By City News Service
US-VIRUS-HEALTH
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Homeless activists set up a vehicle “blockade Wednesday night along Skid Row in an attempt to stop Evangelical Christian Sean Feucht from starting a series of New Year s concerts amid concerns from some that the gatherings could be super-spreader events for coronavirus.
A row of vehicles lined a stretch of road near the intersection of Fifth Street and Towne Avenue, about an hour before the planned 7 p.m. start of the show.
“We made it clear, if they want to come to this community, with masks on, we re OK, Stephen “Cue Jn-Marie, pastor of Church Without Walls on Skid Row, one of the leaders of the blockade, told KCAL9.
COVID-19 ‘superspreader’ event feared in LA as Christian singer defies health order for concerts By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times
Published: December 30, 2020, 9:02am
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LOS ANGELES – A conservative evangelical Christian singer with a history of defying COVID-19 health mandates plans three days of New Year’s gatherings in the Los Angeles area, including stops on skid row and at a tent city in Echo Park, raising fears that the events will be viral “super-spreaders.”
Skid row activists plan a car blockade to stop Sean Feucht a Redding, Calif., volunteer pastor and failed Republican congressional candidate and his followers from staging what is billed as a “massive outreach” Wednesday evening on skid row, at the height of Los Angeles County’s pandemic crisis. Feucht’s plans come as California, facing record case counts and a severe shortage of intensive care hospital beds, has extended its stay-at-home order.
A conservative evangelical Christian singer with a history of defying COVID-19 health mandates plans three days of New Year’s gatherings in the Los Angeles area, including stops on skid row and at a tent city in Echo Park, raising fears that the events will be viral “super-spreaders.”
Skid row activists plan a car blockade to stop Sean Feucht a Redding, Calif., volunteer pastor and failed Republican congressional candidate and his followers from staging what is billed as a “massive outreach” Wednesday evening on skid row, at the height of Los Angeles County’s pandemic crisis. Feucht’s plans come as California, facing record case counts and a severe shortage of intensive care hospital beds, has extended its stay-at-home order.
A conservative evangelical Christian singer with a history of defying COVID-19 health mandates plans three days of New Year’s gatherings in the Los Angeles area, including stops on skid row and at a tent city in Echo Park, raising fears that the events will be viral “super-spreaders.”
Skid row activists plan a car blockade to stop Sean Feucht a Redding, Calif., volunteer pastor and failed Republican congressional candidate and his followers from staging what is billed as a “massive outreach” Wednesday evening on skid row, at the height of Los Angeles County’s pandemic crisis. Feucht’s plans come as California, facing record case counts and a severe shortage of intensive care hospital beds, has extended its stay-at-home order.