Video appears to show Burbank police dumping distressed homeless man in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles’ City Council president is demanding an investigation after video appears to show police from neighboring Burbank dropping off a clearly distressed homeless man in front of his L.A. office and driving away.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles’ City Council president is demanding an investigation after video appears to show police from neighboring Burbank dropping off a clearly distressed homeless man in front of his L.A. office and driving away.
The video was released by Council President Paul Krekorian on Friday, and Krekorian said it shows the officers leaving the “severely distressed unhoused man” and abandoning him on the sidewalk in North Hollywood.
In the video, after the officers take the shoeless man out of the back of the police vehicle, he falls to his hands and knees and puts his head on the sidewalk and police then drive away. The man is then seen in the video crawling on the sidewalk.
Krekorian said at a news conference Friday, where he played the security footage, that he was “extremely livid.”
He said there have long been suspicions that cities next to L.A. are “pushing their unhoused population into the city of Los Angeles,” rather than providing care themselves.
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