In Jan 2017 King County had 11,643 homeless 1,500 of them Youth 28-40% identify as LGBTQIA 55% are Black or Brown Seattle is 75% white
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BREAKING:Seattle Activist are occupying City Hall and demanding their Mayor to stop sweeping homeless people off their street
#StopTheSweepspic.twitter.com/V4FHJ3clRX
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900+ families in Seattle are homeless. 7% of children in Seattle Public schools don't have an address. Thats who the city wants to sweep.
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WHEEEL/Women In Black reported on 10/25 Robert “Skittles” Joel Brown, 33, took own life after being swept off the street MULTIPLE times.
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Sep 2016 Walter “Stroud” Burton, 19, was run over by a car that crashed his tent. He was swept the day before/forced to be in his new spot.
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Last month Darrell Williams 49, found dead under a highway. He spent 3 months in jail w/no charges after being swept Poverty is not a crime
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35% of Seattle’s homeless sweeps come with NO WARNING. The city has spent MILLIONS on conducting these inhumane sweeps.
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Proud of my former city. Homeless people deserve respect, safety, compassion, and a decent place to sleep at night.
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They deserve a bus ride out of town
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Your contempt for people less fortunate than yourself does not help solve any problems.pic.twitter.com/3qijxEUGJ6
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Homeless people have a right to live. Provide affordable housing and services. Don't criminalize homelessness.https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/925969202007089152 …
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This is asking for that. It's just stipulating that it *isn't* asking to end the sidewalk sweeps.
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Sidewalk sweeps criminalize homelessness. This is wrong-headed policy that solves nothing.
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Seattle has never been so rich and so poor at the same time.
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