No one asked long-shot Phoenix City Council candidate and former mayoral hopeful Matt Evans to weigh in on what homeless people deserve. But he did anyway.
A week ago, the local nonprofit Cloud Covered Streets posted to Instagram about a proposed new Phoenix police policy to treat unhoused people with more dignity. That includes not detaining them without justification, not citing them for trespassing unnecessarily and not throwing away their belongings — all violations that the Department of Justice found Phoenix police regularly committed in a damning 2024 report.
Then on Tuesday, about a week after the original post, Evans slid into the comments…