Homeless crisis escalating in Sherman Oaks; man throws feces at business owner

Some members of the Sherman Oaks community have had enough with the area's homeless problem. For one business owner, his last straw was being targeted by a man who threw feces at his direction.
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[@Magical_Trash]

She’s pretty bold to be asking him questions, when she’s within feces throwing distance 😭😭😭😷

[@andrewg164]

“within feces throwing distance ” 😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

[@reddvelvetlola7676]

Bruh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maniac50ae14]

Reporters go to the heart of danger 🤣😂🤣😂

[@gghhhhhhhhb8161]

Lisa Guerrero would never

[@daixer3156]

Secret fetish....shhhhhh 🤫

[@samariam3043]

The crazy thing is, if a sane and housed person did this, they’d actually get arrested.

[@gingercashcat]

right...

[@bro6568]

They have to mandate homeless people go to MANDATORY rehab/hospitalization or jail.. either will work but they have to make them get better first then they’ll want to once they get their mental health off drugs right.

[@yangpaan453]

jail is probably better than being homeless, thats why they dont care about committing crimes like this. if they get arrested thats free food and roof over their heads.

[@shihtzusrule9115]

@@yangpaan453 LOL you're way off.

[@davesmith1245]

YES THESE FRUITS ARE PRIVILEGED THEY CAN ABUSE WHOMEVER THEY WANT THEN NESTLE BACK DOWN INTO THEIR STREET BEDS AND SLEEP IT OFF...AND THE LIBS BRING THEM FREE FOOD AT SUPPER TIME. EVERYBODY SEE WHAT WOKESTER SOCIALISM HAS WROUGHT?

[@andrew.alonzo]

In the USA, individuals living in cars due to partial homelessness result from a complex interplay of factors. High housing costs relative to income, stagnant wages, and income inequality drive this issue. Job loss, weak social support, medical expenses, evictions, and lack of affordable housing also contribute, while systemic problems and inadequate policies further perpetuate the phenomenon.

[@Kim.beneteau]

Considering the present situation, diversifying by shifting investments from real estate to financial markets or gold is recommended, despite potential future home price drops. Given prevailing mortgage rates and economic uncertainty, this move is prudent, particularly due to stricter mortgage regulations. Seeking advice from a knowledgeable independent financial advisor is advisable for those seeking guidance.

[@james.atkins88]

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[@rebecca_burns14]

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[@james.atkins88]

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[@veronica.baker1]

Thanks, I just googled her name and her website came up right away. It looks interesting so far. I'm going to book a call with her and let you know how it goes.

[@CliveBirse]

I was at the gas station and noticed a car full of belongings and a lady with her dog. I gave her $20 and she just started bawling and was extremely grateful. When I was in my 20’s I was homeless for 2 months and lived in my car. I know how it feels to be in that situation.

[@Madison-Huff]

I always wonder how can the typical family with average income afford a higher rate+ more expensive home? in my area multi generational home is becoming the norm . Don’t forget to add the inflation which just this week was 9.1 on the CPI , producers index 11.3, it’s going to be a rough ride for sure

[@mikegarvey17]

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[@ThomasChai05]

@@mikegarvey17How did you get that, i'm pretty sure its not through the financial market because its punching everyone in the balls every single day.

[@mikegarvey17]

CAMILLE ALICIA GARCIA maintains an online presence. Just make a simple search for her name online.

[@ConorBrews]

Insightful... I curiously looked up her name on the internet and I found her site and i must say she seems proficient, wrote her an email outlining my objectives. Thanks for sharing.

[@hicknopunk]

Just because they are homeless does not give them a free pass to break the law.

[@Biker65]

It does in California

[@McRemmyBaby]

N yea they do NOT care lol so yea they are free In some way

[@katkatthecat]

They’re trying to win the grand prize! An all expense paid trip to the penitentiary!

[@rogerrettinger3225]

Yes it does- California

[@roxaskinghearts]

Im a democrat and find it karmic justice to see things like this happen to disgusting losers like you Californians maybe quit selling children into slavery and take care of your people your really showing your states better then texas or republicans who are worst then russia

[@EricaYE6]

I've managed a homeless shelter for 4 years. TRUST ME, these people you see out in the street don't want the services available because there are rules and random drug tests that are required to be in those programs.

[@e.t.ethics1771]

What kind of drug tests? Amphetamines?

[@nancysmith6685]

Did you ever stop to realize they are on drugs because they are homeless and lots of other reasons? If their lives have to be perfect in order to get into a shelter, I'm afraid that won't happen. Lol It's like the chicken and the egg.

[@nancysmith6685]

@L K I'm not talking about throwing their waste. I've known some homeless people also. They suffered from true chemical imbalances and could not hold a job,had no insurance. I don't think any of us truly knows what we would do if it was us in the same circumstances . Brother could you lend a hand? It may well be an angel in disguise. You never know.

[@Volknsarr]

@@e.t.ethics1771 The drug test are to 70% innacurate prison is a billiondollar bussiness.

[@really5453]

Not to mention how awful it is to live in a shelter?

[@pps67]

What is really sad is that if a business owner takes maters into his own hands then he will be the only one punished.

[@miket7184]

Speaking of feces, that's what happens when Democrats are in control.

[@westbourne]

mattters

[@whewchiletheghetto6537]

​@@westbournematters

[@ArnoldJudasRimmer..]

​@@whewchiletheghetto6537😂😂😂

[@Tansel97]

Gangsters + 10k cash + silencer and a revolver at night could solve the issue for a few months.

[@keciaaskew5166]

Throwing feces at someone is absolutely disgusting 🤢. And even using the bathroom in the streets by restaurants, nail salons, hair salons and retail store is disgusting 🤢 as well. If I was a business owner, I would be fed up as well.

[@hellovicki6779]

Such behaviour would be more than sufficient to earn an involuntary admission to a closed mental health unit in Australia. When ones judgment is impaired to this degree, you are clearly a risk to yourself and others. Your leaders need to provide appropriate care and services, enough funds exist. They are negligent in not providing this care, sue them.

[@Bunny11344]

When he said they’re having segg im like eww with whom?!! 🤢

[@MsMoNeY87]

“I’m half paralyzed, I’m half blind”. Said the homeless man, but he was able to see what car to throw his feces onto though. That is disgusting! 🤢

[@will-da-mac1505]

To be fair he said half

[@MsMoNeY87]

@@will-da-mac1505 Okay and?

[@will-da-mac1505]

@@MsMoNeY87 Just your statement just lacked redundancy is all.

[@MsMoNeY87]

@@will-da-mac1505 😂😂😂

[@will-da-mac1505]

@@MsMoNeY87 see i knew you would get it lol

[@kanadian9418]

As he said that he is half paralyzed and half blind, he perfectly walked toward the car to aim perfectly and throw his feces at the car.

