I saw you. Both of you. Standing outside your SUVs, by the exit onto the freeway. The homeless camp had been sprawling onto the sidewalk, and then the bike lane, and eventually onto the road where it was now blocking an entire lane of traffic. There were many things you could have done. You could have trashed their belongings. You could have forced them away. You could have even sent them to jail. But you didn’t. You were both standing there, talking with the homeless people, calmly explaining to them that they could stay but would need to consolidate back into the woods and clean up a bit. You even handed one of them a trash bag to help. Sure, it’s unsightly. But, frankly, nobody else uses that wooded area in the four-leaf-clover, and these people need a place to live, too. Thank you to the two San Jose police officers who did the right thing. It did not go unnoticed.
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