{"id":1566886,"date":"2022-07-22T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566886"},"modified":"2022-07-22T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:49:22","slug":"major-city-lets-people-urinate-defecate-in-public-and-residents-arent-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-city-lets-people-urinate-defecate-in-public-and-residents-arent-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Major City Lets People Urinate, Defecate In Public \u2014 And Residents Aren\u2019t Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-city-lets-people-urinate-defecate-in-public-and-residents-arent-happy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DCNF-Kalamazoo-Poop-Featured-e1658520906537.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan, criticized city leaders Thursday during an appearance on Fox News after a vote to make \u201cequitable changes\u201d in city laws resulted in the decriminalization of littering and public defecation and urination.<\/p>\n<p>City commissioners voted to change city ordinances that turned crimes like public defecation, public urination and littering from misdemeanors to civil infractionson Monday, Fox17Online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/kzoo-bc\/kalamazoo\/kalamazoo-business-owner-upset-after-decriminalization-of-public-urination-defecation-changes-in-city-codes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Residents immediately protested the effects of the law change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, we smell something in the bathroom of the store and I open up the door and there was human feces, and of course, called by landlord and they \u2014 nobody would do anything about it,\u201d Cherri Emery, the owner of a coffee shop, told \u201cFox and Friends First\u201d host Todd Piro. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/15\/san-francisco-poop-problem\/\">(RELATED: SF Mayor Says Her City Is Drowning In Poop: \u2018There\u2019s More Feces \u2026 Than I\u2019ve Ever Seen\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becky Bil, who owns Pop City Popcorn at the Kalamazoo Mall, told Piro about an increase of feces in the area near her store. The city also spent $100,000 on a public restroom near the mall, but Bil claimed it was locked at times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m kind of a little ways from the main part of the mall, but my neighbor has had human feces outside of his door,\u201d Bil said. \u201cJust litter everywhere. We do have ambassadors that do come through and pick it up, but it\u2019s still out there and just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kalamazoo Downtown Project launched the ambassadors program to assist with cleaning, help tourists, connect the \u201cstreet population\u201d with resources and assist with events, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownkalamazoo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ambassador-Program-Info-Packet-FINAL.pdf\">information packet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe part that really upsetting to us is people are approaching other people, people following some of our employees to their cars, asking them for money,\u201d Emery said, describing how in one case, a person threw rocks at cars when employees didn\u2019t give him money.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalamazoo Mayor\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My neighbor has had human feces outside of his door&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}