Feeding Homeless Apparently Illegal in Raleigh, NC (w/MAJOR update at 4:43 PM)

[zazen]

3. holy crap! I hope the local news will have the guts to cover this

though I doubt it.

I wonder if this is part of a larger effort to start preventing and/or dispersing crowds throughout Raleigh (including Moral Monday demonstrations against our crazy NC legislature four blocks away or at the Governor's Mansion three blocks away). Theoretically the Raleigh PD is local and not beholden to McCrory et al, but they may feel stressed with the additional activities in our downtown, which are only going to increase.

I hope they go to the Unity Church across the street from Moore Square and start giving them out through the front door. I don't think the PD could stop that. Moore Square is between the Bus Station and a homeless shelter--it's the primary gathering place of Raleigh's homeless. I don't see how they're going to be able to stop that, ultimately.