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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSouthern California mayor {Republican} says he wants to 'purge' homeless ...
Southern California mayor says he wants to purge homeless population by giving them all the fentanyl they wanthttps://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/socal-mayor-r-rex-parris-says-he-wants-to-purge-homeless-population-by-giving-them-all-the-fentanyl-they-want/
A Southern California mayor is under fire for wanting to eliminate his citys homeless population by giving them all the fentanyl they want a shocking remark he reinforced by calling for a federal purge.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris shared his controversial views during a Feb. 25 city council meeting when a resident took issue with the citys attempt to address the homeless crisis by enclosing the unhoused at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood.
What I want to do is give them free fentanyl, Parris said as he interrupted the womans comments, according to footage of the meeting.
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Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris shared his controversial views during a Feb. 25 city council meeting when a resident took issue with the citys attempt to address the homeless crisis by enclosing the unhoused at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood.
What I want to do is give them free fentanyl, Parris said as he interrupted the womans comments, according to footage of the meeting.
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Here's his Wikipedia article. A real piece of work this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Rex_Parris
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SSJVegeta
(403 posts)1. He also backed up the la sheriffs when the feds were investigating them for civil rights violations
He also prefers an outside police force policing his community over their own local police department.
He is trash.
AStern
(214 posts)2. So, the government is supplying Fentanyl?
Sounds plausible. Much like Crack cocaine.
Kid Berwyn
(20,087 posts)3. Political Violence
Normalize it, per NAZI-GOP playbook.
Erich Mühsam
Identification picture of Erich Mühsam taken in the Oranienburg concentration camp. Mühsam, an anarchist and a pacifist, worked as an editor and writer; he was imprisoned during World War I for opposing the war. Arrested during the massive roundup of Nazi political opponents following the Reichstag fire (February 27, 1933), Mühsam was tortured to death in Oranienburg on July 11, 1934. Oranienburg, Germany, February 3, 1934.
Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-political-violence-in-1933
Demovictory9
(35,455 posts)4. City in the desert. I havent been there for a long time