A team of Los Angeles workers watched while waters from the Arroyo Seco flood channel carried away Alejandro Diaz’s belongings as he broke down his home of the last five years Monday morning.
“It’s an injustice,” Diaz, 29, said in Spanish with tears streaking down his face. “The city doesn’t care about anything other than destroying our lives even though we don’t bother anyone. In all my time here none of us have bothered anyone.”
After sunrise, the city went to work clearing an encampment along the parkway between the 110 Freeway and the flood channel that’s existed there since the beginning of the pandemic. The shelters were dismantled by city workers and scraped off the flood channel floor with pitchforks, shovels and bulldozers while those who lived in them watched…