One Republican California mayor thinks a “purge” is needed to correct the Golden State’s homeless epidemic, and he appears to be dead serious about it.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris made waves during a February city council meeting when a constituent voiced concerns about the mayor’s tough rhetoric on the dangers of homelessness, including the idea of rounding up homeless people into a singular encampment away from residential areas, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Parris didn’t apologize, nor did he back down. The outspoken mayor doubled down instead.
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“What I want to do is give them free fentanyl. That’s what I want to do,” he said, according to Fox News.
He added: “I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.”
The polarizing inference
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