( MIRROR INDY ) — People living at an eastside homeless encampment were organizing their belongings Friday afternoon as they prepared to move out.
Some of the items — energy drinks, bike parts, a charcoal grill — were available for others experiencing homelessness to take as they needed.
As for whatever remains, Humberto Acebedo and other residents will take what they can with them as they move somewhere else.
The encampment, at a park on the corner of East Washington Street and Emerson Avenue, became a focus for Indianapolis police following dozens of complaints and 20 reports of trash fires.
When Mirror Indy visited the encampment in late October , residents were trying to clean up their space in hopes that police wouldn’t force them out.
But Acebedo told Mirror Indy on Friday that police kept coming back and told them they were trespassing at the park.
Police didn’t give a timeline for when residents needed to move but did threaten to arrest anyone who stayed, Acebedo said.