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The City of San Bernardino is making good on its promise to remove homeless encampments from city parks. Early Thursday morning, police officers and city staff began the process of removing a homeless encampment from Perris Hill Park.
The cleanup effort should come as no surprise as San Bernardino Mayor Helen Tran, in a press conference last month said that cleaning up the encampments “would be the city’s No. 1 priority” now that the injunction had been lifted.
Previously the city had been barred from addressing the growing homeless problem due to a lawsuit that charged the city with disregarding the constitutional rights of three homeless people when those people were ordered to leave a city park. The injunction was lifted last month after the city and the American Civil Liberties Union – one of the parties that filed the original lawsuit – reached an agreement under which the city will take better care of homeless people’s personal property when seeking to move them.
To honor that agreement, the city, in partnership with San Bernardino County, has been conducting outreach events at the park in an effort to connect the homeless community to stable housing and supportive services. More than 30 people have been placed in temporary housing or received other services since the outreach began.
“The city of San Bernardino is deeply committed to addressing homelessness by providing housing, resources, access to healthcare and mental health support,” said Ashley Esquivel, homeless solutions manager for the city.
Representatives of the ACLU was present for Thursday’s clean up, monitoring the situation and making sure the city complied with the terms of its agreement.
Park staff will now begin the task of cleaning the grounds, laying down mulch and making repairs to the sprinkler systems for the public to enjoy the park.
I had a home invader in my apartment in Barstow. She took my keys to my apartment and locked me out. I had to leave or hit the lady, which I don’t do if I have a choice. I went in a place below my own and went to sleep. I was awakened by 4 Barstow police officers shortly after falling asleep. I had all my belongings with me I could put on my hand truck. The officers left all my things outside for any passer by to take, and I was arrested. After an hour or so I was released to find all my belongings gone. $1500 worth of merchandise, the Barstow police in essence gave away my property to not me.
E e. While the injunction was on effect, the City of San Bernardino along with Ms. Mayor Tran, went behind the scenes of the icourt imposed injunction and got themselves a hired gun, so to speak, a PRIVATE security company whose guards wear actual firearms and who came into the homeless encampment like Gestapos threatening homeless persons living out of their vehicles with costly parking citations, and even going as far as to make threats to confiscate their vehicles by towing them away if they didn’t move them by a certain time of the day. One of these guards named D. Draper, a heavy set Caucasian guard, was especially aggressive when dealing with Black’s and homeless people of color. He was writing parking citations with a sort of loose hand, and only towards black people with cars, suvs, or RVs. So the City isn’t so innocent in its claim that it cared for homeless persons, which is why those who were once in charge of of our national politics are no longer in charge, and lost the national election all across the board.