The “human rights strategy” for LA28 is like 20 pages of total content with like a page and a half on the risks for unhoused communities caused by LA28 and their main recommendation for people facing discriminatory displacement is to call Trump’s HUD directly. Unbelievable.
Will the ‘sanitation sweeps’ of the 1984 Olympics haunt LA in 2028?
Decades ago, LA’s police forces consulted foreign intelligence agencies to “sanitize” South LA for the Games. Now, as new surveillance centers rise, residents fear history is repeating itself.
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"People who have never slept with their things under their arm don’t understand what getting your possessions taken feels like. Documents, medication, and faded family photos aren’t trash. They’re proof of identity, the thin scaffolding that keeps you connected to services"
New on Knock: "I’ve been handed a tent and a ticket in the same exchange — the citation still warm from the printer"
Kaylee Dunson shares her experience of anti-homeless sweeps, and the failures of a policy that says "housing first" but treats visibility as a problem.
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reminder LA was found guilty in court recently for forging documents lying about why they tossed an unhoused woman's work supplies repeatedly during sweeps
*All Angelenos unless they’re unhoused. Then they’re fine to sweep and criminalize, right Hugo? You would think someone who is against wrongful arrests would stop protecting Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.
Photo of a banner at the echo park lake encampment that says: We refuse to be swept into dark corners Caption: 5 years after the eviction at echo park lake a legacy of ongoing violence and displacement
On March 24 and 25, 2021, Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell ordered the militarized eviction of the community that made Echo Park Lake their home for 18 months.
O'Farrell is gone, but the eviction's violent legacy of criminalization and displacement continues in his former district and beyond.
UNDOCUMENTED OR UNHOUSED No one should be criminalized! THE STATE IS TARGETING PEOPLE FOR THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS AND HOUSING STATUS.
The struggles of unhoused and undocumented people are more interconnected than you know.
An estimated 10% of unhoused
Angelenos are undocumented.
While ICE kidnaps people off our streets every day, city officials continue to sweep encampments and enforce anti-camping laws.
*All Angelenos unless they’re unhoused. Then they’re fine to sweep and criminalize, right Hugo? You would think someone who is against wrongful arrests would stop protecting Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.
Instead, you keep blocking mutual aid groups and deleting organizers’ comments on Instagram to cover your lies.
*All Angelenos unless they’re unhoused. Then they’re fine to sweep and criminalize, right Hugo? You would think someone who is against wrongful arrests would stop protecting Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 criminalization zones.
I was not aware that the Echo Park Lake raid of 2021 accounted for THIRTY PERCENT of all journalist arrests in the U.S. that year.
Today is the 5 year anniversary of the eviction at Echo Park Lake. A lot less has changed that you probably realized. We should all still be horrified.
One of the most fucked up events in 21st century Los Angeles history. Behavior by electeds & LAPD with Echo Park would later be echoed in their tacit support for genocidaires failed assault on UCLA students. Certainly so when cops were sent in to do it again the following night.
LAPD outside the echo park lake encampment on March 24, 2021
Signs on a fence covered in green cloth. One says human beings flourish in community. One says housing without choice and agency is just internet. One says echo park rise up.
A picture of Mitch o farrells head taped to a cardboard cockroach. The cockroach hangs on the franc surrounding echo park.
Love and solidarity forever with my comrades at @lastreetcare.bsky.social. I wish I were with you all at Echo Park tonight.
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read this whole thread for a better idea of homelessness in LA than you'll see pretty much anywhere else
Anyone who sets up a tent in Echo Park Lake is quickly banished to a nearby underpass or hillside.
And when they resettle, their councilmember sweeps them.
People continue to be criminalized for existing in public.
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Officials saw the political price Mitch O'Farrell paid, and many learned to be savvier about targeting poor people.
But little has changed for unhoused people in Echo Park.
Every night, people sleep on sidewalks across from the park. No housing is offered.
The state targeted the community at Echo Park Lake in March 2021 because it offered an alternative to a violent system built on greed, corruption, and dehumanization.
While city politicians applaud themselves for a meager drop in the LA's unhoused population, a nonpartisan research group identified growing discrepancies in LA's official data, identifying a 32% undercount in key neighborhoods in 2025.
Nithya Raman has since challenged Bass in the mayoral race but continues to praise Inside Safe. Raman also recently publicly changed her views on 41.18, the LAPD budget, and Housing First models, aligning herself with the mayor's reactionary policies.
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While Bass demonized the encampment at a press conference, tenants released a statement, revealing their daily reality and importance of their community:
On July 31, Mayor Bass ordered the violent eviction of The Compound.
Like Echo Park Lake, LAPD raided the encampment and arrested organizers. Bass claimed her offer of shelter was voluntary while a fence was erected and city crews destroyed people's belongings.
Like Echo Park Lake, the tenants at a Van Nuys encampment known as The Compound built a community around mutual survival and care.
In 2025, Councilmember Nithya Raman began ordering weekly sweeps at The Compound, but tenants organized blockades and managed to get the sweeps downgraded.
As of October 2025, Inside Safe has a 48% eviction rate.
At least 108 people have died in the program.
Karen Bass wants to double down.
