Sacramento City Sues Homeless Serfs, Seeks to Ban Them From Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where the Sheriff runs someone he doesn’t like out of town on a rail?
(Wikipedia: Riding the rail was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. (A)n offender was made to straddle a fence rail…taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.)

Sacramento City Sues Homeless Serfs, Seeks to Ban Them From Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk City-of-Sacramento-stayaway-zone

Sacramento City Sues Homeless Serfs, Seeks to Ban Them From Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk City-of-Sacramento-stayaway-zone

A modern-day version of this has now been put in play by the City of Sacramento as it attempts to find ways to rid itself of the homeless – except the “rail” now being used is a civil lawsuit.
Civil libertarians are calling this an attack on civil rights and “outrageous,” but the city nonetheless has filed a civil action against seven individuals described as “drug users, trespassers, thieves, possessors of illegal weapons and ammunition, and violent criminals conducting their affairs within the City of Sacramento.”
According to the 71-page lawsuit filed last week – where the city outlines a litany of crimes from drug use to assault, battery, trespass, drunk in public, shoplifting, carrying concealed weapons and public masturbation – the seven individuals would be banned from a major portion of downtown, including wealthy parts of Curtis Park and Land Park and the Broadway area to 9th Street and Highway 99 on the East.
Sean Conner, Michael Dibiasio, Dimitriy Gologyuk, Troy Green, Kelvin C. Peterson, Joseph Soto and Kenneth Whitlock are the named defendants.
Describing the seven defendants as a “public nuisance,” the city said the designation area is “high crime” and uses an “excessive” amount of police resources. The lawsuit outlines the complaints of business owners in detail about the general crime in the area – largely drug and property-related – and lists the criminal arrests of the defendants.
Although the crimes cover roughly a two-year span, and some of the crimes, including felonies, carry multi-year sentences, the lawsuit is silent as to why the alleged criminals/defendants are not in jail or prison.

More: https://www.davisvanguard.org/2019/08/sacramento-city-sues-homeless-seeks-to-ban-them-from-part-of-downtown-area-civil-libertarians-balk/

Sacramento City Sues Homeless Serfs, Seeks to Ban Them From Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

Sacramento City Sues Homeless Serfs, Seeks to Ban Them From Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

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