LOS ANGELES – The California Highway Patrol argued with protesters on the eve of Thanksgiving, forcing people to vacate vacant state-owned homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood.
The group Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community said its members occupied homes in El Sereno on Wednesday, and the so-called “reclaimers” included families with babies who previously lived in cars and camps.
About 100 CHP officers by activists who had gathered nearby to evacuate the occupants Who in line Trying to prevent law enforcement from running away with their members.
The California Department of Transportation, or Celtrans, has 163 vacant housing units in Eastern Los Angeles County, according to the Southern California News Group. The properties include mostly single-family homes and were taken for use by the state in an abandoned plan to expand the freeway decades ago.
Celtrans spokesman Matt Rocco said the agency urged the CHP to “remove criminals so that the property can be re-protected and rehabilitated” because they are “unsafe and desolate for residents.”
Videos Posted Officers showed up on social media Using Stiff ramps to knock down the doors of houses Carrying people Outside in the yard, where a guy appeared hogtied. Social media posts by activists Said The removal continued Thursday afternoon.
“I’m bored watching a video of a 17-year-old being a hog, screaming and pausing for nothing but being homeless before Thanksgiving.” Tweeted Sasha Renee Perez, mayor-elect of Alhambra, a small town nearby.
CHP did not respond to requests for comment, but NBC Los Angeles observed that at least three people were detained Wednesday evening.
Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon, representing El Sereno, criticized the use of “physical methods of enforcement” in a statement, calling Wednesday’s resolutions “heartbreaking and unacceptable.”
Homelessness in Los Angeles due to rising rents and housing shortages had already increased before the coronavirus epidemic broke out. According to a census conducted in the spring, there are at least 66,433 people without a place to live in Los Angeles.
Activists occupying housing owned by Keltrans Said They wanted the government and Gavin News to allow and intervene during the intervention and to allow homeless families to stay at home during the epidemic, in line with state and city directives.
News’ office did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
In January, a group of women from Ak Cland, calling themselves Moms 4 Housing, were kicked out of an empty house they had occupied to draw attention to the homeless in Bay Area. The property owners were allowed to return the property after they agreed to sell it to the Auckland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit that buys property for an affordable building and repairs it.
Settlement units owned by Community Lotrans want to see a similar arrangement in Los Angeles with the El Sereno Community Land Trust and rebuild our community.
