90 year old arrested twice

[DoBW]

90-year-old Arnold Abbott was arrested twice in a week in Fort Lauderdale for feeding the homeless, jailed for compassion under a restrictive city ordinance. Public outrage erupted over criminalizing charity while he bravely refused to stop helping those in need.
abcnews.go.com/US/90-year-f...

— Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) 2025-09-14T19:53:44.109Z

[chouchou]

1. Tsk Tsk. He's one of the big reasons why this country is going downhill.

This lady would like to fold my arms around him....with sweet love.

[usonian]

2. The mark of our times.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Break the law by doing a good deed. 🪷

[Jim__]

3. Feeding the homeless is against the law? Jesus Christ!

[Ocelot II]

4. Jesus Christ would like a word...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. So is empathy if Muck, Vance, Tucker, Rogan, et al have their way

The theory behind the law is that it somehow encourages people to become or stay homeless.

[Norrrm]

5. What is their final meal before Brian Kilmeade kills them?

[KS Toronado]

13. Left over Big Macs from the White House

[Norrrm]

15. Trump has leftovers?

[FadedMullet]

23. Well......if there were leftovers they could be used as final meals. Theoretically, anyway.

[Wonder Why]

34. Nah! Leftover tomato sauce on the walls. But the sheetrock is included!

[rubbersole]

17. No final meal.

That's socialism.

[Seinan Sensei]

24. Wonder if Kilmeade wants to kill those

who feeds those he’d like to kill

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

6. Weird world

What's wrong with being nice?

[niyad]

7. It is a very sick, twisted, depraved, obscene, self-destructive society

that criminalizes compassion, caring, decency, and kindness.

[Grim Chieftain]

8. Well said, niyad

Goodness is wrong, and evil is right.

[popsdenver]

9. Better than the Republican

who recently said: "They should humanely be injected with a lethal injection"....................

[Solomon]

28. Get it right. He didn't say humanely injected. He said involuntary injections. "Kill them".

[popsdenver]

29. Thx Sol

Who said it, can't remember????

..............must have been someone who watched Two Aurora Colorado Police and Two City of Aurora Firefighter/Paramedics quite literally EUTHANIZE a black kid just walking down the street a couple of years ago.......the Medics intentionally injected the boy with a drug that was totally medically un-called for, AND gave him a substantial overdose of the drug on top of that..................

[BidenRocks]

10. Looks dangerous to me!

Where's the cuffs?

SHAME THEM!

Call the Pope! Ya don't want to piss off the Pope!

[Jack Valentino]

11. This is what happens when NAZIs control a state...

YES, I AM CALLING THEM "NAZIS"


And Trump is a HITLER-WANNABE!

[WestMichRad]

12. I wanna be like him...

[Crunchy Frog]

14. So he was arrested for following the teachings of Christ?

It seems like there could be a violation of religious freedom here.

[Quazie]

16. not quite?

Looks like they just want him to move from a public beach to some place with bathrooms.

"We hope he feeds. He has a very valuable role in the community,” said Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler. "All we're saying is he can feed the next block over. He can feed at the church. We want them to be in safe secure settings. We wanted them to be in a sanitary matter. We them to have facilities available before and after."

The church even invited him, and he plans to do his give away there.

[angrychair]

18. Why a church?

So they can take credit and shut him out and make the food conditional on being preached too.

[Quazie]

20. hop in the time machine

You'll have to go back in time to 2014 when this article was written to ask. I'm guessing there's not too many places around to hold hundreds of people, which is why he did it on a beach.

[Emile]

19. So the NAZI'S have ordered that no one feed the homeless.

USA USA

[Figarosmom]

21. What are trying to starve out the homeless,

The same way they say don't feed the animals or they'll just stay and more will come?

[BurnDoubt]

22. They would most certainly have deported Jesus by now.

Think about that for jus a minute or two. Then go slap your Pastor.
SHAME!!!

[Quazie]

25. Dig deeper

If you dig only a little deeper, you will see that this was a very bad OP.

1) This article is from 2014. This man has been dead for 6 years now.
2) Fort Lauderdale is majority Democratic. The current and past mayor are Democrats.
3) The man started his outreach in Christ Church.

References:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article226679224.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Seiler

[Ranting Randy]

26. Was this from 2014?

Tempe AZ dropped charges, I think this week against a guy who fed homeless

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. This is datelined Nov. 6, 20t4

Arnold Abbott died 5½ years ago.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article226679224.html]

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Sorry, this is 4 years old. Not that the issue has changed much?

[Ping Tung]

31. He's a scary looking guy going around feeding poor people. Florida knows how to handle that kind of criminal.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. True hero. Ditch football stars and honor the real heros. . . . nt

[Buddyzbuddy]

35. Well I can clearly see the problem.

You're in the State of Florida where a pedophile is sentenced to serve time and is allowed go free for "work release".
Whereas you chose to work to serve the homeless and they want you to actually serve time. Be glad you're white sir, otherwise, you might be in their made up "Alcatraz" or some chain gang.
It's not like Floridians can do anything about the insanity, like voting their lawmakers out.

Seriously, what would happen if the cops chose not to enforce a bad law. Or claim your doing it for religious reasons, Jesus said to feed the needy. He said you are your brothers keeper. God said to treat others how you would want to be treated. "Take care of the least among you."
You people are so f.cked up.