South Park Trash Cans Removed for Jackson Memorial Service
Eric Richardson
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A Bureau of Street Services truck collects trash cans outside L.A. Live a day before the Michael Jackson memorial service.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The 27,000 friends and fans headed to Tuesday's Michael Jackson memorial service will find the streets of South Park strangely devoid of any trash cans. A city crew was making its way up Figueroa this morning, collecting the South Park BID-labeled receptacles.
While the cans were used as projectiles during the incidents that took place after the Lakers' championship win, it's just as likely that the cans are being removed because of their potential to hold explosives.
The police department will be enforcing closures on Flower, Olympic, Blaine and Pico. Only ticket-holders will be allowed inside the barricades.
Richard Figueroa on July 06, 2009, at 01:36PM – #1
Also, employees will be allowed, but only after jumping through hoops to get into the buildings.
calwatch on July 06, 2009, at 11:39PM – #2
Fortunately, there are not too many businesses inside the perimeter, although as it gets expanded doubtless there will be employees who will be locked out by 8 am. The real killer is LA Live. If LA Live is accessible only to credentialed ticket holders and the media, there isn't much of an audience to sell drinks, foods, and knicknacks to. Basically they opened that day... for what? I would probably just shut down and open for the post-memorial crowd at 2 pm or so.