St. Petersburg police cut tops off homeless peoples tents.

[medicinescout]

Destroying personal property is against the law maybe we should burn down their homes and pillage their property. Police you think you are safe lol just wait IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TOO.

[Quinnotistic]

i showed my mom this. AND SHE ACTAULLY AGREED WITH WHAT THERE DOING! right wing republican sons of bitches.

[419boyos]

@Quinnotistic she is probably part of the baby boomers, they all think everyone is wrong and they are the bomb, problems is, they are a bomb for our national debt as they all start to creep into retirement

[squiress92]

wow, I was in St.Petes a few months ago for vacation I'd never think the police there would do such I thing. I guess my views are changed.

[mega22266deth]

fucken pigs.. i hope everyone of them pigs is brutally murdered in the most un humane way possible, with hours of torture before they finally beg for death

[60Days60Nights]

She sounds angry, but she is crying out for justice

[TJaMeZ]

this is why people hate cops they're not doin themselves any favors pullin this shit.

[DrReaper]

The police are financed through debt. That leads to more homelessness.

[Stinkerstien]

How do those cops sleep at night?

[smde1]

Has it become illegal to be alive in America ????

I do not pay anyone to do this to anuyone anywhere for any reason !!!!!!

[diebelt1]

the police need to continue doing this, and round these bums off the street corners down here. put em to work, make them clean p the streets, do something. its a shame these bums are just allowed to panhandle down here with no vendors lisence, and pay no taxs for the money there are making day in and day out. if it were so bad, they'd be looking for a job, but they make money everyday on the corner...everyones a Vet, laid off, etc..really they are lazy, druggies, and winos. figure it out

[mega22266deth]

@diebelt1 fuck you scumbag, you need a fucken bullet, so does your family simply for being related to scum like you

[Godzie1]

I saw the Nazis do something like this...talk about crimes against humanity.

[paulsviplist]

@Godzie1 soon they will legaly be able to put them all in jail. Because now they just raised the price to get a state ID and it is also much harder to get one. So Soon the homeless will not have the money to have a simple state ID and you know what that means in these times.

[Godzie1]

@paulsviplist At least in jail they will have a bed, food, medical & a roof over their heads. Sad when killers & rapist has it better then the poor & homeless.

Do you see something wrong here?

[ceez561]

just taking what they dont have !!!!! people in haiti get better treatmeant then this

[l3nnz3]

how do you know what was going on, florida has the highest amount of foreclosures in the country..... and by the f@$k the police... ya, how is that right, the cops are lucky their only swearing, but keep defending them, soon you'll know what it's like to be on the other end of a badge

[wazonu]

Well they were already lieing stealing & useing within the first place.

I'm more upset that the Police Officers didn't arrest that nigger for swearing @ a on duty Peace Officer.

It's called intemidateing a peace officer.

[ceez561]

fuck you i prey ur house burns .............i hope u have a fam member that is homeless. you cold harted piece of ecolie

[wazonu]

The only cold part is that you have ignored the princible of that this fine and beautiful country has schools and learning instatutions. There's no need for homeless in America.

Niggers. Go pray for that!

[DRS8503]

@wazonu The learning institutions have failed you then. Your ignorance shines through with your racism. Whether people have jobs or not, no matter the color of their skin, or even if they're an ignorant racist piece of shit like you, they still have rights.

[anahel1231]

thats just sick, they got to go some where if they keep doing this then people start robbing people for the little they just lost. why cant they just take them some food everyone is just heartless now!

[foxolita]

when this was happening, i had also called police because my pomeranian had ran away. 2 cars came, i was treated with dignity, and sympathy for my dog. they also drove around until they found her. i was very grateful. yes, i live in a beach community, and there are no homeless here. never will be. BUT, who really wants people defecating in their yard? i think not ONE person reading this. let the homeless use the money they spend on pot, crack and beer,to better themselves!!

[acridcola]

Guess you better hope you never become homeless huh? Then the NWO can destroy what ever possessions you have left.

With the state of the economy who knows?

[moomoogod]

just because your homeless doesnt mean your spending money on pot, and coke and crap, they had blankets, and tents, and built a fuckin community, ok? and they threw all of they're property around, tore they're shit up, they werent pased out on the side walk downtown, they were away from people in tents, with they're own people, and they looked pretty fuckin sober to me, the woman with the camera sounded like she lost her home people

[norfleet666]

@moomoogod yes, that woman did lose her fucking home, her name is tina may. she actually did all the homeless a favor by taping it too. because its on video, they started pinellas hope for homeless who need shelter and food. also, about 65% of them do go and smoke crack and fuck in bushes and shit on sidewalks. i was born and raised here and i love tina for what she dealt with. shes not homeless anymore and volunteers at pinellas hope.

