

However, I did manage to obtain a copy of the actual permit itself. Whether this claim is true or not is not yet known. It’s not yet clear what happened, but the official story has coalesced, and it’s that the company running the test site decided unilaterally to close it down for the film shoot. KTown for All knows its way around the media, and soon both the New York Times and the Washington Post had covered the story, the Times attributing the story to Ktown for All and including a quote from organizer Devon Manney.

It took the Mayor of Los Angeles 66 minutes after the Times published to announce, by Tweet at eleven minutes after midnight, that the test site would remain open. The Los Angeles Times published a story at 11:05 PM. Deadline covered the story almost immediately. In the middle of a horrible and terrifying COVID spike, LA just cancelled all of its Dec 1 appointments at Union Station (one of the only transit-accessible facilities) with less than 24hrs notice because of A FILM SHOOT!! WTF?!!?Īs you can imagine, Twitter was incensed, and rightly so. At 4:51 PM on Novemthe incomparable activist crew known as KTown for All tweeted out an announcement stating that the City was shutting down the Union Station COVID test site on Decembecause of a film shoot:
