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#14583459 - 06/09/11 05:07 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-homeless-feedings-arrests-20110601,0,7226362.story
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Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless Orlando police say they violated a city ordinance restricting the feedings.
By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel
1:33 PM EDT, June 2, 2011 Advertisement
Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.
Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s.
The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.
Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people.
"They intentionally violated the statute," said Lt. Barbara Jones, an Orlando police spokeswoman.
Police waited until everyone was served to make the arrests, said Douglas Coleman, speaking for Orlando Food Not Bombs.
"They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry people," said Coleman, who was not present. "For them to regulate a time and place for free speech and to share food, that is unacceptable."
Orlando Food Not Bombs has been feeding the homeless breakfast on Mondays for several years and dinner on Wednesdays for five years.
Police had not enforced the ordinance while the court battle continued. The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that city rules regulating how often large groups of people can be fed in a park do not violate the Constitution.
The penalty for violating Orlando's ordinance is 60 days in jail, a $500 fine or both.
Arrest documents state that Orlando Food Not Bombs received permits and fed more than 25 homeless people at Lake Eola Park on May 18 and 23. Coleman said the group rejected the permits.
On May 25, Orlando Food Not Bombs illegally fed a large group of homeless people, the police report states. The group on its website called for members to show up that day and defy the city ordinance, according to the report.
Officers said they found a press release on Markeson when they arrested him stating that group members planned to defy the ordinance Wednesday.
Bail was set at $250 for each person arrested. Cross and Markeson were released from jail early
Thursday. McHenry wants to stay in jail and let the legal process take its course, Coleman said.
People can invite their extended family to have lunch for free in the park but they need to have a permit to feed the homeless twice a year? Personally I think it's ridiculous what society has come to.
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#14583466 - 06/09/11 05:10 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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in B4 pris vigorously supports the law and bashes those damn hippie liberals
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: dynomite]
#14583468 - 06/09/11 05:11 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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 In before im banned for baiting.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14583503 - 06/09/11 05:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just kidding
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14583504 - 06/09/11 05:29 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Wise Toad]
#14583535 - 06/09/11 05:47 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Society as a whole is quite fucked up. Its like the whole other half of people, those less fortunate, cease to exist. "I worked hard my life and am successful, they didn't therefore they should have to suffer" is the basic attitude. Nevermind that the ones saying this, are born into a loving family, and have a good start on life.
It doesn't matter if your liberal or conservative, anyone defending a law like this has no heart, and is a selfish sob.
Sometimes shit like this really disheartens me. I see so much suffering especially in Toronto of those less fortunate, and no one seems to care. Yet a majority of these people are Christian & Catholic. Figure that one out.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#14583539 - 06/09/11 05:50 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ironically when I was homeless it was always the conservatives who gave me the 20 dollar bills and the liberals who shouted obscenities at me, called the cops, etc.
but I agree. Ive both been the homeless and have fed the homeless.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14583542 - 06/09/11 05:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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are they trying to wipe out the homeless people by famine??
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14583547 - 06/09/11 05:53 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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homeless in florida arent your stereotype homeless though
more like people that live on the beach.. always got along with them when i lived in florida though, always had bud connects 
cops prolly mad cus beach bums are cool
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One of my best friends up here in Indiana used to be homeless in Florida.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#14583594 - 06/09/11 06:18 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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tymoteusz3 said: Yet a majority of these people are Christian & Catholic. Figure that one out.
Aren't Catholics Christians? What's the distinction here?
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Doc_T]
#14583607 - 06/09/11 06:22 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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tymoteusz3 said: Yet a majority of these people are Christian & Catholic. Figure that one out.
Aren't Catholics Christians? What's the distinction here?
Well. When I was growing up it was always Catholics and other christians. Technically they are all christians. And its Catholics and Protestants and Mormons and stuff. But its just habit :P
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Doc_T]
#14583609 - 06/09/11 06:23 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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tymoteusz3 said: Yet a majority of these people are Christian & Catholic. Figure that one out.
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What? Clue me in dude?
I'm neither one, I don't really know.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Doc_T]
#14583620 - 06/09/11 06:26 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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catholics are christians, christians aren't necessarily catholics.
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I was also raised to believe there was distinction between Catholics and Christians. I blame this on my mother who is Christian and VERY Anti-Catholic.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: pouihi]
#14583624 - 06/09/11 06:27 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pouihi said: catholics are christians, christians aren't necessarily catholics.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: pouihi]
#14583626 - 06/09/11 06:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pouihi said: catholics are christians, christians aren't necessarily catholics.
Ok, this is step one, basic taxonomy.
So it's anti-Catholics who talk about "Catholics and (other) christians"? Seems like it would be the other way around, y'know?
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: Doc_T]
#14583630 - 06/09/11 06:29 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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it's not that...in my mom's eyes it's Christians and Catholics in that order. In a Catholic whose very anti protestant it would be Catholics and all other Christians I reckon.
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Re: 4 people arrested for feeding homeless in the park [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14583642 - 06/09/11 06:33 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MisterMuscaria said: In a Catholic whose very anti protestant it would be Catholics and all other Christians the damned I reckon.
Yep.
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