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Downtown LA slammed as 'third world' as shocking video shows homeless camped out on trash-covered sidewalks after setting FIRE in middle of the road - with Elon Musk summing up eyesore in one word: 'Wow'
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 30 2024 | ALICE WRIGHT

Posted on 03/30/2024 11:22:27 AM PDT by knighthawk

Downtown Los Angeles has been described as 'third world' after shocking footage revealed a homeless encampment with open fires in the street and trash-covered sidewalks.

The startling video, posted to X by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, shows dozens of homeless people sitting and standing on filthy sidewalks on the corner of San Pedro Street and 6th Street in the Skid Row neighborhood of LA.

Some are seen standing around an open fire in the street, just moments away from the Midnight Mission, a $17 million center for the homeless.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; billmelugin; california; californication; dystopia; homeless; losangeles
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1 posted on 03/30/2024 11:22:27 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

The Homeless should call themselves Illegals and the money will never stop


2 posted on 03/30/2024 11:24:24 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: knighthawk

Those on the left do not see this as a problem. Same thing in Frisco. It is a win/win situation. The homeless and high crime drive down the values of properties making them great buys. The Bureaucrats can step in at any time and stop both the homeless and the crime nonsense at a moment’s notice. with force. They just have no plans on doing it until the situation gets a bit more ‘ripe’.


3 posted on 03/30/2024 11:27:47 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: knighthawk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgmBaE1cqD4


4 posted on 03/30/2024 11:28:28 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

I prefer the Paul Shanklin version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wQO54reC0


5 posted on 03/30/2024 11:31:22 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: ArtDodger

Good point.


6 posted on 03/30/2024 11:31:31 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: knighthawk

$17 million homeless center nearby....
That’s the problem. Cheap, flimsy housing.

True sad story. I was driving to work one day in the pitch dark and saw something weird ahead in the light from my headlights. I dodged out of the lane.

Turned out to be a woman in her fifties with long, bushy, wild white hair down her back, walking in the dark driving lane on the right and pushing a supermarket cart.

Found out later the cops knew by her name and got her to safety.
A social worker college student I knew who was getting her second graduate degree told me the woman was mentally ill. She had been helped to have a paid small apartment in a well kept up brick building in town (I knew the building, across from my CVS) and someone to check on her to see that she got care.

But the woman said she felt confined by having an apartment. She often left to feel freedom by pushing her cart on the roads.
Sad. Mental illness is at the root of many cases.


7 posted on 03/30/2024 11:33:48 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

LOL! Thanks. I miss Rush.


8 posted on 03/30/2024 11:35:39 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ArtDodger

Which only shows how morally bankrupt and corrupt they truly are.


9 posted on 03/30/2024 11:40:05 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: knighthawk

Just like Calcutta will all the filthy Untouchables. They are now called democrats. /spit


10 posted on 03/30/2024 11:40:57 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: knighthawk

Ain’t socialism grand.


11 posted on 03/30/2024 11:44:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"I prefer the Paul Shanklin version"

.... I sure miss Shanklin .....

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12 posted on 03/30/2024 11:44:36 AM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: knighthawk

Downtown LA, 1950s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNvyfBs0jU

It wasn’t all that great then - lotta not so great businesses - but not armies of bums hanging around.


13 posted on 03/30/2024 11:46:54 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Wow. I hadn’t thought about that in years.

Rush was the very best at what he did.


14 posted on 03/30/2024 11:48:23 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: knighthawk

California got what they voted for enjoy suckers.


15 posted on 03/30/2024 12:00:57 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: knighthawk

But I couldn’t let go of L.A.
City of the fallen angels

Court and Spark ~ Joni Mitchell


16 posted on 03/30/2024 12:02:06 PM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: knighthawk

that is the democrat base along with the looters and murderers.


17 posted on 03/30/2024 12:16:00 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: knighthawk

No sympathy for the locals.
They voted for this over and over and over.
They can stew in it.


18 posted on 03/30/2024 12:21:01 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: ArtDodger

Poverty is a big profitable business.


19 posted on 03/30/2024 12:31:35 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Skooz
I have a GREAT IDEA. LET'S MAKE THIS MORON PRESIDENT AND TURN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INTO CACAFORNIA!


20 posted on 03/30/2024 12:39:07 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (TH)
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