Walking into Downtown’s Long Beach Coffee and Tea shop to be greeted by smiling faces, encouraging words and a puppy, was exactly what Shani Crooks needed Sunday morning, the days leading up to it having been, in her words, “traumatizing.” - ADVERTISEMENT - Over the previous few days, during several public events organized by Crooks and four other Cal State Long Beach colleagues, racial slurs had been repeatedly lobbed at her, she witnessed colleagues being sexually harassed and was horrified when a Black History Month event was “Zoom bombed” by a naked man masturbating on camera. That was just Wednesday and Thursday.