Skid Row in a rain storm || L.A. River full of water rain storm 2023
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2023
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The last couple of days Los Angeles had a rain storm. It’s been raining like crazy. I took the opportunity to go to skate row in downtown Los Angeles. They are many homeless, encampments, and many homeless people just living on the street. It was heartbreaking seeing all the people living on the street while it was raining so hard , I have never seen the LA river filled with so much water. It was amazing to see the best view was from the sixth Street viaduct bridge in downtown Los Angeles. I also recorded many buildings that had lots of graffiti from the outside skid row is not the best area to visit. If you go there just be careful. - Zábava
This looks miserable. I was homeless for 2 yrs . It was a scary, hard, and dangerous time. I finally headed inland towards Temecula and found work at a horse training ranch. Im doing fantastic today and do not miss that horrible dirty, uncomfortable way of life.
Well done. Sadly, I imagine very few ever make it out of there. It's good to know it IS possible for those who are willing to make the effort as you obviously did. Be well!
@@johnnybgood1169 💗
So happy you are now safe and well 🥰 I can't even begin to imagine and I count my blessings everyday
Why u makin stuff up,cuz
Glad you got out. Too many people think homeless are just lazy and enjoy sitting in a tent covered in fleas and lice all day long with nothing to do. Everyone down there has a story.
I was a homeless female teen in LA in the late 80’s for several months before I got clean. It looks different to us than it probably does to you. I never saw the “art”… I was busy surviving and not dying on a daily basis. I remember my first job after I got sober-I had to take 4 buses through downtown and they were building that US Bank building at the time. I don’t remember it being quite that bad but I also don’t miss it down there. No desire to return to downtown area. Stay safe. The people there are unpredictable. Grateful to God and AA that I’ve been clean and sober over 35 years and now helping others. ❤
Stay sober 1 day at a time. God bless you
The homeless at L.A. River's shore,
Are like ghosts in a world of gore,
Their tattered clothes and tired eyes,
Reflect the pain of countless goodbyes.
The concrete banks are a prison wall,
For those who have nothing at all,
Their dreams and hopes, forever dashed,
By a society that's turned cold and brash
More people need God , this country needs more God……..yet God is being removed , and shunned from most aspects of America.
@Donnell Okafor You live in the land of fruit and nuts?
It's sad that promoting that this is the way to live!
Whenever I start feeling shitty about my life, I watch one of these videos, and instantly, I’m grateful for my small apartment, in my small town
The same reason I’m here 😢
Amen
Good for you!
Where do the homeless take.a dump.anywhere
Prayers for all the homeless
The other day I saw a film shot around 1961 of downtown LA. The streets were clean, the neighborhoods were nice, lawns were green and mowed. No garbage, no grafiti, no homelessness. Now, base on your videos, it looks like a third world toilet... Sad.
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By the 1930s, Skid Row was home to as many as 10,000 homeless people, alcoholics, and others on the margins of society.
It supported saloons, residential hotels, and social services, which drew people from the populations they served to congregate in the area.
Why don't you go help people who unfortunately are stuck instead of sitting on ur high horse and judging! I'm pretty sure u don't know what hard times are but you soon will!
@@Group_Anonymous you moron. The 1930s was the great depression. Every city filled up with homeless people because the stock market crashed and thanks to bad policy took us years to recover.
The difference back then is the people weren't all on seriously addictive drugs all suffering severe mental problems. They also were willing to show up to work for a pitiful wage just so they could earn something and not feel so useless for their families.
@@col.cottonhill6655 🤣🤣🤣The area in which Skid Row is located was agricultural until the railroads first entered Los Angeles, in the 1870s. The railroads paralleled the Los Angeles River, and the main rail yard and station were near the current Sixth Street/Whittier Boulevard river crossing. After the arrival of the railroads, the area began to industrialize with an emphasis on agriculture, which is seasonal in nature and therefore includes influxes of short-term workers, especially at planting and harvesting season.
@@col.cottonhill6655 The railroads themselves added to the transient nature of downtown as train crews “laid over” between assignments. As a result, many small hotels were developed in the 1880 to 1930 era to serve this worker population. Since many of the migrant workers were single and male, the area also saw a proliferation of bars, whorehouses and other “houses of ill repute.” Today there is a large mission presence in Skid Row which can trace its roots to that period, when temperament and other groups established such facilities as havens to counteract the ill effects of, and provide a healthy alternative to, the bars and other potentially self- destructive pursuits.
