On Wednesday, a few hundred protesters showed up at Super Bowl City to bring attention to the homeless population that is being increasingly shoved aside while San Francisco subsidizes the wealthy. Under the name "Tackle Homelessness," protesters set up tents and carried signs such as "house keys not homelessness" and "Hey Mayor Lee, no penalty for poverty."
As this video shows, protesters were met by a swarm of about 100 police officers dressed in riot gear, issuing orders over a loudspeaker to pack up their tents and clear the area within one minute.
"You have one minute to disassemble those tents and put them away. If they're not disassembled, we will confiscate them and we will book them as evidence and keep them as safekeeping."The heavy hand of the police state demonstrated here is a reflection of what goes on every day in San Francisco. Instead of taking measures to aid the homeless, the city is increasingly penalizing them. According to the organizers of Tackle Homelessness, citations are on the rise for those sleeping in the streets, and there is only one shelter bed for every six homeless people.
"The major freeway arteries, the encampments surrounding them, have been displaced. People have been getting ticketed, getting arrested, having their property confiscated," said Jennifer Friedenbach with the Coalition on Homelessness."
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