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PatrickforO

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2. While I am heartily sorry for anyone poor and homeless,

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:12 AM

Jun 2016

aggressive panhandling on the 16th Street Mall is not OK. When you yell something like 'internet yuppie scum' at some poor schmuck just trying to make his way home after working a day for the Man, that isn't OK. We need to help these folks, but they cannot accost commuters.

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Violent confrontation between panhandler and business man caught on video [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jun 2016 OP

If those "travelers" were black, riot police would've been called in woolldog Jun 2016 #1

Very segegated homeless. Black and brown hang out at a bus stop blocks away, outside the Liberal_in_LA Jun 2016 #3

While I am heartily sorry for anyone poor and homeless, PatrickforO Jun 2016 #2

IDK if I feel "sorry" for the backpacker types Recursion Jun 2016 #4

What nasty, ugly people. cwydro Jun 2016 #5