“Sport” Attacks and Killings of Homeless Rise

Attacking and killing homeless people has become a sport in America, and apparently, it’s on the rise. This is an extremely disturbing trend.

“They hurled anything they could find — rocks, bricks, even Baum’s barbecue grill — and pounded the 49-year-old with a pipe and with the baseball bat he kept at his campsite for protection.

Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum’s face before cutting him with a knife “to see if he was alive,” Moore said.

After destroying Baum’s camp, the boys left the homeless man — head wedged in his own grill — under a piece of plastic where they hoped the “animals would eat” him.

Then, Moore says, they took off to grab a bite at McDonald’s.”

Read more of “Teen sport killings of homeless on the rise” on CNN.com

>> Read “Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness, 2006″ from the National Coalition for the Homeless

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