NYPD and DSS Conduct Sweep of Unhoused Population under BQE

Last Friday, February 26th, NYPD officers from the 94th Precinct along with the Department of Social Services conducted a sweep under the BQE. This sweep differed from past actions in its violence, says Benjamin Adam, the coordinator of NBK Essentials, a North Brooklyn Mutual Aid Initiative working to support the unhoused population. Sweeps, which the agency, the Department of Homeless Services, calls Clean Ups, force unhoused people to leave a location with all of…