Close-up video from Anchorage vagrant encampment confrontation

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The vagrants, addicts, and lawless people living on the bluff at 3rd Avenue and Ingra Street in Anchorage staged a counter protest to the group called the Third Street Radicals, who have been trying to get the mayor to clean up the unsafe conditions and nearly continuous drug dealing that is going on at the location.

Things got a bit dicey with police showing up to keep a fight from breaking out. Caution: Language is not safe for work or appropriate for children:

The riled-up campers were upset with the two dozen protesters nearby who want the camps cleaned up and the drug dealing to stop:

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