Karoline Leavitt defends jailing DC homeless #shorts

And Levitt confirms if homeless people refuse to go to a shelter, they will be imprisoned. Now, there's like a little tiny question, which is for what crime? Let's see if Caroline answers

unrelated topic regarding the president's efforts in Washington, D.C. Do you have any specifics

about how homeless people will be dealt with, where they would be moved to. What does this look like? I do, yes, and it's an important question, so thank you for raising it. The Metropolitan Police Department, with the support of the new federal agencies who have been surging on the streets of the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws that are already on the books here in Washington, DC. For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored, and the homelessness problem has

ravaged the city. So DC Code 22-1307 and DC Municipal Regulation 24-100 give the Metropolitan Police Department the authority to take action when it comes to homeless encampments. So homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services, and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time. Again, these are pre-existing

laws that are already on the books. They have not been enforced, which is part of the reason for this federalizing of the National Guard to bring in this assistance for law enforcement while we are targeting criminals and trying to remove criminals off of the streets. We also want to make D.C. safe and beautiful. And that remove and involves removing mentally disturbed individuals and homeless encampments as well.

Now, I think it's important to mention that there's a difference between removing an encampment, which I don't think there's any question as to the legality and then some of the other techniques used to criminalize homelessness, which sometimes include selectively applied loitering laws and other aspects that we've talked about previously. But what's very clear is that they are now looking for a sort of retroactive justification loitering laws and other aspects that we've talked about previously. But what's very clear is that they are now looking for a sort of retroactive justification for just the wholesale arrest of homeless people.