It was fucking freezing today in Switzerland, and I was so relieved when I entered the hot bathtub. We all should be grateful having a home 🙏
Rain always makes me happy, love the smell of fresh rain on the ground.
Thank you for making these videos. I myself was homeless for 6 months in Washington state back in 2019 and to this day I know many people who are chronically homeless and addicted to drugs. It's an issue that need attention brought to it!
When GIV put the camera inside the razorwire, I realized what a brilliant photographic eye he has! I've been a photo enthusiast for decades & always look for creative ways to look at things - but I wouldn't have thought of doing that. The resulting shot was absolutely brilliant! I hope he does a photo show someday; he must have an amazing portfolio.
I left LA in 2000 it breaks my heart to see it in this condition
@ Kathleen Noble yes that 1st razor wire shot is excellent. Prize-worthy and a few $$$$ into Mike's bank accounts and some in his pockets.
Jus like his mother 💐
I noticed that too and took a few screenshots to make a video for GIV. It would be wonderful if THE GIV could make $ with his artistic abilities
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
Believe it or not, when I lived in Pasadena in the late 60s and 70s, you could eat off the street. Every morning the street cleaners would come. Donut man would deliver my fav orange glazed donuts. My aunts backyard had roses and gardenias. Sweet memories.
Those times are long gone
Pasadena is still comparatively clean. Actually, parts of it over the past 10 yrs have been or are being improved. Same is true of even certain parts of downtown LA too. But the homelessness & graffiti in the 2020s are off the charts. I like how Mike doesn't sugar coat LA. However, if he hated it, I'd think his vid today was to make LA/SoCal look even worse---assuming that's possible. lol. The LA river in the 1930s also saw such massive flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers then turned paved it into a concrete channel. BTW, I heard that in Seattle, a recent effort to place their homeless into shelters saw about 50% of them refuse it. They didn't want to conform to anything that was remotely conformist.
@@gridley I agree, a lot of LA homeless don't want to conform and be put in a shelter. Also there are many transplants from other states taking advantage of living in LA unhoused. I work with homeless vets, and many hated having to live in a facility with rules, and would rather live on the streets than deal with the government.
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
@@sarbantz stop spamming this comment
Thanks for sacrificing your day in the rain and cold to give us a glimpse of life on the streets in L.A. I appreciate you, man.
Thank you Gov. Newsom!..... What a job you have done!
Sobering! Times are terrible for so many, now. Mine are not the best of circumstances, but this makes me very grateful for what I do have. Glad to see so many volunteers trying to make a difference for our homeless. ☮️
Dies geschieht in der ersten reichsten Nation der Welt, die Regierung kümmert sich nicht um ihre Bürger, sie schickt alles, damit sie sich in der Ukraine gegenseitig umbringen, und Deutschland unterstützt es und bald wird Deutschland ohne die billige Energie Russlands dastehen angeboten
They need to put them in insane asylums
You should always be thankful and grateful for what you've got.
Dave Grohl came (and continuously) up Huge.
Want to clear the area of vagrants ? Show up with job applications.
I wish you could have seen Los Angeles in the 60's and 70's... it was beautiful
Pretty nice in the 80s too.
Actually, parts of downtown LA back then were quite seedy & abandoned. If such parts of LA are in bad shape today, they've really been in poor shape for over 60 yrs. When various folks become nostalgic for LA/CA of the distant past, I have to remind them that some of its worst areas in 2023 were quite mediocre when they were newer & younger in the first half of the 20th century. The culture & economy back then were really hurt by things like the Great Depression & WWII.
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
@@gridley there wasn't the sheer amount of filth and desperation in the street like there is today. It doesn't even compare. I remember those times. Even my dad grew up in L.A. in the early 50s he always says the same. It was once a novelty to see a homeless person. Most people knew who they were. The neighborhood homeless man. Now they're are neighborhoods where you can't find anyone who lives in an actual home. The man with the apartment is now the novelty.
@@col.cottonhill6655 Correct. But I was referring to how downtown LA has historically never been what a top-flight city should offer people. I've read that even a city like Paris (the host of the Olympics before LA) has its own sections of LA-type dystopia. But in 2023, it's as though LA-CA-America want to be more of a cesspool than other cities or nations are.
