Let the games begin.
Lunatic socialist LA City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez figured out how to manipulate Mayor Bass and the rest of the hacks into getting the fence taken down that has protected Echo Park Lake from vagrants coming back to foul it up.
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who took office in December, ran on a promise to take the temporary chain-link fence down, calling it a “symbol” of the city’s biggest failure on homelessness. The fence went up in 2021, just as scores of unhoused people were moved out of the park and into motels, hotels and homeless shelters in downtown, Westlake and elsewhere.
Two weeks ago, Soto-Martinez and Mayor Karen Bass carried out their own encampment operation in the neighborhood, relocating dozens of homeless people from streets near Echo Park Lake, transporting them to hotels in downtown and Silver Lake. Since then, Soto-Martinez has promised to send outreach workers into the park seven days a week to ensure that it remains safe and people do not move back.
“We look forward to continuing our work with the community to achieve our shared goals for the park, which include ... ensuring Echo Park Lake is safe, clean and accessible for all,” Soto-Martinez said in a statement.
Blake Troli from KFI News went to Echo Park Lake and gave us a first-hand look at Echo Park Lake.