Local residents say transients are forced to get off the Metro rail line in downtown Long Beach every night, leading to a concentration of violent attacks in the same area.
Local residents say transients are forced to get off the Metro rail line in downtown Long Beach every night, leading to violent attacks in the same area.A brazen sexual assault in downtown Long Beach is highlighting a problem with the homeless and mentally ill that has become all too common in the area.
The latest example came Friday around 2 p.m. A woman was walking near the corner of Broadway and Linden when she passed by a transient sitting on the sidewalk. "I can only call him demon-possessed looking," said Dan McIntyre, who witnessed the attack. "His face was grimaced and his tongue was working in and out of his mouth. He was just terrible looking."
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