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1. The difficulty that investigators had in identifying Kawam added "another level to a tragedy", said Dave Giffen,
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 03:25 PM
Tuesday

Indeed!!--this woman seems to have no family or friends that missed her.



...........The difficulty that investigators had in identifying Kawam added “another level to a tragedy”, said Dave Giffen, director of the Coalition for the Homeless.

Giffen told the New York Times that the incident underscored a broader lack of interaction, or empathy for, the city’s homeless population.

“We can’t forget our humanity as a city,” he told the publication. “The fact that nobody knows who this woman is the saddest story I can imagine during the holidays.

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