City Of West Hollywood: Official City Statement: Hate Has No Place Here

West Hollywood CA

24 May, 2022

2:50 AM

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Press release from the City of West Hollywood: May 22, 2022 The City of West Hollywood and the West Hollywood Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have received reports this weekend about multiple vehicles seen in the area displaying messages of antisemitism, and about incidents of hate speech in the community. These reports are particularly distressing as we mark Harvey Milk Day. We celebrate Milk, who was Jewish and who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and we will never forget the path he helped to build in rejecting discrimination and in embracing full civil rights. In honoring his life and in remembering how his life was cut short by hate-fueled violence, we must commit to standing together in rejecting hate. Hate has no place in the City of West Hollywood. If you see something, say something: call the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station at (310) 855-8850 and, in an emergency, always call 911. The City of West Hollywood has a core value of respect and support for all people and there is no tolerance for hate, intolerance, or discrimination. This press release was produced by the City of West Hollywood. The views expressed here are the author's own.