Homeless to #OccupySacto: Get out of our park!

CBS Sacramento files an interesting reportΒ in which the homeless at a local city park want “Occupiers” off their ‘turf’:

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) β€” As the Occupy Sacramento movement settles in for another night inside Cesar Chavez Park, another group sits, watches and wonders if they’ll ever get what they call β€œtheir park” back.

β€œThese homeless people have been out here alot longer than you have,” one homeless person tells CBS13.

For years this plaza in the heart of Sacramento has been a homeless hide-away. But some just want the Occupy group to go away:

β€œI just wish they’d give us our park back,” one homeless woman says.

She’s one of dozens of homeless who’ve signed a petition:

Part of the problem, some homeless argue, they feel they’ve lost their freedom.

β€œThey got their own security, they act like the police,” one man tells Lopez. β€œAnytime you do anything they say you can’t do this and that … and we’re saying β€˜you’re not the police.’”

But the allegations of harassment go both ways.

β€œShe on numerous occasions came to me with violent threats like β€œI’m going to get you,’ just terrible things,” one Occupy organizer says.

The Occupy leader felt so threatened by a homeless woman, she thought about getting a restraining order.

So, like – I’m confused. If the “Occupiers” are “the 99%” and the homeless don’t want them there, what does that make the homeless?

Thoughts?

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