To the editor: The Los Angeles Occasions reported on April 23 that on April 20, Bang Cho, an 84-year-old dementia affected person wandering in downtown L.A., was punched and kicked within the head, slammed to the bottom and set on hearth. Cho didn’t survive. His homicide occurred a block from my condominium in entrance of the dry cleaner I take advantage of.
Police arrested Lavonta Wilder for this assault. Wilder is a 240-pound homeless man with “a number of felony convictions for violent crimes.”
The Occasions’ touted lower in L.A.’s murder price modifications nothing for Cho or, for that matter, for Wilder (“L.A. is safer than it’s been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor’s race,” Might 24). It means nothing to me. For many people in downtown L.A., the town “has was a dystopian hellscape.” Public security could be very undoubtedly, very a lot on voters’ minds.
James Moore, Los Angeles
