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Lorinda Lacy, 45, stands outside her party store painted with a mural depicting Martin Luther King Jr. in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Lacy moved out of Watts 20 years ago because she didn't want her daughters to grow up with the trauma she experienced as a girl. She said she eventually became &quot;immune&quot; to the violence after stepping over bodies on the way to school and finding out who had been killed the night before or who had their house shot up. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

55 years after riots, Watts section of LA still bears scars

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Lorinda Lacy, 45, stands outside her party store painted with a mural depicting Martin Luther King Jr. in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Lacy moved out of Watts 20 years ago because she didn't want her daughters to grow up with the trauma she experienced as a girl. She said she eventually became &quot;immune&quot; to the violence after stepping over bodies on the way to school and finding out who had been killed the night before or who had their house shot up. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

55 years after riots, Watts section of LA still bears scars

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, discusses his support to a proposed measure by Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson, to make it &quot;illegal to use the choke hold and carotid artery restrain tactics to forcibly detain a suspect,&quot; during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 8, 2020. The proposal appears to go beyond any other state's law and comes after a different restraint hold was used by Minneapolis police was blamed for the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California legislative leaders back state ‘sleeper hold’ ban

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press