"They really didn't want people seeing what happens," said the Coalition's policy and communications director, Julian Highsmith.
"The city is avoiding bad media as much as they're avoiding helping homeless people," added River Beck, a human rights organizer with the Coalition.
In July, Mayor London Breed promised that the city would conduct 'very aggressive' encampment sweeps in August following the Grant Pass Supreme Court ruling.
Breed said the city would still offer shelter before dismantling encampments, and that the goal of the sweeps was to make life 'so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer.'
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