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Crowd waiting for housing vouchers gets rowdy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 11, 2010 | Mike Morris

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.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2manyleechest; amish; cheeze; free; gimmee; gimmeemoa; gimmemo; leeches; moamoamoa; mob; obamastash; obamatrons; parasites; welfare
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To: WOBBLY BOB
He’s not looting, he’s the Heineken vendor!

It's Government Beer. You can tell it's a Democrat Administration - Republicans would serve Shiner Bock or Sam Adams.

61 posted on 08/11/2010 11:26:57 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: BradtotheBone

62 posted on 08/11/2010 11:35:33 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Man, is he ever a hard working beer vendor!

good to see he got his life turned around.


63 posted on 08/11/2010 11:39:33 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: avacado
Felecia McGhee told the AJC she arrived around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. ...

I remember doing that...FOR CONCERT TICKETS!!!

64 posted on 08/11/2010 11:56:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
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OBAMA’S AMERICA!


65 posted on 08/11/2010 11:59:56 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: BradtotheBone

GIMME - GIMME ......


66 posted on 08/11/2010 12:16:46 PM PDT by traumer
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To: All

“Crowd waiting for housing vouchers gets rowdy.”

####

Yeah, come on white boyz.

Free is not good enough.

We want if Free AND Quick.


67 posted on 08/11/2010 12:19:26 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Le Chien Rouge

I always wanted to write a novel where the Russians invade, and the gangs have to take back the city block by block.


68 posted on 08/11/2010 12:23:30 PM PDT by gman992
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To: BradtotheBone; All
Give us more Pictures, Images and Photos
69 posted on 08/11/2010 12:23:35 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

I always wanted to write a novel where the Russians invade, and the gangs have to take back the city block by block.


70 posted on 08/11/2010 12:24:16 PM PDT by gman992
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To: reagan_fanatic

The guy behind him in the white t-shirt could be his brother.


71 posted on 08/11/2010 12:25:00 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: gman992
I always wanted to write a novel where the Russians invade, and the gangs have to take back the city block by block.

 

 

Red Dawn (1984)

 

72 posted on 08/11/2010 12:27:46 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: I Buried My Guns

I feel so sorry for my children to have to live in a culture such as ours is becoming. My 20 year old works in a pharmacy and she tells me stories of the rude, disgusting, defiant, and sometimes violent people who come off the nearby interstate highway into her store. Calling the police is a nearly daily occurrence and we live in the NorthWest portion of New Jersey, which is relatively rural compared to the rest of the state. I have purchased land in a remote area of a Western state and as soon as I can sell my home here we are getting out. I just have to hope this craziness is not universal in our country.


73 posted on 08/11/2010 2:08:28 PM PDT by bytheBook (When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: All

Waiting on Obama to give out more of his stash..


74 posted on 08/11/2010 2:11:34 PM PDT by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: panaxanax

Where all the white women?

75 posted on 08/11/2010 2:27:53 PM PDT by dragnet2
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Those people holding hands on the left side center of the photo, didn't hold back the crowd too good..

Or are they protecting the driver of the car stuck in the middle of that mob?

Is that Walmart in the distance?

76 posted on 08/11/2010 2:31:12 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Mr. K

Yeah, just imagine what riots will break out when the Obamacash is no longer available because the dollar crashed. Don’t be in the big cities when that happens.


77 posted on 08/11/2010 2:42:39 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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To: Stoat

Gangs...not a bunch of middle class white boys from Montana...it would be a theroretical discussions if “oppressed” minorties would join or defend their country from invaders. To quote Rick Blain when a Nazi asked him what he would think about Nazis taking over New York, “well there’s several places in the Bronx I would stay out of.”


78 posted on 08/11/2010 9:59:02 PM PDT by gman992
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To: gman992

I see; thank you for your clarification :-)


79 posted on 08/11/2010 11:20:32 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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