California News – 07-01-2021

Coronado High School has championship taken away after tortilla incident

  • Just after a basketball game on June 19 at Coronado High School, they school has its division regional championship taken away after a tortilla throwing incident
  • After Coronado High won the game 60-57 against Orange Glen High School, the team threw tortillas at the basketball court 
  • The incident was seen as racially insensitive as a majority of the team was made up primarily of Latinos

 With spread of delta variant in California has led to increase in virus cases

  • A little over 2 weeks ago, California has reopened their economy but during that time, the contagious delta variant of the Coronavirus has spread to those unvaccinated
  • As a result of the spread of the new delta variant, Los Angeles County has now strongly encouraged the resumed use of wearing face coverings indoors 
  • Currently, California is averaging about 1,000 additional cases every day which is an increase of roughly 17% over the last 2 weeks 

A growing number of hate crimes have emerged in California 

  • Back in 2020, California had a total of 1,330 report claims of hate crimes and in comparison to 2019, the state saw 1,015 crimes which ends to be a 31% increase
  • The hate crimes have been generally targeting African Americans according to Attorney General Rob Bonta 

By K Buenavista

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