He was a man with a crack habit. He was also a military veteran, a kind, funny person who looked out for others. Whatever his struggles, say those who knew Isaac Palmer, it’s an outrage that he was killed June 2 by a giant tractor clearing brush under Interstate 5 for the Washington State Department of Transportation.
“They look at it as an accident,” says Willie Jones, a homeless Real Change vendor who knew Palmer, 62. “If it was a teenager or someone who wasn’t homeless, they’d have a different outlook. But he was homeless, so it’s an ‘accident.’ That’s wrong.” ...