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-Land of the Free
About a dozen people arrested for feeding the homeless in El Cajon park
2018-01-16
[San Diego Union-Tribune] El Cajon police officers arrested about a dozen people for feeding the homeless at a city park Sunday afternoon.

The event was organized by a group called Break the Ban, which formed after the El Cajon City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance in October prohibiting the distribution of food on any city-owned property.

City officials said the ordinance was a way to protect the public from hepatitis A, but critics have called it a punitive measure to dehumanize and criminalize the homeless.

Mark Lane, one of the event’s organizers, said about 12 to 15 people were passing out food and toiletries to the homeless at Wells Park on East Madison Avenue when police arrived.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  ...skip school and homework, do drugs and alcohol, screw what the elders tell you listen to your peers, be unique, and you too can join the encampment here. Seem like a good real life lesson.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-01-16 14:21  

#12  You wanna take your kids to a park that is filled with bums, vagrants, weirdos, drunks, druggies and nut cases?

Don't know one that isn't.
Kids won't see society watching purple dinosaurs.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-01-16 14:12  

#11  Other parts of San Diego have serious issues with homeless people crapping in the open and getting sick.

Seems as if El Cajon tried to be preemptive about the problem and 'helpful people' who knew better circumvented that effort.

Break the Ban should be held responsible for anyone sick as a result.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-01-16 11:44  

#10  Frank has it. You wanna take your kids to a park that is filled with bums, vagrants, weirdos, drunks, druggies and nut cases? Looking after the poor is one thing but letting your streets and parks become a habitat for homeless freaks is just plain stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-01-16 10:46  

#9  The issue is doing it on public land: a Park. The El Cajon law doesn't prohibit it on private property. Wells Park becomes unusable by the general public
Posted by: Frank G   2018-01-16 09:51  

#8  How dare they use their own money and resources!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-01-16 09:41  

#7  "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse."
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-16 08:18  

#6  
dehumanize and criminalize the homeless


They don't need any help doing that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-01-16 08:10  

#5  Liberal/Socialist California Has The Highest Poverty Rate in The Nation
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-01-16 07:28  

#4  "Nothing outside the state"? The court case should be interesting - the modern "monkey trial"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-01-16 03:34  

#3  
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-01-16 01:40  

#2  Haven't they learned to run from the cops when they're breaking the law? Idiots. I had that shit down to a science when I was a punk teenager - I could probably outrun Usain Bolt back then!
Posted by: Raj   2018-01-16 00:45  

#1  Do NOT interfere with the work of government. This is your last warning.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-16 00:43  

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