A city-contracted employee was fired after a video showed him spraying a water hose toward an unsheltered person on the sidewalk in Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
Urban Alchemy, a nonprofit contracted by the city of Los Angeles to sanitize streets, said one of its employees was fired after the disturbing video circulated on social media.
“Urban Alchemy exists to lift up our communities, and to serve them with humanity and dignity,” the company said in a social media post that showed a still image of the video. “The action being taken here is unacceptable, and completely antithetical to our training and values. The practitioner involved in this incident no longer works at Urban Alchemy.”
A spokesperson for the nonprofit said the employee in the video was part of their Skid Row Clean Teams. According to them, the unhoused person had just urinated and defecated on the sidewalk. When the employee …