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https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeless-attacks-california-local-leaders-blame

Heidi Van Tassell was leaving a restaurant in Los Angeles when a 6'2"
homeless man pulled her out of her car and poured a bucket of hot human
feces over her head.

Attorney Brandon Coen was walking his dog when a homeless man - who had
been caught on camera moments earlier hitting a woman - came up to Coen
and punched him in the head.

Well-known tailor Albert Davtyan was hit and injured by a truck after
being pushed into its path by a transient. His attacker, Garrett Bolt, had
been living on the streets and was on probation in an assault with a
deadly weapon case.

Van Tassell, Coen and Davtyan's experiences are not isolated incidents.
They are three people out of thousands of Californians who have been
victimized by crimes in which the suspects are identified as homeless or transient.

So far this year, 6,677 homeless people have been arrested in Los Angeles,
up from 4,763 in 2017. The number of violent assault cases increased to
2,496 in 2019 from 1,763 in 2017.

LA RESIDENTS FED UP WITH OFFICIALS, DEMAND CHANGE AFTER HOMELESS CRISIS
SPIRALS IN CITY

Residents like Tassell say they are frustrated and fed up with
California's elected leaders as well as the authorities for not doing more
to protect people.

Tassell told Fox News she called the Los Angeles Police Department
numerous times for information on her case but that none of the calls were returned. She also called the district attorney's office, which also did
not return her calls.

The man who attacked Tassell was identified in court records as Jere
Blessings, a transient with "schizophrenia and psychotic disorders."
Blessings was charged with battery and taken to jail but Tassell said she
was recently notified that Blessings was back on the streets because he
was found unfit to stand trial.

"So they let him go, asked him where he wanted to go, they dropped him off
and now he's in around the same spot," Tassell said. "He's schizophrenic
and he's just not mentally stable obviously."

Tassell said when Blessings attacked her she thought she was "going to
die."

"He didn't say anything so the look in his eyes was ... I thought he was
going to murder me ... I thought he had a knife," Tassell said. "I've
always thought I was a tough person. I have lived in Hollywood for a very
long time and I thought I'd be tough and you know, scream, and I couldn't
do anything."

I don't know how this has suddenly become the new normal here. I'm
supposed to feel safe because stuff like that happens all the time? That's
some West Coast logic for you right there.

� Kelly Herlocks, a Michigan native who has lived in LA for three years
The incident has left Tassell traumatized.

A LAPD spokesperson told Fox News that incidents like Tassell's happen on
a pretty regular basis.

"We have a lot of homeless people in Los Angeles," the officer said.
"People do get confronted by the homeless and sometimes liquids get
spilled on them.

That wasn't the answer Kelly Herlocks, a Michigan native who has lived in
LA for three years, was looking for.

"I don't know how this has suddenly become the new normal here," she told
Fox News. "I'm supposed to feel safe because stuff like that happens all
the time? That's some West Coast logic for you right there."

As complaints from residents have increased, an angry backlash against the homeless has grown more pronounced. Numerous reports have chronicled the abusive treatment of people on the street. Last month, a homeless man
named Freddy G. was dozing off with a book in his Echo Park tent when
someone threw a firecracker at him, LA Mag reported.

Homeless advocates like Pete White, executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, said he's seen an uptick in violence against the homeless over the past few months and blames city leaders who he accused
of stoking an anti-homeless sentiment. He also believes that policies that criminalize homelessness are only adding to the problem.

"A lot of rhetoric coming out of City Hall calls homeless people
dangerous, and fuels this vigilante spirit," he said.

In San Diego, a man accused of attacking several homeless men and women in 2016, is awaiting trial. Jon David Guerrero, 42, was bound over for trial Friday on 15 felony counts, including murder, attempted murder, arson and assault with a deadly weapon. Some of his victims were set on fire, while others were impaled with railroad spikes.



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No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.

Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.

Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.

The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.

Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.

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