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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Homelessness: how many will lose everything?

20.08.2011
Homelessness:  how many will lose everything?. 45177.jpegThomas Kelly, 37, died on July 10, five days after being beaten with electric walking sticks, flashlights, leather and chains, as well as kicking by six police officers who were part of a police patrol in the town of Fullerton, California.

After this incident, Thomas was sent to a nearby hospital, but arrived in a coma. His face revealed multiple bruises, scrapes and minor cuts.

Thomas was part of a growing army of people in the U.S. which many identify indiscriminately as the homeless, homeless or displaced in a system that degrades human beings every day.
Many years ago, in 1986, in New York, on 42nd Street between First and Second Avenue, east of Manhattan, an elderly man was surviving severe bad weather with his face ulcerated by cold temperatures, near the UN headquarters, He was living on public charity.