BREAKING! The Los Angeles Police Department Wednesday night ordered a citywide tactical alert after protesters and officers faced off at Echo Park Lake over the city’s plan to close the park and remove the encampment. Police issued a dispersal order for the late night protest shortly before 10:45 p.m., declaring the demonstration an unlawful assembly. Earlier in the day, hundreds rallied against the plan to temporarily close Echo Park Lake in order to remove the large-scale encampment and clean up an estimated $500,000 in damage. The group of demonstrators marched from the park to O’Farrell’s office, shutting down a portion of Sunset Boulevard a little before 8 a.m. Several hundred eventually returned to Echo Park Lake, vowing to remain if the city tried to push out the unhoused population.

Los Angeles, Happening Now: LAPD just tried to advance. Protesters shoved them back. As, LAPD confronts protesters along Glendale Blvd, City contractors have also begun to build fences along the south and east side of the park covering it with green fabric as they build it.

Los Angeles, Happening Now:
LAPD has just given protesters a 10 minute warning to disperse. LAPD Police Just Made an announcement to protesters to disperse as crew work sets assembled near Echo Park Lake putting up a large wire fence.

WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT! Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver this week in Washington, DC, police say. The police said in their report that the crash happened when he was shocked by a stun gun by two teenagers who were in the process of carjacking him about a block away on Van Street at about 4:30 p.m. A 13-year-old girl from Southeast D.C. and a 15-year-old girl from Fort Washington, Maryland, have been arrested and charged with felony murder and armed carjacking. “We are devastated by this tragic news and our hearts go out to Mohammad’s family during this difficult time,” an Uber spokesperson said. “We’re grateful the suspects have been arrested and thank the Metropolitan Police Department for their diligence with this investigation.”