Police Ticket Charity Group For Feeding Homeless People - Rebel HQ

[TexasTowelie]

Houston Police have now ticketed the charity group "Houston Food Not Bombs" over 70 times for feeding the homeless. David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.

[Oopsie Daisy]

1. I found this link that adds some additional background and context...

https://apnews.com/article/volunteer-ticketed-feeding-homeless-a720d0d5868119f9ce5ab75f7bed551d

It's a "garbage law" but it is the law. The cop was not acting outside the scope of is sworn duty. Here are some snippets from the link above:

City regulations on who can provide free meals outdoors to those in need were enacted in 2012. The ordinance requires such groups to get permission from property owners if they feed more than five people, but it wasn’t enforced until recently, Nick Cooper, a volunteer with Food Not Bombs, said Thursday.

In a statement on Thursday, the mayor’s office said the city is now providing meals and other services for homeless individuals at an approved facility located about a mile north of the library.

The change was made in part because of an increased number of threats and violent incidents directed at employees and visitors to the library by homeless individuals, the mayor’s office said.

[GiqueCee]

2. Texas, of course...

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Do Abbott, Patrick, Paxton and their malignant minions ever sleep? What unspeakably rotten people! And stupidly shortsighted.
The Homeless are desperate people, and desperate people are driven to desperate acts to survive. And nothing is more essential to survival that food. So if people with good hearts – unlike Abbott and his evil posse – are feeding the hungry, then those unfortunate folk aren't driven to crime in order to eat. Win-win.
How people come to be homeless is immaterial. What's important is how we help them out of that hole. Deliberately starving them, and then punishing those trying to help them, is NOT the solution.
Abbott is an asshole of astronomical proportions. But that describes every Republican that Satan ever defecated. Abbott deserves a truly vile description all to himself.
It's a shame that tree's commitment to its task wasn't stronger.

ON EDIT: While Abbott's malign influence may only tangentially influence Houston's municipal policies, it's is a miasma that permeates and poisons every aspect of Texas politics. Here's hoping the election of a Democratic mayor, John Whitmire, may make Houston's policies toward the homeless a little more even-handed.

[Mr.Bill]

3. Houston's current mayor, Sylvester Turner

is a Democrat.

[GiqueCee]

4. Yes, I read that afterward...

... thanks for the correction. I was a little confused by their electoral process of elimination. I thought at least one of 'em had to be a Republican! I'll remember to dig a little deeper when things get muddy.

But I still think Abbott's a dick.