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NBA Houston Rockets' player, Terrence Jones, abuses "The Houseless": ARRESTED - www.Houseless.org



 

NBA Houston Rockets' player, Terrence Jones, abuses "The Houseless": ARRESTED


The young use them as mentors and/or role models; someone to look up to, but are sports figures all they're putting on to be?

The following story is of yet another sports figure who was caught in the act of showing us what he may very well be actually about - nastiness. How many haven't been caught as yet?

Will Terrence Jones for his horrible evil only have to benefit by doing some nice things for those he has harmed only to not benefit himself?

Isn't it enough that we have to rest in fear, eat what we can find or have given to us, be used for churches and/or businesses can employ and/or gain for themselves and endure the almost daily attacks that all we seek to do is to be lazy and/or takers?

Wake up people and STOP abusing us!

Come to actually take a real interest in us, and then maybe, just maybe we can get out of the doorways, off of the streets and be productive members of a society which has those of the "Have-more", "Haves", & "Have-less" using us for their own profit/gain/control.

Thank you!

"The Houseless"


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Rockets’ Terrence Jones accused of stomping on homeless man outside Portland nightclub

According to police, a sergeant saw Jones walk past a doorway where two homeless men were sleeping, and witnessed Jones yelling "wake up!" to one of the homeless men before stomping on his leg.

By / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 5:10 PM


Terrence Jones earns his very own mug shot for allegedly stomping on a homeless man's legs.

NBA players are no strangers when it comes to getting into trouble with the law, but the Houston Rockets' second-year forward Terrence Jones might have established an all-time low.

Jones, who is expected to compete in training camp for the starting power forward spot next to Dwight Howard, was arrested early Wednesday in his native Portland after he was seen by police stomping on the leg of a homeless man.

Jones, who was a rookie last season, was charged with harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, and released on his own recognizance, about four hours after the incident outside a Portland night club, according to police. He has a court date scheduled for next Tuesday.


Jones, 21, was taken into custody after a Portland police sergeant saw a large group of people exit the Tube nightclub. As the group walked into the street, the officer used a PA system to tell the group to go back onto the sidewalk.

According to the police news release, the sergeant, Anthony Passadore, saw Jones walk by a doorway where two homeless men were sleeping, and witnessed Jones yelling "wake up!'' to one of the homeless men, who was identified as Daniel John Lellerher, 46. Jones then raised his leg and stomped down on Lellerher's leg. He suffered a minor leg injury but did not require medical attention.

The Rockets refused comment. After graduating from Jefferson High School in Portland, Jones played two years at Kentucky, where he won a national championship. Drafted 18th overall in 2012, he played in only 19 games last season, averaging 5.5 points and 3.4 rebounds.


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Terrence Jones arrested in Portland (VIDEO)



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NBA's Jones pleads not guilty to "stomping" on homeless man in Portland (Photos/VIDEO)



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Terrence Jones arrested; Portland police accuse NBA Houston Rockets player of harassment

Terrence Jones, former Jefferson High and University of Kentucky star, waits for his hearing at the Justice Center in downtown Portland. (Bruce Ely/The Oregonian)



More articles of those who BULLY "The Houseless":

Seattle Interim police chief Jim Pugel apologizes for taxpayer video mocking homeless (Pics/Video's)

 

Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson: Ex-Miami Dolphin, Ex-Husband/wife-beater trying to be a real humanitarian or getting a "FEEL GOOD" for himself? (Photos/Tweets)

 

England moves homeless into B&B's while "The Houseless" face evils in Norfolk, Connecticut

 

Norfolk Now: Systems out of Balance?

 

197 North Street, Norfolk, Conn. resident HATES & BULLIES "The Houseless" (Pics/Video)



Lest we not forget!

15th St. and M St. in DC, "The Houseless" at http://Houseless.net

Sisters of the Road stores decades of art made by homeless (Pics) - www.Houseless.org



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By Sara Hottman, The Oregonian 
 
Brenda Morgan, development co-manager for Northwest Portland's Sisters of the Road, holds an ink drawing done by a homeless man who draws to help him through painful heroin comedowns. Sisters has a storage space in Northwest Portland full of artwork done by homeless people who have used their services for more than three decades.
Sara Hottman, The Oregonian
To get through painful comedowns following highs, the heroin addict draws -- bright colors and strong lines with a sure hand, creating beautiful surrealist images. 

