Dash ([info]sysd) wrote,
@ 2008-01-27 22:08:00
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We lost one
After a rash of burglaries committed by a homeless guy, the city of Marietta decided that the correct response was to evict all the homeless.

We help a few camps up there, and we were told to remove the shelters on public property, which we did, today, taking out three low rider shelters that were along DOT right-of-way. The rest... well, they're on private property with permission.

But I just found out today that we lost one of our clients out there - Dominic, found frozen behind a liquor store. Dom was nice old dude. He didn't rob anyone. He didn't deserve to freeze to death.



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[info]matrushkaka
2008-01-28 03:47 am UTC (link)
I'm sorry, Nick. *hugs*

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[info]rosindust
2008-01-28 04:05 am UTC (link)
http://oldtimer.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/when-laws-should-not-be-enforced/

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[info]msbeanhead
2008-01-28 05:29 am UTC (link)
That's so sad.
We were just looking over the MH display at Sevanada today and thinking of all the folks out there suffering in this cold.

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[info]rfrancis
2008-01-28 07:38 am UTC (link)
Well, you know how whenever someone who lives in a suburban house robs a few places, they run off all the suburbanites, right?

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[info]opadit
2008-01-28 01:04 pm UTC (link)
That's terrible. I'm so sorry.

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[info]tenzil
2008-01-28 02:33 pm UTC (link)
That's really awful.

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[info]lordjulius
2008-01-28 04:33 pm UTC (link)
Was Dominic a resident in one of the three low-riders (i.e. the eviction directly killed him?)

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[info]sysd
2008-01-28 04:37 pm UTC (link)
No, Dom was in one of the camps with owners permission. It's strange - I don't know whether the cops came and told him to leave (they know about the camp) and he did, or if he just made an unrelated mistake, or if he heard that they were running folks off and decided not to return to his place. I can't draw a line here between Marietta police and Dom's death. I haven't gone by his camp and seen whether it's been disturbed. We'll be going by later on.

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