National Park Service employees swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House Wednesday morning, removing and disposing of about 50 tents used by homeless people.
Workers clear a homeless encampment at McPherson Square in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. – National Park Service employees on Wednesday swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House, tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest., tossing the remnants of the tent city into a pair of garbage trucks.
The encampment in McPherson Square has grown steadily over the past year, to about 50 tents as of Wednesday. Many people said they came after encampments in other parts of downtown were cleared by either the federal agency or the city government. NPS spokesman Mike Litterst said that despite the accelerated timeline, there still was notice of about two weeks. “The District’s social service providers intensified their efforts to connect people with housing and other services,” he said.
“Brandon, they are going to come here and take this down,” one worker shouted outside a closed tent."They're coming, you have about 10 minutes!" “The shelters are infested with mice and there's mold on the walls. And they're not safe,” said a woman named Umi, who declined to give her last name. She said Bowser and Turnage “need to go sleep one night in one of these shelters and see what we experience.”
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