Mitch O'Farrell Archives — Los Angeles Public Press

Queen, an unhoused Echo Park community member, spoke at a rally March 24, 2021, saying she and others planned on resisting a planned operation to clear Echo Park Lake. (Elizabeth Chou / Los Angeles Public Press)

Why was the city of LA obsessed with measuring unhoused people’s pee after the Echo Park sweep?

by Carla Green 05/03/202305/08/2023

The fence has come down around Echo Park Lake, but the legacy of Los Angeles’s largest sweep in recent history — and the vilification that accompanied it — lives on.