{"id":356940,"date":"2022-10-27T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=356940"},"modified":"2022-11-07T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:08:25","slug":"woman-arrested-for-feeding-homeless-sues-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/woman-arrested-for-feeding-homeless-sues-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for feeding homeless sues city"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">A wonderful woman ! <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>In Bullhead City, Arizona, feeding those living on the streets without a permit is punishable by a jail term<br \/>\nAn Arizona woman sued her city on Tuesday over a law that punishes feeding the homeless in public parks with a four-month prison sentence. The 78-year-old was arrested under the law for distributing food from a van.<\/p>\n<p>Norma Thornton was brought to court in April, a month after she was ticketed for feeding homeless people in Bullhead Community Park without a permit. She was the first person punished under an ordinance passed by the city\u2019s council a year earlier with the goal of deterring the homeless from congregating in parks.<\/p>\n<p>While charges against Thornton were dropped, she filed a lawsuit on Tuesday and is seeking an injunction to stop the city enforcing the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBullhead City has criminalized kindness,\u201d Thornton\u2019s attorney told Phoenix TV station KPHO. \u201cThe City Council passed an ordinance that makes it a crime punishable by four months imprisonment to share food in public parks for charitable purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/565459-woman-arrested-homeless-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/pfbid02hNcTxXxRJy18qzCX9BMnXx7DzosaQu5WRNa1igegFi1dsaJz3J46pff9gVm64SZ3l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: A wonderful woman !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":357015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}