[moomoogod]

heres MY experience with the police, im clean. and i dont have a record. but my brother. upset a cop. so she came while we were building a toolshed with dad. and called my mom out on her parenting, keep in mind, my bro doesnt even live at home.

she threatened to book us on assaulting my elderly dad. with a metal pipe, we were putting on the shed because "it looked like we were violent with him". when he said we're fine. she said she'll book us anyways. THATS my experience. they're corrupt.

[LostFREEDOM]

HOW CAN THIS BE RIGHT ?? Cruel bastards this is so wrong on so many levels...We need a revolution, this is bullshit

[edogriff]

now that their tents are gone they trespass on st. vincent depaul property and try to sleep.

[lizcalver]

all this video does is make you look even more sad ... if you can buy a camera, a nothface tent, a bike and the clothes on your back then you can go get a job and pay for a place to live

[ladalededella]

should of set fire to them less trouble no more tents no more tramps job done

[gotspeed1212]

next year they will be coming around to home owners in the same area and cutting the peeks off of them homes with sawzalls :)

unless the city has some place for them to go after this why would they do that. they had a dry simi quite place where they could be inside and away from view...

no theres 30 or so homeless walking around pissed with no place to change or sleep

[psychogirlie]

This is a prime example of people in power (ie. the police) working to keep those without power (ie. the homeless) subjective and subserviant.. What a disgusting display of abuse of power. I don't know how cops can be satisfied with who they are as a person at the end of the day.. or how they can sleep without feeling a sense of shame instilled by a concience.. Fight on, brothers and sisters, unite and don't let the powers that be silence your voice!

[libertyno5]

I'm ashamed about my dear community. I've lived here for about 28 years. It's gotten WAY too crazy than what it should be. Good luck holding on to your hate for the other side, but in the end the hate has "got you" and you are not, sadly, being rational any longer. You should be ashamed.

[libertyno5]

To all who congratulate and pat each other on the back for disgracing yourselves and your 'community' (whatever that must mean to you) I leave you with the words of our dear african-american narrator in the film, "I got you..."

Justice in this case is hard one, but it is still justice that must be done.

[libertyno5]

There are professionals who deal with homelessness... the police are not the best way to deal with them. Instead, those who are down on their luck should be given a second chance through non-profits like Goodwill & the Salvation Army.

[libertyno5]

The reason the present issue exists is that the tax payers are ignorant and impatient with the homeless issue- this puts the local city government in a conundrum and the government chose to represent the tax payer as opposed to championing the weightier issue of human rights (how we 'should be' as human beings with the capacity to feel compassion for our fellow human beings).

[libertyno5]

In all actuality, given legal precedence, if the government had any rights to deprive American Citizens of liberty or property by now they would USE that right and we wouldn't have homeless people as they are now.

[jackinla8]

I feel sorry for the police who had to

take all the hobo verbal abuse. Dirty,

filthy, disgusting bums!

[WildernesswayTracker]

They want to cut up your tents, then head to the wilderness and make natural shelters and live a free life. If they try to stop when your living a free life under god then fight them to the death if need be. Its funny everyone see's what we did to the indians as wrong, then why the hell are they still on reservations, let them go and let them be free living off the land again. The reason none of it can happen is because we are all slaves. Evil Government needs its taxes.

[WildernesswayTracker]

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"

[HeatherBartlett]

I think that the solution to this lies somewhere between compassion and law enforcement.

I am trying to put myself in the position of the people who work, own homes and must drive past this.

Do their children walk past it to school?

Is there constant complaints of drug dealing and prostitiution? Is there a shelter available? Detox?

It's dangerous for the homeless people and for the people living around them for this to be like it is, there ought to be some sort of solution.

[Halboy10]

Caring sharing America! Guess its a crime to poor in USA?

[artisexplosion]

holy shit all you guys are reatrted i mean cmon theyr homeless people they dont have money no food. they collect cans from our trashes for money i mean.. damit think about this.. if you were homeless..would you want somebody to cut off the top of ur tent and when it rains what will happen hm? how the hell would you like to starve.. all im trying to say is let the people have theyr tents

[Acroix707]

how did a bum get a camera??

[jabalderston]

its one thing to be homeless in a hard situation, but doing all you can to fix it, another to choose to live this way feeling sorry for yourself.

