The Echo Park eviction
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you've never been to Echo Park in Los Angeles, you actually probably have. |
| 0:12.0 | Like you've probably seen it in movies or TV shows or commercials because it's a very |
| 0:16.7 | popular filming location. |
| 0:19.3 | Okay, pal. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's have a big smile. |
| 0:23.3 | It'd be truly effective. |
| 0:24.7 | A good narcotics agent must know. |
| 0:27.7 | Even love narcotics, in fact, or good narcotics agent should have narcotics in his blood. |
| 0:36.4 | It has this very scenic view of the downtown skyline and this large 14-acre lake, very |
| 0:43.6 | picturesque, has this gorgeous fountain protruding from the middle. |
| 0:48.8 | Often people are on little swan boats making their way around the lake. |
| 0:54.4 | I wonder how the potato prints would feel about us walking together around a moonlit lake. |
| 1:00.8 | And it really provides a vital role in the neighborhood itself. |
| 1:04.8 | This is a neighborhood where a lot of people live in apartments. |
| 1:08.4 | This is their only green space that has walking paths, playgrounds, exercise equipment. |
| 1:14.3 | The park's part of the eponymous neighborhood of Echo Park. |
| 1:18.5 | Echo Park is one of these neighborhoods in the city, just like a lot of places in LA. |
| 1:22.6 | That was Red Line. |
| 1:23.7 | So you do have this moment where the federal government decided that it wasn't worth investing |
| 1:29.0 | in or that people shouldn't be moving there if they weren't of a certain class or race, |
| 1:34.3 | which was white people. |
| 1:36.2 | And so you had this another influx of residents, mostly Latino, working class Latino community, |
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