Crews clear out Philly's Kensington Avenue

Teams of outreach workers, law enforcement and street cleaners kicked off Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker's effort to clear up an open-air drug market along Kensington Avenue. NBC10's Siobhan McGirl and Miguel Martinez-Valle reports from Kensington.
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[@wr-co2fn]

After being embarrassed with videos that went global. Election year surface shine.

[@plowe6751]

Correction: Philly crews displace Kensington trash to other parts of Philly.

[@CerciRodriguez]

They've been coming to NE. Mayfair, Oxford Circle, and Lawncrest have been going downhill real fast.

[@Stevie_Bee]

Kensington trash🤔… those are absolutely human beings dealing with mental health and addiction issues. God forbid it happens to you or a family member…or even your children. Wake up then grow up.

[@shvettyballs7045]

And also headed to the surrounding counties.

[@GNOBNX]

Why waste all that money if this isn’t going to be policed on the regular? I saw some of those homeless drug addicts in southwest philly.

[@yvonneplant9434]

I live in Old City. We'll see how many show up there.

[@nateyball-89]

City been doing it for years they will move to the next block where they won’t be bothered

[@UQRXD]

But the billion a year drug dealing is free to go on.

[@Canushowmeonthedoll]

Go back to sleep.

[@Possiblechange]

@@CanushowmeonthedollI think you’re the one sleeping

[@ctatrains]

Have anything good to say about the effort or just "yeah but..."?

[@samlamme5924]

Well there is a huge demand for it in the US

[@SmilingCave-mg7xq]

They make rap songs about it. Nothing will change. Nothing

[@davechattoe9144]

We do this in Vancouver Canada and tents just go back up a few days later. It's all just a publicity stunt.

[@jakegroegler1901]

Thank you! People act like this hasn’t happened before many times in Kensington. And btw I’m in recovery and sober for 3 years. It’s all an image for this bitch mayor that acts like she’s doing so much. This is only 2 blocks of HUNDREDS! She’s a joke looking for good press.

[@Marvin-rh9ru]

Bingo!

[@KILEE-4yt]

Same in Toronto too

[@pureblood3813]

That’s the democrat way. Problem/reaction/solution. They create the problem and then take more of your earned money through taxes to fix the problem. The problem never gets fixed but the local politicians live in mcmansions

[@jackwilson3121]

So what would you suggest the city should do to solve this problem?

[@mindywilliams1225]

Getting locked up saved my life ! It’s hellish but was the only thing that worked for me. 10 years this August

[@dmailaddress25]

💪

[@prettypuffprincess]

Praise God❤ Happy you are doing better now❤🙏🏼

[@danieldaniels7571]

Ten years is a long time to be locked up

[@jenn4306]

Congratulations🎉 Stay strong and prayers up! 🙏💪💕

[@RealJohnRedcorn]

@@danieldaniels7571 - '10 years this august' means he's been CLEAN 10 years.

[@jamesmchugh2227]

You could start by closing our southern border

[@pureblood3813]

Bro you’re going to trigger all the liberal sheep with those comments.

[@standdown4929]

@@pureblood3813 Arizona has been putting up with this border crap for over 50 years, let the liberal sheep trigger. I don't care about their feelings. Finish the wall and close the ports to all, but the ones that come legally.

[@blipco5]

How will that help? Most meth-heads are white Americans from what I see.

[@MsAmique]

Like yesterday!!

[@standdown4929]

@@MsAmique Like fifty years ago.

[@stephmaccormick3195]

Well those people will move somewhere else. Simple as that.

[@stevedallas4942]

They'll just go live in Wilmington.

[@StevenSantaCruz-ix9is]

Now they can buy a house 🏠

[@sammyjohnson-lg9qv]

It's that time to play Philly's favorite game of Let's Pretend. -Let's Pretend that shuffling addicts around the city solves anything! -Let's Pretend that this isn't all just theater for Mayor Parker's approval rating! -Let's Pretend that going after the drug dealers and distributors, instead of the drug addicts, is not what the police should really be focusing on. -Let's Pretend that the addicts will magically disappear instead of just going back to Kenzo the second the police leave the area.

