Thursday, August 01, 2013

 

Civil Beat: When Does a Sweep Become a Raid?

by Larry Geller

A well-written article over at Civil Beat. Check it out. Snipping would spoil it, just mouse yourself over.

Civil Beat notes that other media have been using the word “sweep” to describe the, well, raids, on homeless encampments in Honolulu.

I’ve used “raid.”

City's container for colostomy bagsWhen city workers swoop in, throw colostomy bags, medicine, personal ID and other belongings into a garbage truck, that’s a cruel, inhuman, disgusting raid.

The garbage truck in this pic has exactly those items in it, according to those I interviewed in a park on S. King St.



This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.


Facebook Twitter Permalink posted by Larry @ 8/01/2013 09:24:00 PM

Comments:

When the height of the goose stepping exceeds 18 inches.
# posted by Blogger Andy Parx : August 3, 2013 at 12:08:00 PM HST
 

Post a Comment

Requiring those Captcha codes at least temporarily, in the hopes that it quells the flood of comment spam I've been receiving.





<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Newer›  ‹Older