The student told the BBC he had stopped to give change to a homeless person when a man in a hoodie, who he later realised was a police officer, ran towards him.

“I’ve been doing this to the point that I understand what camping means, and it’s not purely one object” in the homeless person’s possession, she said.

“Let’s give it to a homeless person,” he said.

“Our cost for taking care of a homeless person that has nothing up here … it’s expensive.”

“We have the resources, and we know how to do nice sidewalks. We don’t have the political prioritization,” Yi said as we passed a homeless person lying on the pavement near 7th and Wilshire.