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Downtown barber Shalom Sharp, whose shop gained notoriety in May when the landlord blasted “Baby Shark” to deter homeless people, is now giving back.

Sharp trimmed more than 100 heads Wednesday morning at Los Angeles Mission before Mayor Karen Bass and others served Thanksgiving meals to Skid Row residents.

The initiative reflects Sharp’s remorse about the incident and marks a shift toward more compassionate solutions to Los Angeles’ homelessness challenges.

Shalom Sharp woke up around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday to pick up his barbers from his downtown business and start cutting hair at Los Angeles Mission in Skid Row.

By 9 a.m., he’d shaved and shaped up more than 100 heads of hair, he

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