Monday, June 13, 2011

Activist Post: Police arrest 5 more activists for feeding homeless

Police arrest 5 more activists for feeding homeless

Mark Schlueb
Orlando Sentinel

Orlando police arrested five more activists from behind a makeshift buffet table at Lake Eola Park on Wednesday evening, bringing to a dozen the number charged in the past week with violating city restrictions on feeding the homeless.

The members of the group Food Not Bombs were ladling out corn on the cob, rice, beans and watermelon to about 35 people when they were handcuffed. About two dozen activists and homeless people booed and chanted "Food is a right, not a privilege" as they were loaded into a waiting police van.

 

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