[@mongoose239]

Agreed. I live nearby and walk by him everyday. I found it interesting how he wanted to immediately blame and victimize, despite being offered a solution.

[@Pack_Watch]

Daredevil

[@TheWolfGangkta]

Right, threw it with impeccable aim

[@davesargent7304]

Detective Gordon solved the case here guys.

[@McRemmyBaby]

Lmaoaoaoao

[@LoriEmpson]

They need to be forcibly moved into mental health facilities which means that there also needs to be more built. This makes no sense! Anytime a person is not sane enough to make decisions for themselves, then some one else obviously has to. It’s no longer an issue of being fair but rather a safety issue for the residents & businesses

[@joeperry9619]

Anyone who is acting this way should be brought to a mental facility with force if needed!

[@AdamMM-hq3gv]

I worked as a nurse for 16 years. The last two months I worked at one of those facilities and I was like. F-this. There is not enough staff, and the staff we have mean well, but either don't or cannot do a good enough job. I was charting as an RN for 16 years and once I got to the mental facility that paid WAY less money (so I expected an easier job) I had a boss freaking out over every word I typed. Her claim is that the state would pour over every detail of the documentation and care and revoke licenses and fine the place over the tinyest thing. I was blown away by how much care we took to walk on egg shells over this "State" it did not seem to help with care of the patients.

[@AngelLopez-rw8ey]

I’m with the business owners !

[@alexzabala2154]

Only an idiot wouldn't be with the buisness owners

[@hedgehog1684]

the homeless man lying on the street is a real fbi undercover agent. not fake

[@FloridaMan69.]

democrats clearly are not

[@sean2015]

Small businesses not only provide jobs, they are an important source of tax revenue for cities and towns. We should be bending over backwards to provide a comfortable environment for these business owners, not ignoring them like this Raman woman does.

[@kemolowlow]

Zero Sympathy.....Bet they will still vote Democrap

[@ninpo14]

“Sir, why are you throwing feces?”😂 Ma’am, why are you getting so close to the man who just threw feces?

[@millsykooksy4863]

😂

[@sharondavis258]

I was thinking the same thing.😂

[@andrewclayterman6230]

he was empty for a few hours..

[@margaretabuya1014]

His bowel was empty

[@Prolificposter]

He was temporarily out of ammo.

[@BeverlyTalley]

This homeless issue is becoming a norm, the government have to do something about it. Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest.

[@Florencecoxx]

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[@BeverlyTalley]

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[@susanhaynes679]

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[@thamad311]

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[@susanhaynes679]

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[@fromthepeanutgallery1084]

"I don't need help, he needs help." - true.....priceless.

[@JessicaJayXO]

the business owner said it perfectly: "the rights of the homeless cannot exceed the rights of business owners and homeowners... there needs to be a balance"

[@ioidt]

sadly the laws only applied to the working citizens who follow the laws.

[@1jboda]

Oh now Business Owners want balance? 🤣

[@wiseGUY1288]

Rights? More like the lawlessness of the homeless shouldn't out weight the rights of the people. Buy guns deputize the citizens fucking clean house

[@shaunstark4263]

Life takes precedence over money.

[@shaunstark4263]

Law is to keep the corporate minded from using their money to control the rest.

[@dannylbc21]

That council woman blames everything on someone else and no accountability for anything! What a clown!!!!🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@sarbantz]

We will never reduce street homelessness and crime without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. It is everywhere and dirt cheap. Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime.

[@johneshaholley383]

Exactly

[@teenyverse7707]

All she needs to post something on TikTok... she'll be loved by the clowns too.

[@jcarlovitch]

Nope. It's there plan. She is a democrat socialist and their goal is to destroy America from within.

[@ostentatioussavant6975]

Over 10 years ago I actually paid this same council woman cash money to throw her feces at me, not even joking. Full disclosure, I had actually paid her to piss in my mouth but she also threw her feces at me. Imagine my surprise when I saw her in this news story lol

[@CombativesAcademy]

This neighborhood used to be lovely place to live. Our leaders are not cutting it.

[@Bluesapphire59]

It’s getting out of control throughout the Bay Area. Elected officials have to be more accountable.

[@andreabautista53]

“This guy has to understand I’m half paralyzed, I’m blind, I have no car for 9 years” proceeds to stand up and look at reporter. I’m dead 🤣🤣🤣

[@Cambodia69]

As if any of that would justify throwing feces at someone.

[@andreabautista53]

@@pigjubby1 I don’t like to wish anything bad on anyone but we did try to tell them

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

That did give me a lol 😂 but he is also a nasty bum who does that I would be violently sick if I witnessed that behaviour.

[@andreabautista53]

@@patriciaoreilly8907 for real he just said he was blind and paralyzed and he’s standing and looking straight at her 🤣 and he’s able to move just enough to throw poop at people 🤣 he’s a walking contradiction for sure. Honestly, the man that keeps getting his car pooped on should go eat a bunch of spicy as food and throw revenge poop as his ass, see how he likes it. Actually he probably wouldn’t mind 🤣 that may be a bad idea cause he probably can’t shower too often so he would have all of Hollywood blvd smelling like shit like SpongeBob

[@robpolaris5002]

He’s paralyzed from the neck up.

[@chino2037]

That restaurant owner said it best when he said: “It’s literally a psyche ward.”

[@tinamccuien9560]

Ang they are not dumb mainers I meant yuck

[@shiwan45]

I know how this owner feels .

[@tinamccuien9560]

@@shiwan45 yeah thats dumb

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@@tinamccuien9560 WAT?????

[@tinamccuien9560]

@@lockandloadlikehell thst homeless man was craping on the street thats the what ???

[@wavybaby999]

This is America.

[@loomtasticrainbowloom1305]

I bet if the owner did the same thing, he would be thrown on jail

[@cemsengul16]

When they refuse free help I have zero sympathy for them.

[@Sparrow0514]

They lost their mind a long time ago. Like the restaurant owner said “they need to be pulled into care” and yes against their will because they lost that too.

[@fairymairah]

I kinda understand.

[@valerielstevens4712]

They're mentally ill. The disease disrupts their ability to comprehend. That's why mental hospitals are needed.

[@tcw00]

Same

[@amber619pop]

Well everybody wanted to close all of the insane asylums in the 70s and 80s. So where did you all expect those people to go? Did everyone think mental illness was just going to not exist anymore just because you closed all of the psychiatric hospitals down? That's not how it works.

[@crazycris29]

That council woman lives in a alternative universe. Have those homeless people camp out around her office and her home and we will see where that compassion and empathy goes.

[@8213apice]

Yup

[@meer9098]

she never been outside before i don't think

[@shroomzed2947]

Exactly, she’s coming from the same position as all these moral crusaders, who think all homeless are angels who were dealt a bad hand meanwhile living in a upper-class neighborhood where they don’t have to deal with it.

