SKYFOX flew over the PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge has ruled on the fate of a homeless encampment along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where protesters have spent two months calling for police changes regarding the homeless and low-income housing.U.S.
District Judge Eduardo Robreno denied the motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed by the encampment.
In his ruling Tuesday, he said the city can clear the encampment by reasonable means with 72 hours notice to vacate. The judge also allowed for the city to clear two smaller encampment sites.
The Parkway encampment has stood on a baseball field on the parkway since June 10 and has grown to an estimated 100 to 150 people.Philadelphia Housing Action — the.