Two volunteers with the nonprofit group Defund Oligarchy Blessed by Liberty say deputies from the Florida Polk County Sheriff’s Office violently arrested them after they delivered supplies to a homeless camp in Florida. The group says both women were hurt during the incident.
According to the organization, Kim Edmond and Magdalene DuPree were stopped by deputies. They had just left Virgil’s Village, a homeless camp on private property in Polk County, Florida.
A nearly four-minute video posted on the group’s TikTok account, @defundoligarchyfl, shows what happened before the traffic stop and parts of the encounter with deputies…