The Mayor couldn’t have any homeless people messing with his photo op.
Via Twitchy:
Jillian Jorgensen, senior politics editor at the New York Observer, tweets that she was at a press conference hosted by Mayor Bill de Blasio when she observed “what amounted to a minor disturbance” — police escorting a homeless man away from the area. The subject of the press conference? Helping the homeless.
Jorgensen caught up with the man, Jerry Foust, who had taken one of the folding chairs that had been set up for reporters:
“I wanted to see the mayor talk about homelessness, because I’m homeless,” Mr. Foust said in an interview, as he smoked a cigarette on the edge of the park. “And I wanted to fuckin’ help homeless people. If I had the money, honey, no one would be homeless in this country.”
Foust wasn’t arrested but was led away from the event before it began, reportedly because he was carrying an open container.
The homeless man was escorted away because he had an open container, according to city. I caught up with him after, he said he’d “had a nip”
— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) April 5, 2016
“I took a nip…the mayor’s coming. Let me see this entertainment…same as it ever was. Bill de blah blah blah.” https://t.co/fjNb3mVJJb
— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) April 5, 2016
HT: Doug Ross