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...death of 22-year-old Io Nachtwey, a homeless woman from Hawaii who frequented the Pit in Harvard Square, is a tragic reminder that no one is completely safe, even in our own neighborhood. But subsequent calls by City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and others to close the Pit, though well-meaning, are misguided. The Pit and those who frequent it do not pose any significant danger to the surrounding community, and the City Council was right to amend Sullivan’s original proposal and to focus on protecting Pit regulars rather than protecting Cambridge from them...
...Pit, like any public place, can be dangerous at times. According to recent reports, some have allegedly attempted to use the Pit as a gang recruiting ground, and Nachtwey is believed to have been killed because she resisted those attempts...
Laols Kichio, a self-described independent artist and newcomer to “the pit,” read...
...poem against closing the pit during the public comment period of the meeting...
...It’s an alternative safe haven,” Kichio said. “If you broke up the pit you’d be breaking whatever family that exists there apart. Cats that are homeless have a little place to lay down there...