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VIDEO: Seattle Little League Parents Concerned About Homeless Camps Near Ballfields
by Amy Furr

A little league in Seattle, Washington, said it is no longer safe for kids on the ballfield due to nearby homeless encampments.

“Homeless tents are nothing new in the Ballard neighborhood, but what’s new are the threats and unsafe conditions against the kids themselves,” Q13 Fox reported Wednesday.

Mom Andrea Morrison said her concern is about the children being threatened and harassed while on the fields. Her 10-year-old son and his friends were at the Ballard Community Center field for practice recently when a homeless person allegedly verbally assaulted them.

“There is someone camped at the dugout and he comes out and starts threatening the kids,” she recalled, adding he cursed at them and also threatened to kill them.

“Now, within just the three weeks we’ve been practicing, we’ve now had four different incidents involving homeless at these fields,” Ballard Little League President Steve Reich told KIRO this week.

The little league shells out $27,000 to rent the ballfields for the year, according to the outlet.

Parents and coaches said they have been confronted on the fields, in the dugouts, and inside the bathrooms.

“The problem is the unpredictability and the chaos of someone in that situation. They’re not mentally stable, and we don’t know what they could have done,” Morrison said.

Other parents said their eleven and 12-year-old girls recently saw paramedics wheel away an unconscious, naked man.

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https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/03/25/video-seattle-little-league-parents-concerned-about-homeless-camps-near-ballfields/

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