Protesters Square Off Against American Barbershop in Downtown Santa Ana
Updated: Sep 28, 2020
What began as an anti-police brutality march on Friday night turned into the latest chapter in downtown SanTana's gentrification wars--this time pitting Mexicans against Mexicans.
There was no problem when about 50 protesters initially assembled at a plaza on the intersection of Fourth and French streets around dusk. But when they returned from a rally at Sasscer Park (after a march that took them across the downtown area, with some activists chanting "Gentrification sucks!" and yelling "sell-outs" at patrons at the Playground, according to participants and onlookers), a near-melee happened at American Barbershop. That's where, protesters maintain, people flicked cigarette butts at them and yelled "Wetbacks!"
But who said the w-word and flung cig is leading to yet another battle, this time on the Internet.
Read more on my latest OC Weekly Navel Gazing Blog post:
blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/08/american_barbershop_santa_ana.php