Southern California mayor says he wants to ‘purge’ homeless population by giving them ‘all the fentanyl they want’

[Sugar Cookie]

A Southern California mayor is under fire for wanting to eliminate his city’s homeless population by giving them “all the fentanyl they want” — a shocking remark he reinforced by calling for a federal “purge.”

Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris shared his controversial views during a Feb. 25 city council meeting when a resident took issue with the city’s attempt to address the homeless crisis by “enclosing” the unhoused at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood.

“What I want to do is give them free fentanyl,” Parris said as he interrupted the woman’s comments, according to footage of the meeting.

“I mean, that’s what I want to do. I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.”

The jolted resident told the Republican his statement “was not kind.”

But Parris, who’s been mayor since 2008, has no “regrets” about wanting to give homeless people the highly addictive, and often-lethal, opioid, telling FOX LA in an interview Friday that he was referring to unhoused criminals who “refuse” to be helped.

Southern California mayor says he wants to ‘purge’ homeless population by giving them ‘all the fentanyl they want’

“Quite frankly, I wish that the president would give us a purge. Because we do need to purge these people,” Parris said.

nypost.com

 

[BuffettGirl]

That's not going to play well come election time...

 

[cubby]

He's talking crazy for liberal California.

Also, residents are upset about his plans to house the unhoused at an abandoned golf course, because they don't want the homeless near their neighborhood. They don't want the homeless near them but take issue with what the Mayor is saying. What do you want? Do you want to help them or not? I'm sure there's not an abandoned golf course on the poor side of town, where the residents want the homeless to be.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Why do they want to ruin what would be like Christmas morning for drug addicts?

Unlimited fentanyl would keep these people off the street from committing crime, defecating in the street and being eyesores.

 

[420702]

Technically, the homeless would be purging themselves.

 

[420702]

That's not going to play well come election time...

Landcaster is up in the desert where people are more conservative. I even heard a local radio station playing Alex Jones in the Apple Valley area... So it may not hurt him as they are more redneckish in the high desert.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Landcaster is up in the desert where people are more conservative. I even heard a local radio station playing Alex Jones in the Apple Valley area... So it may not hurt him as they are more redneckish in the high desert.

Good point. I forgot that part. Been in Lancaster once. It was hot AF. That's what stood out. Hot and rednecky.

 

[Symmachus]