[@2112acj]

Bus them to her home.

[@LaAngie.]

She needs to watch soft white underbelly

[@thisisawsome34253212]

And we will see how godless a nation we have become

[@lalizespinosa6286]

Good Job Gina! Keep reporting on this. These people in "charge of the city" are below grade. Having only 1 person in charge of offering help to the homeless is ridiculous. The councilwoman blaming the county shows poor leadership.

[@Cr1xuz]

Reporters need to be careful when asking them questions directly these people are super defensive and mental so be careful

[@truthseeker4084]

Who would put their own reporters at risk asking mentally ill people such weird questions. Unbelievable.

[@Enhancement_Talent]

Yeah those politicians are more dangerous than the homeless

[@icyx9268]

@@truthseeker4084 oh but isnt it so convieniant for you not to even adress or give consideration to underlying causes / billionaires structural manipulation into cultural conditioning into normalisation of evil as the only immediate resort out of ppls incompetance

[@Veritas-dq2hs]

@@truthseeker4084 reporters will go to great lengths to get good footage. It's their job. And I'm surprised that a typically liberal as hell news channel would side in favor of the normal business owner

[@MysticBlueAcid]

Probally told to stop filming him. no second warning: big city life !!!! better than a gun the face how thing are escalating people need to calm down leave each other alone.

[@DMAC1301]

He’s crazy. He’s not half paralyzed. He needs to be institutionalized, period

[@firmhandshakes7469]

@@nategwinn9058Lmao you gotta run for president

[@JG-xh1qm]

​@@nategwinn9058that is dark but sometimes it crossed our minds

[@bubblelady8528]

His accent 😂

[@ArnoldJudasRimmer..]

​@@nategwinn9058😂😂😂....

[@7ElevenTruther]

​@@nategwinn9058I agree wholeheartedly. Either put every homeless person on a DNR list and just give them all enough fent to OD or let them 'consent' to assisted suicide regardless of their mental state.

[@magicgemmaster7055]

Sprinklers above and in front of shops; pepper spray; fire hoses.

[@mcricks1980]

Gross! I couldn’t live in this city…..

[@albertmarnell9976]

"When people are suffering you pull them into care". Well said.

[@melaniecotterell8263]

you pull them into cars, or vans. And you relocate them.

[@albertmarnell9976]

@@melaniecotterell8263 You may be one of them someday. Security in this life is just transitory. There are no guarantees; not in this system.

[@rubytuesday1316]

Homeless in USA due to too many people come in to the USA & there's not enough food, housing or $$ to help! Then this is what happens. World order is what it is for reasons. Close all boarders !

[@perennialgypsy6491]

It’s sad.. they Neeed mental care/help and it’s obvious.. I’d say insane asylums, but people have conflicting opinions of those..

[@RetroHabit82]

Business owners suffering too.

[@owlampersand7993]

Yea he’s actually right. There’s only so much compassion one can have for the homeless in LA. It’s on a whole other level here!

[@josephedric4081]

You should see the ones in San FranSICKO

[@Aj-me8mo]

Y’all voted for this so don’t complain now

[@fransmith8992]

@@Aj-me8mo YES. AND THEY KEEP VOTING THE SAME WAY. I FKN LOVE IT. they get what they deserve.

[@jgarcia2680]

@@fransmith8992 republicans don’t want to solve the issue either, they just want to jail them

[@jgarcia2680]

@@Aj-me8mo I live in a red state and homeless is a issue here too, we need to spend billions of dollars for mental health instead of sending billions to Ukraine

[@darkangel13915]

If we all send our deepest sympathy, empathy, love, and prayers and all that at the same time we can probably house up 5 homeless people ❤

[@coreydeluna5258]

screw that time to stop being nice to these criminals

[@jyee2217]

Do you need help? The reporter is so disconnected from reality. That was so cringe, lady reporter!

[@dorthealove4117]

The homeless man says he's blind but can accurately throw a bag of feces. SMH.

[@documentries6083]

if someone do something like this on me i would vanish him from the earth

[@Radrook353]

That's when his vision suddenly becomes 20/20 and he aims with pinpoint accuracy.

[@dorthealove4117]

@@Radrook353IKR! LMMFAO!

[@Lordcouture.design]

😂 ikr

[@MelancholyRequiem]

For real. He was blind but now he throws feces.

[@LAKitchen]

"Rights of the homeless can't exceed the rights of the homeowners and business owners" is spot on!

[@othersbyuri]

Perfect example;the person in red with the raw ass and sore/wound can’t/ isn’t going to take care of themselves needs to be forced. But that’s where the huge problem/solution comes in. When they eliminated these law/practices/budget they didn’t leave wiggle room for mental health discretion . Back to the drawing board, it matters who you vote for people it really does✌🏽

[@martymcfly5764]

​@@othersbyuri the problem is that people make voting a popularity contest when really it's supposed to be about who the best man for the job is. You're not supposed to vote for the most likeable candidate, you're supposed to vote for the most qualified one. The fact that most people don't seem to understand this is why this country is in the huge mess that it is. I'm gonna end the conversation here rather than getting into a political debate with you or anyone else who happens to hop on here, but I think we can both agree that this has to stop.

[@elenasterling3159]

Where would you shit if all businesses bathrooms are "out of order" and you dont have a home to shit in?

[@thereisnosuchthingasanativ904]

Well I think we can agree then based off of real life results that Californians aren’t voting for the best candidates.

[@thereisnosuchthingasanativ904]

In a park or field is better than in a bag to throw at a business owner who told you to stop sleeping at his front door and doing your number twos there! Common sense dummies

[@jennyeagan1840]

When feces are thrown or smeared onto things like walks, that is a sign of a serious mental health episode.

[@MrJLee-ri3so]

Sad when homeless n criminals have more rights than law abiding taxpaying citizens.

[@bubblebass9992]

Good

[@deadcell1]

Technically speaking, a person who doesn't own their own home is classified as homeless. Which is 60% of America.

[@karaokeandrandomclips]

@@deadcell1 where did you hear that?

[@falynn3879]

say it again

[@mrgadget1485]

They need help!

[@Devonellah]

The homeless need to be forcefully removed if they won't leave. They are not interested in "Housing" - they are not interested in getting help.

[@lard_lad_AU]

They are not interested in giving up the meth, crack and fentanyl.

[@dianecelento4974]

@@lard_lad_AU Yes but nobody mentions that on this broadcast. They never do.

[@dianecelento4974]

@@ailsnow6586 There was a time in Ca. you couldn't even get a few hundred dollars of welfare if you didn't have an address. And now they're getting $2200? I didn't know this.

[@Mac-xo2zj]

@@ailsnow6586 You can't file for disability without an address

[@Mac-xo2zj]

forcefully removed to where? Cali has like 50k homeless people. What do you do with them all?

