Arnold Abbott’s on a mission to feed the homeless and he won’t let a newly enacted law in Fort Lauderdale stand in his way.
Abbott’s been cited with a criminal violation three times since the city’s ban on “public food sharing” went into effect Oct. 22. His most recent arrest came Wednesday night, according to WSVN.com.
The station reported that Abbott, as promised, was out on Fort Lauderdale Beach feeding the homeless Wednesday when local police parted the crowd to issue the elderly man his third criminal citation. They did, however, allow him to continue feeding the hungry who had gathered.
The brouhaha over Abbott’s determination to feed the hungry began Nov. 2 when he and two local pastors were arrested for feeding people in Fort Lauderdale’s Stranahan Park.
Abbott is the founder of Love Thy Neighbor, a local nonprofit that helps the homeless. He’d only handed out a few of the 300 meals he had prepared when police told him to stop or else.
Abbott, who battled the city’s ban on feeding homeless on the beach back in 1999 and won, wrote on his Facebook page that an officer told him to “’Drop that plate immediately.’ As though it were a weapon.”
Abbott now says he has filed a motion against the city to uphold that 1999 ruling. In the meantime, he promised via Facebook to continue showing up at 5:30 each Wednesday on Fort Lauderdale Beach to feed the homeless.
The second criminal citation against Abbott was written last Wednesday as he was feeding homeless on the beach. The new law carries a penalty of up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
What kind of country is that where people are threatened with jail sentences if they show some humanity and where so-called law-enforcement officers are in in fact murdering thugs acting with impunity?
ReplyDeleteA country without a soul..
ReplyDeleteHell.
ReplyDelete...the country we "tin-foil-hat" people have been predicting for about forty ...fifty years now....
ReplyDeleteRJ O'Guillory
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Police officer: 'I am just following orders'. This is a war on the homeless and this police officer is a collaborator with the enemy.
ReplyDeleteGot an opinion on this? Call the mayor and express it ! We all have our ways of communication, but I think polite makes the most points... Here is the phone # 954-828-5003
ReplyDeleteOnly in a scientific, mind controlled dictatorship. I honestly believe America has been socially engineered, for the better part of a century now, to be the dumbest society the world has ever seen.
ReplyDeleteHe is so brainless that he cannot think and inhuman to the point of being incapable of an humane reaction.
ReplyDeleteI hope and pray he receives orders to kill his parents and members of his family in cold blood.
Polite?
ReplyDeleteCan those savages appreciate the virtues of politeness?
They only deserve to be killed for the safety of Mankind.
For even more, but no one would listen except a few.
ReplyDeleteIf Shakespeare's crowd, way back then, had gone ahead on to 'kill all the lawyers' we wouldn't be having these type problems.
ReplyDelete...we should begin a boycott campaign of Ft. Lauderdale...it's businesses and it's tourism industry...put up billboard showing them arresting people for helping others in need....then give them a chance to decide..."Is this the place I want to spend my entertainment dollars?".....crucify the city's tax base until they develop some humanity of their own...RJ
ReplyDeleteBoycott, leave the place if possible. Do everything to ensure that it goes bankrupt.
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