Fed-up cop says "enough" - tired of seeing starving, poor, struggling elderly

[Rozlee]

45. I've been googling around trying to find out the name

of this one police officer in San Antonio about 25 years back. Cops would regularly do sweeps of homeless people in the Mahncke Park and Brackenridge Park area, which was close to the ritzy Alamo Heights suddivision. The rich people close by would call in complaining of all the homeless panhandling or setting up sleeping bags in the parks. Some of the homeless were even in wheelchairs and had amputations from service in the Vietnam War. The cops would come in and pick them up and haul them to jail. This one police officer refused. He said it wasn't a crime to be poor. I don't know if he got discipled for failure to obey a lawful order, but the story always stuck to me. Here was a family man who needed his job, but decided to make a stand out of compassion and principle.