They gathered in the middle of East 27th Street, the spot where two years earlier — to the day — Los Angeles police botched the detonation of a cache of fireworks and blew up their lives.
Among the more than 30 attendees of this grim anniversary were displaced families still living in the Level Hotel downtown. Another that had only recently returned to a renovated home. One that had moved twice since the blast.
They gathered in South L.A., in the shadow of homes that remain uninhabitable, to speak about their lives — and their loss.
