Hate Crime? - Violent Attacks against Homeless People

by alaaron | October 22, 2008 at 01:59 pm
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Shadowy human figures begin to appear on empty streets. Walking slowly on numb feet, hunched forms bracing against the cold wind, they take their place in store entrances, under bridges, over hot-air grates, and on the sidewalks. In cardboard boxes, scavenged from garbage bins, they bed down for the night. Whatever their age, their background, their physical and mental condition, they have one common denominator that inseparably links them all—they are homeless. But those who have a place to stay derive some kind of gratification by perpetrating henious crimes against such ones as shown in the article below.

"John Robert McGraham, a homeless man who was brutally murdered on Oct. 9. McGraham, 55, was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. Despite efforts of residents and shopkeepers to extinguish the flames, he died at the scene, on a sidewalk in front of a boarded up dental office on the corner of West 3rd and Berendo Street in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles."

Source: Cultrad

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campanaro
campanaro
flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 14:21 on October 22nd, 2008

alaaron, I like this story. It's good stuff.

This continues to break my heart.
You have to ask,
what happened to kindness,compassion,
of hearts and souls?
Really drops you to your knees.
Peace,
campanaro

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Sputnic

Good stuff, sleeping outside an empty building, that about sums up the madness of the world

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Sputnic

Good stuff, sleeping outside an empty building, that about sums up the madness of the world

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Sputnic

Good stuff, sleeping outside an empty building, that about sums up the madness of the world

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Vexen

Nice

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