Officer Kicks Families Out of Park for Giving Thanksgiving Dinner To Homeless

LAKE WORTH, FL — Families belonging to a small church in Florida have been kicked out of a public park on Thanksgiving Day after a park officer saw them giving food to the homeless.

The families were part of a small community church called Acts 2 Worship Center, and felt that as Christians they ought to be out feeding people who didn’t have food on Thanksgiving.

“We brought our kids out here so they could see what it’s really like for people that are struggling,” Brian Oakes, a member of the church, told CBS 12.

The homeless residents of the park were excited to get the warm dinners.

“We’re grateful, you know,” said Kevin Rudd, a member of the homeless population.

Everything was fine until the official approached the families, forced them to leave, and threatened them with a ticket. “Everybody just went, ‘huh?’” said a confused Rudd.

As you can see on the video, when CBS 12 attempted to interview the Park Ranger, he replied, “I’m not allowed to talk with you,” and instructed the interviewer to “take your questions to the administration building.”

He eventually relied on the excuse of “following orders.”

“You were following orders, is that fair?” asked reporter Israel Balderas

“Yes sir!” said the park ranger, with a sigh.

“It’s very disappointing. We didn’t intend for this today,” said Brian. “We just wanted to give the food and be able to bless people.”

This would not be the first time Americans have been harassed by officers and kicked out of parks for feeding the homeless.

Members of Food Not Bombs, a peaceful anarchist organization, were also threatened and physically restrained for handing out warm food to the homeless population in Orlando.

Potbellied officers in shorts threatened members of Food Not Bombs with arrest if they shared food with the park’s homeless residents.

The officers huddled together with their bells and whistles and checklists to see if members of FNB would dare break their commands.

Once the sharing began, they swarmed in on Food Not Bombs and physically forced them to stop feeding the homeless.

Friends, when a government claims that sharing food in a park is now a “crime,” and is ready to inflict violence on those committing the “crime,” you begin to realize just how insane things have become.

As many as 20 members of Food Not Bombs may have been arrested by June 2011, which shocked the nation and gained international coverage.

Now, many are wondering if the families of Acts 2 will return to the park and receive the same fate for continuing to feed the homeless.

If they do, they will be “ticketed” (i.e. stolen from) and quite possibly arrested. And if they resist arrest they will be beaten, tasered, or shot, and of course, charged with assaulting an officer.

You see, they’re engaging in a “crime” for feeding people in a park. And our brave men in uniform are ready to protect us from such criminals.

It’s a testament to the kind of police state we now live in, isn’t it — when dressing in a costume and obediently “following orders” are extolled as virtues, to the point of harassing families who share their food on Thanksgiving.