Local News in Brief : $500,000 Claim Filed
Organizers of the Sunset Junction Festival have filed a $500,000 claim against the City of Los Angeles for damages suffered when police forced them to end a Labor Day weekend event a day early.
“Basically, they were discriminated against . . . because they are gay and lesbian people,” said the group’s attorney, Samuel Paz.
A three-day Labor Day concert was to have raised money for the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair in the Silver Lake area. The event was started in 1980 to promote understanding between homosexuals and Latinos in the area.
Authorities said they received hundreds of noise complaints from neighbors, and police confiscated sound equipment at the close of the festival’s second day.
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