Posted on 05/01/2022 2:09:12 PM PDT by blam
People are fed up with the urban utopian socialist experiment in California. One business owner barricaded a public street in Sacramento to prevent a further spillover in crime from other areas.
“The game is over. We’re taking back our streets,” business owner Rich Eaton told FOX40. He barricaded part of Railroad Drive to prevent the commercial area from additional car burglaries, rampant building theft, prostitution, and homeless encampments.
“The city’s dereliction of duty has just come to a boiling point and I’m really just begging for help,” Eaton said, adding he has complained about the out-of-control crime to the mayor. So far, he’s received no response.
“I paid some homeless people some money so they would leave. I fed them; I took care of them and helped them and when Railroad Drive was cleared. I put up barriers,” Eaton said.
A person who didn’t want to be identified and works for a company on the street told the local news: “It was like walking through a working meth lab to get to work.”
“There’s days when they’ll be parked three-wide on the street and we can barely get by. They’ve had our gates completely blocked. I’ve pulled up and had employees waiting to get in because they were afraid to get out of their gate and punch in the code.
“Literally a week ago from this spot to there, all the way down and around the corner there were 57 motor homes and trailers parked,” the employee said.
Eaton said someone scaled his building last week and stole his surveillance cameras from the roof.
“The prostitution, the stolen cars, people meeting on the street at 3 a.m.,” Eaton said, it’s just chaos he added.
Sacramento responded to Eaton’s barricade with an order to stop blocking the street.
Business owners taking action as city governments seem unresponsive is a new emerging trend. Last year, dozens of Baltimore City businesses banded together. They collectively threatened the mayor with no tax payment because they were fed up and frustrated “with the outburst of violence.”
“People are fed up with the urban utopian socialist experiment in California.”
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No they aren’t. Californians will keep voting for the same wacky libs. They can’t help themselves.
““Literally a week ago from this spot to there, all the way down and around the corner there were 57 motor homes and trailers parked,” the employee said.”
How much did he pay them?
Of COURSE they did.
And since he has property and a physical address, they'll run up the Jolly Roger and take his stuff.
Does the car logo say Sicurity? Must be a K9 unit.
...or Sacurity...it is Sacramento.
No, I suspect a lot of the creeps in this case are white, and everybody on that street, Anglo, Hispanic or black, supports him.
Everything is not about race, and I’ve been disgusted by seeing the many completely obnoxious race-based posts by many people on this site.
This is a good ethical resident who is standing up for domestic tranquility in his nabe. Let the left turn it into something racial, if that’s even possible, but FReepers shouldn’t do that.
That’s not what I would call a street.
That is how all cities should do it. Limit traffic to local only blocks.
Ditto. Some of the posts on FR have been getting really racist and childish.
I used to tell others about FR and make links to it.
I don't any more, it's embarrassing.
This is all by design. Governments are encouraging it to create chaos and fear so they can obtain more control. It is going to get worse because essentially, it is governments that are behind the growth of crime and homelessness. They are encouraging it. They are even subsidizing it financially.
GOOD!
It’s well past time.
You should have been assimilated by now, since the leftist have been shoving race in our faces for many decades. So bad now all white folk are racist. They've created a race industry, or hate whitey industry. So it should be inordinately clear to you after decades of this some are going to give a little back. Or should everyone remain quite and make an extra effort not to offend?
If that gets you disgusted, you should be dead on the floor after 35+ years of in your face. "White man bad".
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