Always an experience traveling with you, GIV. Sometimes sad but life as it is. Thank you
I live in the UK in a small town I’ve been homeless and in rehab twice it was a tough time but you help each other the Artwork is out of this word I wonder if the Artist got anything I think not God bless ❤
Thank you Mike for this video, it shows us that we need to be grateful for everything we have. I have been homeless before and its horrible. I take nothing for granted and try to help those in need when possible. You seem like a kind person, i wish i lived near you. I think we could be friends, we are both the same age, with similar interests. Stay safe out there and keep up the good work.
I'm glad he decided to go out & film today.
@@doneown503 YES!!! RIGHT ON!!!
Why were you homeless? Tell the truth please
@@mr.b7156 Lost my job.
Mike thanks for going out in this rain to film what is happening and how the homeless are trying to get through these terrible cold wet windy storms here in L.A. .
Definitely a big treat and I bet you will sleep sweet tonight 🤗
@@nobaloneymahoney7940 Hi,I just subcribed to your channel.
@@SharonGoewert Wow tx Sharon 🤗 my name is Sharon too
@@SharonGoewert btway I uploaded another GIV video with GOGO not long ago 👀
@@nobaloneymahoney7940 Hello Sharon I watched some of your videos
Thank you for being a conscious giver. Your video reveals and expresses a glimmer of the hardships that people without homes suffer. The real sufferings are deeply hidden, like lack of mental health services, no toilet paper never mind a toilet, disparity in every faction of living and suffering without proper medical/dental care. Painkillers and street drugs does not lead people to homelessness, but it kills the pain once you have lost everything. Yet your eyes see beauty in the art of the street. I agree.... it is a good one
Great job filming and zooming in on otherwise inconspicuous scenes such as close ups of the graffiti, power poles and asphalt and cement on the streets puddled with rainwater. It's those little details that make one as viewer feel like one is actually there. May God bless all the homeless people.
Rightttttt because it’s definitely more detailed that way
I drove from LA to Seattle 2 years ago. The misery and poverty seen in Los Angeles and San Francisco is truly shocking.
The government drove them to be poor because they are giving more free assistance to them they don’t want to live in housing project .That’s taking all the taxpayers expense they don’t like to work hard the money the get are on for their habits DRUGS get high that’s the life they want.
It's not poverty if it's self inflicted. Bums have always been bums, if you don't want to work you just bum around. Bums always drift where the weather is warm. No bums in Fargo.
@@hyzercreek not everyone who’s homeless person is a complete bum yo, some people just hit hard times in life and don’t have anybody to help them. They apply for jobs and get denied everything… some of them aren’t homeless forever and some are genuinely nice people… so to be calling them all bums is irrational and it takes one to know one fam 🤷🏽♂️💯
@@hyzercreek As much as we decry the tent cities. The tents are the only item that any program successfully provided as help or resource to the poor or homeless or those made homeless by government wether by biased Family Court decrees or vax mandates for keeping jobs, or lockdown closures resulting in losses of jobs, or whatever else. Once the left took over all the nonprofits. The money flows in but not back out of them.
When I lost my home. I had $100 thousand in the bank, and in three months I stayed at airbnb's five star options which were actually just run by third-party's who comprised of a foreign national who was getting to live there for appearance sake. Renting rooms with none of the options or amenities mentioned in the 5-star rating for the guests, and I couldn't find a single place to stay in motels, which I had planned on just doing while I looked for a new place. One night I drove from Santa Clarita to Bellflower in LA trying to find even a Motel 6, but the professional homeless, gangsters and others had vouchers for every Motel. There used to be a poor rating for hotels which were dirty, but now there's needles in the room, dirty carpet stains, rooms not cleaned and they don't care about their reviews because the voucher people will take the rooms where they can do the things they're doing and get away with it.
So there's a ton of us however at some point that may be homeless but don't fit the mold of any descriptions of homeless people. Nor get access to the services.
We even have means, but no longer the way.
In three months, I spent $6,000 on housing while trying to find a room or back house to rent.
Giant rental management companies control most of the rentals and they wanted let's say a Filipino nurse on an h1b work visa and her family with four incomes, but listing two on contract so they don't get in trouble for too many people in the place or a single mom with a guaranteed income from the government and un-interested in your ability to pay, only how you look on paper.
Three times the rent per month and pay stubs Etc, which excludes entrepreneurs, self-employed and others who used to make up the majority of California type people, who were pioneers and adventurous for making their own way here or selling their own goods or inventing products and don't have a pay stub to show some Corporation.
Also I ran into quite a few apartment complexes where the people working there were giving tips to their relatives or people of their same ETHNIC backgrounds on units coming available, I saw several places where they admitted that they only listed the residence for legal reasons but they ready had people lined up to buy or lease to. 'little India located in Artesia CA was one such place.
