For the past year, the bedrooms of students everywhere have been transformed into their classrooms. As of March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and as a result, LA County will acknowledge the first anniversary of distance learning.
On Saturday, March 27, at 5 p.m., LBPD officers were dispatched to the 3700 block of E. Esther Street regarding a shooting that resulted in the death of two males.
A LBPD Facebook post commemorating Black History Month was catalyst to the Beachcomber receiving multiple emails and telephone calls from LBPD police officers complaining of the dearth of African American officers, supervisors, middle managers and command officers in their ranks.
Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna blames the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, not thin police levels resulting from mayor/council actions from 2009-2015 and a September 2020 council defunding, for a recent increase in shootings.
The Aquarium of the Pacific is now open at 25 percent capacity to the public. Guests can now journey into the aquarium’s three main galleries, which have been closed to the public since summer 2020.
17th/Orange (south of LBCC Central LB campus). Two vehicles struck/damaged by gunfire. No persons hit. CD 6 neighborhoods have had at least 31 shootings (persons hit + casings found/person not hit + homicides) since Jan. 1, 2021.