[@FoamandStuff]

The problem is we can’t let the homeless decide whether or not they need to enter a shelter, rehab, or mental health facility. We have to force them or else they won’t go. Police, social workers, private security and the community itself need to force them or jail them or relocate them outside of major cities.

[@michaelcesco2970]

I sympathized with the homeless. I had to work late one night and when I got off the busses had stopped running. At that time I didn't have a car or cell phone. I had to walk till my legs got tired and slept on a park bench. Fortunately no one bothered me, but that night l realized what the homeless go through. Sleeping in the cold weather and being hungry with no way to bathe i s no fun. My sympathy to those people.

[@HatlessAtlasHA]

Imagine being down on your luck one day, and being forced into a mental health facility. It's a slippery slope.

[@jaklenW4023]

@@michaelcesco2970 however if they refuse help and continue to destroy someone’s property, it’s not very fair is it?

[@alisamira4670]

There is no shelter and rehab half these ppl not even on drugs mental health due to how they life ended up because of the hike in rent low paying jobs and now they gave up on life because no one gave a fuck these ppl had families but money ran out families ran also

[@roxaskinghearts]

Its called a academy city giving people who want to work the option for change is what it is a giant manufacturing hub fueled by the world to help bring there tech to modern standers its something the world would be willing to get behind revolutionizing work to peak operations But to force instruction people like the starving children in child welfare your ignoring the fundamental problems to that point morons whos going to pay for this o right more tax dollars while you make more homeless more people who cant make it in your economy see your no better then russia at that point terrorists pushing birtherism in America

[@michelledozier4951]

I feel so bad for the business owner Paul. I'm sure he doesn't want to be rude but he needs to be heard. This bothers him so much. He can barely get his words out he's so bothered.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

This town needs Charles Bronson on the streets at night . Great film Death Wish . Problem solved within a month .

[@alicemarie3506]

"...owner doesn't want to be RUDE"!?! The homeless man is openly deficating in a bag in front of the entrance to his business. The business owner pays property taxes, which I'm sure in that area are astronomical, needs a business license and pays fees. Why isn't someone simply rounding these unfortunate individuals up and taking them to a place where they can get help? Because we changed the laws in this country which would insist on help for the mentally ill. And the $$$ it would cost to buy already existing property and pay health care workers to assist, is going into the pockets of the government officials...smh

[@sassiebrat]

This is NOT his problem to take care of. This problem is BIGGER than any one sane individual.

[@never4saken165]

Yes, he speaking facts. All these elected officials don't give a d about the citizens

[@lebron2292]

They keep on voting for this tho lol

[@tvted6160]

I think we should spend more money on wars and not healthcare

[@Solo49551]

I love where I live pan handlers, beggars,are removed quickly and although I do emphasize with the homeless because I grew up poor myself..it doesn't give homeless people the right to harass the citizens on a daily basis. Most of the homeless population have mental problems because of the following. Drugs, not caring, do not want to follow the basic rules of society, and not taking their prescription medication

[@tomd5069]

Imagine how fast you’d be in prison if you threw it at a state or federal building or official.

[@FightOstinFight]

Or how fast you’d be in jail if YOU did these things

[@tomd5069]

@@FightOstinFight also true

[@DandyDuh]

@@FightOstinFight Faaaaaaactssss 😩

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

🎤⤵️‼️ ..and imagine how fast new laws passed and LEO directives would be implemented if these vagrants were sleeping/shitting on their doorsteps? How many vacant rooms or basements are available in the houses of woke elites that could be used to house the “un-housed”? Why have we never seen a SINGLE one of them open their doors and welcone these violent lunatics into their homes? Afterall, the only problem is that they don’t have homes and if they did their lifestyle and behavior would magically turn around

[@Daizybakez]

Yes.. and I thought throwing feces and urine was considered a felony?

[@davidrodrick2109]

I don’t care if this sounds unethical, those people need to be forced into help

[@jillsipocz3582]

It seems way more ethical than letting them continue to kill themselves, doesn't it?

[@dreyes397]

I agree... It shouldn't be a choice bc they are literally not in their right mind.

[@thinredline2795]

@@dreyes397 As someone who has worked with homeless people in the past I'd say it would be great if that worked but it doesn't, if it's forced they just go straight back out there and even if it's not forced many just end up right back out there because of mental health addiction and family issues. . Even it did work how long would you keep them in care? a week? a month? The budget is just not there to do this. Then there's the mental health issues they suffer from that means they require treatment for their entire life's. Also sadly the homeless are one of the last people policy makers think about, they allocate very little in funding to help these people.

[@devinreis5811]

Long Beach is doing that, and it seems to be working.

[@yvonnegrant3736]

Yes they need to be forced, shitter can jailed to keep his butt off street in front of business

[@okami4683]

"People who are experiencing homelessness are still individuals who are there on the streets because they don't have a home." -Nithya Raman

[@TheAerialAlchemist]

It’s a mental health and public health crisis. They can’t take help, they know they cannot keep the housing, or have experienced assault or negative lived experiences. We must help one another

[@johnk4291]

"The rights of the homeless cannot exceed the rights of the homeowners and the business owners".... Can't get any truer than that! Bring back the psychiatric hospitals. Some of these homeless look like they could use the strait jacket. They are literally ruining society. I can't feel sorry for them when they refuse help.

[@sarbantz]

We will never reduce street homelessness and crime without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. It is everywhere and dirt cheap. Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime.

[@russs7574]

They DO need help. And as far as them being on the streets, a big fat thank you to Ronald Reagan, who came up with the concept of "mainstreaming" in order to cut costs by closing mental hospitals.

[@r3altalangodfrey39]

most of the homeless isn't crazy...you asshole. make your leftists government accountable for the problems THEY CAUSED.

[@saffronskies333]

Norwalk... Atascadero. ....we need them reopened NOW

[@TacoJ1LL]

That'd be fun to work at lol

[@jmo2215]

All of these politicians say the same exact thing. "I have empathy for these people but it is not my problem". And then they point the finger at someone else.

[@davebarton6824]

When I was growing up in So. Cal. in the 70's the state had a series of mental health facilities around the state that treated exactly these types of people. While it kept them off the streets, their outcomes were not very inspiring as they were basically drugged up most of the time and treated like prisoners.

[@MrPbip]

Then we don't need politicians

[@godhacks383]

There is a boomerang effect now due to how overly restrictive mental asylums were in the 18 and most of the 1900s. We’re people once could have someone put away practically forever or be highly medicated for literally nothing now patient rights are overly cautious so that a person has to be an active danger to self or other. As in you have to currently feel like your life is at risk in a situation before a police will come and take someone in for mental evaluation‘s. Movies like one flew over the cuckoo’s nest basically the worst case scenario. So now that gray area where you can’t just take someone in. The law airs on the side of overly cautious towards a patient’s rights. Which means clearly psychotic or people who need psychiatric help cannot be forced to take medication or restraint. Leaving them on the street if that’s where they are. It’s a big freaking mess. It’s a total disaster.

