The department has also boosted patrols around houses of worship and community centers around San Gabriel Valley.
In the wake of Sunday's mass shooting at a Laguna Woods church, the Los Angeles Sherriff's Department announced that they will bolster patrols around the city's Taiwan Center.
Despite, the added police presence, the center held a press conference and continued to address the community's sorrow while also preaching peace in the face of violence. The attack at the Geneva Presbyterian Church has drawn the eyes of federal law enforcement with the FBI investigating the deadly shooting as a hate crime related to political tensions between China and Taiwan.
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