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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

‘Where did they go?’: homeless people feel force of America’s brutality in World Cup clean-up

A woman carries groceries at a homeless encampment near the renamed Atlanta Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
A homeless encampment near Atlanta Stadium in Georgia. Photograph: Megan Varner/Reuters

“A lot of our community has been pushed out by the World Cup. We’re not just dollar signs, we’re more than that. We’re people and we’re frustrated that they’ve chosen to treat us less than human.”

“They dropped me off there in the middle of the night. They call them Mormon centres or whatever, but it ain’t nothing but a warehouse of cops. It looked like a Fema camp. When I saw it, I left, I walked all the way back here. It’s because of the World Cup. They’re trying to make it look good for tourists. They don’t want the eyesores around.”

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