Washington (AP) – Mrs. Jay did not wait for the authorities to come, before packing the tent and carrying what items she could on the way to Pennsylvania Avenue, on the way to what would happen next.
She lived in her Girl Scout Life, she said, saving money and finding a job while homeless. When she received the word that the law was on the way, she found herself in a living Scout slogan: be ready.
“It was so scary last night,” she said, recalling when the federal law officials, along with the local police, began to chase Washington to raise homeless campgrounds. “I don’t want to be the one waiting for the last moment, and then I have to hurry.”
The significance of President Donald Trump’s home began with the official Denisen of the official Washington and his marble buildings, returning to the Bureaucracy and Shields of the Government Efficiency Department. He now occupies the other side of Washington, sending about 800 national guard army to help the local police to commit crime, dirt and fast homeless campgrounds.
First came the spring cleaning
In the early spring, Trump’s efforts increased the US Peace Institute, among other institutions and departments. On Thursday, the authorities brought the land movement to clean the campsite at the needy headquarters of the Institute of Konstitucijos Avenue.
The mission of cleaning the capital of criminal elements and devastated edges is a short and beautiful working group of Trump DC. Some DC thinks they play a different kind of ugliness.
“The President of the White House sees the illegal desert,” said leaders of the Diocese of Washington Diocese. “We see fellow people – neighbors, employees, friends and family – each made by God’s image.”
61 -year -old Andrew S. The ugliness came Wednesday when the agents he found he was with the federal government and treated him like his eyes. They asked him to move from his resting place on the route, where the Trump would be taken to the center of Kennedy.
“You have to move because you are a president’s vision,” Andrew said, from Baltimore, he told him. He added: “I really didn’t take it seriously to this day, but the president really doesn’t want us here.”
He, Mrs. Jay and some others interviewed and photographed the Associated Press, refused to give his names to the involvement of heavy law enforcement in Washington.
Farewell to his belongings
George, a 67 -year -old George, a suspension near the Institute of Peace, named George, went on Thursday carrying an umbrella in one hand and garbage bag with some of his belongings. City staff placed their mattress and other items in a trash truck nearby. He said goodbye to that.
It was such a day and others on the same site.
“I have known homelessness for so long that it is a part of a normal life at the moment,” said Jesse Wall, 43, when he cleaned his belongings from the territory near the Peace Institute on Thursday. “What are you trying to prove here?” asked Wall as if talking to laws. – that you are bullying?
David Beatty, 67, lived in that campsite for several months. On Thursday, he watched his parts were demolished. Beatty and others were allowed to pack what they could, before the heavy machines removed the remaining items from the area and threw them into trucks and tanks.
What about the golden rule?
He quoted the Bible Golden Rules – “Do others like you, you should make them,” and said, “The idea that it directs us and persecutes us seems wrong to me.”
Most of the Thursday cleaning was in the hands of the police. DC officials knew that the federal authorities would dismantle all the homeless campsites if the local police did not. Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage said the district has a process that does “as he should be done”.
The wait was clear if not clearly stated: the local police would take work more humane than Fed.
Jesse Rabinowitz from the National Center for Homeless Laws said that according to the briefing he received about the operation, people would be given a choice to leave or be detained in eight federal and 54 local locations. Rabinowitz’s intention, he thinks, was to throw tents in the daylight (because the authorities want the public to see it) and make most of the arrest in the dark (because they do not want to see it broadly).
Once anhydrous, he is now a lawyer
Born and raised in Washington, Wesley Thomas spent almost three decades on the streets, fighting drug addiction until other homeless and charity organizations helped him clean therapy and back on his feet.
He now had a place to live for eight years and has been working for a non -profit group of support, a supporter of Miriam’s Kitchen, where he helped to find a dwelling.
“On the first day, I was anhydrous, homeless, scared, just clothes on my back, I didn’t know where I would sleep and eat,” he said. “Fortunately, there were some homeless people in the area, gave me blankets, showed me a safe place, St. John’s Church, and resting my head at night.”
St. John is in front of the Lafayette Park in front of the White House. It is known as the Presidents’ Church because its shrine has seen all the presidents from James Madison in the early 1800s.
Thomas wanted the public to know that most of the moving people were not “uneducated, stupid or stupid”, even if they were lucky. “You received doctors, lawyers, businessmen, naval stamps, veterans, rags,” he said.
“Poor people come to all races, ethnic groups and colors.”
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Kinnard reported from South Carolina. Associated Press journalist River Zhang contributed to reports.