Not long after St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her announced the city would shut down the Pig’s Eye Park encampment, citing health and safety concerns, Marty Johnson knew what was coming.
He had been through this before. Still, when the morning of Aug. 5 arrived, he stood in the middle of the encampment in disbelief.
Johnson toed the patch of dirt where he and his longtime partner Chalsea Diver used to share a tent, then scanned an emptied out spot where a neighbor in a wheelchair could “barely get around and out.”…