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Police and maybe fire dept. employees destroy tents belonging to homeless people. They cut the tops off the tents with box cutters. The homeless and their advocates claim the police are acting under direct orders from the Mayor.
I guess destroying someones personal property, when you are a cop, isn’t illegal in Amerika…
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Please bear in mind that this took place January 2007, 4 1/2 years ago. This is NOT a new video even though it was disastrous at the time.
This whole scene looked like some other country…but….it’s Florida. I bet with no gun on their hip they never would have destroyed the tents….and the cops want respect? I don’t care, I have to speak my opinion..even though I have relatives on the sheriff dept in Florida….to destroy what little those people had…it is disgusting. I realize it is a problem all over Florida with homeless…but this state does not show any kindness to homeless….alot are vererans who got shit on by this government…fighting their fake wars …alot of them had their homes taken by the world gang of thieves….this ex-mayor must sleep with one eye open…if not, maybe he should. OMG…..and didn’t it say the fire dept. came? If so, what was that for…incase some cop had a heart attack… cause that is probably the hardest they all have worked in days..maybe weeks……
Even before this video, I realized how and why the term coined for law enforcement, “pigs,” came to be. It aptly describes the narcissistic, criminal elements in the force, possibly ex-military, who lack empathy, have anti-social, sociopathic personalities, and comport themselves like criminals. I experienced it first-hand.
yep. my family has too. i would have never have believed it. we have relatives in law enforcement
and were always taught to be respectful.
i have seen nothing but disrespect and the utter lack of even KNOWING the law that these f/c cops
show. they are smart asses and i wouldn’t be surprised if they were being paid-off by the scumbag f/c attorneys..
this is not my America. this is not how i was raised.
after the Sunny Sheu murder and the attack on Will Galison, the corruption has been revealed to the World.
stand up for your home. do not let the Bad Guys win.
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL/the Rolling Stones: Made a stop in St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, but whats confusing you is the nature of my game. All the cops are criminals and all the criminals saints. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. But what’s confusing you is the nature of my game. So when you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste, but whats puzzling you is the nature or my game.
That’s a very old video. I took my family down there as soon as we learned of what was happening; we investigated.
The police actually did their job in that matter (although it was done improperly), whereas many of the poor were living (mostly sleeping) on public property; they were actually kicked out of Clearwater previously. There then arose a place called Tent City, run by the Catholics, which is off Highway 19, I believe is what the street is, near Pinellas Park, but the area is hidden quite well. The problem though is that the people are not being protected, whereas the poor would sleep outside City Hall for better protection, which nerved the police. And in that particular place where the filming happened, there is a shelter directly behind where the person was filming, but it was overflowing.
FYI, easily at least half of the people who were homeless in FL when I did missions work there (live in Cleveland though) had their homes stolen from them through criminal FDIC-member banks. (the other half just got out of jail or on their way)
JW,
i disagree about your not wanting to make student loans for college kids, but thank you so much for your courage in jumping in the car and trying to help these people shown in the video (plus others).
when the world had been turned upside down and we have been so injured by this lawlessness,
my family steels itself w/ bible passages.
we have always been spiritual but now we feel like our govt, our lawmen, the courts have really let us down.
the corruption really screws w/ your head.
everything that we taught to believe it has been proven to be a sham (banks, the law, govt and elected officials, the police, the Feds,the courts, etc).
it makes me realize how great our Founding Fathers were and all those pioneers and cowboys who sought a better, free life in the West and South.
my widowed , immigrant, great-grandmother was one of those brave pioneers as was my orphaned grandad who rode in the Piny Express.
i pray to them to help us now in standing tall against bad people and injustice.
typo: Pony Express
This happened in 2010, and this mayor is no longer in office.
Does anyone know the date of this video? When did this happen? People loose their homes, have to live in tents and then have their tent which now happens to be their home destroyed. WTF people how can we keep letting this happen? Unbelieveable. Shameful.
Can’t believe my eyes.
Is this Criminal, or Civil?
Criminal I would think. Destruction of property, or some such. Check your local statutes.
Whatever it is it certainly isn’t warranted, or humane.
I probably should have watched the video BEFORE I commented.
I think theft would also apply.
I am completely amazed the woman filming wasn’t arrested, and/or that her camera wasn’t confiscated. That does seem to be the trend these days.
wow ! what a country we are become to be : ( The SS has arrived to America
WHY!!!! I want to know why the thought this needed to be done to these people. So terribly wrong. Disgusting!!
What have they done???????????? NOTHING but try to survive!
Bed enough to live in tents but to take that away, that was probably all they had …… come on!!!!!!!!.
i think i’m going to hurl.
here is what the mayor of St. Pete bill foster, says on his website:
“It is a beautiful day in the Sunshine City, and I appreciate the opportunity to serve you online.”
yeah. let’s tell him what we think of his actions against the homeless….
This was under Mayor Baker. No longer in office.
Baker’s term expired on January 2, 2010
thanks for telling us.
i didn’t realize it was an old video.
is the new mayor nice?
he probably was flooded with nasty emails after i posted the link.
sorry, everyone.
not sure how to link without the embed showing up:
just copy and paste to the mayor:
http://www.
and then……
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LABo_J3l3Ys
PAR FOR THE COURSE FOLKS………..AND IT AIN’T GONNA’ GET ANY BETTER……….START THINKING ABOUT IT……………TIME FOR WAR! DOES ANYBODY HEAR THE CALL? THERE’S NO AVOIDING IT………WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT…..WE GET ZERO RESPECT! ZERO!
here is the mayor’s contact information.
let him know how you feel.
http://www.stpete.org/mayor/
St Petersburg Mayor’s Office
175 5th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3708 (727) 893-7201
youtube link to the rampage:
love the bermuda shorts and rubber gloves. wimps.
this is the American version of Kristalnacht.
i saw a similar thing happen on my street to vietnam vet used booksellers and no one said a word.
they just by while the cops destroyed these men’s way to make a living. they took everything.
i shouted at the cops to no avail.
Stand Up, America!
~~~~~This was under Mayor Baker. No longer in office. ~~~~
Baker’s term expired on January 2, 2010
thanks, michael.
you can remove my links to the mayor’s office if you want to do it.
MY GOD, this is not what Jesus would do.This is terrible, it made me cry. WTF OBAMA. are you going to turn a blind eye to this too??? This is your fellow man. How does that MAYOR and YOUR COPS sleep at night? THIS PLIGHT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY ONE, EVEN THE COPS. IT IS AWFUL ENOUGH THESE PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS AND LIVING IN TENTS. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE. What is wrong with these cops?? THE MAYOR is telling them to do this to these poor HOMELESS people?? THIS IS NOT HUMAN. FORCE THAT GARBAGE MAYOR TO RESIGN. RIPPING UP THEIR TENTS??? DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER WHAT MARCY KAPTOR SAID IN THE MOVE CAPITALISM A LOVE STORY, THEY ARE TREATING THE PEOPLE IN FRAUDCLOSURE LIKE CHATTEL. CHATTEL FROM WEBSTERS NEW DICTIONARY: ANY KIND OF PROPERTY THAT IS NOT FREE HOLD.
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what heartless bastards!
everyone will have to answer for their actions, whether in this life or before God.