The nearly two dozen residents will now have to stay away from the property, which the police plan to monitor for trespassing.
CONCORD — LeAnn Matthews watched as an excavator cracked one of her old wooden crates in half before rumbling over to a large bin to discard the splintered pieces.
For the past six months, the encampment’s residents had fostered an informal understanding with police: they could remain as long as they didn’t commit crimes, openly use drugs or litter the premises with trash or excrement. Members of the nonprofit Concord Community Alliance showed up Wednesday morning to protest the cleanup; the night before, they chanted “stop the sweep!” at a City Council meeting, begging officials to call off the action.
“We had to move a lot of them to a smaller area,” Olvera said. “Now those places are going to look very crowded and people there are going to complain. If the city could just set up an area with a hand washing station, portable showers, bathrooms… we could take them down there.”CONCORD, CA – JANUARY 26: City workers remove structures at a homeless encampment along San Miguel Road on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Concord, Calif.
“I don’t want to throw away all my stuff for a bed,” Twuan said. “That doesn’t help my homelessness situation. It doesn’t give me a job or money. I still wake up with the same problems.” “I’m not going to sit here and pretend we’re all saints — most of us do drugs, don’t have a job, some of the stuff is probably stolen — but we’re not the scum of the earth,” Twuan said. “We’re people too.”
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