Three boys arrested for assaulting homeless man; one is only 12 years old, according to California police



Three young boys were arrested after witnesses told California police they were assaulting a homeless man on Saturday.

The Long Beach Police Department said that they were called to downtown Long Beach near Pacific Avenue and 1st Street over a call of assault with a deadly weapon.

Police said the three boys had gotten into a verbal altercation with the homeless man at about 6:25 p.m. and then began to beat him with tent poles and a tripod. They also allegedly threw objects at the man.

As officers arrived, the juveniles ran away from the scene, but police said they were able to identify them and detain them.

Video showed police putting the smallest of the boys, who was 12 years old, in handcuffs and into a police cruiser. The other two boys were reportedly 14 years old and 15 years old.

The three are facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit a crime. Their identities were not released due to their ages.

The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries to his upper body. He was treated by paramedics and declined to be taken to a hospital.

The homeless crisis is worsening in California, where it's considered the worst in the nation, according to some reports. The Golden State accounts for the largest homeless population in the nation, which some estimates put at 30% of the homeless population.

That crisis has led to crime by homeless people and against homeless people. In one recent alarming incident, a homeless man allegedly punched a 6-year-old without provocation in the middle of the day in Santa Monica. She was not seriously injured, and the man was arrested after a second assault on a 7-year-old child.

Christina Tullock, a friend of the family of the 6-year-old who was assaulted, issued a warning to those wanting to visit California for fun.

"Don't come to Venice or Los Angeles, it's not safe if you have children or elderly people with you," said Tullock to KTTV-TV. "Don't come visit us, it is not under control."

The average home in Long Beach sells for about $840k according to Zillow.

Here's a local news report about the incident:

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LA homeless data is so SHOCKING, you have to see it to believe it



L.A. is dumping tax dollars left and right into the homelessness crisis that’s quite literally suffocating the city.

Well, at least authorities say they are.

Some residents are beginning to wonder where their hard-earned tax dollars are going, because the problem just keeps getting worse and there’s no evidence that anything’s being done to actually mitigate the issue.

“I’m wondering where that money is even going,” one resident admits.

Another L.A. resident confesses that he’s “afraid to go out without [his] pepper spray.” “They’re supposed to be housed by now and they’re supposed to put ‘no camping’ signs up,” he says.

The key phrase there is “supposed to.”

They are supposed to be taking active measures to ameliorate the homelessness crisis, but it certainly doesn’t seem that way.

If they were, why would there be approximately 75,518 homeless people now compared to 69,144 homeless people in 2022?

The numbers literally don't add up. If L.A. authorities are funneling tax dollars and resources into alleviating the crisis, then why have the numbers continued to climb?

Luckily, Karen Bass, the mayor of L.A., has a plan, and it’s called “Inside Safe.” In short, the initiative aims at moving people off the streets and into temporary housing.

Sounds great in theory.

However, Dave Rubin, a former resident of California himself, thinks Bass’ plan will go “horribly awry.”

“Every single thing that progressives do goes horribly awry,” he asserts.

Rubin then brings up Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s progressive mayor from 2003 to 2011, who also attempted to eradicate homelessness.

Newsom “had his ten-year plan to eliminate homelessness in San Francisco … [which] now has 40,000 homeless people, most of whom are fentanyl addicts, crack addicts, etc. etc.” Rubin explains.

Clearly Newsom’s plan was a giant flop.

But it’s not just California cities that have a severe homelessness problem. Rubin mentions the notoriously woke cities of Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, and Portland, all of which are experiencing similar crises.

“These things are not coincidental,” Rubin argues.

“When [progressives] take over, they allow drugs on the street, they tell you you’re not going to be arrested for petty crimes … then the average person, the average law-abiding, tax-paying person – they flee,” he continues.

And he’s right.

Even the Los Angeles Times reported that California has said goodbye to hundreds of thousands of residents in the last couple of years, and those numbers are only continuing to grow.

Perhaps people don’t like living in progressive cities where drugs and crime and homelessness run rampant?

Who would’ve known?

Watch the full clip here.


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