Posted on 11/04/2014 11:49:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A senior citizen and a couple of clergymen in Florida face up to two months in jail for feeding the homeless.
A group of volunteers with the non-profit charity Love Thy Neighbor in Broward County face up to a $500 fine and 60 days in jail because they were feeding the homeless last Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, the New Times reports.
World War II veteran Arnold Abbott, founder of the interfaith organization, and members of a local church were confronted by Fort Lauderdale police officers because they had reportedly been in violation of the new laws against food sharing laws that were ironically enacted on Halloween, a night reserved for, well, sharing candy.
Trays of hot food intended to be distributed to the lines of homeless people on the street last weekend were instead thrown directly into the trash by the officers, who ordered Abbott to drop that plate right now. In total, four police cruisers and a half dozen uniformed cops arrived to the scene.
Abbott and two clergymen were subsequently issued citations and are due to appear in court in the coming weeks.
The new law comes on the heels of an announcement from the city in January that restrict camping, panhandling, food sharing and other life sustaining activities.
Not to be deterred, Abbott, who has been feeding the homeless for years, talked in the report about how his recent run-in with the law will change things.
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Wrecking parks is not a good idea, so why doesn’t the church set up a soup kitchen in their own parking lot?
There are dozens of shelters that will feed these people. They don’t like them because the shelter won’t allow booze or drugs.
Such laws were common in communist Russia.
The story is out of Florida. But I agree it is a waste of police resources to enforce such a stupid law.
It wasn’t the NYPD....it was the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
Because it would draw crime to their church.
Exactly what I was thinking the entire thread... thank you.
TOUGH!
Get over it!
Find out which politicians supported this idiotic law AND FIRE THEM TODAY!!!!
“World War II veteran Arnold Abbott.”
Thank-you for your service, sir, but I’m sure you’re wondering which side won World War II when you see these strong-arm tactics here in the land of the supposedly free.
Throwing trays of hot food into the trash.....real classy, Fort Lauderdale cops.
“We weren’t feeding the homeless, we were just sharing our picnic!”
Have you tried findinq a job lately?
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is certainly not going to win any friends in the community arresting people feeding the homeless. Ridiculous!
I guess they need to start bussing the homeless to the church and feeding them. Let’s see the cops arrest them then.
“My taxes pay for things if they really need them.”
That’s a sad and sorry fact.
Florida doesn’t allow food stamps any more?
My favorite law in human history: "Failure to give a good account."
Can they qive food at their church?
Guess they would arrest Jesus for sharing 5 loaves and 2 fish with the multitude.
Why aren’t the cops out shooting someones poodle like they seem so anxious to do? We have truly become a police state when brown shirted legalized thuggery is upon us. Even Christian charity is now illegal in Obola’s and Holder’s Amerika!
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