It’s starting to get ridiculous. Every Sunday night for weeks now, 2 bike officers ride into the midst of homeless men and women at our Food Not Bombs servings for absolutely no reason. Usually invited, they never join us for a meal. They ride off to a certain safe distance, talk into their shoulders and take pictures. Seems along with plaza artists, these amateur photographers are documenting plaza activity for some nefarious reason. Always have a camera with you if you’re in public places in St Augustine. You never know what you’ll need it for. Even though our guests are great at self policing the area for trash, make sure it’s clean before you leave. They sure don’t need any more ammunition to try and shut us down. Reports came in tonight of homeless being harassed on St George Street again.
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Sunday night, June 21, Solstice and Fathers Day, brings out the bike police. A number of our many diners were intimidated by this attention so we decided to document it. What’s next, a live feed into the EOC from the bridge cam? Oh wait, maybe we’re already on.
The police were photographing the dinner and when we took their picture, they were quite open about it. When one of the diners asked why they were taking pictures, they said they were just goofing around. Why can't they be honest about the simple things? Officers in the Plaza area have been directed to photograph what goes on there since the city lost it's case against the Plaza Artists.
On a windy wet Sunday, the hugely popular Food Not Bombs serving was graced by the presence of our bike cop friend, Ofc. K. Carroll, notorious for citing one of our May Day marchers on St George Street on Sunday May 3rd. Ofc. K was so excited to see us he called for back up, although none of the officers would join us in a great serving under the "slave market".
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