Man shot for being homeless

[Votto]

A homeless man living on national forest land was shot by federal police. He's now suing

An Idaho family's violent eviction is one of the most egregious cases of unhoused people facing hostility from police for having nowhere else to go.

www.yahoo.com

Brooks Roberts' life has been difficult the past few years.
The pandemic left the 38-year-old and his family homeless. Disability, job losses and an eviction all struck at the same time, sending them on a downward spiral into poverty. His mother lost her feet to frostbite and now uses prosthetics to walk. And a 2022 work injury left Roberts unsteady on his legs and in a wheelchair.
After being kicked out of their apartment, the family lived in an RV camper, moving from trailhead to trailhead on public lands for the last three years. They were living in a national forest in May when the U.S. Forest Service and a barrage of law enforcement tried to arrest the family for camping on public land longer than allowed. Roberts was shot and the injury left him paralyzed from the waist down.
As cities and states across the country pass ordinances cracking down on camping and homelessness, the Robertses' eviction from the forest has become a high-profile example of an unhoused American facing harm at the hands of law enforcement while being poor and having no place else to go.

Meanwhile in New York City, illegal immigrants are being given $500 a day for hotel expenses indefinitely.

This just proves that the government values illegal immigration more than their own citizens.

Maybe he is just too white?

 

[Votto]

As Joe Biden and the democrats kick more and more people out onto the streets, where will the American people go when they can't even go into the forest to try and survive?

I would rather take my chances in a National Forest than I would the streets of LA.

But Progressives do love their national forests, don't they? They want the pristine and ready for their consumption.

Perhaps the inner city to them is the ideal dumping ground for the homeless so they can enjoy everything else..

 

[pknopp]

Meanwhile in New York City, illegal immigrants are being given $500 a day for hotel expenses indefinitely.

You posted a good point to discuss and then you ruin it by lying about something happening elsewhere.

 

[rampart]

A homeless man living on national forest land was shot by federal police. He's now suing

An Idaho family's violent eviction is one of the most egregious cases of unhoused people facing hostility from police for having nowhere else to go.

www.yahoo.com

Brooks Roberts' life has been difficult the past few years.
The pandemic left the 38-year-old and his family homeless. Disability, job losses and an eviction all struck at the same time, sending them on a downward spiral into poverty. His mother lost her feet to frostbite and now uses prosthetics to walk. And a 2022 work injury left Roberts unsteady on his legs and in a wheelchair.
After being kicked out of their apartment, the family lived in an RV camper, moving from trailhead to trailhead on public lands for the last three years. They were living in a national forest in May when the U.S. Forest Service and a barrage of law enforcement tried to arrest the family for camping on public land longer than allowed. Roberts was shot and the injury left him paralyzed from the waist down.
As cities and states across the country pass ordinances cracking down on camping and homelessness, the Robertses' eviction from the forest has become a high-profile example of an unhoused American facing harm at the hands of law enforcement while being poor and having no place else to go.

Meanwhile in New York City, illegal immigrants are being given $500 a day for hotel expenses indefinitely.

This just proves that the government values illegal immigration more than their own citizens.

Maybe he is just too white?

as tragic as this story is, why single out one homeless guy of the millions of casualties if this particular capitalist failure to provide sufficient jobs or housing to our citizens and immigrants?

 

[ActionJackson]

I'd like to see pictures of the criminals/thugs that pulled the trigger(s). The Gestapo were "just following orders."

 

[ActionJackson]

as tragic as this story is, why single out one homeless guy of the millions of casualties if this particular capitalist failure to provide sufficient jobs or housing to our citizens and immigrants?

It's not a failure of Capitalism. Biden is a Socialist. Bidenomics (Socialist Economics) has caused massive inflation, making it more and more difficult to make ends meet.

 

[1srelluc]

Meh, Pro-Tip......Don't try a drive-by in a wheelchair.

 

[pknopp]

It's not a failure of Capitalism. Biden is a Socialist. Bidenomics (Socialist Economics) has caused massive inflation, making it more and more difficult to make ends meet.

This issue has been with us for many years. But yeah, since Capitalism doesn't actually exist it can't be because of that.

 

[rampart]

It's not a failure of Capitalism. Biden is a Socialist. Bidenomics (Socialist Economics) has caused massive inflation, making it more and more difficult to make ends meet.

if biden were a socialist, would trump be free and running his mouth?