[@llc1976]

Well they did connect 36 people with services? I wish we could do this to skid row but maybe we need an investment in housing/healing treatment in the areas?

[@stephmaccormick3195]

Sure... See ya tomorrow.

[@AubreyRiley]

Praying that some get help

[@samjones527]

This does nothing all she did was push these people off the ave and into the neighborhoods

[@dylanclinkenbeard3216]

Good effort moving people around. They will be right back as soon as the clean up crew leaves.

[@daisyapontehavenmemoriestr8552]

I don’t think so. It’s a plan with investors. Already making new business

[@BranDawg81]

@@daisyapontehavenmemoriestr8552hope so

[@jralf0ns0]

imagine moving the drug addicts and not stopping the drug

[@vickijones7764]

With all the vacant buildings they have down there they should make them rehabs and halfway houses. They need a place to go first.

[@dmo848]

That's why this is done, to make the area cheap. Then however comes in and buys it all

[@MatthewBerger-bb1wn]

Bubba this is America not some foreign country like ukrain. They do not care other then looking bad.

[@pac215tv]

We give it a week

[@joecarey4356]

I give it a day

[@JBRtype]

I give it til tonight.

[@saraleasmith6457]

24 hrs

[@shaneblessvlogs]

Let’s have some hope

[@Holidayru_577]

Your very generous

[@asphaltjungle5943]

Nothing more than a photo op nothing NOTHING WILL CHANGE 💯

[@KennethRachel-xi7dv]

No it won't I don't trust anyone

[@ShakakuKoruna420]

👍👍👍

[@Farcehole]

Three hots and a cot in treatment centers or jail.

[@PhillyCelebTV]

Facts

[@tawandamaat0013]

Exactly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LoloO42]

Right. Do you want those facilities in your backyard? Because they'll need thousands of new beds.

[@kenofken9458]

@@LoloO42 Millions of new beds.

[@kai6xx]

True

[@joeygavadeels2784]

Wow. Long overdue, but better late than never!

[@No_Show94]

They probably needed hazmat gear for that area,but this is refreshing to see none the less. They should make it a monthly thing

[@vicvic2081]

Why not give them housing? The. Problem won't go away.

[@dawnlee866]

I agree

[@barbieflannigan3957]

Those people need intense drug rehab and medical care.

[@healingsoul13]

​@@vicvic2081Where's the profit in that? You can't gentrify places if EVERYBODY could afford to stay there.

[@brokefolkfabrication]

you're obviously never seen the Kensington cleanup crew...daily hazmat suits

[@warren-g]

gee...how many years did take...how many lives did it destroy...way to go philly!!!!

[@jeanetteroberts4427]

That was the previous mayor. The new mayor, Cherelle Parker, made this one of her campaign promises. She's holding to her promises.

[@TonyAtmos]

​@@jeanetteroberts4427The cleanup is only happening because the other side has finished their construction for the new apartments/homes for people with money. Now it's time to cleanup lol. Next they'll buy up the homes there along with the businesses that closed down due to the fiends.

[@user-ts8lt3wb2h]

Its all a show. They cleaned the streets but did not NOTHING to save the people

[@billyyank5807]

Drug usage is a choice 😂

[@pepper2649]

@@user-ts8lt3wb2hthe people must save themselves

[@davidshowers7508]

They did this some 8 yrs back.. Once again where the hell are you gonna put them?

[@jakegroegler1901]

They did it 18 months ago with all the bridges under Lehigh. Tulip, Frankford, emerald, and Kensington. Didn’t last a week.

[@user-gt8st3qf4o]

Permanent lockdown. Prison. Asylums. Hit the road, Jack.

[@adamzgi55]

Get rid of shit golf courses and put them there

[@user-zd3cc7to8h]

Permanent sleep

[@xtrey19x]

Build jails

[@danasmith858]

But how are the pigeons going to find their fentanyl?

