



Los Angeles Police Department and City Hall security police tackled and took into custody several protesters who shouted complaints at the City Council and effectively shut down its meeting Friday after officials put off voting on a rent hike moratorium.

Three members of the L.A. Community Action Network were arrested, officials said. Council members had been scheduled to consider an ordinance preventing the owners of thousands of rent-controlled apartments from imposing an optional 3% rent hike between now and Oct. 31.

The proposed ordinance would impose a rent moratorium for buildings constructed before 1978 that have six or more units, a group that is governed by the city's rent-control law.