[@BrandonRyan]

@@davebarton6824 Lesser of evils.

[@thegreatchain7112]

🖕🖕🖕😀🤑😂😅😭🤣 piss my pants 🩳 laughing ! you deserve it dr Mengele Fauchi shits TDS Putin Derangement fags BLM illegal aliens voting supporting scum

[@chrisparker8539]

"Unhoused" LMAO

[@jhljhl6964]

I was never homeless, as I always held a job. No one owes these characters a living. Get a job.

[@shayan4040]

Stop calling them “un-housed”…. If you commit a crime(s), your a criminal.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? RP education

[@adayuen5372]

Yes, it is a new term democrat created to re-direct attention. If they can't solve the problem, they will just change the definition of a word. Wa-la........there is no more homeless problem, cause they are just "un-housed' people now.

[@cooliipie]

Same with "undocumented". It's ridiculous.

[@bettiraige3474]

How is someone who is homeless automatically a criminal? The word unhoused is being used to help humanize the HUMANS who are not guilty of anything other than being poor, mentally ill, and uneducated. They are NOT criminals. They are still people who are desperate for help even if they refuse because they are afraid of being held against their will. As anyone would be. Karma is real and it knows what you are thinking and what is in your heart. Remember that when you judge a situation you know nothing about.

[@McRemmyBaby]

@@cooliipie Un-housed, peaceful protest’s

[@mlauren629]

In my city, a homeless guy had a bowel movement in front of my favorite Asian Restaurant. It was so disgusting, I never went back. It was forever etched into my mind. I feel very bad for the business owners!

[@mogdor]

You can say poop, it's ok lol.

[@phillipbenoit5179]

bowel movement!!! shit or poop or bowel movement, out of the 3 bowel movement is almost always the NASTIEST word!😩

[@greentt835]

@@phillipbenoit5179 you arelow class thats why

[@Gizamalukeix]

Lmao 😂

[@albatross8]

She for got the other favorite….taking a DUMP!! Lol lol 😂 🥂🎊💰

[@TokyoBayCity]

I live in Tokyo and that kind of stuff wouldn’t be tolerated here. Those homeless would’ve been arrested a loooooong time ago.

[@bedeckt]

How is homelessness in tokyo? If they behave like regular civilians, and respect the space of others, are they tolerated? In Germany they can sleep in the city, as long as during daytime they make space for business to be conducted. We rarely have areas that are open during the night, but if thats the case then they dont sleep directly there but a few roads away. When an area often has problems with homeless people blocking spaces the police will walk around in the morning, waking them up at 7 am, like an hour before business begins. Our homelessness problem isnt as bad as in LA or other US cities, somewhere in the city is always space for someone to sleep without disturbance for either party. Sorry for long text, i just find this interesting.

[@jimminyjemimah]

If you don't want people shitting in the streets then let them use your bathroom.

[@Pink7omy]

People who work hard but can’t afford a home still are the REAL ONES who needs affordable housing. 👑

[@Pink7omy]

@@Satan2094 if they can’t take care of themselves that means they can’t take care of the affordable house either. Unless they are super rich and can hire people to help work for them then they need workers to take care of them.

[@melaniecotterell8263]

Those people deserve nothing, The ones that cause trouble should be subject to immediate relocation by the affected to unpopulated locations far from people. No good reason to allow them to affect your quality of life, or bother your patrons. Bad behavior should never be tolerated for any reason. Mental issues are a poor excuse for bad manners. Take them to Trona and drop them off.

[@danielmorse4213]

Agree

[@sisterbellakablue3248]

I live in New York and applied for Affordable Housing by "Lottery"but never got chosen and it's Very High Priced!!Most are Empty.

[@justzee1574]

@@melaniecotterell8263 what??

[@sairagracewain3997]

This is not a result of homelessness, it's a result of addiction.

[@timbredan3476]

yes, and mental illness and perhaps demonic possession

[@tokabee]

While I don't agree with you 100 percent, homelessness can happen to anyone as a result of many number of things. From financial crisis/failure to pay taxes on utilities, overall everyday life needs, mental and physical health decline, and often times just straight up falling through the cracks and not being able to build up their own life without help and being screwed from the start...For those who became homeless for reasons not self inflicted I pray and truly feel for them, now if someone becomes homeless because of substance abuse and overall has no regards for how they get their fix or who they may hurt or do worse to someone to get what they want...I don't pity wreckless and self destructive homeless drug junkies because they only have themselves to blame for the metaphorical and oftentimes literal holes they dig for themselves especially if they're at rock bottom and continue to do the same thing again and again despite being in bad shape and expecting something different to happen.

[@yangpaan453]

addiction and homelessness go hand in hand, addiction can cause homelessness, and those who become homeless before they are addicted turn to drugs from the homeless they hang out with.

[@badmonkey2222]

@@yangpaan453 not even half of homeless people are addicts especially now rent over the past 3 years has gone up over 500% in most places where I live a two-bedroom house used to go for 550 a month three years ago now it's 1500 so you tell me how many people can afford to pay $1,500 a month in most States in the US because it used to be only New York and California that had rents that high now it's everywhere because after covid landowners and landlords started taking advantage and it's put even more people on the street whole families with kids everything how many homeless people have you even ever talked to to think that you know anything about it?

[@badmonkey2222]

Bullshit, you can become homeless for any number of reasons none being addiction.

[@user-zi4dg9jk9h]

People need to get serious about it, if that means forcing them to do certain thing, do it or get rid of them. Since when a small group of people started dictating what a society should accept or not? Being too soft on them got us here and a society can't function like this.

[@lard_lad_AU]

"We caught up with Councilwoman Raman... after fruitless attempts to set up an interview" This shows the typical contempt that these woke politicians have for the suffering public, the taxpayers. Props to Gina Silva and Fox 11 for asking the tough questions.

[@tippybeau40]

Having lived in various states, California is the only state where I have witnessed this level of homelessness. And, as it has spilled from the beaches, to sidewalks, parks, middle-class neighborhoods and freeway off ramps , California has not taken adequate legislative action. So here we are...

[@sarbantz]

We will never reduce street homelessness and crime without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. It is everywhere and dirt cheap. Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They gradually destroy everything around themselves.

[@e.a.corral4713]

Change your name? The noodles don't want to be associated with the your name?

[@ktm4042]

"woke" politicians have nothing to do with it. Its corruption, which comes from the woke and the knuckle-draggers alike.

[@CatSpew1000]

@@tippybeau40 Other states bus their homeless here.

