Locals in Portland tried to save hundreds of pounds of food thrown out by a grocery store to help feed those affected by the recent storms. Police stopped them.
...In response, the store’s management called the Portland Police Department (PPD), which dispatched 11 officers with the specific task of ensuring the discarded food remained in the dumpsters, consciously leaving the food to spoil rather than be collected or consumed. Armed PPD officers squared off with the activists, threatening them with charges of trespassing, for several hours, in a near-perfect illustration of the “poverty in the midst of plenty” Marx described in Capital.
Fuck that grocery store for calling the cops.