Showdown At Point Dume – Deputies Convince Surfers To Scatter

The waves were up yesterday … and many surfers disobeyed the public health laws to paddle out. 

Surfers were ordered to disperse yesterday afternoon at Point Dume.

Deputies were described as easy going … and they kept their ticket books in their holsters … as they walked down a private pathway to the beach.

Surfers at Little Dume reportedly scattered.

Same story at Surfrider Beach yesterday.

Two sheriff’s boats and several  deputies on the shore … again scattering the crowd.

Some residents called the deputies’ actions overkill … police state … Nazi-like.

Others in Malibu took to social media to say the surfers have to risk public health by being in the water.

Said one … “Selfish entitled jerks. Get over your yourselves.”

Although beaches in Malibu …. Santa Monica and all of Los Angeles County are closed … some beaches remain open up the coast.

The beaches between Oxnard and Ventura have remained open for surfing and other ocean activities.

Also … apparently … the County Line beach has -not- been closed.

The beaches in the City of Ventura have been closed … and the beaches at Point Mugu State Park … also closed.

But for Easter weekend … some of those beaches in Oxnard will be closed … until Monday.

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