L.A. seeks criminal charges for 8 businesses breaking stay-at-home order

Mayor Eric Garcetti said eight Los Angeles businesses may face criminal prosecution for failing to comply with the city’s “Safer at Home” order, which tells non-essential businesses to close in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Garcetti didn’t name the businesses but said one of them was a smoke shop that refused to close, according to the Los Angeles Times. “And even when police officers were there, they said, ‘Forget you’ — probably not in as nice words — ‘we’re…