In the place I have now the man said he had a hundred applicants ahead / behind me.
But go ahead and keep saying that narrative that all homeless people are crazy drug addicts or don't want to conform to societal rules.
Even though there's Tech workers in Northern California living in tents with their families who makes six figures, and still can't find a place.
There's thousands of empty units in California, it's just who they go to is the flavor of the day for the woke and the government agencies contracted, and those who know how to work the system and who don't feel bad doing it.
@@cLoudyDey Facts are : family law courts are biased. They strip thousands of fathers of their income and children and housing.
Most homeless are American men.
Once homeowners now homeless.
Now you can all argue about mental health, drug use, and attitudes.
Those men who don't kill themselves, use whatever they can get to kill the mental agony.
I was twice made homeless by ex wives, kids kidnapped, no help from cops or any agencies.. Homeless, still paying cash n prizes to the ex.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
It is distressing to see that in America, not just LA, every major city has homeless people. LA has a whole lot more than most places. I know some is mental health, some is drugs, some is cost of housing, some is bad choices, some is personal preferences and not all of it is solvable by simply throwing money at it…but when I see hundreds of millions to billions given to other countries while we largely ignore what is happening in our own country it is sad….homelessness, failing infrastructure, substandard schools…wtf are we thinking?
Sadly, it's like the National Debt in the US. The habits/forces that created it have now become self perpetuating.
It is sad and depressing. This country cares nothing for its citizens. You have 2 choices: sink or swim!
En France c'est pareil...!!!
Thank you for Showcasing the L.A. Skid Row area . Very Historic and I too Love the Art . Hey Living Here has gotten a lot better really , in the 90's it got Bad with the Crack and Meth . The Downer Vibe has Mellowed things out . If you stay Sober you can afford a few decent Tents , Cardboard Houses covered in tarps are pretty cool too . I wish they would pick up the garbage and used items , Maybe add more stores to buy Items needed by the Homeless , Like decent Taco trucks and Street Taco's .
Your right this is the best Art in the Country . I spent 7 Years Homeless all over the States , and I was Here in Skid Row a couple of Years . The People will still say Hello . They show so Much Care for 0ne another . Glad you got the Rain , this is not the first time I have seen the L.A. River do it's thing . The Rain cleans things up a little . PPeace .
Cliffs of palisades park in Santa Monica? June-1985!!! It was well constructed and quite stable!
As an artist of multiple talents i appreciate your appreciation for art. You find it! Keep it going.
Wow! That storm was rough on those homeless! 7th and San Pedro were my stomping grounds from when I was 7 to 13 years old! Let me tell you, we would ride our bikes all around skid row and never had any trouble with anyone! Amazing times! That was around 1973 to 1980! Saw a lot of classic TV shows filmed there! Thank you german for the great video!
When it was still semi-nice!
My brother used to live in LA after Vietnam. I remember all the great photos he used to show me growing up. It was a beautiful city. What happened?
@@misslady5029 basically whats happening everywhere around the world everything is going to shit and is going to be like that for a long Time
For most of these people this a chosen life style. If you want to do drugs and not go to work you get to live out on the street.
Amazing video. Thank you for the time of making this video.
I think the governor is doing a wonderful job the way he’s helping the homeless in California. Soon, the rich will be living like this too. I can’t wait
I would like to commend you on how you never made disparaging comments about the people you filmed. You took care to protect their dignity in the middle of the chaos. You even found beauty there to share. If the suffering could be turned into power, that city could be lighted for years.
That's so true; he didn't have any judgements to make, which makes a nice change. "But for the grace of God, go I .."
There's no more California dreaming. When I grew up in Venice and Santa Monica in the sixties it was breathtakingly beautiful. The politicians should live In what they created.
Thank's 4 sharing your ❤ 2 art and People!
I love your energy and the things you get excited about. ❤
I appreciate you going out and showing real life and your artistic eye and empathy.
The level of despair and people down n out is truly an epidemic!!Had been here while in L.A. back in 99 and must say IMO it looks worse and more widespread!!Thanks for Vid man letting people that ain't got no clue too what the homeless and skid row life looks like must be Truly eye opening for them!Must say too it was impressive to see the LA river like that,Me and friends called it the "Sh@t River"
I love your content. THANKS for sharing!
That’s some very serious photo/video journalism there bro, thank you again for all the great videos and showing us what’s going on, go home take a hot shower, this makes me so thankful and grateful for all the blessings in my life.
