Tag: civil unrest

Security Risk Management firm Hillard Heintze presented their After Action report on the May 2019 Black Lives Matter-associated event to La Mesa City council members on Jan 26, nearly eight months after a planned peaceful protest escalated into a nighttime riot which left several historic buildings burned to the ground. Organized after La Mesa Police Officer Matthew Dages arrested Amaurie...

As the nation passes 90 days of Black civil rights protests, adults who lived through the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s comment on the current, sometimes destructive and violent protest movement happening locally. “I remember very well growing up and being in college in the Vietnam War, moving from a fairly conservative family to more and more...