A year after Jordan Neely's death, a push to make attacking NY's homeless a hate crime
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“Let us keep in front of mind that these were people who had hopes, dreams and stories,” said George Nashak, CEO of Care for the Homeless.
Nazarethman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Kenneth Gonzalez died last spring, but he never had a funeral. Instead, his friend Richard Jarrett stood in front of a room of mostly strangers in the basement of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City Wednesday night and, speaking slowly from a piece of paper, eulogized his friend during a service commemorating the hundreds of unhoused New Yorkers who died in the last year. "He had a good heart. Everyone in the building misses Kenny," Jarrett said in front of a crowd of approximately 200 volunteers, social workers, and homeless advocates. S...
Nazarethman/Getty Images Kenneth Gonzalez died last spring, but he never had a funeral. Instead, his friend Richard Jarrett stood in front of a room of mostly strangers in the basement of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York
Homeless advocates in dozens of U.S. cities are holding services this week to remember the homeless people who died over the last year.