A community activist from Croydon who serves home-cooked meals from a shopping trolley to homeless people has been issued with a police warning saying his activities are causing antisocial behaviour.
Ringo told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “Even if there is no ban, why am I being issued with a warning for feeding the homeless?
The Metropolitan Police told the LDRS the CPNW was ‘issued to provide a warning so that these issues, which had been negatively impacting the community and local businesses, could be addressed’.
It is claimed that the unintended consequence was that incidents of antisocial behaviour began increasing around the market as people accompanying Ringo had got into altercations.
Ringo Vision claims to have served over 13,000 meals to those in need in Croydon town centre, and in doing so has attracted millions of viewers online for documenting the borough’s homelessness problem, which he says is ‘different’ from everywhere else he has seen.
