The L.A. County DA's office there was trying to downplay the move by saying that Torrance and Inglewood are in the same judicial district and draw from the same jury pool.
Torrance is some 40% minority now, but it didn't used to be that way. Until the late 80s, it was fairly hardcore bigot town. When I was an intern reporter at the Los Angeles Times in 1986, I was assigned to a bureau there.
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