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—Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, one of only two Black managers in Major League Baseball, criticized the league's reduction of opportunities for African American players, in comments given on "Jackie Robinson Day." [LAT]
—A multi-agency raid of Federal, State, and local law enforcement lead to the arrest of 30 across Los Angeles, intended to send a message to perpetrators of violent crime reportedly on the rise in the city. [NBC]
—Universal Studios is beginning its conversion to electric trams, introducing the first four electric vehicles to its fleet . [NBC]
—67-year-old Ed Buck, formerly a major donor to the Democratic Party, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for giving meth to two men who died from injecting the drug at his West Hollywood apartment. [CNN]