Evangelical Christian Sean Feucht held an outreach event at Echo Park Lake today, a spot with a large unhoused community. Activists came to protest the group and demand they wear masks to protect the community. No violence that I saw, but many confrontations.
Community activist and City Council candidate Clay Johnston got into it with one revival attendee. One of the issues activists had with the group was the sense that they were parachuting into a community without regard for its occupants. Feucht’s group handed out food earlier.
In a less heated conversation, the man in the black hat put on a mask. He copped to being stubborn, but said that aggressive confrontation wasn’t effective. Also accused the activists of hypocrisy by getting so close to him.
A bunch of activists got into it with one woman named Kelly who was wearing a Trump hat. She argued the conspiracy theory that COVID was planned, citing a mock pandemic scenario run by John’s Hopkins University and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Another activist brings up his own Evangelical background. He points out that there are already orgs that work in the community. Kelly says that she’s there to fight for her rights and that COVID was planned.
When the activist said that 3% of the military budget could eliminate homelessness, Kelly said that its not a matter of money—that poverty is a result of a “poverty mindset.”
One activist wearing a pair of devil horns twerks at members of Feucht’s group.
In another conversation, an activist said that the revivalists didn’t give the community a choice by worshiping in their space.
Police pulled a body out of the lake earlier today as the event was underway. The activists said that no one went to pray for the dead man.
“They’re walking around without masks trying to feed these people who we keep safe on a daily basis.”
“They’re walking around without masks trying to feed these people who we keep safe on a daily basis.”
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