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In a series of press releases, DHS told a different story and justified firing “non-lethal” weapons on crowds by calling them rioters, looters, gypsies, tramps and thieves.

Forced labor was the fate of most “tramps.”

Going back to the 1800s, the city keeps “tramps,” “hobos,” “vagrants” and “winos” off the streets by locking them up in jail or sending them to work at the county “poor farm.”

Open in 1911 — at age 19 — one year after he finished second to Scottish immigrant Alex Smith, telling him as they exited the course, “I’ll get you next year, you big tramp.”

“We have the tramp from ‘Lady and the Tramp.’”