Historic Settlement in Challenge to Gang Injunction Restrictions For years, nearly 6,000 residents in Los Angeles lived under draconian curfew restrictions that prohibited them from being outside after 10 p.m. Law enforcement officers simply had to add one’s name to a gang injunction list, and that person’s liberty was significantly constrained. Once on the list, individuals had little recourse to get their names removed. Christian Rodriguez, shown with his daughter, was wrongly labeled a gang member and arrested for violating an unconstitutional gang injunction curfew. “I couldn’t even be outside helping my mom with the groceries at night.”
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Christian Rodriguez, a teenager who lived in the Mar Vista Gardens housing project, was one of the unlucky souls impacted by this misguided policy. Even though Christian did not have any gang affiliation or gang ties, his name was included on a gang injunction list. As a result, in 2009, he was arrested by LAPD for simply hanging outside with friends.
