The freedom to criticize our government
is one of the most important rights enshrined by our nation’s
Constitution, but there is a line between protest and intimidation.
Activists who physically interfered with the work of code enforcement
officers should be investigated by police.
It’s
clearly a scare tactic to bring a long gun to a protest against an
encampment cleanup, and activists last week positioned themselves to
prevent city workers from reaching the camp. Christine Crossley, the
city’s director of homeless solutions, told us that city staff were
alarmed by the presence of guns.
City
spokeswoman Catherine Cuellar added: “The normalization of this
behavior is making the work for city staffers and the city as a whole
more dangerous.”
Damn I wonder what the Dallas police are carrying when they brutalize and criminalize homeless people every day
