PART 2:LAPD HOMELESS SWEEP ON VENICE BEACH AUGUST 14-16 2008

Girl sleeping at the beach caught up in LAPD homeless sweep spends two nights in jail

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• venice
• beach
• homeless
• LAPD
• sleeping
• boardwalk
• jail
• arrest
• police
• girl

[1lookiloo]

I witnessed the homeless sweep. Cops advise people that sleeping on the boardwalk is a violation of city municipal code. Cops arrest people with warrants, the rest get info on homeless shelters available.

[SPIRITOFVENICE]

Now that's much better! We have rational thought being expressed in a civilized way - however, the facts still need revision - keep trying - you might actually get something right ---- eventually. All the best, SOV

[ouivalerie]

It's all over California, I drove at night to the country to take my cat to a place to live and I got TIRED and fell asleep in my shabby car in Santa Clarita at 7-11 and people got shocked and scared and one tried to call 9/11 and one tried to call police and the 7-11 muslim cashiers at 7-11 saved me and I COULD NOT MOVE until I got some sleep! SORRY!!! People didn't need to FREAK OUT because I got tired and had a shabby car....It was beyond mean, their hysteria makes me sense their jealousy.

[TheLeperchron]

this patton btic needs to shut up , fuckin yuppy pig lover, oink oink little bitch! squaters rights! OI!

[patton223]

first she said everytime i start writing in my journal cops suddenly appear and do somthing mean !! then she says in her story, from the paper, just seconds later that she was woken up by the cops at 4:45 and harrased !! so obviously she wasnt writing when she was sleeping so she must have wrote the diary entry after being woke up !! so you lied already !! the cops didnt just appear infornt of you as you were writing !! why does she have to lie about something so stupid ??

[UniversalCliche]

But so many of these people are very well educated, I've had long talks deep talks with a lot of these people and they were very intelligent.

[UniversalCliche]

I remember that.

[LoriLasko]

I was living on VB three years ago, and a man-not a homeless man-was stabbed and left lying on a sidepath off the boardwalk in the morning daylight. He was less than a minute's slow walk from the cop shop that is on the beach, and he laid there and died while the cops took over 20 minutes to get over there.

Fuck the pigs with their quads and their little binoculars.

[LoriLasko]

There is a reason people live outside the system.

The system doesn't work for you. The system doesn't work for me.

[globehunter2]

When you have little education no home and especially no Money! Our society treats you

all together in a certain way, Disrespecting

a homeless person by police is exceptable by many people. They view them as the lowest

and worthless on the social scale. Actually most homeless are not uneducated or criminals`

they just happened to have fallen through the cracks` and the system makes it very difficult

to rise up again. how sad