Louisiana investigates homeless killings amid concern over rise in violence

[Judi Lynn]

Deaths of trio come as advocates say homeless people across America are being increasingly targeted

Edward Helmore and agencies
Tue 31 Dec 2019 09.53 EST

The killings of three homeless people this month in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, could be connected, and come at a time when the homeless are being subject to increasing violence and homeless issues are becoming a dangerous political football.

ast Friday, investigators found 50-year-old Tony Williams shot dead on the porch of a vacant home about two blocks away from where two other homeless people, Christina Fowler, 53, and Gregory Corcoran, 40, had been found dead two weeks earlier.

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The deaths in Louisiana’s capital come as homeless advocates worry about an increase in violence against homeless people, and after Donald Trump used the homeless crisis in California as a political stick to try and attack top Democrats such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi and California governor Gavin Newsom.

Last week Trump attacked Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who has led the effort to impeach him, and told her to “clean up her filthy dirty district & help the homeless there”. And on Christmas Day, Trump launched a Twitter tirade against Gavin Newsom for his “bad job” on “taking care of the homeless population in California”.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/louisiana-baton-rouge-police-homeless-crisis

[Skidmore]

1. Predation by henchmen

using dog whistles to marshal their hatred. Someone please tell me why we aren't living in a Fourth Reich built on lessons learned from the last one.

[ansible]

2. We're living in a country where rent is too fucking expensive and not enough jobs

And politicians don't care, even here in California because it just means more $$$ for them

[abqtommy]

3. Before I and my family left California in 1995 there was a serial killer in the San Diego area

preying on the homeless. The police finally caught him and removed him from society. Homelessness
is a problem that needs to be dealt with and those on the streets need to be protected from anyone who would abuse them, whether it's a psychotic killer or a psychotic politician.