It was about a year ago that plainclothes Tempe detectives first arrested Austin Davis, the 24-year-old poet and Arizona State University graduate whose grassroots quest to feed and help the homeless has irked the city and its top officials. Tuesday, the city marked the anniversary by throwing him in jail again.
The evening of Aug. 5, Tempe police arrested Davis and deposited him in jail, the third night he’s spent behind bars in the last year. On Wednesday, when he was released, he told Phoenix New Times his experience was markedly different from the harrowing, restless first time he experienced the slammer last year.
“I got some good sleep, actually,” Davis said. “Almost everyone in there is just people I know from the streets, so we were just bullshitting all night.”…