This is happening in the first richest nation in the world, the government does not take care of its citizens, it sends everything so that they are killing each other in Ukraine and Germany supports it and soon Germany will be left without the cheap energy that Russia offered
I've seen a lot of the other videos of the homeless situation in America but none moved me like yours. Your willingness to go out into the weather told the story...keep up the good work you are a true artist!
A vote for the Democrat party is a vote for enabling drug culture and homelessness. Tough love is at least a form of love, compared to Democrat apathy and self-congratulatory indifference.
Love the content!! RESPECT
You have a keen eye for good subjects when exploring, so besides an interesting docu your vlogs also is an artistic experience. Keep up the great work.
Not everyone homeless in the streets are bad ppl or drug addicts, alot of them are really humble, down to earth and intelligent as well. I pray that all homeless people will be housed and have peace of mind also!🙏
This homelessness LA Los Angeles the cost of living is so high there you can't afford to live way2go Democrats
I will never think that! Homelessness can happen to the best of us. The most important thing to have is determination! You have to make the decision of how long this situation is going to last you. If you look at it as embarrassing you will never defeat it. If you look at it as a fight then fight it and win! Homelessness hit me for two months 15 years ago and I have never looked back! It can happen to the best of us.
It can happen to everyone everytime
With all resect for your prayers, these people should be helped so they can live as humans. It makes me so mad that US governments allow/don't do anything about this misery...
@@sandtown4638 For real. You can pretend the economics behind this are just greedy billionaires and do things your own way all you want. It doesn't change the reality that those same powerful people are still there and what... you're letting people suffer to prove a point? American Socialists are self entitled scum.
This should be Gavin Newsom's Presidential campaign ad
To be fair, BOTH parties have contributed to this mess in equal measure with historical policies that have exacerbated many of the known causes of homelessness over many decades.
Look to you, governor....Love you show...
Born in Compton, LA Most of my life. 40's 50's ...what an Eye opener. Thanks.
GIV I was once homeless this video was hard to watch but I have to thank you so much for bringing this to people's attention God bless you and I hope your mother is doing well
The problem of going in the Los Angeles river is that all the debris it picks up on the way. Pulls you down and out to the ocean it’s really terrible. Quite a few people have died this way. It’s tragic.
Glad to have you home Mike.
Debris u mean trash 🤔🙄🤣 a city full of liberals and environmentalists go figure
Gotta love hypocrites
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
@@sarbantz Yup. You ARE a shill for the mayor! How many times have you plastered this comment here in just this comment section?
The LA mayor is corrupt, and NOTHING will be done-except select committees, and paid consultants- “experts” that will drain off any money put aside for homelessness!
Addiction has help but many fall off the wagon . Lots of rules and regulations to Government housing programs. Many are evicted back onto the streets. There has to be a better way than this vicious cycle. The government needs to make ACCESSIBLE mental health care!!! 😡😡 Residential treatment centers want big money from insurance companies to cover their VERY costly treatment programs most working Americans cannot afford.
Thanx , keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work love from Australia 😊
It's good you have been getting these much needed rain, trees and wildlife just drinking it up.
its toxic. highly toxic.
@@happyvalley6990 No doubt some bad stuff in it but we are exposed every day.
I worked in Los Angeles for about 8 years, before homeless took over many streets. Thank Newsom, Garcetti and Bass for that...
Complimenti per aver trattato questa piaga enorme… contraddittoria con il lusso di Los Angeles 🙏❤️un abbraccio da Torino italy
even if i was homeless i'd keep my whole area very clean. theres no reason to be so messy!
Thanks!
So my friend, I am a native WLA person who relocated to Camarillo, in Ventura. When my children were young, I would take them to Skid Row and show them the families in the street. Then we would come back and said to appreciate the warm house and food they have. It made an impact on them. To this day, they remember and appreciate what they have.
Same here, born and raised Angeleno (60's and 70's).
The documentor doesn't seem to understand that this is not what Los Angeles looked like in past decades.
This started widespreading in 90s. My dad was a Street preacher, he often went to skid row to minister, taking my sister and I along..... However skid-row was not ALL over the city! Claiming it was is disingenuous, and will do nothing to help the homeless.
@@TheMollyPitchers
I don't think he did say that
this sad way of life was
everywhere : he mentioned
" Downtown" , and showed
the homeless , dirty place,
with the better places
behind.
