Criticisms have been leveled against We Heart Seattle and some activists and workers say the nonprofit has gone too far.
This is a KIRO Newsradio exclusive video series, In Plain Sight, from reporter Sam Campbell about the nonprofit organization We Heart Seattle. Above is the second installment, Civic Duty or Civic Disruption? Keep reading for the story.. Now, we examine criticisms leveled against the nonprofit, and we talk with some who say We Heart Seattle has gone too far.
“She walks by this one tent and she goes, ‘Wow, that tent is — ‘ and just steps on it, and says, ‘Yeah, that’s trash,” Hughes said, recalling one purported incident with Suarez and her volunteers at a camp. “It was our friend’s tent. He wasn’t there for a couple of days because he had to go do some things. But he lived there, and his stuff was in there. And she said, ‘Looks like trash to me.
“We are caseworkers. Tim and I are caseworkers. We’ve been doing this for three and a half years,” Suarez said. “We’ve been through trauma-informed care training, de-escalation training, on-the-job training. My educators are the 200 people and the thousands of homeless that we’ve met right here on the slopes that have said, ‘You guys are game changers.
When asked about other accusations and criticisms of WHS, Suarez dismisses them either as exaggerations or lies.
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