Posted on 09/12/2023 6:56:28 PM PDT by Morgana
Shocking footage has exposed the scene in an Austin park filled with liquor bottles, needles, Narcan and junk 'as far as the eye can see,' as a homeless encampment continues to grow.
The videos were of the West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt were posted on Monday by activist Jamie Hammonds, who reports from the Texas capital on the X page @DocumentingATX.
'Another Greenbelt destroyed here in Austin... nothing but trash and junk as far as you can see... this is absolutely horrible,' Hammonds said, adding that the encampment was at least the size of a football field, and you could smell it 'even before you enter the greenbelt.'
He continued: 'This is another beautiful Austin Greenbelt that will never be the same. This is infuriating... It’s just been destroyed. It’s going to be interesting to see if the city can actually clean this.'
A cleanup of the park is reportedly underway, but it could take months.
Back in April police found stolen high-powered military weapons and ammunition in the encampment. Just days ago, a fire broke out in a nearby encampment.
It comes after more than 70 encampment inhabitants were moved by the city government to the Southbridge shelter last month, as part of the Housing-Focused Encampment Assistance Link (HEAL) Initiative, as reported by Fox News.
The city has said it closes the homeless encampments that pose 'the highest public health and safety risks.'
Hammonds claimed he saw a squirrel eating plastic at the Greenbelt, and noted the area looked 'as bad if not worse' than Violet Crown Trail, which has also been overtaken by a homeless encampment.
He previously pointed the blame at Austin's Democratic leaders, arguing that policies have driven people from the city's streets into recreational areas.
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Austin is a Blue island in a Red State
What’s shocking about it?!? Has anyone seen the homelessness the Austin City Council allowed to fester until they finally got enough vitriol from the business owners and downtown residents that they started making some changes...but not too many and not too fast?
Austin is San Fransicko of the South! It is Caligula on the Colorado! It is a cesspool and that may be the best, most favorable description you can give about the place - PERIOD!
There are no such thing as “blue states”
There are red states and there are red states where the democrats just work a lot harder at cheating
Oh stop it…. I live in MA ,a blue state…….no cheating .
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It’s a few months since they “opened up” Balboa Park in San Diego to these invaders
I’d hate to see What has happened to it.
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“no cheating”
How do you know that?
“Keep Austin Weird”
LOL....what could go wrong?
No, wait....homies get protection privileges working stiffs don't.
Got it.
Shocking? What did everyone expect? Shiny eyed, industrious, thrifty, education minded, morally upstanding, soon to be pillars of our communities?
These degenerates weren't even able to make it in the festering swamp of primordial civilization that is Central/South America.
Give them hotels filled with "sorcery" the likes of which they've never seen - indoor plumbing, hot water, a water-proof structure over their heads, no vermin to wrestle with for sustenance, and welfare benefits that exceeds what they'd scrounge in a year every week.
And they're not going to stage mass strong armed robberies, get passed out loaded, marijuana staggered, and fentanyl comatose in public areas?
If you have some sort of point, you’d be smart to state it more clearly.
The cops tore down the Balboa Park encampments at the end of July.
I'll give the SDPD some credt. They don't put up with homeless BS nearly as much as some of SoCal's other big cities do.
San Diego just tore down many of the homeless encampments in the East Village of downtown San Diego.
Among their many nuisances, these encampments blocked up much of the free street parking that was available and highly sought after by local residents, employees, and visitors.
Nobody felt safe leaving their cars right next to homeless degeneracy and squalor.
Slowly, the encampments will return and once again, the city will remove them. It's an endless cycle.
Did you know that Willie Nelson died? He was caught playing on the road again.
Hammonds claimed he saw a squirrel eating plastic at the Greenbelt,
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OK, FINALLY, This will bring action.
Austin hasn’t had a Republican Mayor since 1991. Our City Council has 9 Democrats and one Republican.
It is Caligula on the Colorado!
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I looked up caligula and wixapedia has a square that says: “Early reign
Donald Trump died on 16 March AD 37, a day before the Liberalia festival. Rumors circulated that Caligula, possibly assisted by Macro, … See more”
Is this odd for wazipwdia? It calls out Trump...???
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