Advocates for Homeless Block Encampment Sweep

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Friday morning in Dallas, dozens of demonstrators demanded a moratorium on debris clean-up’s at homeless encampments.

“All these people are on foot,” said an organizer with the group ‘Say it with Your Chest DTX.’ “These people are elderly, they are disabled, and they are hot. We need a moratorium on sweeps, or debris clean-up’s during the heat.”

The encampment in the 2400 block of Coombs Street in Dallas was scheduled to be swept on Friday, according to demonstrators. Dallas Police Officers and members of the Dallas Homeless Solutions Office were on scene, but had not swept the area as of Friday afternoon.

The City of Dallas has gone on a blitz of destroying establish unhoused camps in the past few weeks.

Community members have lost everything, shelter, transportation, clothes, food, ID documents, items of personal importance.

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Armed demonstrators said that the sweeps are disruptive for the homeless. A homeless man told WBAP/KLIF News that he has been forced to move at least four times, and is in poor health.”

“It’s very disruptive,” he said while sitting on a medical walker. “I can’t really get around, but they’re always making me move.”

Debris clean-up’s have increased in recent months with the intent of making the city safer and more clean.