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Philadelphia's Skid Row: Shocking video captures city's homeless crisis with dozens camped out along 'largest open-air drug market on the East Coast'
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 17, 2021 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 03/18/2021 6:13:59 AM PDT by C19fan

The video looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie - dozens of disheveled people shivering in the middle of a winter night as they camp out around a trash bin on fire among a street strewn with litter.

But the footage isn’t a Hollywood production but a candid snapshot of Kensington Avenue in northeast Philadelphia - an area that has been likened to the infamous Skid Row section of Los Angeles.

The neighborhood has previously been dubbed the 'East Coast's largest open-air drug market' by DEA officials, according to the New York Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: drugs
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Your City on Democrats...There was an episode of the show Drugs, Inc. about this area. It was heart breaking.
1 posted on 03/18/2021 6:13:59 AM PDT by C19fan
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Huh. The “open air drug market and homeless camp” is far larger in Los Angeles - it goes on for miles and miles and spills into every suburb these days.

The mayors blame Trump.


2 posted on 03/18/2021 6:17:31 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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Bunch of pikers, and it isn’t fair to compare Philly to our Skid Row here in Los Angeles. The pictures look like a Sanitized Version of Skid Row in LA. Our Skid Row is over 6 Square Miles and has over 20,000 inhabitants. It truly is a sight to see.


3 posted on 03/18/2021 6:19:13 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Our Skid Row is over 6 Square Miles and has over 20,000 inhabitants.

Even Skid Row in LA is a sprawl....

4 posted on 03/18/2021 6:21:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Those dastardly Republicans have ruined Philadelphia!!


5 posted on 03/18/2021 6:22:39 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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Where’s Wilson Goode’s helicopter when you need it?


6 posted on 03/18/2021 6:24:58 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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Philadelphia Fweedumb......................


7 posted on 03/18/2021 6:25:28 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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Thanks O’Bozo!! Nice ‘legacy’


8 posted on 03/18/2021 6:30:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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and everyone one of them probably got their $1400 ‘stimulus’ checks - which will go directly into their arms.


9 posted on 03/18/2021 6:34:21 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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Of course they blame Trump....AS IF a humanitarian train wreck like that can materialize in 4 years.

As Philadelphia leaders and the US Congress (busy with election fraud and targeting Conservatives) why they can’t address the situation instead of knocking down US borders to facilitate even more and GREATER drug availability


10 posted on 03/18/2021 6:35:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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Like the egg commercial...
Brian on drugs....

This is your city....
This is your city run by Democrats.


11 posted on 03/18/2021 6:38:16 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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It isn't fair to compare without considering the weather. In the winter in Philly they get hypothermia and die and that keeps the numbers down.
12 posted on 03/18/2021 6:39:15 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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A city only commie Harris could love.


13 posted on 03/18/2021 6:39:58 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: C19fan

If Covid19 is so deadly how is it possible that there are still any “homeless” in any large city?


14 posted on 03/18/2021 6:46:01 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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OH THE HORROR! THEY AREN’T WEARING MASK! THIS POST NEEDS A TIGER ALERT!!!


15 posted on 03/18/2021 6:49:50 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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The amazing thing about these massive slums in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit is that these folks take their politics so seriously they all vote twice by mail in ballot all on the same day.


16 posted on 03/18/2021 6:51:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Those of us who live around Portland, OR see this crap up and down I-5 and I-205 unabated.


17 posted on 03/18/2021 6:54:54 AM PDT by SimpleJack
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Sad but I don’t see how it can be fixed as any attempt to correct or repair the situation will be met with resistance and contempt from the Left. This ugly blight on a fine city is exactly what the Left wants in every city across this nation and indeed the world.


18 posted on 03/18/2021 6:56:43 AM PDT by The Louiswu (....................................................................................................)
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To: Bon of Babble

Yep. LA’s skid row is overflowing. It’s worse than anything I ever saw in any third-world country. All thanks to Democrats.


19 posted on 03/18/2021 6:59:25 AM PDT by Third Wheel
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The human wreckage caused by democrats and their governance...


20 posted on 03/18/2021 7:07:27 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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