Tag: homelessness

Dunkin’ Donuts employees douse sleeping homeless man, get fired
Videos, Viral

Dunkin’ Donuts employees douse sleeping homeless man, get fired

Dunkin’ Donuts is apologizing after employees were captured in a viral video throwing a pitcher of water onto a homeless man sleeping in their store, and laughing at him. The video, uploaded to Facebook by user Samuel Breazeale on Sunday, shows an employee dumping a pitcher of water onto the man, who is sitting at a table and resting his head on his arms, which are folded on the tabletop. A second person laughs at him as the man gets up, grabs his phone charger and phone, and tries to shake the water off his phone. “How many times I’ve got to tell you to stop sleeping in here,” he said, while another person laughs. “You’re here all day.” The man then tells the employee that he fell asleep on accident, to which the employee says it wasn’t an accident. The employee then tells the ma...
This Principal Installed A Free Laundromat At School To Help Students Wash Their Clothes
Family & Parenting

This Principal Installed A Free Laundromat At School To Help Students Wash Their Clothes

The teenage girl screamed and fought with the school security officer when he tried to check her bag. “The police later told me she had dirty clothes in her bag because she was homeless and didn’t want anyone to know,” Akbar Cook, the principal of West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, told CNN. “She was fighting for her pride.” Cook said many students at West Side faced humiliation because they didn’t have anything clean to wear. So when school starts Sept. 4, there will be a new facility in the building: a free laundromat. Shame Keeps Students Away Kids who could not afford to wash their clothes faced intense teasing when they showed up in dirty outfits. Classmates sometimes snapped photos and tagged the students on social media. “I’ve seen a few kids in the back of t...