A chaotic scene unfolded in South Los Angeles last week when Rep. Maxine Waters showed up to an event aimed at providing emergency resources to homeless Angelenos in her district, an event where those who turned out were expecting something much different than what played out.
According to The Los Angeles Times, while Waters requested that the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority show up in the community to provide assistance to her homeless constituents, “an unofficial social media post erroneously promised that those who showed up would get rare vouchers for permanent, subsidized housing.”
As a result of the mixed messages, “Homeless people lined up on a corner” and “heated arguments broke out among the hundreds of people who turned out for assistance.” Despite their efforts, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority workers “were unable to meet more than a small fraction of the need and left while throngs of people were still waiting for help.”
In the midst of all that, Maxine Waters sought to gain control of the situation and demanded that a crowd of mostly homeless people needed to “go home.” You can’t make it up, but here’s video obtained by The L.A. Times to prove it anyway:
Here's the video of Maxine Waters telling a group of homeless people to "go home" to which somebody replies "we ain't got no home." pic.twitter.com/wHMHkBlvtt
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 31, 2022
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