[@UK1uno]

U can be their dealer.

[@blade_warrior_blue]

They'll have to fly to Camden.

[@humanOilslick]

Bro I would not doubt that …. So much drugs there with even residue on crack and fentanyl packets and crack meth pipes weed roach people puke up drugs so many ways they could be junkie birds 😂 if they had wild chickens they would be because I’ve seen wild street chickens eat styrofoam 😂

[@mattsmith6071]

Better clean with nothing but bleach and oxiclean lol

[@joneal8360]

How many times are they going to do this? They don't enforce anything.

[@Every-picture-tells-a-story]

Mayor, you kept your Promise. Now you must Maintain it….

[@stevedallas4942]

Promises end the day after elections. By mid-November, it'll be back to BS as usual.

[@DrChem-wx1uc]

Are you kidding? This is the Liberal Democrat Utopia! Self made problems. These are ELECTION YEAR SHOWS!!!! BlacLiesMatter! FJB

[@terrycooper384]

Think is what the Whitehouse needs

[@darkangel7820]

AGREED

[@redriderbbgun8018]

😂😂😂😂

[@charlesc.parker1164]

Hunter says leave his suppliers alone.

[@grtinfulleffect8349]

Biohazard.

[@KingGhost78OG]

The long-term plan that's funny this has been going on since 99,yes I'm from Kensington

[@iCortex1]

Are we supposed to clap or something ? they willingly caused the problem ...

[@pureblood3813]

Yep. Problem/reaction/solution.

[@matthewquiles3880]

The city made the problem

[@Buzz_Kill71]

You just MADE that up...

[@buckbuck9225]

How's that kid?

[@tawandamaat0013]

And now the city going to restore law and order back to Kensington !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KingGhost78OG]

I'm form Rosehill an Indiana. She's right. Back in the 90s we still arrested people for drugs. But for like the past 15-20 years the cops have just been turning their head unless they're from Delaware or Jersey and they have a car to confiscate so they make money off it. They stopped messing with the foot traveling local traffic for a long time I'm from Kensington I know

[@harleymendez3968]

@@tawandamaat0013 No. THIS performance is the total extent of their effort. Nobody in City Hall cares.

[@joelgilmer45]

A positive step in the right direction.

[@deadlotCamper]

powerwash the sidewalk everyday

[@Secretasianguy]

San Francisco needs to powerwash the tenderloin every day

[@A.R.93]

So after the 72 hours has passed they will gradually just head back to the area again. So the problem isn't actually going to be resolved. This is a temporary fix not a long term one.

[@x-men69-96]

For how long? you just push them to other areas

[@Intuitive1]

Yep

[@Adrastia]

Enough of them are in Frankford. We don't want them. We have enough problems.

[@Enjoywatchingyoutube8227]

you know realestate investors are going to buy cheap and wait until it's cleaned up and sell high.

[@markmilitant]

Kensington will be the future I said it first this reminds me of several previous gentrified neighborhoods they are filled with drugs homeless but then high rise luxury buildings with a close proximity to city limits.

[@CerciRodriguez]

Yes, Kensington would dramatically transform in the years to come but at the expense of the NE.

[@Marvin-rh9ru]

List one place where this happened and there is no more crime in that area. Just name 1 then I'll tell you the crime rate in your "safe", "gentrified" areas..

[@user-bf8um5oj9q]

@@Marvin-rh9ru I can't tell you about Philly but NY there are many cases. I mean crime will always be but the numbers will change and shift with gentrification. Lower East Side NY is a perfect example. While there will always be crime and drugs, the numbers are much different before and after gentrification. Areas that was once called drug capital of the city is no longer called a drug capital of the city.

