A Los Angeles Police Department report on the Echo Park closure and resulting protests in March found several shortcomings in the department’s response, including insufficient tracking of projectile weapons and poor communication with media in the field. “Had the encampment in Echo Park been adequately addressed in its early stages, there never would have been a need for a full-scale closure,” the LAPD concluded in its “After Action Report,” released Friday. They simply do not have the resources to monitor every park in the City,” the LAPD report states. Activists who showed up to protest the clearing of the Echo Park encampment joined members of the media who were covering the event in criticizing the LAPD response. However, Moore said the department had received complaints about Echo Park — including from the media — and would be reviewing its operation and the circumstances that led up to it.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2021 03:33 UTC