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L.A. City Attorney Will Not Criminally Charge 179 People Arrested At Protest Over Uprooted Homeless Encampment

LAPD said some demonstrators threw bottles at officers and used strobe lights to try to impair their vision.

Jeffrey Cawood
L.A. City Attorney Will Not Criminally Charge 179 People Arrested At Protest Over Uprooted Homeless Encampment
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Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said on Friday that his office would not file criminal charges against 179 people taken into custody during a March 25 protest over an uprooted homeless encampment.

City News Service reported that protesters, legal observers, and journalists “were arrested for failure to disperse during demonstrations against the city’s clearing of a large homeless encampment that had developed at Echo Park Lake during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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