 

[ActionJackson]

Human Beings are the only life forms who have to pay to live on earth.

Didn't America's trustworthy government shoot an unarmed woman holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho? Who's more dangerous? A homeless family living in the forest, or a gang of armed thugs wearing badges?

 

[JGalt]

As Joe Biden and the democrats kick more and more people out onto the streets, where will the American people go when they can't even go into the forest to try and survive?

I would rather take my chances in a National Forest than I would the streets of LA.

But Progressives do love their national forests, don't they? They want the pristine and ready for their consumption.

Perhaps the inner city to them is the ideal dumping ground for the homeless so they can enjoy everything else..

Democrat Mayors want to keep them in the cities so they can keep getting federal money for them. It's all about controlling them and being able to virtue-signal by saying "We're doing something", while getting paid for it.

 

[JGalt]

Human Beings are the only life forms who have to pay to live on earth.

Didn't America's trustworthy government shoot an unarmed woman holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho? Who's more dangerous? A homeless family living in the forest, or a gang of armed thugs wearing badges?

Same thing they did to the Branch Davidians in Waco.

 

[Votto]

Meanwhile in New York City, illegal immigrants are being given $500 a day for hotel expenses indefinitely.

You posted a good point to discuss and then you ruin it by lying about something happening elsewhere.

It is $300 a night and not $500 a night

My bad.

NYC Pays Over $300 a Night for Budget Hotel Rooms for Migrants

Some of New York City's struggling hotels are charging the city premium rates to provide emergency housing for migrants — even as the city slashes services to pay the bills.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[pknopp]

It is $300 a night and not $500 a night

My bad.

NYC Pays Over $300 a Night for Budget Hotel Rooms for Migrants

Some of New York City's struggling hotels are charging the city premium rates to provide emergency housing for migrants — even as the city slashes services to pay the bills.

www.bloomberg.com

And they aren't here illegally. But you know that.

 

[Votto]

It's not a failure of Capitalism. Biden is a Socialist. Bidenomics (Socialist Economics) has caused massive inflation, making it more and more difficult to make ends meet.

For a Leftist, the capitalist is to blame for homelessness in the US as well as pretty much everything else. Ending a free market is the last step towards utopia.

And in socialist North Korea and Venezuela where homelessness is alco a problem, capitalist around the globe are blamed as well for keeping down the socialist governments in those countries.

So, as you can see, you can blame them for pretty much everything.

Just regurgitate easy to understand talking points so they never have to think about anything.

 

[Votto]

And they aren't here illegally. But you know that.

These folks are not coming across the border legally.

But for the sake of argument, if they are, why does the government give special perks to immigrants over its own citizens?

This is a valid point you completely miss, but one that needs to be brought up.

 

[JGalt]

And they aren't here illegally. But you know that.

How can you assume the immigration status of them? You do know that very few of them are actually qualifying for sanctuary status, don't you? Of course they're illegal.

 

[Marener]

A homeless man living on national forest land was shot by federal police. He's now suing

An Idaho family's violent eviction is one of the most egregious cases of unhoused people facing hostility from police for having nowhere else to go.

www.yahoo.com

Brooks Roberts' life has been difficult the past few years.
The pandemic left the 38-year-old and his family homeless. Disability, job losses and an eviction all struck at the same time, sending them on a downward spiral into poverty. His mother lost her feet to frostbite and now uses prosthetics to walk. And a 2022 work injury left Roberts unsteady on his legs and in a wheelchair.
After being kicked out of their apartment, the family lived in an RV camper, moving from trailhead to trailhead on public lands for the last three years. They were living in a national forest in May when the U.S. Forest Service and a barrage of law enforcement tried to arrest the family for camping on public land longer than allowed. Roberts was shot and the injury left him paralyzed from the waist down.
As cities and states across the country pass ordinances cracking down on camping and homelessness, the Robertses' eviction from the forest has become a high-profile example of an unhoused American facing harm at the hands of law enforcement while being poor and having no place else to go.

Meanwhile in New York City, illegal immigrants are being given $500 a day for hotel expenses indefinitely.

This just proves that the government values illegal immigration more than their own citizens.

Maybe he is just too white?

Actually it shows that blue states try to help poor people and red states tell them to go fuck themselves.

 

[pknopp]

These folks are not coming across the border legally.

Just can't help yourself can you?

 

[Marener]

Do you all see how everyone having guns actually makes the country more dangerous?