Citizen to Lakewood Council: COVID-19 committee or declaration

LAKEWOOD, CALIF. — Citizen and possible 2022 City Council candidate, Christian Hamlin, demands a citizens committee or a public declaration regarding Covid-19.

Five members of the Lakewood Citizens for Freedom group attended the July 27, 2021, Council meeting. Hamlin and Brian Maquena both spoke to the Council against the LA County mask mandates.

Hamlin related to the Council how he and his wife, Michelle Hamlin (a teacher and possible Long Beach Unified School District candidate), had to pull their kids out of school due to the mask mandates. Hamlin wanted a committee to review the data to see if such county mandates made sense, which he argued they did not, and a public declaration supporting private businesses in the face of possible Covid-19 lockdowns.