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Meet the Man Behind the Echo Park Closure: "There Will Be No Living at the Lake"

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With its storybook boats and pristine view of the downtown skyline, the scenic Echo Park Lake has been a popular Los Angeles shooting location as far back as the silent film era, when everyone from Charlie Chaplin to the Keystone Cops — who were cited for trampling the flowers there — used it as a comedy backdrop.A century later, cops are still causing a ruckus in Echo Park — but no one is laughing.

A homeless encampment of over 200 tents that proliferated there during the COVID-19 pandemic was swept away March 24 by an army of LAPD riot police, who clashed with hundreds of protesters in an area that has become a flashpoint in the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis.

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