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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: qwerty1234

Now it makes sense.


81 posted on 07/10/2021 7:29:24 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: logi_cal869

The river runs right through town. Lots of parks they can terrorize while they cool off. Probably some drinking fountains they could rig or break to run continuously. Water keys are pretty common tools with the homeless, from what I’ve seen. If they haven’t got the initiative to cool off with free water....


82 posted on 07/10/2021 7:37:36 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dynachrome

Nothing good happens around MLK blvds.


83 posted on 07/10/2021 7:39:35 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Lowell1775; bray
Can anyone decipher his hand gesture?

I think bray nailed it. It’s a virtue signal.

84 posted on 07/10/2021 7:40:01 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dynachrome

Rule to live by: Don’t hang out at a place named “Martin Luther King Blvd.”


85 posted on 07/10/2021 7:46:41 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Gen.Blather

“They are regular folks who, through some turn of bad luck that’s no fault of their own, who have lost their home.”

People like that are not likely to be wandering the streets. They are more likely to be in shelters, following the rules, and taking constructive steps to get back on track.


86 posted on 07/10/2021 7:46:53 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: dynachrome

So was Morlock stabbed by an Eloi?

Rather the turnabout...


87 posted on 07/10/2021 7:52:23 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Bonemaker
Soy fellow meets the criminally insane...

It seems he was one of them. The article discusses how he had tried to steal a drink from the local 7-11. He looks a little light in the loafers. I wonder if he got stabbed for trying to hit on one of his camping buddies. Or perhaps he was trying to steal from him. There is a reason the cops haven't arrested the stabber.

88 posted on 07/10/2021 7:55:58 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I’m thinking this was probably self-defense. Morlock wasn’t some Good Samaritan coming by to help the homeless guys, he was a homeless guy himself.


89 posted on 07/10/2021 7:58:05 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: JonPreston
They might as well send social workers.

How do we know the cops didn’t determine it was self defense? If Morlock had been shot by a homeowner or 7/11 clerk rather than stabbed by another homeless guy, most of us would object if the shooter was charged.

90 posted on 07/10/2021 8:05:29 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: griswold3
The ChiCom are #1 Racists.

Agreed. The Chicoms make the KKK look like the NAACP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY

91 posted on 07/10/2021 8:11:24 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

“There’s not a lot of places you can go in the community where you can be safe,”

Which means if you legally, by all that is holy, defend yourself you are not safe from the fascist judicial system and soros bought DAs.


92 posted on 07/10/2021 8:15:59 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: dynachrome

Morlock?
The co-enabler is named Morlock?
And now he is a victim?
I guess they should build him a statue. ...sigh ......


93 posted on 07/10/2021 8:21:00 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: JonPreston
"Homicide detectives say the person who stabbed Morlock remained at the scene and was interviewed, but “has not been charged at this time."
Maybe he as defending himself (or some part of his anatomy).
94 posted on 07/10/2021 8:25:27 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Bonemaker

Looks by the picture he was flashing the wrong gang symbol.


95 posted on 07/10/2021 8:41:23 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: dynachrome
Satan's animals running free!

Quote ..."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."

96 posted on 07/10/2021 8:45:08 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: KevinB

All black antifa uniform?


97 posted on 07/10/2021 8:54:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: JonPreston
This is where my mind wanders

Would this be fratricide?

98 posted on 07/10/2021 8:59:09 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Lowell1775
Can anyone decipher his hand gesture?

So much for my powers of observation. Interesting.

99 posted on 07/10/2021 9:03:50 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: dynachrome

Confucius say those who build pools should not go swimming with the sharks.


100 posted on 07/10/2021 9:04:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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