A large crowd of protestors marched in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to demand a safer city following the murder ofactor Johnny Wactor, who was shot and killed on May 25. They also expressed anger and frustration over the lack of progress in the case.
The 37-year-old actor was coming off a late-night bartending shift when he spotted the thieves near the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Hope Street, near downtown. When he tried to stop them, one of the thieves pulled a gun and fatally shot the actor. “The second goal would be, because it’s two-fold, is just to shine the light on this overall crisis that we are having in Los Angeles, with violence, with crime. We want our city leaders, the mayor, the , city council to at least admit that we have a problem so that we can address it and move forward with safer streets.”
Family, friends and others marched to the steps of City Hall today — calling for a reward to catch the killer and changes for a safer city.…Crime has soared in Democrat-controlled Los Angeles in recent years, due in large part to soft-on-crime DA George Gascon , who decriminalized large swaths of offenses.