1) Did I miss the name of the tech mogul?
2) When Spike Lee was filming one of his ghetto movies the production crew had to go onto the street and pick up and throw out garbage on the street and the curbs including a number of used hypodermic needles the children had been playing with. The real children were picked up and escorted away. Lee’s little actors in OshKosh bib overalls and colorful shirts and hats were brought in to show normal, happy ghetto life for the scene.
Ivan Matkovic. It’s mentioned later in the article.
I know a guy that works in Seattle. He said that early on in the pandemic when all the street sweepers and maintenance people were stuck at home the gutters looked like they were filled with snow.
It was the needles from junkies.