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“Started beatin’ on him and would not stop!”

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On June 7, 2026, a staff member called from inside Porchlight men’s shelter. “We have a fight and somebody we would like off the property right now.” Another caller reported: “He drew first, he threw a cup of water in the other guy’s face. Then he started swinging and beatin’ on him and would not stop.”

Marsha Michaelis

Project Coordinator and Research Fellow, Fix Homelessness Initiative
Marsha Michaelis is a project coordinator and research fellow for Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty and the Fix Homelessness Initiative. She interned with Discovery in the late 90’s while studying at Seattle Pacific University, then spent more than a decade directing communications and education reform at a Washington State-based think tank. She left the office to raise and educate her four children, spending another decade directing various homeschool programs and teaching classes from kindergarten through high school. Marsha has written as a columnist and freelancer for numerous state and national publications, most recently and currently for her county’s monthly newspaper. She and her family live in northeast Washington state.