After several people went live on social media, dozens of people came to the corner and bought all the 'flower grandma's' flowers.
Mother's Day weekend is huge for flower vendors, including one 83-year-old woman who can usually be seen on the corner of Sherman Way and Sepulveda Boulevard in Van Nuys.This weekend, though, LAPD officers approached the woman known to locals as "the flower grandma," saying they'd gotten a call complaining she did not have a permit. Other vendors in the area, including the owner of the popular Pupusa Express truck usually parked in the same corner, were upset.
In the video, officers are seen telling him to step back, eventually taking his phone and handcuffing him.SUGGESTED: ‘Ultimate soccer mom’: Single mom of 4 drove daughters an hour and a half one way to practiceSeeing that scene live on social media, people began to show up at the corner. One of them, Nelson Martin Sandoval, began going live on TikTok, saying he was there to buy flowers.
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