Echo Park in Los Angeles had become another Blue Tarp Tent City and for reasons I did not care to research, the city of Los Angeles decided to have them removed. Of course, once the news hit the Social media nets, the Homeless activist who till them could not give two craps about the homeless other than posting insightful tweets and Instagram pictures, suddenly became incensed about their plight and protested the removal.
A look at crowd today at the #EchoPark rally outside of city councilman @MitchOFarrell’s office this morning. Community members are protesting the possibly closure of the park & forced displacement of the people experiencing homelessness here in the park. pic.twitter.com/LbrPnbdFcL
— Leanna Faulk (@newsbyLeanna) March 24, 2021
Hundreds of us on Sunset Boulevard in #EchoPark now at sunset. #EchoParkRiseUp! pic.twitter.com/yPwWAsFmNa
— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) March 26, 2021
Police was present to see that the clearing was done and keep the crap to a minimun. Of course, “activists and cops ended up trading stupid.
Protesters push back #LAPD on Sunset & #echopark Ave. Some of the noises you hear are from a barricade being pushed. Around 30 seconds you’ll hear & see LAPD shoot a projectile directly into the crowd as we have our hands raised & chant “hands up, don’t shoot”. #EchoParkRiseUp pic.twitter.com/ROcdjZmmRO
— Jessica (@jessicarayerog1) March 26, 2021
“Wait. I’m with Spectrum News 1.”
“I have to stay with my crew.”
This is the moment three LAPD officers pulled me from a crowd of protestors and zip tied my hands tonight at Echo Park Lake. @SpecNews1SoCal pic.twitter.com/jwSBFgpsSc
— Kate Cagle (@KateCagle) March 26, 2021
Posted literally 30 minutes before the mass displacement of the houseless community at #EchoPark #EchoParkRiseUp pic.twitter.com/s9CKM8Hl8t
— Chris Cuellar (@civil_services) March 25, 2021
This one was a particularly rather “moving” tweet: A vigil for the displaced!
Vigil for the unhoused residents that were forced to leave #EchoPark today— good crowd! #EchoParkRiseUp pic.twitter.com/vzY2kbHZ9Z
— Waterspider (@waterspider__) March 26, 2021
And where were all these unfortunate people sent to live on the taxpayers coin? The L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown
Go to 15:44 for the hotel part or just watch the whole video.
This hotel. Notice the update indicating the hotel will be closed till January next year:
If you click here, you get to see the photos of the hotel and its amenities. I am telling you it is pure hell, 100% Concentration Camp-like facilities! How do you expect those poor homeless to live in this squalor?
You are a hardworking Los Angeles resident, pay up the ass in taxes and how do you see this and not have a stroke of pure anger is beyond me. And if you complain, you are just a White Supremacists that wants to see poor people suffer and die and you are the one that should be in some prison upstate for hate crimes.
You know, if every protestor picked one homeless person and adopted them, took them home, fed and clothed them, paid their medical bills, etc. and so forth, then the problem would be solved!!! But I can see how it’s more fun to protest and yell at cops.
How do you expect those poor homeless to live in this squalor?
No worries, they’ll convert it into the living conditions they’re used to within a few weeks.
Disagree totally.
It probably got there within hours.
They “raising awareness “ about something EVERYONE knows about. Its easier than actually DOING something.
I lived in Los Angeles, not far from Echo Park, for more than 30 years. Echo Park has been a disgusting drug infested shit-hole since at least the mid 1980s.
My stupid city, Gainesville, FL, does this during ‘extreme cold’ events.
I think they pay out more for damages than the actual hotel room costs.
Idiots.