[@pkp6791]

BUSINESS OWNERS NEED TO STOP PAYING TAXES until this BS is dealt with!

[@joegardner5386]

AND STOP VOTING FOR THESE DEMOCRATS!

[@Largepro21]

💥

[@swind2553]

The gov could care less! THEY are the most irresponsible ones here! Collect our money and expect to sit in their office chairs doing NOTHING the rest of their lives! CROOKS!

[@channelofstuff6662]

then they lose there business.

[@SavageFrenchies]

Unfortunately they would end up doing 10-20 years for tax evasion and the homeless would end up squatting in their business.

[@natashahutchison5952]

This is insanly SICK😭😭!! I pray for the workers who work to make a living and see this bothering them😭!!!!!

[@delyne6860]

I worked as a Licensed Social Worker for hospice and worked closely with a lot of homeless people/family in Hawaii. They do not want to be housed, they want the resources provided to them, but want to continue their habit. They do not want the mental health, they want to support their habit through their monthly SSI, SSDI, welfare money etc, but do not want to pay a share in housing rent (adult foster or care home) or pay for a small studio. Housing and mental health are not the solution. The solution is to stop enabling.

[@creationsbyonofre395]

He is so right! This is no longer a choice. They need to be taken in for a mental evaluation.

[@wiibbz]

Or just taken away

[@davidpalmer7175]

WHERE Einstein?

[@tixximmi1]

It can be a choice AND a mental disorder. But until we understand the true nature of the problem, we'll never be able to solve it. It is a mental problem most of the time. And they must want to be helped.

[@karenbrown4524]

@@tixximmi1 I disagree, Che Guevara. Receiving assistance would require way too much effort on their part, so I reckon they'll remain eyesores for us Californians.

[@tommyriam8320]

"EVALUATION" LOL THESE BUMS 'NEED TO BE TAKEN IN' *PERIOD* ...THEN DISPOSED OF, *PERMAMENTLY*

[@scottthroop6208]

The fact that Nithya Raman told these business owners to stop sending her graphic images is infuriating. These business owners, their guests, and the general public have to view, hear, smell and experience this daily. I would encourage her constituents to continue sending these images to her, flooding her inbox, mail, and social media, as well as demand to see an itemized audit of what steps she is taking to do something about it. I guarantee she hasn't done even the slightest whatsoever. Yes, I realize she doesn't have the power to completely solve this issue, but she does have resources. She doesn't care, she already got elected, her job is done until the next election for whatever office she will pursue next, just like every other Democratic Socialist that is only interested in her petty agenda, not the good of the constituents she convinced to vote for her. I'll bet that if these vagrants were in front of her house or taking a dump in the doorway of her place of work something will be done about it pretty damn quick!

[@ninofromkitchennightmares1497]

How about we direct this fine old homeless gentleman to make an express delivery of shit to her house

[@adnaansheikh1]

It seems like these homeless folks want to remain homeless. They don't want to be helped. Why should they? Being homeless means not having to pay rent, not having to pay mortgage, no having to pay utility bills, get free food donations, free clothing donations, live where you want, when you want, never having to work a job, pay taxes nor take on any responsibilities. I once confronted a homeless individual who described his life as being "free" as he liked the thought of wondering aimlessly, living, sleeping and staying wherever he wanted without any cares. It seemed like it was almost a fetish to him and yes he seemed a bit off like most of them, dazed-out on drugs/alcohol or whatever. Seeking assistance, means they would have to have take on some responsibility at some point, like working a job and having to earn your own food so that's why they always decline help. People need to stop showing them so much compassion as they are just encouraging their rogue lifestyle.

[@wopalongcassidy]

Don't point the finger in one direction. There is plenty of blame to go around. Its the Republicans fault for making themselves no longer an option.

[@ElNinoDeLaFrontera]

@@wopalongcassidy Ron DeSantis 2024 baby

[@wopalongcassidy]

@@ElNinoDeLaFrontera : Yeah that's what we need. He's still an extremest.

[@hasisme1]

These people out in the streets don’t want to follow the rules issued by homeless shelters.

[@donquixote2072]

For many of them that is 100% correct. There's quite a few homeless people out there that claim to want a better life and will tell you they haven't been given a chance, but in reality are completely unwillingly to follow any sort of structure.

[@aw7178]

Biden, c l o s e the BORDER !!!!!!!!! Take care of American People !!!!!!!!!!

[@annettemiller1273]

I agree , with the Business owners. This is a disgrace. And disgusting health hazard

[@grangrampa832]

Horrible dangerous discuting

[@gregoryhagen8801]

Those business owners need to hire Hell's Angels to beat their asses & tell them to get lost or else.

[@carriearends6892]

@Custos Luminis 😆😆😆😆

[@wiktoriagwozdowska5484]

I would move far away from that city if I would be on there's place ,seriously! It's sad because this is what they worked for the customers they have now they will have to start from fresh if they move losse costumers and spend money 💰 and no guarantee for success. 😒. I understand those are homeless and all of this stuff especially the part where mentaly ill can't afford healthcare they need, can't take care of themselves so they lose houses and money and endup on streets but there absolutely needs to be some border there is something like common sense where we all know how to behave in public how we should treat older people ,kids ,pregnant women and be nice and what they do is just unacceptable I understand most likely some of them don't understand lots about life they need help and be taken off the streets unfortunately a key do getting mentaly ill people off the street is to take them by force to a place that will be a welcoming place where those people will be treated like humans given all needed medication and therapy depending on their needs where they will have their own rooms and some items or other stuff that will give them some sense of freedom but also ability to heal and find something like a hobby that will help them stay on the right path but also where they will be safe if they would really want to help them . Because those psyh wards with metal furniture bad food no therapy only pills with nasty angry workers will not help them and unfortunately those type of people will not willingly accept any help even if that is a good place. And if there is a part of people who by their choice want to stay on the streets they should build some homeless camp outside the city where they will be given some simple basic housing where they can at least have bathroom and a bed and small table top and let them stay there because if someone is consciously denying help then let's leave them alone but on our terms that will stop this madness with people shiting on our streets where all of us want to walk including our kids and pets this is just disgusting that our kids and dogs have to walk on facies while in humanised cities and later this crap goes into our homes ... this is just my opinion 🤷 didn't mean to offend anyone but just wanted to make a point that this needs to change otherwise this wouldn't change based on what is done now ..

[@adamr9570]

Why the fuck wouldn’t you and why would we need your opinion

[@jubjuicebruin2741]

The FBI agent doesn’t want to give up his undercover homeless work. He’s really dedicated.

[@phillipbenoit5179]

😅🤣🤣

[@recordplayerz]

🤣

[@HBKshowstopper]

🤣

[@willissudweeks1050]

Lol

[@oldironsides4107]

It’s funny that business owner does nothing while a guy constantly shits on his doorstep. Nobody would even know if he killed that guy

[@guamflag]

Council members receive $218,000 annual salary and don't to shit.

