IT WAS LIKE THE OLD DAYS BEING HERE AGAIN! COOK COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICERS CHASING OUT POOR BLACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING FOR CHANGE!
Two panhandlers in Chicago sued their local sheriff’s department in civil court, saying the deputies unfairly booted them from their so-called place of work in the city’s popular square, causing them to lose hundreds of dollars of expected wages.
The case focuses on the constitutional right of freedom of speech, rather than on money.
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Kim Pindak and Sam Phillips, both beggars, said they lost about $10 per day over the course of four years due to Cook County sheriff’s deputies who ordered them to stop asking for money at Daley Plaza, the Associated Press reported. If the plaintiffs win, they could be awarded thousands of dollars to make up for these lost dollars.
“A lot of people see us as scam artists,” Pindak, 63, said, AP reported. “I don’t live in the Waldorf Astoria. I’m just trying to survive.”
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He said he had to beg in order to supplement his $750-per-month tax-paid disability payments because his assisted living facility took all but $30 of that amount.
Rebecca Glenberg, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said jurisdictions around the nation have been clamping down on what she said was an individual’s right to ask for money – a First Amendment free-speech matter – for the last few years. And Adele Nicholas, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, argued to the court that law enforcement agencies have a responsibility to properly train their officers about citizens’ constitutional rights.
“This case is about something bigger” than money, she said, AP reported. “It’s about responsible police practices.”
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The attorney for the sheriff’s department, meanwhile, said the plaintiffs weren’t arrested or detained and therefore, didn’t suffer any damages.
The city has an ordinance that bans aggressive panhandling. But the plaintiffs say they aren’t aggressive; rather, they say they simply hold signs saying they’re hungry.
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