The City fired its opening salvo in the Gas Works Park nuisance lawsuit filed after the death of 15 y.o. Matthies Johnson. This is how the City’s Answer begins:
“The City admits that some trespassers at Gas Works Park who have climbed or attempted to climb the appurtenances to the fenced-in towers have been injured and died in falls.”
The City does not refer to Matthies Johnson or the other 14 young people as humans with names and ages, families and friends. It classifies them as negative disembodied entities. Law breakers. Bad people. Trespassers.
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