Tag: social justice

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...

When video emerged this summer of La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages manhandling and eventually arresting a 23-year-old man sitting near the Grossmont Center trolley stop, residents and civil rights activists called for an internal investigation and the officer’s termination. Dages is white and the man, Amaurie Johnson, is Black. Dages had said he initially approached Johnson because he was smoking...