Thugs Destroy Homes, Steal Belongings
A video is running through the Internet depicting thugs destroying peoples homes and stealing their belongings. The twist is that these thugs wear uniforms: they’re police slashing the tents of homeless people, and taking their things to the dump.
Now, I can see that it would be annoying to have homeless folks camped in my front yard—but that yard is my private property. And it’s proper that they be kept out of otherwise-useful areas. But who cares if they’re living underneath an overpass? You can see from the video that’s it’s not a productive area.
Moreover, if they were actually breaking the law, the proper response would be to arrest, fine, detain, move or otherwise deal with them. The proper response is not to tear their homes to pieces. A tent is not cheap; in many cases that could be the single most valuable piece of property those folks own. And even in Florida it’s vital to keep the elements off of one; destroying a man’s tent is like stealing a man’s horse back in the Old West. And the punishment for the police who did this should be the same.
