From The Sacramento Bee:
Elizabeth Williams didn’t want any trouble with the police. She also didn’t want to freeze to death, so she left her tent up overnight. As temperatures dropped into the 40s, she bundled up under her blankets. The deadline to move the camp was the next day; she could pack the tent away in the morning, she thought.
The cops had told her the encampment where she lived was being “swept,” and she was doing her best to comply. Most of her belongings, she and two neighbors said, were already in storage bins.
On the morning of Feb. 24, officers returned to the campsite. She and her neighbors recalled they were unhappy to see her tent wasn’t folded up yet. Williams, 37, thought she’d get a talking to, maybe a ticket.
Instead, they arrested her and took her to jail for storing her personal property in public. It was before 8 a.m., and Williams hadn’t even put her shoes on yet. She climbed into the cruiser and went to jail barefoot.
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