Unhappy Holidays: Houston Police Force Homeless People To Throw Away Food
Unhappy Holidays: Houston Police Force Homeless People To Throw Away Food
By Derrick Broze, www.theantimedia.org
December 27th, 2016
Houston, TX On Thursday, the Houston Police Department targeted a group of homeless advocates who were attempting to hand out hot food and gifts to the homeless.
Local activists attempting to hand out food and gifts were shocked on Thursday afternoon when Houston police forced the homeless to throw away the donations. Around 1 pm on Thursday, several individuals met in downtown Houston to distribute plates of hot food, blankets, and other supplies to the citys growing homeless population. Soon after, Houston police arrived on the scene of two different intersections where the homeless advocates were giving out gifts and food.
According to witness testimony posted on Facebook, the police instructed the homeless to throw away everything they had been given. Not only were the police called, but they brought a large waste management truck and are forcing the homeless to throw away their food, pillows and other items, reads one post.
A video from an ABC13 social media correspondent shows the police and trash vehicle parked under a freeway while a man narrates the situation. Covers, Blankets, different things like that, pillows. They are throwing all of that away, he says.
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TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Food needs to be inspected and if someday dies or gets sick it's on the city.
Warpy
(111,237 posts)They'd all take baths and shave and go get good jobs if we didn't make it so easy to sleep out in the cold!
Fucking cops.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)MFM008
(19,804 posts)And the maggot philosophy in action.
John_Doe80004
(156 posts)to do when Paul Ryan, Republicans and Trumps policies explode the homeless population 100 fold???
Remember after FDR and Before Reagan there really wasn't a bad homeless population. post Reagan the population has exploded under every president since.
i really don't see it being any different under Trump!!!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Texas cops have nothing better to do, no actual crimes to solve?