Little Rock Considers Sweep of Homeless as Clinton Library Plans for openi

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - City officials want to eradicate 27 homeless camps, getting their occupants into shelters or out of town as Little Rock prepares for the high-profile opening of the Clinton Presidential Library.
Officials deny the strategy has anything to do with the Nov. 18 opening, but homeless advocates fear the city is being merciless - perhaps at the behest of the library. The homeless were living at the library site before construction began.

An annual satirical stage show put on by the Pulaski County Bar Association this week depicts Clinton Library officials driving away helpless residents of the camps.

"The idea that we want to clean up the homeless because of the opening is simply not the case," Skip Rutherford, president of the nonprofit Clinton Foundation, said Friday.

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