A Tennessee state legislator justified his support for a bill targeting homeless camps on public property by citing the example of the genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler, who started the Second World War and oversaw the murder of 11 million people in the Holocaust.
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate voted to approve a bill outlawing soliciting or camping along highways and camping on public or state property. One of the lawmakers voting in favour of the legislation, state Senator Frank Nicely, rose to speak in support of the bill by offering his colleagues a “little history on homelessness” featuring Hitler.
