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The link will take you to a video of St. Petersburg Florida’s finest ruining what little shelter homeless people have.

Under the auspices of a “fire threat” about 25 officers of the St. Petersburg Police Force took box cutters to a tent city. Occupied by homeless men, women and children the tents were cut at ground level removing all hopes of them every being tents again. While this is reported as a “Good Thing,” I cannot understand how destroying the only shelter people have is a kingdom action. I hope churches in the area, if they cannot be encouraged to take Christ in off the streets, at least provide new tents for their city’s homeless.

MyFox Tampa Bay | St. Pete’s battle against the homeless escalates:

Even the language of the story’s title denotes the violent nature of these actions. Battle and Escalate are words that should never be uttered against the economically oppressed. [s]he who has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. –Luke 3:11. Why we don’t extrapolate from those words the simple idea of sharing not only cloaks but houses, food and pocket change is sad.