On Sunday police cited two Christian ministers and volunteer Arnold Abbot, 90, who runs the advocacy group, Love The Neighbor, Local 10 News reported.
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By Eleanor Goldberg | November 4, 2014
A Florida city was quick to show how serious it is about its new homeless feeding ban by making an example out of a 90-year-old advocate who’s been helping the hungry for two decades.
Despite heated protests, Fort Lauderdale passed an ordinance early on Oct. 22, restricting charitable groups from doling out meals to homeless people in public, the Sun Sentinel reported. The city wasted no time implementing the law. On Sunday police cited two Christian ministers and volunteer Arnold Abbot, 90, who runs the advocacy group, Love The Neighbor, Local 10 News reported.
The three served less than a handful of the 300 meals they prepared before the police run in, according to the Sentinel.
They each now face 60 days in jail and $500 fines.
"These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads," Abbott, who plans on suing the city, told Local 10 News. "How do you turn them away?"
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