He's about 50 and has lived on the street for a long time. His drawings are being stored with scores of others, some dating back decades, in a Sisters of the Road storage space in Northwest Portland.
"Imagine a person, hurting enough to be an addict, reaching inside to extract such beauty from himself," mused Brenda Morgan, development co-manager for Sisters of the Road, as she examined one of his pieces. 

He's still on the street, still struggling with addiction. But the art supplies Sisters and other organizations have long provided are an escape for him and others living on the street. Soon some of their art will be on display, during the organization's first Journeys Art Festival in May. 

"Art is healing for folks," says Jeannie Lawyer, who used Sisters' programs while she was homeless for many years. "It's nice to go inside, get warm, and forget." 

Now Lawyer has an apartment and co-manages the cafe at Sisters of the Road, which has offered a cafe and programs for Portland's homeless since 1979. 

In her spare time Lawyer is tracking down the stories behind the artwork in the storage closet; some dates back to Sisters' founding. The background stories will accompany the selection of the artwork to be displayed at the Journeys Art Festival fundraiser. Morgan hopes to find funding to someday make the pieces and their back stories a traveling exhibition. 

Lawyer knows many of the artists and their stories first-hand, from when she was homeless. 

Jeannie Lawyer was sitting beside the artist at the Sisters cafe counter in the early 2000s while he drew Sarge sleeping on the sidewalk -- technically not allowed. Sara Hottman, The Oregonian
She laughs at a realist ink drawing showing a man sleeping, hat pulled low over his face. 

"That's Sarge, and he wasn't supposed to be sleeping there," she laughs. She was sitting beside the artist at the Sisters cafe counter in the early 2000s while he drew Sarge sleeping on the sidewalk -- technically not allowed. 

Lawyer gets a somber look on her face with the next piece: Bright colors frame red figures, screaming in anguish in the bottom corner of the canvas, but dwarfed by the brightness that overwhelms the canvas around them. 

"I look at this like that could've been me," Lawyer says. "A few years ago this was me." 

Another piece, a figure made of tissue paper pasted to poster board, is captioned on the back: "Think of me as one of you. Do not take me for a fool." 

A series of large canvases painted by Moe Schwartz in 1993 and 1994, when he was homeless, are done in a classic 1930s American style, with bold colors and near-realism. Lawyer says they scavenged the canvases from garage sales; other paintings are underneath. 

One painting shows people lounging around a fire under the Hawthorne Bridge as a bus full of wine-drinking aristocrats crosses. Others depict some seedy realities of homelessness. 

"Some people do art not to make something beautiful, but because it's what inside," Morgan says. "People can relate to art in a way they can't relate to other things. It gives a voice to people used to being silenced." 


Canvases large and small, rolled and stacked, are stored in a Sisters of the Road storage closet. Some pieces date back to the outreach organization's founding; all are done by people who at the time were living on the street.

Jeannie Lawyer says Sisters of the Road would get large canvases like these at garage sales, and customers would paint over them.

A homeless artist made three of these large-scale paintings in 1993 and 1994. This shows people sitting around a fire under the Hawthorne Bridge while a bus full of aristocrats drinking wine crosses above. The others depict the harsher side of homelessness.

Jeannie Lawyer, co-manager of the cafe at Sisters of the Road, examines a piece painted in the 1990s and now stored with scores of other pieces painted by homeless people using the organization's services. Lawyer, who used to be homeless, says at one point, she was like the screaming people depicted in the painting.


Sisters of the Road artists whose work is being stored in a Northwest Portland storage closet display varying levels of talent: Some are very skilled and practicing technique; some are just passing the time; some are both.


Canvases large and small, rolled and stacked, are stored in a Sisters of the Road storage closet. Some pieces date back to the outreach organization's founding; all are done by people who at the time were living on the street.
 
-- Sara Hottman


Lest we not forget!

15th St. and M St. in DC, "The Houseless" at http://Houseless.net
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