[@Jwasin3_1]

@@user-bf8um5oj9qdont work in Philly over here . Different environment Temple area is gentrified and people there feel unsafe . Kensington scene 🎉 has been going on for years in the 2000’s before it was the bottoms . L Train is the transportation spots to buy and get high . Our Mayors here can’t count money right

[@brokefolkfabrication]

​@@Marvin-rh9ruChicago...Baltimore

[@MyCardsNeverLieTarotLLC522]

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BE AGAINST THE CLEAN-UP? 😡 WHOM EVER IS AGAINST IT, IS PART OF THE DANG PROBLEM‼IT BROKE 💔MY HEART WHEN SHE SAID THE KIDS HAVE TO WALK PAST ALL OF THE DRUGS & NEEDLES TO GET TO SCHOOL AND TO COME HOME😔

[@ThomasRiosJr]

❤ I pray it stays clean but we all it won't and that sad. No disrespect but you are very beautiful and sexy god bless you always mamita

[@population-_-420]

Im against the clean up

[@ikejennings1154]

That's another excuse ,for innacountability!! Thank you.

[@jackwilson3121]

@@population-_-420 WHY?

[@population-_-420]

@@jackwilson3121 not everyone can be employed not everyone can get 40hrs u ever thought about that

[@Whendovescry215]

Thank you Mayor ❤

[@BajatheChickenMan]

She's got dollar signs in her eyes as the property values are rising!

[@INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES]

For what? Doing what you're supposed to? Do you get credit for wiping your Arse?

[@pureblood3813]

@@INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES these are the people that keep this corrupt government moving. We call them sheep. Unable to recognize patterns and see what’s really going on

[@daisyapontehavenmemoriestr8552]

I know this area. And the reason they finally doing this it’s business. A lot of investors around Kensigton. I saw a lot of old business closed and bringing new ones. They also are demolished the old houses. City care more about their taxes coming from this new business. Kensigton soon be history. I saw expensive apartments around. And they are keep going.

[@Guda88]

Its two blocks of Kensington ave...

[@154g]

That looks like the ave

[@jakegroegler1901]

Right?! Absolutely nothing on the grand scheme of things. What a joke. It’s all an image for this bitch mayor. She just wants good publicity.

[@user-lb1hf5nk5d]

Where did the water spray the homeless to? Just another street to call home. There is no fix. There was no plan. Just shifting them. Unless The City does something to help , just leave them alone.

[@65obie]

Always a toothless person to interview….😂

[@pureblood3813]

The news always says those people are our strength

[@josemeza6411]

Dientes podridos que mas se puede esperar de esta gente 😂

[@idaliss]

😅

[@idaliss]

Rip to Aaron my sisters ex who was decapitated there on the train tracks..so sad

[@cassg.1636]

My mom said what she said 💁🏻‍♀️☺️

[@charlieg4732]

Regardless of the clean up some people will never be happy and complain about something lol

[@harvardfacebook7372]

That cop @ 3:15 walks and looks like a cop from the 1980s, hill street blues. 🤣🤣🤣

[@notanomad9320]

What took so long and the only way to prevent this from happening again is cutting off the drug supply with extreme harsh penalties.

[@BolianAdmiral]

It’ll all be back next week

[@nymelemorgan8074]

They are cleaning it just for it to get dirty again in a few minutes 😂

[@stevedallas4942]

The young people ( under 40 or so ) watching this Kensington "cleanup" probably never watched the Sylvester Stallone "Rocky" movies, but they're a good visual reference. I'll explain... Rocky was filmed in 1975. The last true film of the story, Rocky Balboa, thirty years later. Both ( as were the films in between) featured Stallone's former home: the Kensington District. In the 1975 film, you see Philly for what it was: "Filth-adelphia." The 70s was a bad time for Philly. Out of control crime ( from lower level street crime to organized crime). Graffiti ( tagging ) covered EVERYTHING ( even trash cans and newspaper boxes). Worst were the endless trash collector union strikes that left corners, sidewalks, alleys, etc covered with piles of garbage that could hit 5 or 6 feet high mounds, and weren't much better when the City Sanitation WAS working. The filth you see in Rocky was real. Kensington was the worst. Rocky 2 was filmed, i don't remember, 1981??? Kensington looked worse. Changes in city leadership had no effect, despite trying. By Rocky 5 Kensington looked worse than downtown Baghdad in 1991. Seriously, Kensington looked like a demilitarized zone, and you didn't DARE go down Kensington Ave after dark unless you had a death wish! Notice in Rocky Balboa, 2005, Kensington is even more destroyed than in the 90s. You'll see the very same shops, and row houses " Rocky" lived at, had become burned out shells and crumbling rubble. It's hard to believe rats could live there, let alone people. My point? In the 49 years since the filming of the original Rocky, Philly Mayors and Councilors have tried to "cleanup" Kensington, and improve its quality of life. IT CANT BE DONE! All of this is just the usual election year publicly stunt. A better use of the taxpayers money? GIVE UP, put a wall around the whole district, offer the home and business owners aid in relocation. Then for "humanitarian sake," convert a building to a rehab. Then let NO ONE in or out from dusk till dawn, and let follow its course until there's nothing left, bulldoze it, and start over.