[jabalderston]

its about time somebody started cleaning up that mess...

[Cho32Vatech0]

Thank you cops for doing your jobs. Maybe these worthless bums will starve to death and then the town will look better!

[louis12346]

They should all camp out in your front yard or mabe Disneyland,Yeah let them live there.

[adphotoman]

Heard the latest? They will refuse to relocate until their demands are met! Imagine that, a group of law breaking vagrants making demands of our charity. Yeah, I feel real sorry for these leeches.

[jrusso7660]

adphotoman,

These fucking ignoramus' were warned for fucking weeks, even months. Police should have arrested every fucking one of them for vagrancy. They needed to not waste their lives away with drugs and alcohol and demanding me to pay for it with their tax dollars because I make enough money to pay DOUBLE the tax that the average American does. All because I worked hard and did something with my life.

[WRFlorida]

Being homeless is not a crime. The police are wrong to destroy or confiscate the property of the homeless. A lawsuit is in order against the city, the police, and the fire department.

[dmr0binson]

That's a thing of beauty right there. Like it or not, nobody owes it to you to let you camp on public land by the side of a road.

[brenniskw]

noone owes it to them? whether or not anyone owes it to them, whatever happened to decency and compassion. civilization without those things is sodom and babylong

[dmr0binson]

Civilization, according to brenniskw... without decency and compassion... is sodom and babylong.

I'll have to take your word for it. I haven't sodomized anyone even on my least compassionate days, and I don't even know what "babylong" is.

[jrusso7660]

"...and I don't even know what "babylong" is."

It's called not getting an education so that he doesn't misspell the big words he doesn't know how to use. Ignorance supports ignorance. Same with stupidity. Great job SPPD. As a taxpayer that makes me your boss and I say, cut those fucking tents down.

[jrusso7660]

dmr0binson,

I agree, they were warned for weeks on end. It's not our fault they never learned to read. Our society gives you a free public education and you can get Government loans by registering for classes at your local college. Fuck these lazy, druggies.

[turbotension]

loitering, among other things, is against most city ordinances. Hmmmm, homeless people with nice big tents and video cameras?

[looseleafomega]

yeah, that didn't make any sense to me either

[oravattnet]

Wow, first I thougt yuo meant S:t Petersburg,Russia. That would have explaind the police brutality. But this seems to be somwhere in the U.S.! I just guess the police are fascists all over the world.

[toddrjohnson]

30 million illegal immagrants in this county have jobs. These people should go get one. You don't (or should'nt) have the right to live like this.

[jonskyeagle]

I'd love to get that mayor of St. Pete in the octagon so I could beat some since into him.

[jeanniedean]

This video is devasting. I am devastated. The previous comments are equally dispicable and cause for real concern.

[jrusso7660]

jeanniedean,

You're despicable for supporting these fuckers. Great job SPPD. I'm a taxpayer, which pays your salary and as your boss I say, "Cut those fucking tents!" Good luck getting any taxes out of those homeless fuckers.

[popstarfule]

i commend the police for doing an outstanding job, no one was hurt, no one was arrested, a very ethical and economical solution to a dirty problem. ignorant product does not deserve rights as they have waived them by being citizens. none of those ignorant homeless people even know the game of law, thats why they are suffering this fate.

[SKITTZ0]

In this instance the police broke the law because the city council wanted those homeless people gone from underneath the overpass. They should seek legal counsel & some1 should do some pro bono work & get these PEOPLE although homeless some big$ for violation of civil rights. Your comment is IGNORANT!

[popstarfule]

which law was broken? i'm ignorant? look up corpus juris secudum and re review yourself, you act like a child. if i were one of the bums, i would of moved away from crack/cock sucking tent city.

[gell7]

amen bro or sister idont know your gender what an asse

[SKITTZ0]

Destruction of property is against the law, whether the tent belonged to the homeless people or not, the police had no right whatsoever to cut them into shreds. That was cruel, unusual & inhumane punishment. They robbed these homeless persons of their shelter & protection.

[popstarfule]

You own no property, slaves can't own property. Read the Deed to the property that you think is yours. You are listed as a Tenant. (Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session)

[gell7]

you loser

[popstarfule]

is that all you have to say? run along child.

[FischerDerFilmMacher]

Bye bye.

[Cran11]

All i can say..This is a part of the New world Order! Things will get worse brothers and sisters

[Charnel42]

I knew things were getting bad in our country, and I live in the area this took place. What gives police the right to destroy private property? This is a criminal act and should be treated as such.