An email from a Los Angeles police officer that surfaced online Thursday said law enforcement was planning to arrest homeless people en masse during a scheduled cleanup — prompting the department to issue a condemnation of the email, and the city controller to promise an investigation.
"Everyone will be arrested and all their belongings will be taken away by sanitation," the email said.
Hollywood resident and LAPD critic William Gude, who posts on Twitter under the account @FilmThePoliceLA, tweeted a screenshot just before noon Tuesday of an email that appeared to be written by Senior Lead Officer Brittney Gutierrez of the LAPD's Topanga Division. It described a "scheduled cleanup with sanitation" for Thursday. It was unclear to whom Gutierrez was sending the email.
