“I know a homeless man in that location. He never bothers anybody.
“It didn’t make sense why somebody would throw his stuff away. He wasn’t even there.”
The crowd funding page was set up by local man Kenzie Smith, who was one of the black men in a recent viral video of a white woman calling the police to complain about a black family’s barbeque .
Writing on the fundraising page , Kenzie said: “Like the thousands of other people in the Bay Area without homes, Drew is one of our neighbours.
“We’re disgusted that someone thought it was OK to treat Drew this way and want to show him through our care that what happened to him is unacceptable.
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