{"id":80573,"date":"2025-12-04T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80573\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:05:08","slug":"historic-plaques-stolen-from-long-beach-park-saddened-and-outraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80573\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Plaques Stolen From Long Beach Park: &#8216;Saddened And Outraged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Historic plaques were stolen from a Long Beach park on Monday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to Martin Luther King Jr. Park shortly after 7 p.m. after getting a report about the stolen plaques, Public Information Officer Eric Stachura said in an email to Patch.<\/p>\n<p>Police are reviewing video footage to try to identify a suspect, Stachura said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1290124836467441&amp;set=a.255932833219985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Council Member Suely Saro<\/a> called the theft of the plaques a \u201ctroubling incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened and outraged by the theft,\u201d Saro said. \u201cSuch acts not only disrespect our shared history but also impact the entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saro said she\u2019s committed to having the plaques replaced to preserve \u201cthe legacy they represent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theft comes after \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LongBeachMayor\/posts\/pfbid024T6LsG112TZ3NLAL5EqEZzyzEvTrBL3BBFaF9wgNJ58ZgUeEjTBKK4zWVgDbjz6sl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the statue at Martin Luther King Jr. Park<\/a> was defaced with graffiti\u201d in late October, according to Mayor Rex Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, however, was quickly restored, Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t let negativity define our city,\u201d Richardson wrote. \u201cLong Beach is strong, united, and resilient \u2014 and when something tries to bring us down, we rise together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Historic plaques were stolen from a Long Beach park on Monday, police say. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-80573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}