Leaders of a Yale University orientation program are apologizing for participants who helped clear a homeless encampment, which they call an act of “violence.”
A group of students in Yale’s community service-driven FOCUS program were assigned to help the New Haven Department of Parks and Trees to collect litter in the city. On Aug. 24, a department supervisor had students remove clothes and other debris from a homeless encampment the group said had been “forcibly evacuated” by police.
