Homeless & Politics 04 Jul 2006 10:47 pm
Their possession headed down to the dumps, their spirits surely followed
from Indymedia
“The homeless people that live here are the luckiest homeless in Fresno.” Surprised by the statement, I asked undercover Fresno Police Officer Ray Wallace what he meant. “They have maid service. We come out and clean up for them about every other week.” The cleaning party today was particularly vigorous.
The letter handed out by the Fresno Police Department, giving notice of the “clean up” said they would “start at 8:00am.” I arrived at 7:50 AM and the destruction of property was already well under way. One homeless woman told me that everything she owned had been destroyed because she was a few minutes too late to save it. “I had paper work in there that can’t be replaced,” she said.
Within a couple of minutes, half of the shopping carts were destroyed. One sanitation worker was heard saying that he wished he could get a nickle for every shopping cart he destroyed.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Fresno made some bad karma for itself.
on 05 Jul 2006 at 12:18 pm 1.mary said …
Sad, isn’t it, people who literally don’t have a pot to piss in, with no place to keep the few possessions that help them feel human, aren’t even allowed to keep them. Meanwhile, people are being killed, raped, robbed and molested. Priorities.