I find this very disturbing .....Just because your a police officer doesn't mean you have the right to let the homeless die if anything you are supposed to serve and protect people not put people in more dangerous living conditions. Now where are these people going to go to live in a forest and god knows what will happen to them smh this makes me think that theres so many people that don't care if poor people die. If they had moral and financial support they'd get a chance to be successful but its not their fault if they have mental illness,or drug addictions. They need treatment not to be thrown out to the street smh
On August 18, the Halifax Regional Police forcibly removed a series of crisis shelters and temporary dwellings for unhoused people. The officers were heavily armed and clad in riot gear. They used pepper spray on residents, housing advocates, and passersby (including a 10-year-old girl who was fleeing the scene with her father) and removed or destroyed crisis shelters constructed by Halifax Mutual Aid.
On August 18, the Halifax Regional Police forcibly removed a series of crisis shelters and temporary dwellings for unhoused people. The officers were heavily armed and clad in riot gear. They used pepper spray on residents, housing advocates, and passersby (including a 10-year-old girl who was fleeing the scene with her father) and removed or destroyed crisis shelters constructed by Halifax Mutual Aid.
Canada’s unhoused crisis: Where government cruelty meets police repression
It is well past time to stop thinking of homelessness, drug addiction, and related domestic crises as outgrowths of individualized pathologies or mental illness—they are actually the result of what professor Anthony Zenkus calls “community illness,” which can also be described as the adverse...
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