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Neighborhood 'sheriff' who tried to screen homeless campers stabbed to death by camper (katu.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

once they gained his approval

Yeah... no. People who have no other choice but to camp shouldn't be "screened" by random people. Sucks he died, but he was playing a pretty stupid game with people just trying to survive. Reading his quotes from this article, you can definitely see he was the type of person to refuse to help people he doesn't like, and that's not at all how you're supposed to deal with people in vulnerable situations.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Should he be expected to provide electricity to a meth lab?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How many homeless people do have math labs in your area?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Someone's got to crunch those numbers.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

Well if it's just a few, I suppose I can provide them with electricity, no questions asked.