Radio personality feeds the homeless, gets a ticket (Vegas)

[deminks]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jul/31/073110578.html

LAS VEGAS (AP) - City marshals blocked a radio personality from feeding homeless people at a City Hall park Monday, and issued summonses to a television news crew covering a publicity protest against a ban on "mobile soup kitchens."

Three people were arrested and seven were issued summonses at two parks, city officials said, including a reporter and a cameraman ticketed for trespassing while covering the protest for KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas.

Beth Monk, a KKLZ-FM radio morning show personality, became the first person to receive a summons under a new city law that makes feeding the homeless a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,000 and six months in jail.

Monk said city marshals confiscated food and water she set on a cement wall at Frank Wright Park - a patch of green wedged between a downtown bus terminal, a historic post office building and Las Vegas City Hall. She was threatened with arrest if she did not leave.

[villager]

More American Christianity in action!

n/t

[upi402]

3. man, I hope the jesus comes back and kicks Republican ass n/t

[pooja]

1. What is wrong with America?????

[Monkeyman]

2. And some of the homeless are vets from Iraq

Bush uses and tosses away

[rubberducky]

4. This is so far out of the realm of reality

it`s unbelievable!! Do Vegas cops have nothing better to do??

[Guaranteed]

5. Straight-up WRONG. nt

[rpannier]

6. God forbid

She should give water to the homeless in July!!!!!!!!!
I used to live in Reno many years ago. The summer was always so damned hot. That law should be a crime.

[Vidar]

7. "Government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich"