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The Lucas’ circular plaza and amphitheater with seating for hundreds, have the potential not only to host museum events but also to become popular community gathering spots.

But the normally bustling plaza was all but deserted when Mayor Karen Bass visited Sunday morning.

The Little Tokyo Public Safety Assn., which organizes the annual Little Tokyo Sparkle cleanup, is arranging another cleanup effort on Thursday, gathering in JANM’s plaza.

Fujioka and I talked in the plaza where buses pulled up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to transport Japanese Americans to prison camps.

She said the confrontation appeared to have started after protesters spotted immigration officers staging across from a business plaza where DHS has an office.