"California Is WORSE Than Colombia" - Newsom's SKID ROW Secret: Children Living On The Streets
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Nick Shirley exposes Skid Row as a tent city where migrant kids sleep on filthy streets while billions are spent and LA still isn’t ready for the 2028 Olympics or World Cup spotlight.
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| 0:00.0 | Your job as a citizen journalist is to go out there and tell your story and let the market decide. If the market's not going to be doing it, you know, and it's being left to, how old are you now, Nick? 24. 24 years old, you're going out there doing this stuff in, in L.A. And while you're in L.A., did you go somewhere and there was like a homeless family in the street saying it would have been better in Colombia than it would. There's something you did there as well. Yes, in Skid Row. I filmed that video a while back, but you had migrants living on the streets of Skid Row. Is that it? Yes. I found, I found multiple children living on the streets of Skid Row. I found this one. This was a while back, like almost nearly a year ago, these kids living in Skid Row. And, like, their circumstances are better than... The circumstances are worse on Skid Row than if they were in Columbia. This was a 12-year-old that I got off the streets in Skid Row and got him back into school and into shelter. You did? Yeah. 12 years old. |
| 0:55.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:56.0 | We used to go to Skid Row every Christmas morning at 4.30 a.m. in LA. |
| 1:00.0 | We used to go to Skid Row and hand out Bibles and food and burgers and blankets and a couple times, |
| 1:08.0 | knives were pulled on us and I would sit there and talk to these guys. |
| 1:11.1 | And sometimes our guys would bring their kids for their kids to see what's going on. |
| 1:15.1 | Eventually it got a little bit dangerous for like, let's just go as adults. |
| 1:17.8 | We would go with 40, 50 cars, 4.30 in the morning, every Christmas, every year. |
| 1:22.2 | And a guy named June introduced me to this because, you know, |
| 1:25.8 | and we followed the lead with them for many, many years. |
| 1:27.8 | It was an incredible experience. But if folks have not been to Skid Row, what was your experience |
| 1:32.8 | with Skid Row? I've been to Skid Row a few times, and it's super, super sad. It is literally a tent |
| 1:38.3 | city. It really is. It's blocks upon blocks of just human suffering to levels that are not necessary here inside the |
| 1:46.4 | United States. And it's been happening for years and years and years. They give it millions |
| 1:51.4 | upon millions of dollars and nothing ever happens. In fact, they actually give people the paraphernalia |
| 1:57.6 | to continue to do drugs. It's ridiculous. And so, like, I was really upset when I found that child there |
| 2:03.1 | because you have all these NGOs surrounding the 12-year-old. |
| 2:07.0 | The 12-year-old. |
| 2:07.7 | But nobody will offer them a place to sleep at night. |
| 2:09.8 | He's sleeping on the streets of Skid Row where there's prostitutes |
| 2:13.5 | where there's people selling fentanyl. |
| 2:15.8 | People getting abused and this kid's living there. |
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