Portland Homeless Man Sets Up Tent Behind Woman’s Yard, Threatens To Burn Down Her House, but Police Won’t Intervene

‘They’ve been in my yard. They throw needles in my yard. They throw trash in my yard.’

AP/Jeff Chiu
Florida is cracking down on homeless encampments in hopes of not ending up like San Francisco (picured here). AP/Jeff Chiu

A terrified Portland, Oregon, woman who claims she received multiple arson threats from a homeless man encamped behind her house, in a tent apparently donated to him by a Marxist group, says police are refusing to help.

Vivica Elliot found a large tent set up just over her fence on Monday morning, the local Fox affiliate reported. 

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