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MAKING WAVES: Seattle Residents Upset After Drug-Filled Homeless Encampment Sets Up Pool

posted by Hannity Staff - 7.13.23

According to a report from The New York Post, residents of a Seattle neighborhood are fuming after a drug-addled homeless encampment set up an inflatable pool to beat the heat.

A video posted by KOMO News ABC 4 shows the pool, beach balls and all, set up on a rundown property in Highland Park. Nearby, a woman is seen smoking fentanyl.

​“All of this is ludicrous,” Herb Egge, a resident of the Arrowhead Gardens apartments for seniors across from the encampment, told KOMO. “These people come in and totally trash the place. Someone told me they hooked up a hose and filled a swimming pool with it.”

From The New York Post:

The irate resident told the outlet that his vehicle has been broken into several times since the encampment sprouted in the crime-infested city, adding that someone had just broken into his gas tank.

​“I never dreamed I would have to worry about things like this when I was 72, but times have changed. As elderly people, especially, we should not have to worry about our possessions or our lives,” Egge told KOMO.

He and other senior citizens also said they are worried about gunfire coming from the encampment, where at least 15 RVs are parked, and fear that bullets might fly into their apartments.

Another resident, Cheryl Galyeam, also expressed her fears about the violence.

​”When I hear the shooting, I stay down and away from the windows. There are times I’ve had to get on the floor in the middle of the night. It’s not safe,” Galyeam told KOMO.

In May, a man was killed in the encampment, according to the outlet.

“We thought, ‘Oh wow, there’s been a homicide there. They are going to give us some attention now.’ They didn’t,” another resident, Diane Radischat, told KOMO.

“We want the solutions, and we know what the problems are. When you’ve had the same problem repeatedly in different locations, you know what needs to be done,” she added.

Washington State has the nation’s fastest-rising drug overdose rate, up nearly 22% in the last year. Despite that alarming statistic, the Seattle City Council rejected legislation that would allow the city to prosecute people using drugs in public.

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