But it is still a huge problem,
evidently....also, I guess once
people get into drugs, it's very
hard to escape....😢
dreadful waste of lives..
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Democrat poop holes
@@rosemariemann1719 that's not what she meant, and it is everywhere, even in the suburbs, even in the middle of LA Cienega Blvd on the grass of the divider in Beverly Hills next to the Beverly Center shopping mall. And it's not just drugs or mental health, it's the disparity being an American especially American male, especially in your mid-forties or later or disabled and trying to be able to exist. Some would rather exist in a tent in a decent area then live in a flophouse, or a gang controlled housing unit or shelter. People don't like to see themselves that's homeless. Staying in a tent in Beverly Hills might give them some hope that they're still part of the mix, and not completely removed from the better reality that exists for others more fortunate.
the United States is collapsing
German, I hope one day you will be truly recognized for your journalistic contributions
THANK U 4 SHARING BEAUTIFUL ❤
I was raised in those areas of LA since the 1970's. I have some very good memories of downtown LA in the 1970's. But from around the mid 1980's till today, those entire districts of the downtown LA are in shambles and there is no easy solution to ever fixing them or getting rid of the issues at hand. I left LA in 2016 and I don't ever plan in going back there to live ever again.
Yeah i need to leave here myself😅
Thats what I was thinking. I grew up there in the 70's and it was beautiful then. Thats just too much for me. I see art and creativity in everything, but thats just too much graffiti.
@@littleclay1838 Yes, Los Angeles is filled with great artistic talents. From painters, to skilled craftsmen, to great dancers and singers. We had it all in LA. I personally just got tired of how the political climate was not doing much, to and for, keeping the drugs and criminals from hurting the people there, and from someone who worked inside the City of LA, I can tell you for a fact that many of the wrongs in Los Angeles today were intentionally allowed to partake in order to generate revenue for the local government. I could not live with that type of hellish burden inside my own mind and soul. I am also a US Army California National Guard service member, with one combat tour to Afghanistan, and I swear to God, My uniforms, from both city and military, were never intended to be soiled to and for the interests of the politicians. I wore my uniforms to and for the American People, and the next generations to come and fill my boots. It is the people that we all should be vesting time and energy in trying to move them forward through empowerment, education, self awareness into their true strengths and potentials, financial awareness, etc. If you study the climate in LA, and I can attest that it is every many major metropolitan cities across America today, the new generations have been cheated and dumbed down with senseless ideologies and other distractors created to and only for their downfall. In short, we got played by some beings lurking in leadership positions all across government entities, religions, and other places where one could turn to for help and support. But the good news for us all is that we can choose when to stop supporting and being parts of these systems, and not fall victims to their schemes. Like myself, I try to encourage others to leave LA, travel around, and find where a place where you can see the qualities and kindness that we all need to be experiencing as a human race. From my own personal travels across many places in the USA, it is the smaller towns today that offer the best peace of mind. This is especially important to older folks like me, unless you want to keep seeing the struggles of life up there in once's older years.
I grew up there in the 70's as well. I left with my baby girl in 1981 because I could see where things were heading and it wasn't good. Best decision I have ever made. LA is gone and all that is left is an LSD nightmare.
The whole of california
Destroyed by drugs...and the money system that encouraged them
Amazing video, I’ve watched a few times now
Amazing thanks bro.
Thank you for showing this and having compassion for humans. It’s hard to believe its so cold in L.A. God bless you Mike. 🙏
They choose this.
Amen bring AWARENESS haters gonna hate go give a it a day then share✌️ ur opinion !
@@JetsetfastfoodTruth
@@Jetsetfastfood sorry to give thumb down but there are few alternatives and if you get to a shelter it is not safe
@@nobaloneymahoney7940 one alternative is to stop doing drugs and get a job.
Thanks so much GiV for coming out and filming in the pouring rain to show us what it’s like at skid row with everything soaking wet ! It makes us grateful for what we have and have compassion for others that don’t have anything. We appreciate your work!
Amazing video thank you so much my heart goes out to those people who don't have a home
GIV does excellent camera work of the homeless surviving on the streets I am impressed.
Thank you, Mike!!! Your videos shed light on how any one of us could possibly be living on the streets of L.A. and elsewhere... Looking forward to many more vids from the G.I.V.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I left l.a. in 2020 after 60 years there.
this just makes me think it was the right decison as this is just depressing to see just how much worse it is in just 3 years time.
my god
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
I live like 15 miles outside the city in a nice quiet suburb on a cul de sac. I avoid L.A. at all costs. But that metro rail brings all sorts of vagrants all over the county
@@sarbantz you're being sarcastic about the mayor right ?
