“Horrible and eye-opening.”
That's how street vendor advocate Wendy Lujan described this past year. She and seven other activists, including her fiancé and known street vendor defender, Edin Alex Enamordo, fought charges that included conspiracy, assault, and false imprisonment following their arrest by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department last December.
As of last week, only Enamorado remains in jail and is being held at the High Desert Detention Center.
“Our whole life was turned upside down and everything changed,” said Lujan, a day before she returned to Victorville for court.
The arrests came after altercations at protests held in 2023 by the activists themselves. There were two particular incidents, one in Victorville and one in Pomona, where a dispute happened between a security guard and, on a separate occasion, in an altercation with a man at a car wash.