BLACK LIVES MATTER: City Council spars over Bruce’s Beach plaque
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council’s yearlong effort to set the history of Bruce’s Beach aright hit another snag Tuesday night when council members failed to come to an agreement on the language for a new plaque meant to better represent what occurred a century ago. In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests and the local Justice for Bruce’s Beach movement, the Council in August 2020 created the Bruce’s Beach Task Force, appointing residents to an advisory panel tasked with crafting an apology to the Bruce family, compiling a history, and exploring ways to publicly represent that history. The apology never happened. A council majority instead issued an acknowledgment and a condemnation of what occurred at Bruce’s Beach. Mayor pro tem Steve Napolitano, who along with Mayor Hildy Stern co-chaired the Task Force and argued for an apology, said on Tuesday night the council had erred in this decision but defended its much-maligned efforts to better acknowledge the history of Bruce’s Beach. “I’m not going to re-litigate why we did this, why we are here,” Napolitano said. “It was right to do when we started down this path, it’s still the right thing to do today. The only…
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