© Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles TimesOmar Spry pushes a cart of bags into a West L.A. hotel that has been turned into housing for homeless people during the pandemic.
Not long after L.A. County
reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Davon Brown decided he was done putting himself at risk. So he put on a blazer and went to The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles.
Joined by activists with Street Watch L.A., he told hotel staff that they were interested in renting several rooms but wanted a tour first. The concierge happily obliged, he said, and took the group to room 2221.
Then he revealed his plan: "I'm homeless in Echo Park and I'm not leaving this hotel."
Brown, who was later arrested and released, told The
Times that he had planned to stay until government officials had commandeered enough hotel rooms to house every homeless person in Los Angeles.
"If I stayed outside," he said, "I could die."
Comment: According to doctors on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19, the lockdown of California was unnecessary, and the Governor himself has made the situation worse by enacting such draconian measures that local officials along with the populace are finally rebelling. Perhaps some of California's uber wealthy celebs who love a good cause to showcase their virtue signaling skills could help out the Governor?