[@Loloff210]

How is more housing going to help, when they refuse to be housed? Clown world

[@itspaulmora]

My brother was homeless back in the day and I asked him what he experiences regarding people that genuinly had issues versus people who did drugs/didnt care. He said from his experience 90% of those people choose to live like that. I feel bad for these business owners.

[@sourabhkarmakar8040]

Why ?

[@belzeebubbubbachunks]

Drugs do weird things

[@saitama8186]

@@sourabhkarmakar8040 because they want to

[@maniac50ae14]

@@sourabhkarmakar8040 Because moving in with a relative requires rules and they don't want to follow them. Society requires rules and they have a hard time following them for one reason or another, addiction, mental illness etcera. And we as humans are capable of slowly adapting to lower standards of living if we don't have the drive or discipline to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Similar to how hoarders start with a stack of old news papers, these people are the same way. They slowly adapted to living like this and with a family or social structure to regulate their thoughts, their thought become evermore deteriorated and adapted to the circumstances.

[@samanthaweps4215]

Explain the time period of "back in the day"

[@cuprunnethover2509]

I feel bad about the business owners in this situation!

[@evognayr]

Why, they voted for it.

[@jburt552]

I'll never feel bad for a business owner, especially when their problem is the homeless.

[@jburt552]

@@evognayr voted for homelessness?

[@ashlirabid9614]

I feel bad for his clothes.

[@fordnut4914]

@@jburt552 yep they voted for no bail policys defund the popo to allow more illegals to flow in the country and it opened up a can of worms it all works hand in hand.

[@evawilson3]

What are they complaining about these are policies they advocated for.

[@joselenisolidum3158]

Isn't vagrancy a crime in the US? Many countries outside US arrests vagrants.

[@polygonfreak]

A lack of housing is when someone in this city who works hard, makes $100k and still can't afford a home. Affordable housing is not going to solve the problems of a person who spent their lives consuming any and all drugs only to become psychotic. LA does not have a homeless problem, it has a drug problem.

[@ktm4042]

The drug problem is nationwide my friend. Sure there will always be the few that just don't want to participate in society. But that's not the case with most homeless people. Drugs are a coping mechanism. Most homeless, base on data, have not consumed drugs all their lives. Something traumatic happened, enter drugs to cope and here we are.

[@daizyduke12]

I agree. Most of the homeless live this way because of drugs. They all come to California because they can live on the street year round and not worry about freezing to death in the winter. We also have very lax laws.

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

These people don't want homes, bills or responsibility at any price. If they were given a 3,000SF house and told "Rent is only $100 a month", they would miss every payment.

[@chocolatechipslime]

Affordable housing will help with people who don’t make much money

[@brookhilton9136]

It is actually both.

[@estherestrada3657]

I agree with the store owner, these people need to be force into treatment NOT asked. They are not mentally capable of making those kind of decission.

[@jackiecordova7291]

This is happening in your rich country very sad why is the governor not doing nothing ? I saw it on you tube from Switzerland

[@blaisen.3239]

I agree completely

[@dominusnoobus1589]

@@jackiecordova7291 cuz the Californian governor is a moron who can’t do shit

[@marcresendez3396]

The government won’t pay for this assistance. They’ll have the middle class tax payers. To pay for there treatment. Just gather all the homeless people/ I’ll persons. Put the on ship and send the to middle of the ocean. Godbless 🇺🇸

[@jackiecordova7291]

@@marcresendez3396 it's very sad what is happening in your country I saw it on KZbin from Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@_TheRam]

People need to be more considerate to the homeless. When it happens to You’ll understand.

[@Drj-69]

How is this homeless person allowed to shit in a bag and then throw it on someone's car. How is that not a crime...

[@snakedog77]

Thank you, Ronald Regan, for closing all the mental hospitals years ago.

[@FSUgrad]

That’s a public health issue. He needs to be institutionalized.

[@ggggg77273]

There's nothing an institution can do about these people, it's statistically proven these people rarely recover to the state you or I would be at. They're legitimately doomed.

[@michaelernest7224]

Ok Judgey McJudgerson. I guess you've never thrown poop at people and threatened to kill them.

[@WelfareChrist]

People just need to look at the situation in Europe, they straight up don't have homelessness like this. Of course they have unhoused individuals but its not giant encampments of them - because people are given resources and housing if they are mentally ill - not made to apply for them even though some of them can't even form a coherent thought or sentence. It is absolutely a public health crisis - and treating it as anything else honestly just makes the situation worse while vilifying the worst off amongst us.

[@jdos5643]

Enforcement to round up all the street crazies and leave them far away from California away from access to any transportation ought to do it. Why don’t they do that? Take them all out tents and all? Why do hard working ppl have to be suffering and dealing with this nonsense?

[@Seahawkfan1108]

The major problem from homeless people is mental health, there's no reasoning with them at all. Just tired of see homeless people disturbing others and causing businesses trouble for no reason. I say just force them into self care facilities or put them in jail if they refuse.

[@sarbantz]

We will never reduce street homelessness and crime without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. It is everywhere and dirt cheap. Fentanyl destroy humans mentally and physically beyond the point of repair very quickly. Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They gradually destroy everything around themselves.

[@winning3329]

Yes

[@daizyduke12]

It’s drugs

[@j.d.contreras392]

Agreed.

[@Sparrow0514]

@@daizyduke12 it’s both

[@sheilaolson5868]

It’s time to start locking them up….jail or asylum…let them pick! 😮

[@richardmarez126]

YOU know they are mentally ill but expect to have a normal interview, im starting to think the people filming are the actual crazy ones !

[@AMBROSE-HAMILTON-TV]

I was Once a homeless man and i can tell you the stress and mental suffering that comes with not know where you going to sleep, where your going to find food to eat etc is overwhelming.They say who feels it knows it. i may not been on the streets for a very long time because i went from homeless shelters to Youth shelters Of and on but i did my time on the street and i thank god today i can say i'm a business and helping to inspire others.

[@valerielstevens4712]

Congratulations on you success!! I'm sure it's horrifying being homeless. Living outdoors and the crime element. I'm glad you are no longer unhoused.

[@AMBROSE-HAMILTON-TV]

@@valerielstevens4712 Thank you so much

[@bollyfan1330]

Except if you see the video, they asked a whole bunch of homeless if they would accept help and housing from the city and they were rejected every time. Being homeless may be traumatic, but if you are homeless by choice and refuse help then you should not be allowed to break the law and just wantonly destroy public property.

[@herculesbrofister265]

That's why i had the foresight to buy a van. Just never know. Keep a cot in the back, some food. When i go camping, i don't bring a tent anymore, just sleep in my van.

