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Joan Cheever is a chef. She is the founder of a nonprofit food truck—Chow Train. For the past 10 years, Chef Cheever has served high-quality dishes to San Antonio's homeless. Some say Joan Cheever has a big heart.
Over the years, police officers have passed by and waved as she fed homeless people, but last Tuesday night four bike-patrol officers stopped in the park and gave Cheever a ticket that carries a potential fine of $2,000. Cheever has a food permit for her mobile truck, but she was cited for transporting and serving the food from a vehicle other than that truck.
The citation was given because Cheever brought the hot food from her own car and not a mobile food truck—and while there are good reasons for having food permit laws for mobile vehicles (sanitary considerations and public health), those laws are usually reserved for people trying to sell food. Not provide alms to the poor. It's also a bit disingenuous for the city of San Antonio to someone providing charity to the less fortunate since they have been guilty (as almost all American cities have been) of abandoning the homeless for years.
i believe you can make an assessment of a city and it's population by how it treats the poor, homeless and sick Texas we know has no empathy for those above while some do they are either not enough, staying quiet, or not interested. to cite someone doing humanitarian work where the state won't only brightens the light on that state and it's right wing policies that provide nothing for it's down trodden, except trying to create a fear in others wanting and helping those they the state gov't don't acknowledge as the citizens and Americans they are regardless to where they sleep or eat. despicable them.
