It is 7 a.m. in late May and the Arizona summer is heating up when Dwayne Moore hears people speaking outside his tent. Moore peeks his head out: standing outside is a Tucson police officer, saying he isn’t allowed to sleep in the strip of dirt of the Loop bike path where Moore had set up camp.
Within minutes of getting out of his tent, Moore is handcuffed. In the next hour, he loses most of his belongings when officers throw away his tent and two suitcases.
Most worryingly for Moore, a slender Black man who sports an earring and baseball cap most days, is a new charge on his record: criminal trespass in the third degree…