[@SweetLilWren]

Ain't gonna last

[@GNOBNX]

What’s it going to look like next month???

[@libertyman3729]

Same 😢

[@wildeninja2836]

There are tons of videos here on KZbin where most of these “homeless” people, really have homes, they just choose droogs instead and burned all their bridges at “home” lol

[@smellywaffels1967]

They sleep there because it's closer to the dealers so they can get their fix faster.

[@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10]

If they burned their bridges at home, then they don't have a home...

[@Adrastia]

@@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10 Exactly. These people ruin lives, destroy families, steal from their own mothers and end up with no one left who wants to help them. I've been on the receiving end of this. No one ever talks about the people who junkies victimize through their addictions.

[@boogphilly8321]

They all bout to be on the L

[@CerciRodriguez]

That or NE

[@Realism215-ku1cm]

Already are smoking getting high i. Front of kids

[@janislay3308]

Yup .

[@Userf451]

Is Biden arriving for a photo op?

[@pureblood3813]

He’d fit in nicely shuffling around and hunched over with the rest of the mindless zombies. Honestly I’m sure ol’ hunter is down there now scooping the area out for the big guy

[@danacarvin476]

Thank you ALL for the help..Very Much Appreciated..God Bless you 💕🙏

[@INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES]

Why do they get paid for? To impress you and the citizens?

[@Tough__Crowd]

1:41 Janette sold her front tooth for a loosie

[@smellywaffels1967]

That literally made me lol.

[@imeirmccafferty2751]

So stupid lol😂😂😂

[@Kevin-is-here]

Day do dis & dat

[@pureblood3813]

‘Needles on the floor’. The intelligence of the people we’ve been importing for the last 80 years.

[@davidsigalow7349]

An articulate spokeswoman...

[@smellywaffels1967]

Just PR for the cops. When the cameras are off they'll go back to sitting in their cars and watching crimes and doing nothing.

[@sg1770]

I thought democrats hate cops.

[@noleyestoad4477]

clean it up then interview an abuser?!? LMFAO

[@gt-gu7rb]

Okay,now where are they gonna house those people?

[@petersrightbut8297]

Good luck! Pissin in the wind!

[@JohnCarter-qv1ie]

Way over due! Crazy to have an open air drug haven.

[@randygreen7871]

It's about time!

[@Harv3st]

I live in a very rural part of the country and hardly ever been in cities. I remember the first time I saw a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk. My first reaction was of worry and scared that the person was deceased. We need radical solutions to this.

[@SamuelHendrix-kb8nn]

L.A/Cali is way worse than Philly when it comes to drugs and homelessness! Kensington been like that for decades, so why the sudden change?

[@t123tina]

No they had it clean up it want crazy in c 19 hit

[@mariem.1398]

I Know Right La Its Been Like That 4 Ever !

[@kev-larscuba2323]

Why the sudden change because of the new mayor that’s it ! Its clearly a political stunt to claim “ look at the progress I made in the first week of being mayor, I get results! Therefore deserve your votes“ ----- Notice that there is no guarantee or promise of real solutions…. Because there’s no gained votes in the fix. “Immediate temporary results while the camera’s are documenting my progress of promised efficiency. While ignoring my civil duty to humanity. “ - the new mayor A perfect politician.

