{"id":238847,"date":"2010-01-27T02:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a815b9bb970b"},"modified":"2010-01-27T02:21:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:21:03","slug":"marchers-call-attention-to-violence-in-santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238847","title":{"rendered":"Marchers call attention to violence in Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287718beae970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Santa Monica March\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287718beae970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287718beae970c-500wi\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<p>Residents marched to a Santa Monica City Council meeting tonight to call attention to recurring issues of poverty and crime in the city&#8217;s Pico neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The march was prompted by the slaying of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-westside-shoot5-2009nov05,0,1330457.story\" >Richard Manuel Juarez<\/a>, who was gunned down Nov. 3 next to a police substation at Virginia Avenue Park.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Organizers said about 100 people &#8212; including Juarez&#8217;s parents &#8212; took part in the march from the Pico Youth &amp; Family Center to City Hall. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>They carried signs saying &quot;Peace&quot; and &quot;Stop the Violence.&quot;<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Marchers presented council members with a list of recommendations for violence intervention and prevention programs, said Oscar de la Torre, one of the organizers and a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.<\/p>\n<p>Located near the 10 Freeway, the Pico neighborhood is home to the city&#8217;s largest proportion of Latinos and African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <\/em><em>Marchers wave placards in Santa Monica City Hall. Credit: Joe Juarez.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents marched to a Santa Monica City Council meeting tonight to call attention to recurring issues of poverty and crime in the city&#8217;s Pico neighborhood. The march was prompted by the slaying of Richard Manuel Juarez, who was gunned down Nov. 3 next to a police substation at Virginia Avenue Park.Organizers said about 100 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}