Kalamazoo, Michigan Decriminalizes Public Urination, Defecation, and Littering — For Equity!

The Gateway Pundit ^ | July 23, 2022 | Cassandra Fairbanks

[Macho MAGA Man]

The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan has now decriminalized public urination, defecation, and littering to be more “equitable.”

Small business owners in the area had voiced their opposition to the effort, but their concerns were ignored.

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Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson said that decriminalizing these offenses will help the city be more “equitable.” City Commissioner Chris Praedel said pretty much the same thing, according to a report from Fox 17, that it is “fair and equitable to who these laws were most affecting, the unhoused population, as well as provide a better solution for those trying to get on their feet.”

“I definitely empathize with the downtown business owners too. They have invested a lot to be in downtown, and a lot of those spots are mom and pop shops where that is their life income. We want to be respectful of that. We hear them. We are listening to them, and we care a lot, but we care about everybody in the community,” Praedel said.

Commissioner Stephanie Hoffman said that the community needs to have more empathy for people crapping in front of their stores.

“If you see a person who may be defecating, someone in their sane mind would not do that,” Hoffman said. “There is an issue, there is a trauma, there is a crisis going on.”

[Ronin]

Gee, it would be a total shame if someone were to organize a “crap on the mayor’s sidewalk” tour.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Precisely! The place is unlivable.

[gitmo]

Why would anyone object to them pooping in front of their door, as long as they wear a COVID mask whilst pooping?

[Tellurian]

Gotta help spread the monkey pox to the kids, ‘else how are they going to salt the next election with mail-order ballots.

[Osage Orange]

Costs them more to arrest them and let them go......

I'd just prefer...........other things I can't say.

[frank ballenger]

Think of what a game changer this is for the Dems you know. Wow. Free at last.

[frank ballenger]

No mug shots.....

Right.
This protects and empowers the guilty criminals.

When was that a good idea?

Since the Miranda rights readings and identity of witnesses being handed over to defense lawyers, criminals who are GUILTY get away with more crimes.

[frank ballenger]

Chance for me to adapt an old insult joke.

How do you know how to get to Kalamazoo?
Go North until you smell it
and go East until you step in it.

[BudgieRamone]

Sad. I liked K-zoo when I lived there. except Westnedge street ..in the snow.. in a 2 wheel drive pick up....Glad Im not there now.

[frank ballenger]

I missed a beat.

I know it’s wrong to say derelicts or bums.

Then homeless was the right term.

Now apparently the unhoused population is the acceptable term.

[Blue Collar Christian]

So...are using a toilet for human waste and trash cans for refuse a white supremacy thing now or something?

[redcatcherb412]

Urban campers would work

[period end of story]

So...are using a toilet for human waste and trash cans for refuse a white supremacy thing now or something?

Everything is.

The fact that you can shower in your own home....

Everything

[alexander_busek]

Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson, City Commissioner Chris Praedel, and Commissioner Stephanie Hoffman should henceforth find dozens of "steaming piles" in front of their private residences every morning.

They claim that they "have empathy" with the shopkeepers - but talk is cheap!

The law-abiding residents of the fair city of Kalamazoo should help them know how it really feels (and smells!).

Regards,

[frank ballenger]

Okay. I’ll give it a try.😁

[metmom]

“I definitely empathize with the downtown business owners too. They have invested a lot to be in downtown, and a lot of those spots are mom and pop shops where that is their life income. We want to be respectful of that. We hear them. We are listening to them, and we care a lot, but we care about everybody in the community,” Praedel said.

What an unmitigated load of BS.

Politicians are the biggest scam artists and liars going.

[faithhopecharity]

To turn Kalamazoo — a nice midwestern town — into Chicago

So residents won’t have to drive three hours to wallow in sheit

Convenience. And it will save gas

[Paladin2]

In a fiery paper bag just in front of the front door.

Push the doorbell.

[Organic Panic]

Using modern plumbing is whiteness.

[Salamander]

I bet if your dog craps on the sidewalk, you’ll get fined.