Miami, state evict homeless amid COVID-19 pandemic. What were they thinking?!
Obviously, there was a failure to communicate.
In a blatantly thoughtless act, workers showed up Wednesday morning at a long-standing homeless encampment under an Overtown overpass, posted a metal sign in the ground saying anyone on the premises was trespassing, then forcibly removed the people — yes, the homeless are people, too — to who-knows-where.
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The workers, of course, were following ill-thought-out orders, gathering the heap of belongings left behind in the makeshift tents set up along Northwest Second Avenue and 11th Street in Miami. By Wednesday night, the Greater Miami ACLU and Southern Legal Council, sent a letter to the leaders of Miami, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Department of Transportation, calling the eviction an “indefensible and inhumane assault.”
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I think the author was under the impression that Ron Book’s chairmanship of Miami’s homeless trust had something to do with his concern for the plight of Miami’s homeless. My guess is that most of the interest the trust earns is paying the board’s salaries, starting with his own.
Miami Homeless Trust pays salaries?? How much? Who pays?
Anyone know?
What an Orwellian concept the Miami Homeless Trust is. Those of you who’ve read ‘1984’ will recall the Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Love, and how their names alone were intended to promote doublethink. By the same token, the Miami Homeless Trust is chaired by a champion of laws that mandate homelessness, and he’s not embarrassed about that. I don’t get it!
Very depressing story
guess they don’t follow Governors orders of no evictions
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Matthew 25:42,43 &45
Did anyone see this comment from a FB reader;
Andy Perez
Or they can do nothing and end up like San Francisco, crap, piss and needles everywhere. I was in San Fran last summer and couldn’t wait to leave. Don’t go there it’s not safe or fun , it’s crap everywhere
I guess Andy doesn’t know the difference between the homeless encampments on a city street sidewalk in San Francisco and the encampments UNDER A BRIDGE in Miami.
I see dumb comments like this all the time. Goes to show that lots of people don’t comprehend what they read, or probably skip through most of what’s written in the article past the headline. These are the kind of people who don’t know or ever learn the details of what can land people on the SOR which many people (due to sheer stupidity) refer to as “the pedophile list”. 🤦🏻♂️
Are there no limits to the evil assholism of those “running” the state? This is nothing short of attempted murder and if any of those poor already abused souls dies I hope that those responsible are charged!
This is no time for petty revenge which is the ONLY thing that the hit list aka the registry is for! Just ask Lauren Book as she is the queen of petty revenge.
Stay safe as possible there in Floriduh…