This story is a few weeks old, but still worth mentioning. It appears two men are suspected of “beating up” (don’t you love it when news agencies use terms like this? this is a crime, right? seems like “assaulted” makes more sense, for the same reason that the Beaver never got assaulted by the school bully, but I digress) at least one homeless person in the downtown area.
What I especially enjoyed about this story was this quote:
“They don’t care about the homeless out here, and we are not going to tolerate it. We are going to hunt them down and take them to jail,” said Sacramento Police Department spokesman Sgt. Terrell Marshall.
Man, that’s rich. Because, you know, being homeless is like being black, or tall, or Republican, right? You are who you are and your local police force is out to protect you. Well, unless you get caught hitting the sauce a little hard and disturbing the peace (because you can’t really get drunk at home, right?) in which case you wind up in a cell with some dudes suspected of beating you up.
The Sac Rag 