The Los Angeles Police Department declared an unlawful assembly outside Wi Spa for the second time in two weeks, the department announced Saturday.
At a protest near the spa, which made headlines after a viral video showed some customers bristling at its policy of allowing transgender women to disrobe in the women’s section, two groups clashed as smoke bombs and projectiles were hurled at officers, resulting in a dispersal order, the LAPD tweeted Saturday. Several dozen people were arrested, and numerous weapons, including a stun gun and knives, were found discarded, the department added.
At a protest near Wilshire Bl & Rampart Bl, 2 groups clashed. Smoke bombs/projectiles were thrown at ofcrs & a dispersal order was issued. Several dozen people were arrested. Numerous items in violation of 55.07 LAMC were found discarded including a stungun, knives, pepper spray pic.twitter.com/exk7vvTfRm
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) July 17, 2021
The LAPD first dispersed a violent clash over the spa’s policy on July 3, when police in tactical gear ushered a crowd off the street as some demonstrators set a dumpster on fire and screamed in officers’ faces, according to CBS Los Angeles.
The clashes stemmed from an incident that occurred last month. An Instagram user with the handle @cubanaangel posted a video apparently showing the user confronting spa staff after having seen male genitalia while disrobing at the spa.
“I just want to be clear with you. It’s OK — it’s OK for a man to go into the women’s section, show his penis around the other women, young little girls [who are] underage? Your spa, Wi Spa, condone[s] that? Is that what you’re saying?” an off-camera voice can be heard asking.
The spa worker’s response is muffled, but the original voice then responds, “What sexual orientation? I see a d***. It lets me know he’s a man. He’s a man.”
As the spa worker speaks, the off-camera voice repeatedly says, “He is not a female. He is not a female.”
“[There’s] girls down there, other women, who are highly offended [by] what they just saw, and you did nothing, absolutely nothing. In fact, you sided with him,” the voice said. “So, Wi Spa is in agreement with men that just say they are a woman and they can go down there with their penis and get into the women’s section. Is that what you’re saying?”
The off-camera voice then appears to encourage a fellow customer, who also seems disturbed by the incident, to get a refund.
A man who appears to be a fellow customer approaches the poster and asks, “Are you talking about the transgender person?”
“There is no such thing as transgender. He has a d***. OK? He has a penis,” she responds, later adding, “As a woman, I have a right to feel comfortable without a man exposing himself. OK? … It’s traumatizing to see that.”
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After the off-camera voice tells the other customer he’s “out of alignment and this is not right,” she appears to address the spa’s female customers directly, at which point one of them voices agreement.
“He should’ve not been allowed to do that,” one of them tells the poster.
“Exactly,” she replies. “Exactly.”
