NOTE: This story originally ran on Winter Garden Vox.com.
One man was sleeping next to a gas station. Another was dozing in the grass behind a bus stop. Yet another was sacked out on a bench by Ocoee City Hall.
They were among the five unhoused people, mainly white men in their mid-fifties, recently picked up by Ocoee Police for violating both the city’s ordinance and the state law against camping on public property or on private property without permission…