Letters: Skid row woes
Re “Call off the legal battle,” Editorial, Dec. 7
The injunction against seizing the belongings of the homeless has implications far beyond skid row in downtown Los Angeles.
In Venice, it has given authorities pause in removing the bikes, shopping carts, luggage, tents, tables, tarps, sleeping bags and umbrellas that are stored throughout the Venice Beach Recreation Center. The occupation of this park by transients has rendered it inhospitable to visitors and residents alike, creating skid row west.
The Times should practice what it preaches and invite onto the sidewalks surrounding its downtown building the very same homeless who have taken over skid row and parts of Venice and see how you enjoy the trash, food waste, public inebriation, defecation, urination, noise, drug use, thefts, vandalism and aggressive panhandling that result.
I encourage City Atty. Carmen Trutanich to appeal this overly broad and anti-resident injunction ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court.
Mark Ryavec
Venice
The writer is president of the Venice Stakeholders Assn.
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