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Runners expressed a mix of outrage, heartache and defiance as they jogged in the hot sun for 15 miles through neighborhoods where raids have happened or that are important to immigrants, from streets lined with sidewalk vendors in Koreatown and MacArthur Park to Dodger Stadium, Chinatown, the Fashion District and the city’s historic core, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Detention Center where immigration detainees are housed.

After Dodger Stadium, the runners passed through Chinatown toward City Hall, stopping in front of the iconic building to rest again before the long stretch to the Fashion District and the canopied markets of Olympic Boulevard.

To raise funds, they sold T-shirts with an image of a protester in Chinatown confronting an ICE agent.

On Jan. 8, an air quality sensor in Chinatown had read fine particulate matter at a concentration over 13 times the federal daily limit — the number that had prompted my team to elicit my interview with Vanderbilt.

Tucked into a Chinatown shopping plaza, the modern Filipino restaurant Lasita is typically bursting with energy.