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11/12/2008

L.A. Sheriff deputy allows ADA violation (Pershing Square)

This summer, my interest in the significant presence of L.A. County Sheriff's deputies at pershing Square was piqued when I observed a terse conversation between a deputy and a frustrated, wheel-chair bound Metro patron. The deputy appeared to be annoyed that he had to answer to a person regarding the blocked passageway—the vehicle blocking it being a Metro contractor's vehicle.



At one point, the deputy decides to make it clear that he is not going to do anything to resolve a situation that violates the American Disabilities Act (ADA) by which easy egress on public thoroughfares should be observed. The deputy, apparently tired of not being able to just hang out and drink coffee (which he had been observed doing for an hour so daily for a few months), in reference to the contractor responsible for the poorly parked vehicle, glibly remarks, ". . . I don't know where he's at."

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What are these guys good for, again? Oh, yeah. This. And This. And. . .?

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