Southern California mayor says he wants to purge homeless population by giving them all the fentanyl they want

A Southern California mayor is under fire for wanting to eliminate his city’s homeless population by giving them “all the fentanyl they want” — a shocking remark he reinforced by calling for a federal “purge.”Lancaster Mayor R.Rex Parris shared his controversial views during a Feb.

25 city council meeting when a resident took issue with the city’s attempt to address the homeless crisis by “enclosing” the unhoused at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood.“What I want to do is give them free fentanyl,” Parris said as he interrupted the woman’s comments, according to footage of the meeting.“I mean, that’s what I want to do.I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.”The jolted resident told the Republican his statement “was not kind.” But Parris, who’s been mayor since 2008, has no “regrets” about wanting to give homeless people the highly addictive, and often-lethal, opioid, telling FOX LA in an interview Friday that he was referring to unhoused criminals who “refuse” to be helped.

“I made it very clear I was talking about the criminal element that were let out of the prisons that have now become 40 to 45% of what’s referred to as the homeless population,” Parris told the outlet.“They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of our rapes, and at least half of our murders,” he added, without offering proof or data to support his claims.“There’s nothing that we can do for these people.”Parris added that he didn’t think anyone would take his comments “literally,” explaining that fentanyl is “so easy” to get on the streets that it wouldn’t have made a difference if the city gave it away for free.

He boasted Lancaster for providing more “innovative” solutions to the homeless population than any other city in America before calling for a federal “purge.”“Quite frankly, I wish that the president would give us a purge.Because we do need to purge these people,”...