Daytime Downtown Sexual Assault Caught on Camera in Long Beach

I'm covering this mostly because it's such a classic thing to happen in Long Beach.  Also because I appreciate the older guy who stepped up.

I used to go to the gym not far from here, on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach.  That's downtown, near City Hall, the Courthouse, and the Main Library. 

Fun fact:  Not long after opening the newly constructed Billie Jean King Main Library downtown, they had to make its services "to-go only" for the safety of library staff.  The many homeless people who congregated on the steps had become more volatile than usual.  Long Beach had a series of stabbing sprees.  There must have been other issues at the library itself.  But it was fun having that giant, newly minted library open to the public while it lasted.

Part of the problem is that the library itself (around the corner from where the instant assault occurred) is across the street from the end of the Blue Line.  Everyone is forced off of the train for cleaning.

People can enter the trains for free on the LA Metro.  It's on the honor system, where you're meant to pay on a card, and then the police come around and spot check.  If you haven't paid, they give you a $250 ticket.  This is not a deterrent for homeless people, who get on the trains to sleep.  Then they get shoved off the trains at the end of the line, across the street from the main library in Long Beach, so the employees can hose everything down.  Now you know.