This photo was taken before 8 a.m. this morning because the man seemed unwell.
A homeless man named Joshua kicked an Angelini waiter in the chest, knocking the waiter to the ground, where the server hit his head. The incident happened in the Ralphs parking lot, today August 15, shortly after 4 p.m. The waiter was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. Joshua was handcuffed, put in a police car and taken to the police station to be booked.
A Palisades High School student, Brayden Levy, took a video of the incident. The man had been screaming in the parking lot earlier, and his rants seem to grow during the day. At least two Palisades residents had called police, telling them about a man exhibiting indecent exposure. Then another call was made when Joshua attacked the waiter.
Initially, the students watched the interchange in the Ralphs parking lot from a car, but once the waiter was knocked to the ground, the students immediately went to offer aid. One asked someone to go get help from Station 69 paramedics, which was located less than a block away.
(Video: BRAYDEN LEVY)
Another bystander told CTN that the waiter had just pulled up into the parking lot and got out of his car. He saw that the homeless man was disturbed and tried to calm him down—that’s when the waiter was kicked.
Earlier this morning, the editor walked by Joshua, who was taking water from the little median at Sunset Boulevard and Monument. He put the water in a plastic bag, where he had some clothes. He crossed Sunset Boulevard to the front of the empty building that used to house Pharmaca. He swished the water around, sort of a makeshift washing machine. He then placed his pants on the bench in front of Sotheby’s and dumped the water in different locations on the sidewalk.
His pants kept falling down, and he appeared angry, so I gave him a wide berth. I walked a distance away, took a photo and texted it to Sharon Kilbride, who is the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness liaison to the Los Angeles Police Department.
She told this editor, “That’s Joshua, he’s been engaged several times by the PPTFH outreach workers, task force workers and LAPD. He’s refused help.”
He has been in the Palisades about two weeks and his photo had been sent to the LAPD beach detail and to Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin. “They were aware of him,” Kilbride said.