[@amber619pop]

Well you're not the same kind of homeless that the people in the video are. These people are drug addicts who lost their home because of their drug problem and can't get another one because of their drug problem. If I lost my house today I wouldn't be like the people in the video, I would just be a normal human without a home like you were.

[@natalycabral1329]

I went to LA for 2 weeks for vacation, and saw people like this all over the streets, and it terrified me & my mother.

[@courtneylee643]

Yup, many ppl come with the impression that it's glamorous because that's what they see in the movies but it's anything but.

[@SoulReaperSlayer19]

🤣🤣

[@danniemikeey579]

Here in Austin there's lots of people like this too. Scares me. Specially when I'm out with my kids

[@khaliqmcclean8678]

All major cities.

[@MysticBlueAcid]

Why would you cruz all around L.A? That why you listen to local friends there " have firm discipline" not venture around like it's your hometown.

[@Tall-Cool-Drink]

When you go to a city council meeting and try to voice your frustration, the council member couldn't care less what you say. The so called city leaders have given up. Some members of the homeless task force make a comfortable living "fighting" homelessness.

[@Drj-69]

They should vote these politicians out of office instead of complaining about their situation. She is right. The politicians do not deal with the problems of the homeless crisis. If the politicians' neighborhoods were being affected by the homeless crisis, then they would care about fixing it...

[@shittymcgee]

I'm just glad these shop owners are enjoying what they probably voted for.

[@liadavis6710]

My brother has schizophrenia. I am very thankful that he has myself and my family to care for him and make sure he takes his medicine. Many homeless clearly have mental health issues and should be forced into care. I live in San Diego county and the problem has gotten worse. I have sympathy for the homeless and try to help when I can. But when someone becomes a danger to society they should be placed in a facility where they are being cared for and given medicine to help.

[@danielmorse4213]

Well said

[@andreawalbridge950]

Totally agree; there are so many people out there roaming around without their medication and who haven't one to monitor them. Shelters have rules and regulations and drug testing, many of these people won't conform. If you are into full blown addiction you won't agree to go into a shelter; that's only gonna happen when someone gets clean; it's a vicious cycle.

[@1stFlyingeagle]

Cages sound like a good solution. With people observing them.

[@LuluBeLulu]

How do you help him take his medicine? I have a family member who refuses to take their meds. We can't force them and hospitals refuse to help. We are at a total loss as to what to do.

[@KatherineRoseArt]

@@LuluBeLulu My little brother is like that and our family finally had to cut ties with him. (I say little brother because he's younger than me... he is a nearly 40 year old man at this point) Sometimes there is nothing you can do anymore. They have to come to terms with their illness and realize they NEED medication and help to function and survive. We literally bent over backwards trying to help him for years... and he put our family through absolute hell. The last and final straw was when one day I walked into my parents home to find him standing over and yelling at my elderly mother who was in bed because she had just had surgery. To this day I believe he was maybe about to do something awful to her. I kicked him out of her home via the court system. we barely speak to him now. for a while he had government housing... last I heard of him he's back on the street. I used to feel so sorry for him but I just ...can't anymore after that. I am willing to bet behind a lot of these homeless folks lie a similar past. There just comes a point where you have to think of yourself and your own safety and that of your family and you just have to move on. Our healthcare system sadly doesn't help matters whatsoever. When they are uninsured they just spit them back out after a so many hours holding period (48? i forget... maybe its 72 .... they would always do that with my brother... take him in and then spit him right back out with no actual treatment).

[@msmulisha_winz1111]

When you're dealing with some of these males it's always somebody else's fault and never their own 🙄 dude is disgusting 🤮

[@AuzSanchez]

4:50 “people are experiencing homelessness are there in the streets because they don’t have a home” Groundbreaking

[@Banksia]

That old man cant be too badly paralysed , he's still well enough to do a Sh*t.

[@kmr671]

Police in Chicago gave me a 150$ ticket for holding an empty can of beer, but 50 feet away was a homeless man doing #2 in the subway connection tunnel between the red and green line trains.. and they ignored him...

[@thedocisin3204]

They need a home in an institutional environment.

[@andrewmorton395]

That's true

[@Radrook353]

They no longer institutionalize a person as easily and frequently as they once did. Now the prefer to try to control the person via medication.

[@projectacuhope]

in the sky?

[@bobby1970]

They are definitely sick.

[@georgesabdo1434]

this is ridiculis , where is the goverment, we helping Ukraine and ignoring our domestic issues.

[@fraudsarentfriends4717]

Store owner: "Hey, you can't use the bathroom in here Homeless: Okay, Pulls down pants and uses the floor. It wasn't like this before Real Estate prices went up.

[@Peabody388]

I was once homeless and the struggle to find bathrooms is real. Though I never shat in anyone's driveway, I can't say the same for empty lots, lol.

[@ryukshinigami13]

My buddy owns a bar in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, we've gotten so fed up with the constant harassment by meth smoking, fentanyl shooting, homeless addicts that we've started posting up on the roof of an adjacent building with pellet guns. We made a little "camouflaged" blind so no one can see where the shots are coming from, and we target those who've been resistant to pleas that they go somewhere else. I know it sounds barbaric, but we're at our wits end. I don't feel good about shooting addicts, but it's the only thing we've found to work. After a few shots to the back or stomach, they eventually get the message and f off.

[@Darthdoodoo]

I'm surprised no business owners have tried the approach of just giving them a bunch of money for drugs and letting them od themselves

[@ryukshinigami13]

@@Darthdoodoo Idk, that sounds like it could lead to an outcome similar to over prescribing antibiotics and ending up with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Sure some would OD, but others would survive and have an even higher tolerance. Pretty soon you've created super junkies who can handle doing literally all the drugs.

[@meeleng5909]

We are very lucky to live in Malaysia nothing of this happen

[@mikewolf394]

Walking dead all over again

[@monica_richardson]

GREAT REPORTING !!! Thank you . They are not homeless- they are mentally deranged and need to be locked up.

[@sandib4234]

RIGHT

[@sean2015]

The problem is that due to political correctness and wokeness, the word "homeless" nowadays is used too broadly. There is a DIFFERENCE between a “homeless person” and a “street person”. There are "homeless people" who live in cars or vans (or couch surf) but are otherwise law-abiding citizens who are clean and sober, and often hold down jobs. The woman in this video is a STREET person - she won’t (or can’t) seek a bed at a homeless shelter because shelters have RULES, one of which is a prohibition on drugs and alcohol. Many street people are addicts and refuse to live by those rules, so they choose instead to live on the streets.

[@prestonlee2842]

@@sean2015 If drug addicts are on the street bc they're drug addicts maybe we shouldnt make it so hard for them to seek help.

[@explorationgmer1336]

Right they fucking scary.

[@jeanettesmith765]

@@prestonlee2842 Give them free help, but someone is going to have to go out and bring them in.