SAN ANTONIO -- Fecal matter was flung everywhere in the 3200 block of Martin Luther King Blvd. A nearby bus-stop bench was a filthy, stinky mess...again.
It is déjà vu at the Mt. Zion Sheltering Arms Apartments with the excrement splattered about and residents’ car tires slashed again. Police say this act of meanness is made worse because the victims are the poor and elderly.
“I don’t know why anybody wants to do it to the old folk. People are afraid of retaliation. They don’t want to talk,” says Ernestine Green.
That leaves Green, a community activist, to talk for them.
After cleanup crews power-washed and cleaned the senior center’s façade and porch, Green sits at a disinfected bench to vent her frustration.
“This is what I can’t figure out" What is going through their brain to tell them to do this?” said Green, with the Wheatley Heights Action Group.
Green said it is the same criminal behavior this neighborhood saw back in April when 2 dozen vehicles were vandalized. That brought about more police patrols. But neighbors say the beefed-up patrols aren’t there anymore. And with the police presence gone, the excrement is back.
San Antonio police are now considering other options to catch the crooks.
“They need more patrols at night!” Green added.
