Frustration and despair from the homeless who — up until this morning — lived on the sidewalk along Stadium Park. Their possessions were hauled away today as part of the city’s enforcement of the new sidewalk possessions ban:


“Why don’t they do something to try to help us instead of trying to hurt us?” Jared Castro told Civil Beat. “All they’re doing is pushing us back. They tell us to move forward and they push us back.

“We can’t go in the streets, we can’t go on the sidewalks, we can’t go in the parks, we can’t go on the beaches, we can’t go in the mountains, where are we going?”

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