Amid the hot dog vendors and megaphone preachers and throngs of tourists and the confounding amount of law enforcement present, there were two groups protesting outside of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park on Tuesday.
One group was there to voice its opposition to the homeless encampment sweeps that had preceded the festivities around Pioneer Square and SoDo. Picketers displayed signs denouncing a city government that, from its perspective, was investing its resources into hosting a glamorous sporting event rather than creating permanent solutions to the problems it chose to brazenly hide for the sake of that sporting event.
The second group
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