Police arrested six activists and a homeless man following a more than seven-hour standoff Wednesday, where the group refused to leave an encampment of four tents set up under a sidewalk shed on East 9th Street in the East Village.
Police collapsed Grima’s tent around him and several officers piled on top of him, placing him in zip ties. All the while he chanted, “I want apartments for all my homeless people.”
The arrests were the culmination of hours of back and forth between police officers and sanitation workers, one homeless outreach worker and a handful of homeless people and about a dozen activists who had come to their aid. “This is where we make our stand. We’re tired of this crap,” said Sinthia Vee, who said she’d been living on the streets for several years. “I’m not spending three years getting staph infections in another shelter, waiting while everyone says they won’t rent to me. It’s not going to happen.”“An apartment,” she replied, emphatically. “We don’t need any more of these f--king rich people high rises in the sky. We don’t need tenement crap holes. We need housing.
“What would it take to get you off the streets, an outreach worker ahead of a line of police officers attempting to clear the encampment, “housing!” She shouts “we need housing.”
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