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Man who built pool for Portland homeless fatally stabbed
Portland Tribune ^ | 7-3-21 | Zane Sparling

Posted on 07/10/2021 5:33:44 AM PDT by dynachrome

A man whose ingenious pop-up swimming pool kept the homeless cool during the recent heat wave was fatally stabbed in the same spot just one day later, according to Portland police.

Officers identified Tyson L. Morlock as the man who was found stabbed in the inner eastside Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood at Division Street and Southeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard around 3:37 a.m. on Thursday, July 1.

Despite life-saving efforts from paramedics, he died shortly thereafter in a nearby hospital, according to authorities.

Morlock, 27, had been interviewed the previous day, June 30, by a reporter on assignment for the Reuters news agency.

"There's not a lot of places you can go in the community where you can be safe," Morlock said, according to a tweet from the reporter, Sergio Olmos.

(Excerpt) Read more at pamplinmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: mlkboulevard; pool; portland; schadenfreude
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To: dynachrome

“You knew we were snakes when you picked us up, so it should come to no surprise that we bit and killed you.”


61 posted on 07/10/2021 6:44:02 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: dynachrome

Let’s give CREDIT where it’s due in this case, and that’s to the media - for portraying ‘the homeless’ as normal people, just like you and me, who are simply ‘down on their luck’.

There are still enough people who choose to believe the media (virtually all on the Left these days), or who believe the media without even knowing it (many on the right, unfortunately).

In any case, if he had been aware of just how dangerous many of ‘the homeless’ are, he likely would not have been out there, or at least would have had a sidearm with him. After all, most of ‘the homeless’ know other people who COULD help them out (parents, siblings, others, etc.), but choose not to...that should be a clue to all.


62 posted on 07/10/2021 6:46:27 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: dynachrome

Should have equipped the pool with laser sharks.

Might have got the guy what stabbed him.


63 posted on 07/10/2021 6:47:47 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: dynachrome

Don’t pet the bison.


64 posted on 07/10/2021 6:51:39 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dynachrome

The trash killing off the good. Every city in America experiencing the same thing.

Bongino is right. Get away from urban areas run by liberals now. It’s only going to get worse.


65 posted on 07/10/2021 6:52:46 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: dynachrome
A pool for the homeless? Maybe the guy thought Mr. Morlock wanted him to bath in it and was insulted...

Prayers to Mr. Morlock's family.

66 posted on 07/10/2021 6:55:42 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Gen.Blather
"We will be like South Africa where citizens drive armored cars when they leave their compounds. We’ll call ahead to our destination and log our planned route and arrival time. If we don’t keep to the schedule then armed patrols will be sent out to find us."

Sometimes you have to SHOW people what it's like in South Africa, and, in reality, it's really a 'best case' with those in charge, as they still have some gun ownership and still allow armed security. This is today's South Africa. Needless to say, before 'they' were empowered, there was no need for security at their homes:


67 posted on 07/10/2021 6:56:15 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: dynachrome

I’ll have the schadenfreude with a side of fries, please!


68 posted on 07/10/2021 6:59:13 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: dynachrome

Hillsborough County MLK is fine... On one end is Raymond James Stadium (The Buccaneers home) on the other end is Plant City. In between are $400k homes, retail, hospitals. Mango is the dumpiest area... but even that is improving!


69 posted on 07/10/2021 7:01:33 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Bongino is right. Get away from urban areas run by liberals now

Sure, spread the word. Get every rich leftist piece of garbage out here amongst us.

70 posted on 07/10/2021 7:02:53 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Gen.Blather

Many of the homeless are also predatory sex offenders who’ve escaped probation oversight by blending in to the liberal approved homeless population.


71 posted on 07/10/2021 7:03:57 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: SaxxonWoods
Bongino is right. Get away from urban areas run by liberals now

Sure, spread the word. Get every rich leftist piece of garbage out here amongst us.

72 posted on 07/10/2021 7:04:09 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: dynachrome

Story as funny as that white woman killed by a black assailant who was studying how evil and racist America is to become an advocate for black criminals. Sometimes your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.


73 posted on 07/10/2021 7:04:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: dynachrome

‘Built pool’. Lol

Dragging out a plastic kiddie pool and filling it with water from a hydrant is not ‘building a pool’


74 posted on 07/10/2021 7:13:44 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Bonemaker

He oozes insipid compassion and smug self righteousness.


75 posted on 07/10/2021 7:15:26 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: dynachrome

“Homicide detectives say the person who stabbed Morlock remained at the scene and was interviewed, but “has not been charged at this time and we are not releasing his name.”

Detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office continue to work the case.”

Uh?? More proof we live in an idiocracy, or worse an insane asylum.


76 posted on 07/10/2021 7:23:54 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: dynachrome
Benjamin Linder
77 posted on 07/10/2021 7:26:39 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Mr. K

“...guy who built a shack for a poor homeless woman...liberal friends thought it was so adorable...”

The guy was tired of walking out to the woods for BJs.


78 posted on 07/10/2021 7:27:00 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: dynachrome

But did he live long enough to realize his ideals got him killed?


79 posted on 07/10/2021 7:28:33 AM PDT by bgill
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To: qwerty1234

It’s fixed now.


80 posted on 07/10/2021 7:29:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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