this_is_not_an_exaggeration
tender_square
a
couple
years
ago
,
a
man
and
his
wife
bought
their
first
home
downtown
.
then
,
the
city's
homeless
shelter
moved
up
the
road
to
a
bigger
location
,
across
the
street
from
their
house
.
as
drug
use
in
the
community
continues
to
rise
,
as
the
mental
health
crises worsens,
as
inflation puts
people
in
precarious
situations
out
on
the
street
all
these
dramas
take
center
stage
from
the
couple's
front
window
.
they
uploaded videos
of
their
security
camera
footage
to
the
internet
to
show
how
bad
it's
gotten.
in
the
film
,
a
woman
screams
like
a
dying
cat
at
all
hours
.
strangers
approach
cars
in
the
night
and
test
the
locks. users
openly
take
drugs
in
the
daylight
.
fights
break
out
.
a
man
is
tackled
and
arrested
by
police
on
the
couple's
front
lawn
.
they
couple
was
trying
to
shame
city
council
into
taking
action
.
what
they
got
was
a
vigilante confrontation,
a
man
accusing
them
of
making
the
city
look
bad
,
of
doctoring
the
footage
to
make
the
crisis
seem
worse
than
it
is
.
he
nearly
ran
over
someone
with
his
van.
the
couple
took
the
footage
down
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from