UPDATE: Authorities have cleared out a large homeless encampment from Little Tokyo's Toriumi Plaza in downtown L.A. Crews overnight worked to remove remaining items and debris. Several of the homeless brought their tents to just beyond the plaza's fencing.
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A fence was placed around the plaza and city cleanup crews overnight removed remaining items, trash and debris. Several of the homeless, however, brought their tents to just beyond the fences and set them up on the sidewalks outside. “For some of them, we need the L.A. County Mental Health Department to really step up and do what’s necessary to get these individuals, because, if you’re running down the street half-naked, and you’re screaming and yelling at the top of your lungs, you’re not well, and you need help,” De Leon said.Some of the homeless told CBSLA that the options given to them by the city were too restrictive and they would move elsewhere.
“A lot of property damage over the last year-and-a-half, I’m glad to see it finally is going to be cleaned up,” said Brian Keto with Little Tokyo Public Safety, who runs the oldest business in the area, a confectionary his grandparents started 120 years ago.
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