KELLY THOMAS died a few days after being beaten by police officers. Now those officers have been charged. The story is all over the media and we're linking to a Yahoo news/ Associated Press article about it.
LET'S USE THIS MOMENT TO DISCUSS POLICE BRUTALITY ON THE HOMELESS
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It's not just beatings.
It's being picked up and your bike, sleeping bag, and back pack (with your ID and worldly goods) being thrown out of a police car, so even if you didn't do anything worth getting arrested for, your life is made even more difficult.
It's renting a motel room in a motel that's raided by the police and even though you aren't one of the drug addicts or dope sellers staying in the motel, even though you're in another room entirely, YOUR CASH BEING TAKEN BY AN OFFICER FROM YOUR WALLET! ("Thank You Sucker!")
It's having your homeless status in a data base so you can't open a bank account, and you can't get a job. Talk about a hole in your resume! You don't want to lie but they can find out, so you're doomed to unemployment, poverty, the streets.
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