The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting was temporarily held Tuesday as protesters called for officials to shut down the newly reopened Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.

“Free our youth and shut it down,” a group of protesters shouted in the boardroom as the meeting began around 9:45 am.

“Shut down Los Padrinos,” chanted another group, sitting for a few

rows of aisles

away.

Tauheedah Shakur, organizer of the Youth Justice Coalition, said she was tired of recovering

the

weekly board meetings

to ask to call

the province

Unpleasant

to block

it is the

youth halls as conditions inside continued to deteriorate.

The protest, she said, was born

e

out of that frustration.

“We kept coming. We kept coming religiously every Tuesday. Nonstop,” she said. “And they wouldn’t listen. And so every organizer knows that after you play nice, it’s time to make them uncomfortable.”

Protesters said they wanted that too

to see

the province

Unpleasant

cut

financing from the

Probation Department

financing

.

Los Padrinos, located in Downey, reopened this month after a state board of trustees directed the county to remove most youth from troubled youth halls in Boyle Heights and Sylmar. The order followed a worsening personnel crisis, escalating violence and the overdose death of 18-year-old Bryan Diaz.

Nine kids have overdosed since Bryan Diaz, one man sang Tuesday, standing a few feet away

board meeting

room entrance. What else is needed?

After about

15

minutes of singing, the protest moved outside and the meeting resumed a few minutes later.

County leaders have said Los Padrinos represents a fresh start for the probation department after years of dysfunction.

But Adreena Rochall, whose son moved to Los Padrinos last week from the Barry J. Nidorf facility in Sylmar, said he

son had found was still finding

conditions appalling and

. she said

she had heard from the people inside

That being said

the air conditioning was broken.

“We have an entire community of children that is just being destroyed,” she said. “It’s not rehab and recovery. It’s madhouse.”