They try to frame it as disrupting places of business or as a health concern because the meals being handed out aren’t regulated by any food service organization. This of course ignores the fact that Food Not Bombs were giving away meals outside of the public library, after hours, and the fact that the homeless population wouldn’t necessarily otherwise be able to get any food at all.

Apologies. I’m not sure why the archived link isn’t working, but here is the original:

https://www.galvnews.com/news/ike-dike-funding-rejected-in-wasteful-spending-cut/article_fb07a0b1-d98c-56ee-be4a-8ac4bb71e74e.html

For more detail on the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/astroworld-no-escape-plan/

"One moment, Namrata Shahani had control over her body. The next, she did not.

Waiting for rapper Travis Scott to take the stage, she and those around her became one, trapped in an intensifying wave. They squeezed tighter, flesh against flesh, an imperceptible force pulling them deeper into the mass. Namrata grasped the hand of her older sister, Bharti, who asked, not for the first time, “Are you OK?”

Namrata, 20, couldn’t answer. It felt like she was drowning."