Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
Antioch police officers guard the exit as other workers prepare to load vehicles on flatbed trucks from a homeless encampment near State Route 4, Neroly and Laurel roads in Antioch on Monday, April 8, 2024. Almost three weeks after dismantling a large homeless encampment along Wilbur Avenue, the city of Antioch evicted another encampment of trailers and recreational vehicles farther east along Highway 4.
“I get that,” he said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “If you have vehicles, some are going to drip oil someplace — most were campers — but if you have vehicles down there where it’s a waterway, that oil sits in the ground, goes to the water and goes to the bay.” “It’s not fair,” he said, worried about a family he knows who uses their car to take kids to and from school. “We got everyone up and ready to roll out of here and they wouldn’t let us leave.”
Gardner didn’t get far as police would not let her or anyone else into the scene by the time she arrived. All exits were blocked. Another man who had come to help get the vehicle out also had his truck towed, she said. “Why do we have 15 officers out here wasting resources when we’re lacking officers?” Gardner said. “That just doesn’t even make sense when there’s no crimes being committed here. Where are the people to help these folks out? They need to be here.”Gardner later said as she was preparing to leave a CORE member showed up – about an hour and a half into the sweep – and said he had not been notified.
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