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Sheriff shows up and throws all the food out.
In a scene reminiscent of a Dickens' novel, police recently held back poor, hungry Georgians as the bank-owned contents of a supermarket were dumped into the garbage.
SunTrust evicted the owner of Laney's supermarket from the building it owned, according to WJBF News. On March 23, poor community members helped remove the contents of the building and clean it up. The store owner told them they could help themselves to anything. Then, this:
Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people were waiting outside of Laney Supermarket... all hoping to stuff garbage bags with free food. The merchandise was piled up outside of the building after the store owner was evicted early Tuesday morning. But before anyone could grab anything, the Sheriff showed up.
"The normal process is once law enforcement leaves, it becomes public property. But again, with 400 people out with items such as these. These were brand new items from the store. We saw that the potential for a riot was extremely high," says Sheriff Richard Roundtree.
Umm...so you mitigate the possibility of a riot by taking food from hungry people and throwing it into a dumpster?
The rest: http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/04/police-restrain-hungry-americans-as.html
Warpy
(111,383 posts)It's the only way to handle public servants run amok.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Wow.
DotGone
(182 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)and deliver it to a FOOD BANK for it to be distributed to the poor sans rioting, he needs to be run out of town on a rail.
This is criminal.