Shaming the Homeless in Spokane

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KHQ Reporter Peter Maxwell did a Facebook live where for some reason he thought it was a good idea to poke some fun at the homeless people.

A group of homeless people set up a make shift camp on the banks of the Spokane River.

"It looks like they've kind of made themselves a little Spokane Riviera Country Club," Maxwell says during his Facebook Live video, later calling the encampment a "full-blown country club for the Spokane homeless."

He also mentioned that one homeless person was wearing "football shoulder pads" and implied that the guy likely stole them. He then joked that maybe he was headed to try out for a team.

What Maxwell did not do, is cross the river and talk to the people that have nowhere else to go. 

If he did, he would have met Destiny Brown. Of course since she is homeless, she is well beneath Maxwell and he most likely would not want to associate with that kind of person to begin with.

Brown says she has been living at the camp for about two months. She says she's been on the waiting list for low-income housing for two years and has nowhere else to go. Before moving with her dog Mister to the banks of the Spokane River, she lived on the streets downtown.

"I'm spending most of my time trying to hide from the police or making sure my shit is concealed so that we don't get chased off," she says. "We're constantly having to move. I don't know what we did to people to piss them off, but we're not all that way. We're not."

Maxwell said that he had contacted code enforcement to see what could be done about getting rid of the "homeless country club" and getting these people the hell out. 

Let's hope one day Peter Maxwell is not down on his luck, or have some mental problems that throws him on the street. We'd hate to see some Reporter come along and make fun of him and talk about his "country club" lifestyle.

Just saying.

Here's Maxwell's Facebook report.