[@matthewquiles3880]

Not a badge of honor don't care where it is our government is a joke

[@kev-larscuba2323]

LA California figured out many ways to make profits off their homelessness industrial complex. ---- Kensington Philly, never figured out the profitability. Therefore, they think the state will make up the loss of the working class by sending the homeless to private run prison systems. ----- Its an interesting business model. If you largely don’t care about a real solution. By the time people realize nothing has really changed, You will have maximized your name with efficiency as a “mayor that gets results !”

[@user-ym3yw9mh8f]

If you build it they will come. This is a prime location to invest in real estate with appreciation expected in the 40% range over 5 years. A $40.000 property renovated will be valued at $323.000 in 5 years. Transit oriented development is a primary requirement for milennials.

[@Charles-yq8vv]

It's creeping up Somerset at a crazy clip. Over 500 units in development.

[@edwindelgado8775]

Can't let people like black rock buy it all up it creates a monopoly for big corporations

[@trevorthetherapist4200]

Thank God

[@markdegrange6445]

It’s about time to clean this mess up and get these people off the streets

[@bobbyrice2205]

They dnt call it the BadLands for Nuthin. Why would anyone pay taxes here, or live here with there kids. How can anyone claim to be a law abiding citizen choosing to live in such a neighborhood. There's bigger and better places to take a family than living in the slums!!

[@KennethRachel-xi7dv]

True that!!!!

[@dlxinfinite7098]

Stop judging people. Some are disabled, some are working their way back. Have some mercy.

[@timharris1675]

T.h.u.g L.i.f.e

[@2moosepie]

Thank goodness

[@johnygsh]

They will be back tomorrow?

[@karenjohnson8261]

All is fine to clean up, but where did all the people go, to other neighborhoods!!!

[@user-fu2rl5wt2q]

Until the dealers start killing for new blocks this mayor is starting some shit .

[@bigbadbubba099]

And where are they all going to live now??....the next neighborhood? They gotta go somewhere 😂

[@vickijones7764]

The ones that are from other counties and states should go back there. Philly can’t take care of everyone. Some have warrants and will go to jail.

[@Volfanj]

If they had stopped this on day 1 , they would have never had this problem.

[@myway2653]

Where did the go?

[@Realism215-ku1cm]

To the el just seen some smoking crack on the train while kids walking on

[@pureblood3813]

They sent them to the suburbs

[@stevedallas4942]

Waste of time and money. I give it four months before Kensington is back to "Filthadelphia."

[@amandaw123]

They came RIGHT back after the cameras left

[@Workn3t]

I’m from LA I’ve seen this place documented on KZbin So happy to see something being done poor seniors and kids

[@HandleThiSS88]

Check the live feed in the next couple days. Theyll be right back there

[@pureblood3813]

They’re shuffling their way back now. They all have visions of their sample guy waving free samples in the air

[@mesapysch]

Strange that there is now a sale on Soylent Green

[@danielsmith7023]

What is the secret of Soylent Green?

[@lynng6556]

@@danielsmith7023 It is reference to a movie from 1973 called Soylent Green with Charlton Heston.

[@danielsmith7023]

@@lynng6556 It's people!

[@mesapysch]

@@danielsmith7023 People! I think Dietz and Watson makes Soylent Green. It looks like bologna.

[@DarnellHorton-ze7yh]

It will be all back to degradation in a week.

[@ibuprofenPill]

Anyone taking wagers on how long it will take them to return?

[@joaquinvazquez1040]

Great, now what neighborhood will they go next? Upper class?😅

[@pureblood3813]

Let’s hope. They should move in with the mayor. I’m sure she has plenty of extra bedrooms in her McMansion

[@LouiseStastny]

Where do they find these low level people to try and interview...embarrassing

[@dlxinfinite7098]

Sorry they are not on your "level." They are human too.

