The co-Bellends of the Month for December 2016 are several members of the Denver Police Department who were caught on video taking blankets and survival gear from homeless people in the freezing cold. Footage was widely circulated earlier this month showing as many as nine officers standing over a group of homeless people, pulling blankets off them as they slept and sat on the sidewalk. In the video, two officers stacked the blankets in piles and then carried them away. The blankets were taken as 'evidence' the homeless people in the video were committing a crime by violating the city's urban camping ban. This is just cruel, especially in the freezing winter weather. And besides, even if they were technically in violation of such a ban, the blankets are more useful as evidence of intent rather than the crime itself.
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