LA business owner fed up as city repeatedly targets store's sidewalk sign instead of homeless camps

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Los Angeles business owner Arik Air said city officials are relentlessly targeting the placement of a sidewalk sign after fining him in the past for flying the American flag.

Los Angeles business owner Arik Air tells Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt about the city's crackdown on a small foldable sign and an American flag outside his business as homeless encampments occupy nearby streets.business owner says city code enforcement officials have relentlessly targeted him for setting a sidewalk sign too close to city property while ignoring the growing homeless encampments.

"I'm kind of pissed off because it's an ongoing battle with them for kind of forever," Air told Ainsley Earhardt on"Fox & Friends" Wednesday."They keep changing the inspectors and actually to justify their work, they to come and give you a ticket for something." Air said code enforcement officials in the past have ticketed him for flying an American flag outside the shop.

Last month, Air claims agents contacted him five times about the foldable sign on the sidewalk outside – stopping by in-person the first four then calling the fifth time to ask him to text him a photo of the sign to make sure he wasn't breaking the law.Officials continually asked him to move the sign by one inch so it would no longer touch city property, but Air says his property line extends beyond what the city is claiming.

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