[@pureblood3813]

They imported her and her entire family years ago to strengthen our country. Don’t ya know 😂

[@lynnienorris5776]

Seeing kids side step the Misery...is heartbreaking

[@ohnomrbill7984]

Two whole blocks! It took Philly over 3 years to clear two WHOLE blocks. Yeah, Philly City Hall really cares about its residents. The residents that don't live on the streets, don't sling drugs, don't O.D. on drugs! The residents that go to work every day, go to school every day, and try to survive in today's economy! Keep electing those fools, maybe they'll clear two more WHOLE blocks next year! 😂😂

[@duaynelogan5631]

Nbc news needs to send a camera crew to Atlantic City boardwalk.Plenty of people from Kingston now walk the streets of Ac ..Sad

[@duaynelogan5631]

Right outside Trop on boardwalk..

[@Kris-sc9oc]

Instead of these non profits and community orgs criticizing the efforts why not support the at least little good that is happening? Did they forget that these people and camps are negatively affecting the law abiding citizens that pay taxes in the area? Don’t just point out the negative without acknowledging the positive

[@CerciRodriguez]

The law-abiding citizens that pay taxes in area are going to be in the same boat as the addicts. They're going to be priced out and pushed out to NE with the addicts. This is not about making it better for the residents and business owners, it's about making it better for developers and yuppies.

[@user-ym3yw9mh8f]

@@CerciRodriguez Let's hope so. If you live in a property in Kensington as I do in Harrowgate and development comes, then you've just hit the lottery.

[@Kris-sc9oc]

@@CerciRodriguez so respectfully what is your point? Do nothing?

[@CerciRodriguez]

@@Kris-sc9oc My point is actually help Kensington instead just pushing the problems to other parts of Philly.

[@Kris-sc9oc]

@@CerciRodriguez but that’s what everyone say “help” but what does that look like? If you allow Kensington to exist as is it just attracts more people from all over to it. You need to break it apart and work on the smaller populations that are more manageable

[@TONY-dq1pk]

You clear it out today tomorrow youll see it the same way

[@HoustonHomestead5920]

Yeah but I lived in this neighborhood growing up 70s, 80s, and early 90s. This is one of the best efforts I have ever seen. Works for me. Keep it up.

[@cidaelmccaskill5448]

Great start

[@salihbannister2184]

Bout timee

[@hopemanley4358]

The homeless population served it's purpose. Along with budget cuts, there's no need to support failed campaigns. What the clean up workers need to do is throw out the clothes and boots they had to wear.

[@user-zo9dq6qc3c]

This street/area is a shining example of what good enforcement can accomplish.

[@rhondabeard1363]

Yes we need are street back it about time Thank you Parker 👍👏👏👏

[@Putin_Playbook_12345]

What took so long?

[@andrebailey6676]

But it's not going to do anything

[@wildeninja2836]

It’s been done before and will be done again lol. Changes nothing if not enforced.

[@wildeninja2836]

DIDN’T SEE YOU OUT THERE HELPING. KEEP HIDING BEHIND A PROFILE LOL

[@sbss924]

Wear thick hazard gloves-even if they can be /are uncomfortable-the will keep your hands protected better than those thin latex gloves.

[@yessdroskiii5863]

Good make this a weekly thing

[@wanderfull5829]

Why are you showing the one black man there when there are HUNDREDS of white zombies nodded out all over that place.

[@EdwardHerman-co4yw]

What does color have to do with it? Addiction doesn't discriminate.

[@LofiLuv]

Facts

[@LofiLuv]

Color matters a lot, this is America, the news purposely does that

[@henryevans2935]

Why are you saying they only showed a black man. The white people probably left to get out of the gate

[@pureblood3813]

Omg you’re the most vile racist person I’ve ever heard. I cannot believe what I just read. I hope they create more laws to lock people like you up. I’m sick sooooo sick

[@LaydeeLyrix]

Just saw a live and they’re definitely back already

[@HiGangStalkers]

Ty God for making the city of brotherly love great again.❤️✌️