Vancouver police order residents to vacate tent city near CRAB Park - News Summed Up

Vancouver police order residents to vacate tent city near CRAB Park


Police are ordering dozens of homeless people to leave a tent city near CRAB Park on Vancouver's waterfront, a day after campers moved to the gravel lot from their original encampment nearby. Lance Gariepy, 55, was ordered to leave the encampment near CRAB Park in Vancouver on June 16, 2020. (Yvette Brend/CBC)The Vancouver Port Authority was granted a 15-day injunction on June 10 against members of the illegal tent city next to the park. Many moved their tents and belongings from the first area through a broken fence to the new one on Monday. Campers started pitching their tents on port authority property shortly after May 8, when the homeless camp in Oppenheimer Park closed.


Source: CBC News June 16, 2020 14:26 UTC



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