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Dec 31, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
#2020yearinreview
My coverage and commentary of San Francisco homelessness in the past year.
To make it more interesting, I'm interspersing quotes throughout this thread ⬇️
‘The letters or cards that I had… they could never be replaced. It just meant more to me than a zillion dollars.’ -- Derrick, who lost his tent, ID and letters from his mother to sweeps by Caltrans thestreetspirit.org/2020/03/01/cal…
Oct 27, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD
Recently, Scott Wiener called for reforming the criminal justice system after George Floyd + Breonna Taylor's deaths at the hands of police.
"We need to acknowledge the system is broken," he said. But the system rewarded him throughout his political career ... (1/)
