Some say the fence restored order at Echo Park Lake, allowing families and seniors to return to one of the city’s most historic and scenic locales.
Reina Moreno, who walks in the park every morning, said she does not want to see the park again filled with trash and human waste. Moreno, who lives nearby, said she’s OK with crews taking down the chain-link barrier — “as long as they put up another one.” “If there is security here 24/7, then there won’t be a problem,” the 57-year-old hairstylist said. “But if they’re not taking care of it, then there should be a fence — permanent.”
Some residents who live across from the lake have voiced similar concerns, saying the park was the backdrop for fistfights, shootings and fatal overdoses when the encampment was at its peak. They had lobbied for a nicer, permanent fence. Spencer Bowman, 25, was excited to see the fence come down. Seated on a bench facing the lake, he called the fence “an eyesore and a monument to that ugly period.”covered much of the park, occupying the nearly all of the grassy areas on the Glendale Boulevard side. Hundreds of people showed up to protest the encampment’s removal, which led to clashes between LAPD officers and demonstrators.
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