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For the second year in a row, the LA Pride parade, one of the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ celebrations, will not take place this summer amid ongoing concerns about the coronavirus, organizers said this week.
The decision comes amid a steep decline in new infections and hospitalizations in California. But planning large-scale events takes time, organizers said, and it is still unclear what the situation will be come summertime.
“Safety was our No. 1 priority,” said Sharon-Franklin Brown, board president of Christopher Street West, the nonprofit organization that produces LA Pride. “It takes time to put on a parade, [and] we were not sure we were going to be where we’re at now, which is this amazing space where everything is opening up.”
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A manhunt was underway Sunday in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of a man near George Floyd Square, an intersection that serves as a memorial to the man whose death at the hands of police in May set off Black Lives Matter protests across the nation.
Police provided few details of the shooting, which took place less than 48 hours before jury selection is set to begin in the murder trial of the police officer charged in Floyd s death.
Police spokesman John Elder said police were alerted to Saturday s shooting at about 5:45 p.m. local time and were told the victim or victims had been brought to the autonomous zone at the edge of the intersection.