{"id":1457,"date":"2012-05-31T00:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2012-05-31T00:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:36:38","slug":"homeless-cannibal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Cannibal Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHojRQFWBVM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Powers has been homeless for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to survive the best you can, but it\u2019s tough on the streets for a homeless person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>South Florida\u2019s weather has always been a magnet for the homeless. They are easily spotted around Fort Lauderdale \u2013 and easy targets for thugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you looked at all the hate crimes that exist in America, you will see that the homeless hate crimes as a group outweighs all the other classifications,\u201d Sean Cononie of The Homeless Voice said at a news conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Until Saturday\u2019s gruesome face-eating incident in Miami, the most infamous local crime against the homeless was three teenagers who were caught on video mercilessly attacking a street person in 2006. They also beat up another homeless man, and pummeled a third man, 45-year-old Norris Gaynor, to death on a park bench.<\/p>\n<p>Cononie said he sees parallels between that case, which involved drugs and alcohol, and the apparently drug-fueled Miami attack.<\/p>\n<p>Powers says every homeless person has a story about being attacked for sport by teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey get insane on these drugs, and they just attack homeless people for no reason. They think it\u2019s fun,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s happened to me. One kid tried to break my neck. I was sitting on a bus bench, he came around me, and tried to snap my neck for no reason. I didn\u2019t say a word to the young kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cononie said such attacks happen because homeless people are dehumanized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Don\u2019t feed the homeless, they\u2019re like animals, if you feed them they\u2019re going to come back.\u2019 These are statements that our local politicians have said,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHojRQFWBVM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Powers has been homeless for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to survive the best you can, but it\u2019s tough on the streets for a homeless person,\u201d he 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