@@col.cottonhill6655 that exact same paragraph appears under a few comments here, it's like a bot. I'd like to ask what exactly the mayor is doing about all this
@@sarbantz Mayor Bass didn't do anything to help the homeless crisis when she was a member of Congress for years. Unfortunately, she has only shown enthusiasm to continue the same failed policies as the rest of the corrupt LA politicians who've spent billions of dollars over the last decade while the crisis has only gotten worse. She will just be the latest CEO in the homeless industrial complex. I will bet you $10,000 there will be more homeless at the end of her four year term than now.
Thanks. Mike❤
You are one brave person going into the bowels of the homeless. Where is our newly ELECTED MAYOR of LA who promised to get 30,000 homeless into rehab centers, mental health facilities and tiny homes and motels. Doesn't appear she did much of anything. Politicians can talk but don't deliver. The problem also besides the bulk of the homeless people is they suffer from OCD big time as hoarders, bring all kinds of crap with them. I feel sorry for any animals that have to be in this horid situation.
Hey I'm surprised that "Sun" idiot hasn't come spammed their comment about mayor bass yet in your comment like they have in all the others.
Mayor Bass didn't do anything to help the homeless crisis when she was a member of Congress for years. Unfortunately, she has only shown enthusiasm to continue the same failed policies as the rest of the corrupt LA politicians who've spent billions of dollars over the last decade while the crisis has only gotten worse. She will just be the latest CEO in the homeless industrial complex. I will bet you $10,000 there will be more homeless at the end of her four year term than now.
@@LA_Commander they don't care. As long as she's liberal BIPOC. They're fine with their city being destroyed.
Thank you for sharing Mike! Good job Newsom💔
Newsom is doing a wonderful job said no one ever
Why someone would leave Germany for that I will never comprehend
Go to the Philippines, you will see poverty there, it’s funny, they don’t have much but they appear happy, we have everything but are not that happy.
Awesome video!!
Hey from New Orleans! Best Channel yet🎨
Mike, Mike, I hope you didn't get sick again being in the cold rain. That was nice of you to film this. Glad you have a good home to go to. Take care, be well.
Amazing video Mike! To capture so many aspects of life, struggling to survive, street art, people helping people in this bad weather, the tents collapsing and then the LA River becoming a river! This video is an incredible "documentary short" of one of the many faces of LA that people out in their warm apartments and homes have no idea exists. I say a prayer of thanks every day for my apartment and help whenever possible the homeless in my area. Rock On GIV!! THANK YOU ☮!!!!
The Los Angeles river is actually a natural river. The state just had it paved with concrete.
@@eva5601 Thank you for the 411!👍👍
@@denisearmbruster7478 I know I am side tracking, but I would like to tell this story, because who knows, maybe he was homeless...Another, FYI. Years ago my sister in law and I were driving on the bridge over the San Gabriel river, which is actually the Los Angeles river, but named San Gabriel river, because it runs through the San Gabriel valley. Well, as we were driving over the bridge to drive on to the 10 west freeway, which is next to the rivers bridge, we saw a man on the bridge, and a lady pulling on his shirt. My sister in law yelled out, "Don't jump!" What did he do? He jumped, and the lady that was with him ran away crying with her hands on her mouth. The next night I heard on the news, that a body was found, on the ocean in Long Beach where the river meets the ocean. To think, that if my sister in law would have not yelled out, and I would have coached him in to not jumping. I am still sad about this tragic event. 😪😔
Struggling to survive 😅😅😅😅they literally don’t do anything
Democrat poop holes
Glad you made it 😊🇬🇧
Oh wow, when i saw the video description and clicked i didnt expect it to be a video from you. 😊 Nice to see you in the states and glad that you dont avoid the reality of those impoverished, addicted, homeless in america ❤️
Really looks like Hell on earth! Stay dry GiV!
Great reporting documentary video GIV , Thank You Mike for your time filming this story it is incredible and the LA River runs thru it.
We all float down here. Always enjoy your amazing work.
Thanks GIV!!
Thank you GIV for your grace and bravery. We all benefit. Xo
Thank you Mike for showing us Skid Row/ especially heartbreaking in the cold rain.
Artwork is amazing.
