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Editor’s Note: Robert Allan Tigro Jr., lives on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico on the west coast of Florida. While in a Florida jail for a misdemeanor, he witnessed the torture murder of a man jailed for panhandling, who was put in a restraint chair and tased to death. Tigro has gone to the press with these revelations. This is his response to a story about how police had confiscated $234 from a panhandler.
“. . . being homeless and being given $234 still means you’re broke and still homeless . . . they have killed people in jails for holding signs like this or even one that said i love jesus please help. . . city council members get calls . . . they don’t like the problems our cities face so out in the open… then the police get called . . . they find a man who has maybe gone to war for his country lost friends and family and everything he has to be out on the street and then the police tell him we are taking your last bit of possessions and what little freedom you thought you had and taking you to jail. . . if you resist we will subject you to chemical weaponry electric shock torture or maybe we will just kill you . . . when they let you back out your money is gone to what they call due process and that piece of cardboard you had was kept because it was evidence. . . this is the state of america all america most of you have no clue if you’re not already homeless you’re probably just a few steps away. . . wake up people stop treating others like dirt.”

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