Here's a human interest story that is an everyday occurrence on Skid Row:

In late April I was approached by Tommy Little to help get his property back. He had been cited two weeks earlier for committing the crime of “sleeping on the sidewalk.” His arrest in late April, at his tent on the sidewalk, was for the crime of failing to respond to the earlier citation two weeks earlier. Tommy was released four hours after this arrest but his tent and all his belongings had been confiscated by the city’s Sanitation Department. He was told he could reclaim his property at a designated site by showing a claim slip.

Armed robbery by one of L.A.'s many "City Services Divisions" with assistance from the LAPD, of course.

Finally the clerk brought out a large bag from one of the containers and at the very bottom of the bag were two of Tommy’s possessions: a plastic tarp, still in its original packaging, and a clay figurine of Jesus.

Tommy could hardly believe what he saw. He wept. Before the Sanitation Department’s confiscation, all of his property in his tent was new. He had carefully folded his belongings in his tent at the time of his arrest. Now only these two items remained.

This is a stealth war against the homeless, powered by real estate billionaires and messaged by Democrats who weep about the homeless and then evict them—or evict them and then weep to their constituents.

http://peoplestribune.org/pt-news/2016/07/l-skid-row-blueprint-outrage/

Tommy is the guy in the photo with ample love handles chillin' in the shade. He's a friend of mine who serves meals for the Senior Meal Program at The Ellis Hotel on Skid Row. Tommy does not do drugs or have a problem with alcohol. He's simply surviving the best he can with the tools the Good Lord gave him.

Fuck the LAPD, Chief Beck and Mayor Garcetti.