Fed up residents sue the City of San Francisco, the U.K. Daily Mail reports.
Five anonymous plaintiffs and three businesses accused officials of turning their district into a drug ‘containment zone’, where ‘drug dealers brazenly sell narcotics on the streets’.
From the lawsuit,
One of the anonymous claimants, described as an immigrant housekeeper with two children, said she often encounters drug dealers and ‘users openly injecting or smoking narcotics and people lying on the street who appear unconscious or dead’.
A reasonable request,
They are not looking for a payout, but want a preliminary injunction that stops the city from distributing drug paraphernalia near their homes and businesses.
The response,
“The city has made great progress in reducing crime, disrupting open-air drug markets, getting people into treatment and addressing homelessness in the Tenderloin and across the city. We are reviewing the motion and will reply in court,” said the city’s communications director Jen Kwart.
The City adds,
We firmly believe that lawsuits of this kind do not improve conditions on our streets.The courts are not equipped to step into the shoes of elected policymakers and voters.
Big, if true. The City itself, along with California and every other Democrat-run state have filed dozens and dozens of lawsuits trying to thwart Trump and micromanage the Federal executive branch.
Sauce for the goose, etc.
