Crowds swarm at Tri-Cities Plaza in East Point on Wednesday morning as people try to apply for Section 8 housing.
Gezzz!
Posted on 08/11/2010 9:46:46 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd.
Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities shopping center, hoping to apply for a voucher from the East Point Housing Authority that will give them a discount on their rent.
People began lining up at the shopping center two days ago, and by Wednesday morning the crowd had grown to over 1,000 people. East Point police, some wearing riot helmets, were patrolling the area. Firefighters and EMTs were attending to people who were overheating in the sun. College Park police and firefighters were also assisting in crowd control.
Felecia McGhee told the AJC she arrived around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. She said the major problem began when people started breaking into the line and officials started moving the areas where they were handing out applications. She said she saw at least two small children trampled when the crowd rushed the building where the applications were to be handed out.
"It's a real mess out here," she said.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Mike Petchenik said fights were breaking out and police had to stop people who were storming the door.
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Marlin Perkins....pick up the courtesy phone
I hope they weren’t late for work.
Oh look, I made a funny.
What area of the park do you need him?
Won’t be much of a war the Blue leaders will hole up in cities they will get their power cut off, they will then send out Blackwater type assasination squads to put an end to the “futile resistance by the ‘racists’” those paid killers will then be euthanized by ex-military men disenfranchised by the Blue city-state tyrants, and then a somewhat new bring back the old political order will re-emerge.
Don’t under estimate the opposition if a HOT civil war breaks out in the USA.
Many gang bangers(Latino and Black) are well armed and have been engaging the law enforcement authorities in low level urban warfare for a couple of decades. Many are battle tested and if a hot war breaks out, many(not all) military may side with different factions and not necessarily the conservative side.
A civil war will be very bloody in this nation.
I see lotsa Moocher’s in line for another gubmint hand-out!
Looking at the pictures, and I don’t want to appear to be unkind, but it doesn’t look like any of the people pictured have missed any meals in a very long time.
Crowds swarm at Tri-Cities Plaza in East Point on Wednesday morning as people try to apply for Section 8 housing.
Gezzz!
Rush talked about this today. Said that somewhere it was reported that at least two children were trampled on.
We had a, ah, “similar” crowd riot over surplus four-year-old laptops in Richmond several years ago. One of the school systems was giving away several hundred old Apples, 3-4 years old, for free “as-is.” They had to move the giveaway to the Virginia State Fairgrounds, and when the gates were opened at around 7 am, there was a mad rush of over a thousand people, trampling children and elderly just to get a bunch of clapped-out old laptops that had already been abused by high-schoolers for three or four years.
The irony is, within a couple months, the majority of the laptops had turned up at various Apple dealers in metro Richmond, where the new owners were appalled at the cost of fixing the various problems they had due to age and heavy use, and almost none paid. They rioted over some fancy paperweights.
But they was FREE, man! FREE!
}:-)4
“I just can’t say what I’m thinking right now.”
Don’t need to. You’re not alone.
Riot police?
wow....
“I just can’t say what I’m thinking right now.”
same here....
Notice these folks were there at 6:30 am.
I bet most of them had never been anywhere,
especially in line for a job application
at 6:30 am.
“It will not be a war between the rich and the poor, as some say.
It will be between those who work vs. those who take from others.”
Then your fight is with the government. It is direct governmental policies which are responsible for the current situation.
In order to buy votes, both parties have kowtowed to the poverty pimps who demand just enough to keep people down on the farm/plantation and in need of constant pimping.
Both parties have responded to demands of a lot of working people to make competition much more difficult through tariffs, onerous licensing, “living wages”, zoning laws and other protectionist legislation. In generations past, immigrants and other poor worked out of their homes, providing services as they could and improving as their circumstances improved. Try doing that now. Even a kid selling lemonade gets dinged.
In order to increase entertainment and tourist income and taxes, politicians of both parties in state and federal levels have promoted athletic contests, concerts and other entertainment which grows ever more outrageous in downgrading traditional values of respectability, virtue and fidelity and promoting the immorality and selfishness of today. The artists and athletes of today are encouraged to be as controversial as possible to increase that revenue to the governments.
In order to placate the powerful special interests, governments of both parties have dumbed down education and enriched and secured teachers. They have diluted education resources by mandating politically-correct notions be taught equal to math, science and art.
In order to secure their own re-election they have buckled to demands of in-house unions and isolated those making decisions over the lives of others from the consequences of those decisions. As these sinecured bureaucrats make decisions like whether to declare a moratorium on oil drilling, to close natural resources to development across millions of acres, to mandate intrusive information-gathering, they are protected with their guaranteed raises and benefits, their private medical care, legal immunity and other special privileges.
In order to keep the populace happy and malleable, it is government policy that pushes porn and prohibits preaching.
Government, not the people here in this mob, are our real enemy. These folks are not blameless. They are like alcoholics, addicted to nanny-statism but it is the government, on both sides of the aisle, who is the enabler. That’s where our fight lies.
That guy in the middle,
is that the “looter guy”?
Now the area is going down hill fast - crime there and in the surrounding community is skyrocketing. The place they raided was used by drug dealers, that was a Section 8 house being occupied by another 3rd party. The police not only found drugs, weapons, scales, cash, and stolen property, they found food stamp ATM cards (not sure if they were the drug dealers own cards, or they were selling them to other people).
The reason they moved Section 8 housing into that condo community was because a "Housing Project" several miles away is being shut down.
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