China Overseas Press, March 4th. According to the American Overseas Chinese News website, a Chinese police officer of the Los Angeles Police Center Community Branch was infected with typhoid fever because of his daily work in a homeless dense area, causing his Chinese wife Also infected. In a fury, his wife brought the Los Angeles city government to court, accusing the city government of letting her husband work in an unsafe environment and being sickened by homeless people living in the streets around the police station.
Barbara Wong, the Chinese wife of Chinese police officer Franklin Chen, blamed the city government for her husband's infectious diseases in the indictment. Mayor Jahiti, police chief Michel Moore and The deputy director and other senior officials failed to perform their duties and did not take preventive measures against typhoid infectious diseases in time. They pointed out that the spread of typhoid fever threatened the safety of residents in the surrounding communities, and asked the city government to make economic compensation to her and her husband. No explanation was given as to what the compensation would be. The City Counsel's Office did not immediately respond to the lawsuit.
Officer Chen joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 2013 and was assigned to the Central Community Branch two years later. Every day, many homeless people receive calls for help. These homeless people live in parks and parks around the police station. On the sidewalk on the street. The prosecution wrote: "The homeless neighborhood around the central branch is very dirty and unhygienic, where fleas and mice spread various diseases, and tramps have no place to bathe and use the toilet. Let infectious diseases prevail here. "
The indictment states that the California Department of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal / OSHA) is responsible for protecting California workers from health and safety issues. The same department asked the Central Community Branch to govern the health of the surrounding environment because of the same problems, but it has not been The attention and response of the Los Angeles Municipal Government caused Police Officer Chen to have a high fever in the spring of 2019. He was diagnosed with typhoid by the hospital in June. As a result, his wife Ms. Huang was also infected by her husband in October 2019. Ms. Wong analyzed that her husband might have been bitten by a flea from a tent area of a homeless person, and thus contracted typhoid fever.
Ms. Huang believes that many high-level officials, including the mayor, the police chief, and sub-directors, are aware of the mess in the central bureau and the surrounding health environment, but they have turned a deaf ear to it and allowed the epidemic to spread and spread, leading to the environment of the surrounding community. Hygiene is getting worse every day. After being infected by her husband, Ms. Huang experienced symptoms such as high fever, chills, headaches, insomnia, and restlessness. (Gao Rui)