United States | News & Politics

7166 readers

845 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

pangyuehung@lemmy.ml

yogthos@lemmy.ml

2 dead, 3 injured in Las Vegas shooting of homeless (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 10 months ago by FirstCircle@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

At least two people were fatally shot and three were wounded with non-life threatening injuries Friday in Las Vegas in the area of Charleston Boulevard and U.S. 95 at 5:30 local time, police said.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told ABC affiliate KTNV that the victims were "unhoused."

Police told KTNV that the victims were shot by the same person who is still at large.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I was thinking something like this too when I first read the article. Around here, the right-wing mayor (a short-timer now thankfully) was pushing for the cops to be able to do homeless "sweeps" of "encampments", something that I've little doubt has, and will, lead to serious roughing-up (maybe even murdering...?) of homeless who look at the cops the wrong way or give any backtalk or don't 110% "comply" immediately if not sooner... . Hell around here a cop just beat the shit out of a guy (busting ribs and much more) who was simply taking a quick nap in his car in a public park parking lot, because he thought himself too tired to drive safely at that time.

The authorities around here pay attention to the homeless when it's time for a little violent action (fun!) but that's about it. So I too am surprised these LV ones are jumping on this incident. It would be a great thing if they were vigorously pursuing solving crimes against the homeless, but I've gotta wonder ... seems awfully unlikely.