- Police have evacuated the Westfield Les 4 Temps shopping centre and a metro station in La Defense, a suburb of Paris, while they search for a man who may be armed with a weapon. A major shopping centre in Paris has been evacuated and a train station shut as police search for a man who may be armed with a gun. Armed officers with helmets and shields were carrying out the search in La Defense, a business area in the western suburbs of the French capital. Footage shows panicked shoppers running inside the shopping centre and later having to walk slowly with their arms raised in the air as police carried out a search.
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Italy -- A group of protesters demonstrating against the leader of Italy's right-wing Lega party Matteo Salvini clashed with police in Mondragone.
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Two employees were fired after an Ohio couple who purchased a pizza at Little Caesars found pepperonis had been placed to form a backward swastika. Misty and Jason Laska made the discovery when they opened the box that they had purchased at the store in Brook Park on Saturday. "These are the kinds of things that are continuing to fuel the hate and the confusion that exists in the country and in the world," Jason Laska said. The Laskas said they tried calling the store, but were unable to reach anyone. "We're trying to solve hate, and even if this was just a joke internally for the employees, just stop. Stop with the symbolism, and let it go away," Jason Laska told WOIO-TV.
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WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT! The El Centro Police Department (ECPD) releases body camera footage of an officer-involved #shooting that resulted in the death of an El Centro man last December. The release of the footage comes less than a month after Manuel Verdugo's daughter, Stacey Verdugo, filed a lawsuit demanding the release of bodycam footage from officers. According to ECPD, 50-year-old Manuel Verdugo allegedly charged at police with knives in his hands that he had stolen from the store. Police say they tried to subdue him with a bean bag gun but failed. Three officers then discharged their weapons at Verdugo to defend themselves. Verdugo died of his injuries at the scene. (Read the full story.)
Hundreds of people attended a prayer vigil as the Tulsa community rallied to show support for two police officers fighting for their lives after they were shot during a traffic stop. The vigil was Monday evening, after rookie officer Aurash Zarkeshan and Sgt. Craig Johnson were each shot in the head and critically injured early that morning. Police told local media around 3:30 a.m. Monday, Zarkeshan stopped David Anthony Ware, 32, for driving with an expired license plate tag. Johnson showed up to provide backup. Police said a struggle ensued when Ware refused an order to get out of the vehicle. The officers were then shot when Ware reached under his seat for a handgun and fired three times, the station reported. Police said Ware fled the scene after calling a friend to come pick him up. He was eventually caught after manhunt. His friend, Michael Hall, 29, was arrested on an accessory charge. 💙💙🙏🏼 Prayers for the officers Sgt. Craig Johnson, left, and Officer Aurash Zarkeshan of theTulsa Police Department.
An Alaska man allegedly broke into a local firehouse, stole a truck, then drove with the sirens on for about 15 miles until reaching a bar in a neighboring town. The suspect, Dawson Cody Porter, was arrested after the joyride on Saturday in front of Fisherman’s Bar in the town of Naknek, a local Fox affiliate reported. Porter allegedly used a piece of wood to bust through a window of the King Salmon Fire Station in Eagle River. He then got behind the wheel of the truck, hit the sirens and took off for the bar, bursting through the station’s doors and driving about half an hour before climbing out. “Porter caused approximately $10,000 in damage and rendered a $100,000 piece of fire apparatus inoperable until repairs can be made,” local police told the news station. When he got to the bar, two police officers arrested him on burglary, vehicle theft and criminal mischief charges.
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WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT! This is a breaking news story and is being updated. Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks announced Sparks police officers were justified when they shot and killed Miciah Lee, an armed and suicidal 18-year-old man in January. On Monday, Hicks released a 50-page report detailing the investigation following widespread community complaints about the time it takes for investigators to release details on a police shooting. Sparks police on Monday also released a nearly 29-minute video that contextualizes the officer-worn body camera footage from the events leading up to the #shooting. Neither agency on Monday announced plans to stage press conferences about the shooting. The video released by Sparks police includes audio from the initial 911 call, footage of the car chase and the shooting.