Photos: Civil rights lawsuit filed
Anthony Tolliver, who has been homeless for 30 years, moved to another bridge after Caltrans workers started cleaning up and removing debris from a tented homeless community under the 101 Freeway bridge on Hoover Street in Historic Filipinotown
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles accuses the city of Los Angeles of wrongfully arresting homeless people and seizing their lawful shopping carts as part of a “criminalization” campaign.
Rebecca Dutoit, 43, said the LAPD seized her tent, blankets, bedding, clothes and jewelry during a cleanup in East Hollywood 1 ½ months ago. She won’t go into a shelter because they won’t accept her puppy and kitten. “They are my sanity,” she says.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Alex Herrera, 45, who is homeless, sits with his belongings after Caltrans workers cleared a homeless encampent under the 101 Freeway bridge in Histric Filipinotown. A federal civil rights suit filed Monday accuses Los Angeles of endangering the lives of homeless people by seizing and destroying their belongings.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Reassure Jacobs, 33, carries cakes and bread he was given by a volunteer during Monday’s cleanup. Jacobs says the city took his purse containing his welfare card and cash during an earlier cleanup.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Rebecca Dutoit, 43, said the LAPD seized her tent, blankets, bedding, clothes and jewelry during a cleanup in East Hollywood 1 ½ months ago.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Caltrans workers clean and remove debris from a tented homeless community under the 101 Freeway bridge on Hoover Street in Historic Filipinotown.
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