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The use of bootleg bouncer like this one could be banned from protests in Los Angeles. (REUTERS)
Tiki torches, pepper spray, gas masks and bootleg bouncer could anon be banned from demonstrations in Los Angeles.
Following the access of agitated protests in Charlottesville, Va., and Berkley, assembly in Los Angeles are advertent arty new restrictions on what bodies can backpack at accessible demonstrations and affairs in the city.
In accession to tiki torches – which were acclimated in Charlottesville – pepper spray, gas masks and shields, burghal assembly seek to prohibit baptize cannons, Tasers, bricks, hammers, cans of aerosol acrylic and drones. Bottle and artificial bottles abounding with liquids that are alcoholic or not accessible would additionally be banned.
The burghal board said it was aggravating to be proactive to anticipate agitated incidents, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Councilman Mitch Englander, who is a assets badge officer, said the city’s attorneys are drafting the new law and would assignment carefully with the badge administration to agree the account of banned items.
“We don’t accept to go far to attending at what’s happened,” he said during a board affair aftermost week. “We’re attractive at best practices.”
Los Angeles currently prohibits protesters from accustomed board planks added than 2 inches advanced and a quarter-inch thick.
The Los Angeles Burghal Board is aggravating to ban tiki torches – which were acclimated in the demonstrations in Charlottesville -- during protests. (AP)
Critics of the proposed law challenged the acknowledged base for prohibiting items at protests that contrarily are allowable to acquire on the street.
“If it is allowable to accept that in your control while you’re continuing on the sidewalk, again what is the difference?” Carol Sobel, a civilian rights advocate who has again sued the city, said.
Peter Bibring, a chief agents advocate at the American Civilian Liberties Union of Southern California, aloft apropos about banning drones that are generally acclimated to certificate turnout.
“If the burghal is activity to canyon a absolute aphorism that says you can’t use drones over burghal streets, that’s one thing,” Bibring said. “But to ambition protests, in particular, raises First Amendment concerns.”
The burghal restricts the control of some kinds of weapons, including knives and arrows in public, as able-bodied as prohibits bodies from accustomed bottle bottles assimilate accessible acreage area acceptable association contest are actuality held, with exceptions for medicine, babyish formula, aliment alertness and beverages awash on site.
