When driving past the CNN Building on Sunset Blvd, on most any time of day or night, you’ll find a few homeless people watching TV. I think it’s wonderful that CNN allows homeless people to hang out in front. Several times I’ve walked in and personally thanked CNN’s security guards.<\/p>\n
T was watching the CNN getting caught up on what’s going on in the world. He once made a living cutting hair, but when he broke his arm, he lost his ability to make money. He found himself homeless and depressed. He started to mess with drugs, but today T is sober trying to make the best out of a bad situation.<\/p>\n
T said every Thursday night, around 3am when everyone is sleeping, LAPD is waking everyone up, placing them in handcuffs, and writing them tickets for sleeping on the streets. I have yet to confirm this, but I have learned that more often than not “word from the street” is normally true.<\/p>\n
This really saddens me for a few reasons. One, I love Hollywood. This is my home. I know LAPD often has to deal with things in ways we might not understand, but from what T said this is not right. The other is it sounds like this has been going on for some time now, yet no one has spoken up.<\/p>\n
Another reason we need to empower homeless people with social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,283,230],"tags":[269,253,515,508,507,191,509],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}