She pulled a cigarette from a crumpled pack of Mavericks, and Bernard puffed a Newport that he’d stubbed out earlier. Last winter, the D.C. government counted close to 7,000 homeless people, some of whom live in tent encampments around the city. In those instances, the city can detain homeless people against their will for 48 hours while they undergo psychiatric evaluations. We had a tarp and everything, and we got snowed in.”“We had a tarp that was like a tent,” said Bernard. So if you don’t see it, you don’t know it’s there, and it don’t get took.”Lewis shook her head.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2019 01:18 UTC