Thank you for showing us downtown LA it is sad 😞
Love the photo shots captured during the video😊
Thank you for showing us some of the down-and-out homeless Skid Rower's during a rainy day. Compassion can get very thin but the flow of compassion will never stop just like the flow of these homeless people. There's got to be solutions that can at least reduce the homeless situation in Los Angeles.
It's the new norm all over California.
What solution?
@@armchairwomanmao2922 Money! Money that goes to tax free religious institutions and other scams. $$$$$ and proper services are the solution!
Yes STOP voting Democrat, remove sanctuary state status, close / protect the borders, bring back our manufacturing jobs.
@@elaineinarizona6354 🎯🎯 And help the addicted. That’s a big problem too everywhere! (No one is mentioning).
Love the art work
Muy apreciado German gracias por compartir por informar...le amamos en Cristo jesus
God bless us, every one!
Thank you for taking the time to show this to us! God bless you, Mike!
Ok, thanks tiny tim
Great video Mike good to see people are still filming the real life in LA stay safe 👍👍
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
@@sarbantz Number 5 of the same crappy comment! You MUST be getting PAID to do this-just like the “subject matter experts!” You know, the $400 an hour homlessness experts that all form a committe to examine the problem, eat up the $ DOING NOTHING!
Stop SHILLLING for that corrupt LA MAYOR, Sun!
@@sarbantz Mayor Bass didn't do anything to help the homeless crisis when she was a member of Congress for years. Unfortunately, she has only shown enthusiasm to continue the same failed policies as the rest of the corrupt LA politicians who've spent billions of dollars over the last decade while the crisis has only gotten worse. She will just be the latest CEO in the homeless industrial complex. I will bet you $10,000 there will be more homeless at the end of her four year term than now.
@@sarbantz How many fucking times you going to post this?
Once again, another great video Mike, I love the background music kind of creepy
Thank you that's my home town ECHO PARK 😉but I live in VEGAS. You tell the story like it is. I like that I pasted you videos to others all the time now they follow you. Can't wait to see more. Take care. Veronica. 😘👍🌈
San Gabriel Mountains were all snow covered this morning after the storm. Spectacular!
PS - This weekend is the first “cold” rain of the season where you needed a decent coat and boots. All the other rains were more of an inconvenience re temperature
if you make a snowball and try to light it , it doesnt melt and turns black and smells like plastic. go try it.
At least we are less likely to be lectured over water use or be rationed.
I used to live in Azusa. Yeah the mountains are pretty for sure. I moved out last year, too many homeless starting to come in. I was walking my dog one day and found a used needle on the side of the road in my neighborhood. A few days later an irrational homeless man was shouting at absolutely nothing. Also a few streets down there was a double shooting. I went to apply for a concealed carry because I no longer felt safe but the process was insane and expensive and Newsom made it so you really couldn't protect yourself anyways. I decided if I wasn't at least able to carry for personal protection then I could not attempt ro counterbalance the fact everything was already very unsafe. I moved to Nevada and I've never looked back. I won't even visit the state at this point.
Glad I have never had the desire to go to California. Getting a tour of some of the worst part of LA from GIV. Beautiful flowers Mike
These poor people...❤. My heart goes out to them. No one would choose these living conditions. Many have had these choices forced upon them by misfortune and some bad choices like any of us more fortunate might make.
Looks like you brought the German weather back with you to Los Angeles!
😂😂😂
🤣🕺🌧️☔🌞
Sadly, unsheltered street homelessness and fentanyl addiction pandemics are big social issues in every city. Luckily enough, mayor Bass and subject matter experts are working very hard to eliminate street homeless and help underprivileged Americans and other humans. We have to be patient before results are visible. Millions will die from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the states just in this decade.
@@sarbantz EVERY Democratically run city turns into a hell-hole! They waste $ on committees, and accomplish NOTHING, but the lining of their pockets!
You sound suspiciously like a shill for the mayor!
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It's been 11 years since I left LA, watching this video makes me stay away the rest of my life...
A very talented people that does the art on the walls.
Hi I always liked your channel great channel god bless you my friend 😊❤
Who is going to pick up all that trash and plastic bags full of who-knows-what? Thanks, GIV. ❤️✌🏻
Thanks for another informative video GIV. I was homeless for 3 years in Boulder County, CO. Not fun. I help others who are now when I can. So much needs to be done. It's heartbreaking to see Skid Row. I can't believe it. Anyway, Peace and Love. Stacy
How were you able to get out of that situation? Take care!
We're you on drugs?
Looks great!!!!! Would love to live there.
Love the riverrrrr