by Stephen of the Thinkery
Thanks are due, of course, to our fine proprietor of this establishment for allowing me to post in this way. I'll work hard at not messing the joint up.
Yesterday - Thursday - the LAPD received phone calls about a man crawling along the street in the infamous Skid Row, wearing nothing but a dirty hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag. This man is a paraplegic. The photo at the top of the linked webpage was taken last October in Skid Row. It shows a man being transported from a hospital to a homeless shelter; the LAPD says that he "was one of five patients from the L.A. Metropolitan Medical Center who were photographed and videotaped by police being dropped off on skid row against their will."
That's some pretty bad stuff, there. But like most news items, it only tells part of the story.
