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collapsedsquid:

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