Six months ago, Los Angeles County leaders signed off on an unprecedented transaction: They would return two parcels of beachfront property in Manhattan Beach to the Bruce family, the first example of the government giving back land to a Black family after acknowledging it had been stolen On Tuesday, the county announced a surprise twist in the historic deal: The family would sell the Bruce's Beach property back to the county for nearly $20 million.... ... the land was not zoned for development, and the family was wary of the years-long permitting fight they would need to wage if they...