Showing posts with label mistreatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistreatment. Show all posts
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Jonathan is a man of property, this letter proves it![/caption]
Last evening, Jonathan tells me, he was picked up by the Vancouver Police; arrested, handcuffed, subjected to an extensive medical examination, tossed into a paddy wagon, driven around for about an hour, and finally released around 9:00 p.m. All because he was found sleeping in a parking lot, just North-East of Broadway, and Granville -- someone saw him, and called the police -- because he was sleeping in a parking lot. Well, okay, Jonathan admits it's doubtful as to whether he was wearing his pants at the time -- he says he's slowly recovering for a serious medical condition, and ... well, you know the expression, "too much information?"
The good news is -- his medical condition's clearing up, and -- Jonathan's a free man, a little chaffed around the wrists from the handcuffs, and understandably emotionally bruised from, what I consider mistreatment. But, unfortunately the police detained his shopping cart. It's not such a biggie in this continuing season of mild weather, but he is homeless. He lives out of that shopping cart. His sleeping gear, blankets, food, and drink, a guitar -- basically all his worldly possessions are in that cart. And the police are holding it for what? Questioning?
Jonathan's been through this drill before. He knows exactly where to go to pick up his shopping cart. See the piece of paper he's holding? The police have definitely told Jonathan where to go. Click the image to enlarge it.
Jonathan is a man of property, this letter proves it![/caption]Last evening, Jonathan tells me, he was picked up by the Vancouver Police; arrested, handcuffed, subjected to an extensive medical examination, tossed into a paddy wagon, driven around for about an hour, and finally released around 9:00 p.m. All because he was found sleeping in a parking lot, just North-East of Broadway, and Granville -- someone saw him, and called the police -- because he was sleeping in a parking lot. Well, okay, Jonathan admits it's doubtful as to whether he was wearing his pants at the time -- he says he's slowly recovering for a serious medical condition, and ... well, you know the expression, "too much information?"
The good news is -- his medical condition's clearing up, and -- Jonathan's a free man, a little chaffed around the wrists from the handcuffs, and understandably emotionally bruised from, what I consider mistreatment. But, unfortunately the police detained his shopping cart. It's not such a biggie in this continuing season of mild weather, but he is homeless. He lives out of that shopping cart. His sleeping gear, blankets, food, and drink, a guitar -- basically all his worldly possessions are in that cart. And the police are holding it for what? Questioning?
Jonathan's been through this drill before. He knows exactly where to go to pick up his shopping cart. See the piece of paper he's holding? The police have definitely told Jonathan where to go. Click the image to enlarge it.
Excuse my language, but it's true, literally. An article in yesterday's Vancouver Sun newspaper talked about frustration over homeless people in Abbotsford, B.C., and, by way of illustration, described how Abby's municipal workers more-or-less carpet-bombed one homeless person's campsite with chicken manure. The article cited a separate incident where police pepper sprayed another homeless person's campsite. With the incidents in the press, Abbotsford's Mayor, Bruce Banman, expressed his disapproval over how the municipal workers acted, and Police Chief Bob Rich said his department was investigating the pepper spraying incident. Today, however, The Province newspaper, in their editorial, suggested that Abbotsford had a long history of harassing it's homeless people, which currently are thought to number about 200, in a general population of over 133,000 (2011). Ironically, according to the Wikipedia article, Abbotsford has been named by Stats Canada as the nation's most generous city in terms of donations for nine straight years.
Followup: internal emails reveal extent of manure dump planning ►
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