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Homeless Encampments In California Cleaned Up Ahead Of Democratic Debate, Residents Say

John Bickley
Homeless Encampments In California Cleaned Up Ahead Of Democratic Debate, Residents Say
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Ahead of the Democratic president debate Thursday — in which frontrunner Joe Biden said that he’d be willing to “displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers” to transition to a “greener” economy — residents in Venice, California near where the debate was held noticed a lot of activity around homeless encampments around the city.

“Some residents in Venice say they’re seeing lots of cleanups at homeless encampments right before the Democratic presidential debate,” KFI AM 640 reported Thursday along with some photographic evidence of the cleanups (h/t Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw). “Dump trucks, homeless service workers and police have been cleaning up encampments,” the outlet reports.

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