The fence was being taken down two weeks after Mayor Bass and Councilmember Soto-Martinez moved dozens of unhoused people near Echo Park Lake into hotels.
Some say the fence restored order at Echo Park Lake, allowing families and seniors to return to one of the city’s most historic and scenic locales.
Reina Moreno, who walks in the park each day, said she does not want to see the park again filled with trash and human waste. Moreno, who lives nearby, said she’s OK with crews taking down the chain-link barrier — “as long as they put up another one.” “If there is security here 24/7, then there won’t be a problem,” the 57-year-old hairstylist said. “But if they’re not taking care of it, then there should be a fence — permanent.”
Some residents who live closer to the lake have voiced similar concerns, calling for a nicer, permanent fence. They said the park was the backdrop for fistfights, shootings and fatal overdoses — including one involvingHomeless advocacy groups have sought to counter the idea that the encampment was dangerous, calling it a “beautiful and much lauded homeless-run outdoor community” that offered security, stability and “healing for drug addiction and mental illness.
“It only seems to exclude and it is visually metal and gray and ugly,” said Bowman, who works in post-production.covered much of the park, occupying nearly all of the grassy areas on the Glendale Boulevard side. Hundreds of people showed up to protest the encampment’s removal, leading to clashes between L.A. police officers and demonstrators, as well as scores of arrests.
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