Elderly man, 90, and two clergymen face jail time for feeding the homeless

New York Daily News ^ | 11/4/2014 | BY MARC WEINREICH

[Veto!]

Wrecking parks is not a good idea, so why doesn’t the church set up a soup kitchen in their own parking lot?

[driftdiver]

There are dozens of shelters that will feed these people. They don’t like them because the shelter won’t allow booze or drugs.

[aimhigh]

There’s a law against food sharing?

Such laws were common in communist Russia.

[rfreedom4u]

The story is out of Florida. But I agree it is a waste of police resources to enforce such a stupid law.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

It wasn’t the NYPD....it was the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.

[driftdiver]

Because it would draw crime to their church.

[C210N]

Only the feral government is allowed to make people dependent.

Exactly what I was thinking the entire thread... thank you.

[G Larry]

TOUGH!

Get over it!

[G Larry]

Find out which politicians supported this idiotic law AND FIRE THEM TODAY!!!!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“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.

[GeronL]

“We weren’t feeding the homeless, we were just sharing our picnic!”

[butterdezillion]

Have you tried findinq a job lately?

[Enlightened1]

Okay I apologize to the NYPD.

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is certainly not going to win any friends in the community arresting people feeding the homeless. Ridiculous!

[GeronL]

I guess they need to start bussing the homeless to the church and feeding them. Let’s see the cops arrest them then.

[Daveinyork]

“My taxes pay for things if they really need them.”

That’s a sad and sorry fact.

[butterdezillion]

Florida doesn’t allow food stamps any more?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

In the good old days, vagrancy was a crime. You went to the pokey overnight, county labor, a private employer, the sanitarium, or rode the rails to the next town.

My favorite law in human history: "Failure to give a good account."

[butterdezillion]

Can they qive food at their church?

[Kirkwood]

Guess they would arrest Jesus for sharing 5 loaves and 2 fish with the multitude.

[Don Corleone]

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!