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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)
Posted inInvestigations

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

by Carla Green 05/03/202307/13/2023

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.

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