If you die homeless, your death goes unnoticed, just like your life. This is a way for us to notice.
Michael Stoops
It just means other cities are now being meaner than Las Vegas.
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In many of the cases, it's a crime of opportunity. A group of teenagers is roaming the street on a hot summer night and they come across a homeless person who might be mentally ill or alcoholic. When they hurt a homeless person, they think they can get away with it -- and they think they won't be hurt in return.
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They do this because they think they can, that they can get away with beating a homeless person and nobody will care, and the homeless won't be able to fight back.
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It's a good time of year to raise awareness, when it's real cold out. More Americans are thinking about poverty and homelessness this time of year.
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People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it's OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.
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Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly.. Because the issues are still out there.
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There's a disconnect there somewhere.
They were not willing to do that.
They could have been taken off the mean list if they would have just done away with that ordinance.
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