still life

Seven years on, Tom Hadden says he still lives with the physical and mental impact of the collision.

Standing before the judge, Esparza apologized to his family, to the city of Los Angeles and to his neighborhood of Boyle Heights, where he grew up and still lives.

A few blocks away, UC Berkeley student Ali Momhammed, 22, who grew up in Oakland and still lives there, said he was also planning to support the recall.

“Dahieh was originally a very beautiful place but all the wars have taken their toll,” said Rasha al-Ameer, a novelist and publisher who was born and raised in the suburb and still lives there.

Ms Pepin disagreed, claiming there was "still life left in it".