Just after sunset Wednesday evening, a group of Tucsonans set up a line of small tables with food, water bottles and basic medical supplies.

Across the street, another group of over a hundred people, made up of mutual aid groups and community members held signs reading "mutual aid is not a crime."

The group known as Community Care Tucson or CCT has held these picnics in Armory Park every Wednesday for about five years now.

Between 100 and 200 people line up beside the park in anticipation up to an hour before the folding tables even come out.

But those community picnics changed after Armory Park closed for renovations Sept. 2, part of the city of Tucson's voter-approved Proposition 407.

That threw a wrench into the mutual aid groups regular distributions

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