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Suspect Sought in Attack on Elderly Asian Man on Third Street Promenade Santa Monica police looking for suspect in May 1 Third Street Promenade battery By Sam Catanzaro
Santa Monica police are searching for a suspect wanted for a possible raciallymotivated attack on an elderly Asian man shopping on the Third Street Promenade. According to the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), on Saturday, May 1, 2021 around 9:30 a.m., officers responded to Trimana Market (1348 3rd Street Promenade) to investigate an assault. The suspect, described by police as an “AfricanAmerican female in her 50s”, used her shopping cart to hit the victim, an eldery Asian male.
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Trimana Market on the Third Street Promenade.
“The described female hit the victim a couple of times with her shopping cart, and even knocked the phone out of his hand when he attempted to film her,” SMPD Lieutenant Rudy Flores said of the suspect, who police say is around 5’7”, with a Promenade Attack, see page 10
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Cellphone footage of a suspect captured by the victim of an attack on the Third Street Promenade on May 1.
Santa Monica High Named Among Top 1,000 High Schools in the Country Samohi top 1,000 in nation, top 100 in California, according to annual rankings By toi Creel
Samohi has been named one of the best high schools in the country. According to a recent report ranking the best high schools in the United States by
U.S. News and World Report, Santa Monica High School (Samohi) came in at #708 in the country. Nearly 20,000 schools were ranked on the list. In addition, Samohi was named #98 in California high schools and #41 in Los Angeles Metro Area high schools. Among highlights behind Samohi’s ranking are an AP participation rate of 70 percent. The report also gave high marks to the school for its College Curriculum Breadth Index Rank of #496 nationwide. This shows the proportions of 12th graders who took and passed AP and IB exams in multiple areas.
Samohi also ranked #659 nationwide in the report’s College Readiness Index Rank, showing the proportions of 12th graders who took and passed at least one AP or IB exam. In addition, the report noted the total minority enrollment is 60 percent, and 27 percent of students are economically disadvantaged. The rankings were based on six factors surrounding academic performance including college readiness, reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth and graduation rates. The
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The Santa Monica High School gym.
data was taken from the 2018-2019 academic school year, therefore excluding data from the school year rattled by the COVID-19 pandemi
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