Big chunks of Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard were closed – hard closures with barricades. The Sunset Strip was sealed off at both ends, and Melrose Avenue is now wall-to-wall National Guard troops, dressed like those Imperial Stormtroopers from the Star Wars movies, standing beside their giant armored personnel carriers – lots of those. And a full moon was rising outside the window. Another LAPD helicopter and two news copters were doing orbits three blocks to the east,...
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Big chunks of Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard were closed – hard closures with barricades. The Sunset Strip was sealed off at both ends, and Melrose Avenue is now wall-to-wall National Guard troops, dressed like those Imperial Stormtroopers from the Star Wars movies, standing beside their giant armored personnel carriers – lots of those. And a full moon was rising outside the window. Another LAPD helicopter and two news copters were doing orbits three blocks to the east, with the sound of sirens in the distance, and there was this wall down on La Brea earlier in the afternoon. The wall explains these things. ~ Wednesday, June 3, 2020
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