Street Vendors

A Riverside County man who was moved to action after witnessing attacks on street vendors in Southern California on social media decided to make a change. Obadiah Baldwin bought out one local vendor’s entire cart for the day. Baldwin said over the past few months he’s been disturbed by videos that show street vendors being harassed. In some cases,...

A National City man has started a movement to help the smallest of local business owners who have seemingly become the recent target of attacks — street vendors.

A 57-year-old ice cream vendor was knocked to the ground and robbed of about $30 Tuesday in an attack that was captured on a security camera in downtown Los Angeles.  A man and woman can be seen in the video walking up to the vendor as he pushed his ice cream cart on a sidewalk near 12th and Birch streets….