San Francisco residents received death threats after setting up boulders to block homeless tents. Now the city is taking the rocks away.

• San Francisco residents erected giant boulders along a two-block alley to prevent homeless encampments in the area.
• The set-up incited backlash: People began pushing the boulders into the street, forcing the city's public works department to lift them back onto the sidewalk by crane.
• Neighborhood residents reportedly received death threats.
• The city started removing the boulders on Monday.
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A two-block alley in San Francisco has become a microcosm of escalating tensions over the city's homelessness crisis. 

About a month ago, residents of Clinton Park, an area close to the city's Mission District, raised money through a Facebook group to erect two dozen giant boulders along the sidewalk. The rocks were placed there to bar homeless individuals from setting up tents in a two-block alley. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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