Since last August, Skid Row's homeless people have undergone the largest mass arrests of homeless people in L.A. history; hundreds of homeless people each month now have faced multiple daily raids of police demanding warrant checks, searches and property confiscation --as waves of 50 new LAPD officers brought to the area have swept through for daily beatings and arrests of homeless people --in order to now clear downtown for the newest wave of luxury loft developers.
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Rally to End Skid Row Sweeps NOW!
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UPDATE: At the first of what organizers say will now be weekly Saturday rallies in front of the LAPD’s Central Division headquarters, a Skid Row rally on Saturday, organized by a homeless man, saw the largest public turnout yet for a public demand to end L.A’s massive new push to criminalize all this city’s homeless people. Activists are calling on the community to help set up a base-camp on Skid Row to halt, immediately now, the police attacks.
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Activists Call for Downtown Base Camp to End Sweeps at Saturday Rally on Skid Row by unhoused
Photos and video: LAPD harass homeless on skid row EVERY DAY by Copwatch
Rally to End Skid Row Sweeps