#Thread
For years, @STLCityGov has displaced, punished, arrested, brutalized, prosecuted, jailed, and traumatized countless people who are unhoused and then had the gall to suggest it's "public safety."
Over +10 years, we've represented clients who were homeless and couldn't...
get into housing often because they were targeted and punished for being poor and unhoused. They'd been cussed out, beaten unconscious, arrested and threatened with being caged in the Workhouse, and generally abused by SLMPD, the courts, & the notoriously hellish Workhouse jail.
Those publicly financed & City supported actions never got our clients closer to feeling safe, respected, or that their basic needs were actually being met. People would be unhoused on the streets one day, get arrested, jailed and vanish for a few months, and then be right back