Does sleeping on the street make this disabled Marine Corps veteran a criminal?

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Erin Spencer, a homeless Marine Corps veteran, says he has “lost count” of the number of times in the last 10 years that he has been arrested or forced to move from the streets where he sleeps in the San Francisco Bay Area.

And each time, he also lost something personal during the sweeps in one of America’s most progressive regions...