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Ex-Honolulu Cop Gets 4 Years in Prison After Making Homeless Man Lick Urinal 7/16/2020 7:36 AM PT A former Honolulu police officer will spend 4 years behind bars ... after forcing a homeless man to lick a public restroom urinal or risk an ass-whooping. John Rabago was sentenced Wednesday and…

Ryan W. Miller   | USA TODAY A former Honolulu police officer who forced a man to lick a urinal in a public bathroom was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.John Rabago pleaded guilty in December to civil rights violations stemming from the January 2018 incident during which Rabago told the man that, "If…

World16 Jul, 2020 06:49 AM3 minutes to read"You took from him his only possession: his dignity as a human being." Photo / 123rfA US judge sentenced a former Honolulu police officer Wednesday to four years in prison for forcing a homeless man to lick a public urinal, telling him to…

HONOLULU — A U.S. judge sentenced a former Honolulu police officer Wednesday to four years in prison for forcing a homeless man to lick a public urinal, telling him to imagine someone doing that to his two young daughters.The homeless man was just as defenseless and powerless as the children…

Community support has poured in after fire destroyed the home near NW Onsdorff Blvd and 19th Court BATTLE GROUND — A single mother with three children is without a place to stay after fire destroyed their Battle Ground home on Monday. Crews with Clark County Fire District 3, Clark County…

Solomon dragged his broken wet tent behind him after a brutal storm hit Cape Town in the early hours of Monday morning. “My bed is messed up, my tent is messed up. I don’t know what I’m going to do now because I have no stuff to cover myself,” said…

Just days are left to pass a new law to prevent “a wave of evictions and homelessness” as the coronavirus pandemic continues to bite, Labour is warning.Labour also pointed to the “broken promise” of a permanent ban on no-fault evictions, seven months after it was made in Boris Johnson’s post-election…

This is the second part of a two-part series on homeless camp evictions during COVID-19. Read the first part here. Instead of acting on public health advice, governments across the country have used COVID-19 as an excuse to continue their policies of forcible decampment. British Columbia's clearance of Oppenheimer, Topaz and Pandora camps…

Some families are waiting decades for social housing and now is the time to address the issue, an inquiry has been told.A federal parliamentary inquiry kicked off in Canberra on Tuesday, examining what governments and the not-for-profit and private sectors can do to address homelessness.The Australian Association of Social Workers…

For a moment this spring it seemed as if the COVID-19 crisis might lead governments to ease the relentless cycle of displacement of homeless people from the parks, streets, ravines and underpasses of Canadian cities. Some made efforts to secure housing where homeless people could follow COVID-19 guidelines. Others, including…