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Investigation does not confirm councilwoman's sexual harassment claims against councilman By Joe Taglieri
By City News Service
olice on Sunday said 74 people were arrested for allegedly failing to disperse after Saturday's "No Kings" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles turned violent, with some protesters throwing chunks of concrete at federal officers and one spray-painting a death threat near the Metropolitan Detention Center. The arrests included 66 adults and eight juveniles, the Los Angeles Police Department told City News Service on Sunday. Additionally, one person was arrested on suspicion of possessing a dirk or dagger, police said. Federal officials told CBS2 that at least two officers were hit by concrete chunks and required medical care. The downtown rally began around 2 p.m. Saturday at Gloria Molina Grand Park across from City Hall, followed by a march at 3 p.m., part of a nationwide day of protests against the Trump administration, including more than 50 separate events across Los Angeles and Orange County. The downtown protest included tens of thousands of people and was peaceful until the late afternoon.
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No Kings demonstrators voice opposition to the Trump administration in Anaheim. | Photo courtesy of the 50501 Movement
The LAPD's incident commander declared a citywide tactical alert around 5:10 p.m. Saturday after a group of demonstrators started kicking a fence in front of the federal detention center at Alameda and Temple streets. Demonstrators were ordered to leave the area. "Protestors on Alameda between Aliso and Temple have been warned multiple times by federal authorities to not attempt to tear
down the gate and not throw items," according to a post on an LAPD social media account. "Federal authorities are using non-lethal measures to move crowd back." Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles County, wrote on social media, "To those who were smashing concrete
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blocks and throwing them at our officers, we have you on video. We will find you and arrest you too. You've been warned." Earlier, Essayli had written, "My office has authorized immediate arrests for anyone assaulting law enforcement. You will be arrested and charged with a federal felony." Video from the scene showed LAPD officers on foot and horseback lining up to
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n investigation into sexual harassment allegations by an Arcadia City Council member against a council colleague has determined the charges were unsubstantiated. Councilwoman Sharon Kwan, however, stands by the formal complaint she filed alleging misogynistic misconduct by Councilman David Fu, claiming the investigation was biased in Fu's favor. At the end of the March 3 council meeting, Fu spoke about the investigation's conclusion "as a matter of personal privilege." Despite city officials requesting "that confidentiality be maintained on this issue, either member Kwan or her friends have publicized everywhere that they can that she initiated a harassment claim against me with the city," Fu said. "As this matter is clearly now a public issue, I have, up until now maintained my silence because of the direction to maintain confidentiality. But ... I will now address this issue."
The city's hired investigator notified Fu on Feb. 27 "that the investigation had been closed, and there was found that none of Sharon's allegations against me were sustained," he said. "This is the same way you could say that they were found to be false." Kwan said during the March 3 meeting that the investigation's finding of unsubstantiated allegations "is not accurate, and I do not believe it was fair." She told HeySoCal.com the only people interviewed were the four other council members and City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto. "There's a lot of problems with the City Council, and I also think there's a lot of problems with the investigation," Kwan said March 3, declining to say much more and citing the city's request to keep details of the investigation confidential. In an interview with HeySoCal.com, she alleged Fu on multiple occasions stood so close to her that she could feel his breath, stood behind her and whis-
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