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Tito \u201cThe Hood Santa\u201d Rodriguez, member of the Local Hearts Foundation<\/a>, heard about the incident happening in his neighborhood from a friend and asked to see Nu\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I met him, it kinda crushed me,\u201d said Rodriguez, describing the sadness in Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s face.<\/p>\n So that Nu\u00f1ez could keep the full $10,000 raised, Rodriguez and the Never Forgotten Foundation<\/a> spent $1,600 for another bike cart. On Monday, an entourage of supporters surprise-delivered it to Nu\u00f1ez at his home in North Long Beach. He took it for a little spin down the block.<\/p>\n HJ Chong, another member of Local Hearts, said he and his colleagues are trying to help street vendors any way they can, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. They distribute PPE to street vendors to support their safety, but after seeing posts go viral of vendors getting robbed<\/a> or assaulted has pushed him to make public stands against the violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been going on for years, but because of social media, it\u2019s finally coming to light,\u201d Chong said.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Nu\u00f1ez, the theft of his cart wasn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s been targeted or put in danger.<\/p>\n Five years ago, Nu\u00f1ez said he was violently robbed of $150 around Artesia Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue. Police were able to catch the suspect and return the money, he said. Last year on Long Beach Boulevard near Del Amo Boulevard, someone threatened him with a knife, but he was able to escape. Last January, a Mini Cooper hit him on Pacific Coast Highway and Magnolia Avenue that resulted in him losing two teeth and having to get stitches over a horizontal laceration on the right side of his mouth; he didn\u2019t file a police report.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Nu\u00f1ez said he will continue to work.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing I do [differently] is I come back earlier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday, an entourage of supporters surprise-delivered it to Nu\u00f1ez at his home in North Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":71149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2002],"tags":[25909,25910],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[25587],"class_list":["post-17846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-street-vendor","tag-theft","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20150408\/paletero_tito-walking-with-cart.jpg\")