Homeless Attacks In L.A. Lead To Community Reflection
Amanda Covarrubias, from the Los Angeles Times, writes a piece on one of the two homeless men who was beaten while sleeping on the streets. Here's the article.
Ernest Adams always sat at the 3rd Street Tunnel greeting people going to work. Downtown Center Business Improvement District had an outreach worker try to get him into transitional housing. But Adams was content sitting and sleeping on the streets.
Even an Associate Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeal knew Adams. Justice Robert Mallano has seen Adams sitting there for the last five years, “He would talk to people and smile. He was always polite and smiling.”
Adams remains in critical condition, as of Wednesday at the County USC Medical Center.
Still, there is no ground swell of support to deal with the root cause of Adams' victimization—homelessness. We should not tolerate or allow our citizens to have to sleep on our streets.
posted by LA's Homeless Blog at
8:24 AM
3 Comments:
MAny of us are caught in the middle of the developers downtown and the low income advocates, who fight each other all of the time., and our qulaity of life issues are overlooked, now that Estela :Lopez from the Central City East Association has started this NEighborhood Watch walk here in central City East I hope you can find it in your heart and those that read this blog to come out and walk with us.
We are having these neighborhood watch walks to make sure that even those of us who live in Central city East have a place to live that is safe. Maybe if Ernest Adams felt safe in Central City East he would have been safe with people like himself on the street and not alone out there by the 3rd street tunnel.
I have even asked you to come walk with us , NExt month at 6pm, the first wednesday of the month we will be meeting at the midnight mission to walk. OCme out and walk with us.
It is a hard time for me since LAPD dispathcers when we report a crime question whether it is real or somehow violence perpetrated against us somehow we brought it on ourselves.
Don Garza
Central City East
Don, I will be at the next walk... Joel
FAMILY SEEKING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERNEST ADAMS (aka "Ernie Mike").
I came across this weblog after conducting an internet search regarding my uncle, Ernest Michael Adams who was savagely beaten by two teens in Los Angeles. My grandmother was recently contacted by USC Medical Center, where my uncle is lying in critical condition and has been placed on a ventilator. However, the hospital has been reluctant to provide more information and we honestly do not know whether he is dead or alive.
My uncle Ernie has been estranged from the family for many years and we are desperately trying to find out more information concerning his condition and what action we will have to take to make sure that the two young men being held in connection with my uncle's beating remain behind bars. I am currently a law student in New Jersey, and I intend to seek whatever support is available to me to insure that justice is served in this case and also to petition the City of Los Angeles to take greater steps in providing adequate housing and other social services for the homeless.
This news is extremely tragic, not only for our family, but apparently for many people throughout the Los Angeles community. Our hope is that this news, which has reached national headlines, will increase the public's awareness about the many problems that the homeless are confronted with. It is also my sincere desire that the producers of the DVD that apparently inspired this attack will no longer be able to take advantage of or capitalize off of the exploitation of the disenfranchised.
If you or anyone you know has information concerning my uncle, please contact me at smadara22@yahoo.com.
Thank you,
Amina Adams-Zackery
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