This is disgusting - St. Petersburg, Florida cops slash tents of homeless

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jesus christ this makes me sick. fucking shameful.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2115501&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Florida in dystopian swampy conservative hell shocka!

Also I like the ad for real estate before the story about homeless people.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Protect and sever

― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

wow, that is shameful

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

people should be able to live wherever they want.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

fucking disgusting, this is

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Why is this not getting more coverage?

― franny (frannyglass), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

For one thing, the 24-hr cable news machine grinds a little slower on the weekend. I wouldn't be surprised to see it show up on CNN Monday, but I also won't hold my breath.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like the follow-up - people brought out fire extinguishers and fire-retardant tents. "Find a new excuse, coppers!"

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should put up a tent-fund donation page, so's to replace all the cut tents.

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or a chainsaw donation page, so's to cut the policemen's houses apart.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

makes me wish i had one of those AK-Press "Arm the Homeless" buttons to wear.

― be home by 11 (orion), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

"battle escalates". what morons

anyway here's something to counter this:

http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=36§ionID=4&articleID=399

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

In 1998, when the City put the park up for sale, Lawrence purchased the land on behalf of the archdiocese. He fought a successful legal battle with the City to allow the homeless to remain in the park without being harassed by the police, what Father Lawrence describes as “the old beat cop tapping you on the feet and telling you to move along, or its more modern equivalents.” Soon after, individual donors provided tents, creating a permanent encampment

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh different story

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Fascism alive and well in 2007, just surprised they didn't shoot a few into the bargain.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

were the evicted ppl offered any kind of temporary/alt shelter?

also this news report seem rather cursory and slanted in the grand tradition of fox news. is this rightwing-indentified newtwork suddenly credible when the bias tilts in the other direction?

― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that's just a local Fox station, not directly related to FoxNews.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

jah dude the local fox stations are all independently run.

the crazy thing is this was the cops destroying private property, which you'd think conservatives would be all up in arms abt.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

private property on public land.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

While the tv story claims that the police removed the belongings and people before they started slashing, this story claims that they didn't even bother with that.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-01-22T123031Z_01_N19488712_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWYORK-HOMELESS.xml

Owner of ritzy shop sues homeless for $1 million

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

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