Members of the community including city council member Kate Burke, center and Devon Wilson, center right, were chained together to protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Alfredo LLamendo holds a chain as he prepares to chain himself to a group of protestors at Camp Hope in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. He started the protest with a hunger strike against the no sit no lie ordinance in November. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
“You’re the anchor,” said Alfredo LLamendo, left as he wraps a chain around Joseph Sampson to protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Devon Wilson, center wears a Martin Luther King Jr. arrested t-shirt while chained to other members of the community protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Members of the community held signs to protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
A man eats a bowl of stew while members of the community protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
“You should be ashamed of yourself Kate Burke,” said the man front center as protestors block him from confronting the city council member during a protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Skaters at The Skate Ribbon at Riverfront Park look on as members of the community protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
The Spokane Police made a brief appearance as members of the community protest the removal of Camp Hope, a tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
“Joseph,” a resident of Camp Hope walks out of his tent before the protest the of the removal of the tent city for the homeless in front of City Hall in Spokane on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Protesters chained themselves together to block the clearing away of a homeless encampment in front of City Hall. No effort to clear the camp materialized Saturday.
The demonstration – which drew a large crowd as well as onlookers from the nearby ice-skating ribbon in Riverfront Park – was an attempt to stop police from clearing out the tent encampment at City Hall where dozens of homeless people have been sleeping for weeks.