“We didn’t know if it was trash...
“We didn’t know if it was trash or what. Our people didn’t have any instructions whether to save it or not, so we assumed it was like other debris and would go to the dump.”
--Donovan Hanson, assistant director of the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, after the belongings of several dozen homeless people were carted from the Civic Center to a San Fernando Valley landfill.
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