Harris: And when the weather dropped down to 58 degrees this weekend, how did you cope?
Man: I just made sure all the windows were shut.
Harris: And what about your pets? Were they outside? What happened?
Man: Well, the cats were out till around ten. When it got a little too cold for ‘em, they came in.
Harris (to camera): The cats were out until around ten, but it got a little too cold them and they came in. Well, that’s how L.A. coped with that surprise low of 58 degrees that turned the weekend into a real weenie shrinker.
Say Their Names L.A., a die-in organized in October by a South Bay resident, involved 626 makeshift headstones representing people who had died in an officer-involved incident since 2012. Photo by Ashley Balderrama
At dusk on a Saturday in October, more than 300 people prostrated themselves on a downtown Los Angeles street.
Each held a wooden board or two, painted black and bearing the name, age, and photograph of an Angeleno who was killed by an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department or the L.A. Sheriff’s Department since the day in December of 2012 that Jackie Lacey became the city’s district attorney. (Lacey was defeated in the Nov. 3 election.) The date was important because during Lacey’s eight-year tenure, only one officer who had ended a life was prosecuted, though 626 people had died.