Business: U.S. employers laid off 7.7 million workers in April, and in March available jobs fell 16% to 5 million. A12

Bridge ............................... B9Business ......................... A12

Classifieds ....................... B9Comics ....................... B6,7,9

Local news ........................A3Nation+World ...................A8

Opinion ............................ A13Puzzles ....................... B5,7,8

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L.A. County sheriff’s deputies stand guard in La Puente as demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd. The Board of Supervisors wants the department to limit inmate housing to about 12,000 daily. STAFF FILE PHOTO

By Olga Grigoryants and Josh CainStaff writers

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors said Tuesday they’re pleased with the huge reduction in inmates living in county’s jails. Now they want to see if those changes can be made permanent.

All five supervisors voted to

ask Sheriff Alex Villanueva to come up with a plan to main-tain the current population of about 12,000 inmates. That number is a drop of about 5,000 from the jail system’s average daily population before the coronavirus pandemic.

Fears of the disease spread-ing rapidly inside the county’s jails forced the sheriff to re-lease some inmates early. The

Los Angeles County Superior Court system, as well as the county’s public defender and district attorney, have worked to defer court hearings and send home some inmates be-ing held on pretrial detentions.

The board has known over-crowding in the jails was an is-sue since at least 2012.

“We know that overcrowding

L.A. COUNTY

Sheriff told to limit inmate count

By Juan A. Lozano, Nomaan Merchant and Adam GellerThe Associated Press

HOUSTON >> George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reck-oning over police brutality and ra-cial prejudice.

More than 500 mourners wear-ing masks against the coronavi-rus packed a Houston church a little more than two weeks after Floyd was pinned to the pavement by a white Minneapolis police offi-cer who put a knee on his neck for what prosecutors said was 8 min-utes, 46 seconds.

FUNERAL

Hundreds give final farewell to Floyd‘He is going to change the world,’ brother says

Supervisors see jail population reduction, want it to be permanent

INSIDE: Amid pandemic, L.A. County supervisors approve plans to help small businesses. PAGE A10

By Pierce Singgihpsinggih@scng.com

The El Monte Police Depart-ment has suspended the use of carotid control holds until fur-ther notice.

“El Monte police officers can work together to keep themselves safe and continue to find the bal-ance between officer safety and al-ways treating every member of the community with dignity and re-spect,” Chief David Reynoso said in a statement released Sunday.

The carotid control hold, other-wise known as the sleeper hold, is a maneuver in which one applies pressure around both sides of the neck with an arm, blocking blood flow to the brain.

Its use is being evaluated

LAW ENFORCEMENT

El Monte police suspend use of sleeper hold on suspects

INMATES >> PAGE 5

EL MONTE >> PAGE 5

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By Nathaniel Percynpercy@scng.com @NDPercy on Twitter

The heat peaked at 103 degrees in Anaheim on Tuesday, smashing a record of 92 degrees for the same date 30 years ago.

Newport Beach logged a high of 84 degrees — two degrees hotter than on June 9, 1990.

And highs climbed to 93 degrees near LAX and 97 degrees in down-town Los Angeles, breaking same-date records from 1979.

Hot, dry conditions were ex-pected to continue today, though wind patterns could change, giv-ing Southern California coastal flow rather than the dry winds that

drove brush fires in the region ear-lier in the week, forecasters said.

Temperatures were still expected in the mid- to high 90s in the valleys and the Inland Empire, with some areas possibly reaching triple dig-its, forecasters said.

Those high temperatures, com-bined with humidity in the single digits, heated up fuels and made for ideal brush fire conditions Monday and Tuesday, said meteorologist Eric Boldt of the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office.

Several fires sparked in the South-land over the two days, including a blaze behind the Hollywood Bowl that was quickly contained Tuesday morning, officials said.

Bigger fires broke out in River-

side County, with a 97-acre blaze near Lake Matthews that was about 80% contained Tuesday morning, officials said. A fire near Lake El-sinore that grew to about 27 acres was 100% contained Monday night.

Flames also got close to homes in Monterey Park on Tuesday after-noon.

Some small fires in L.A. County, including in View Terrace, Elysian Park, Eagle Rock, Lake Balboa and El Sereno, were quickly contained Monday.

Critical fire conditions were an-ticipated to continue today, though winds won’t be as prevalent and should shift from offshore flow to coastal winds, Boldt said.

WEATHER

97 in downtown L.A., 103 in Anaheim: Temperatures shatter records in Southern California, and it’s not over yet; neither is the risk of fires, experts warn

HANS GUTKNECHT — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Emma Paternoster, 5, and sister Olivia, 4, find refuge under an umbrella at Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday.

Hot enough for you? Expect more heat today

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