An Alabama city claims police from a nearby Mississippi city are dropping off homeless people, but the Mississippi city denies wrongdoing. Officials from Mobile on Thursday accused Biloxi police officers of repeatedly dropping off homeless people near shelters in Mobile. Mobile officials suggest Biloxi police officers are implicitly threatening people with arrest if they don't agree to go to Mobile. The Mobile officials ask Biloxi to stop and threaten to request that federal officials investigat
MOBILE, Ala. — The largest city in coastal Alabama claims police from a nearby Mississippi city are dropping off homeless people, sometimes after coercing them to go.
A Thursday letter from James Barber, chief of staff to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, suggests that Biloxi police are violating the civil rights of homeless people by saying they are breaking the Mississippi city’s laws but then suggesting police can take them to Mobile. The letter asks Biloxi to stop the transports, and threatens that Mobile will call in federal officials to investigate civil rights violations if Biloxi doesn’t stop.
Barber wrote that one homeless person overheard a Biloxi officer tell a co-worker he had taken more than 50 people to Mobile. Barber enclosed a photograph of a traffic surveillance camera showing a Biloxi police vehicle getting off Interstate 10 in downtown Mobile on Sept. 26.
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