Thursday 22 September 2022 06:53 AM NBA legend Bill Walton blasts San Diego's mayor for 'doing nothing' to clean up ... trends now
Former NBA legend Bill Walton is railing against San Diego's woke mayor as homeless camps take over the city, leaving vandalism and trash in their wake.
Walton, 69, has begged Mayor Todd Gloria to address the issue of homelessness in a series of emails to his office over the past few weeks.
Though Walton never outlines exactly what he wants the mayor to do about the issue, the Voice of San Diego reports, he mentioned a law in Los Angeles that prohibits encampments near schools and repeatedly mentions law enforcement.
In one email, Walton had claimed he was assaulted by some homeless residents while riding his bike through a public park.
'Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased and assaulted by the homeless population in our Park,' he wrote on August 28.
'Once again, you've done, and continue to do nothing.'
The former Trail Blazer's center is now even taking his frustrations to Instagram, as nonprofits reveal that homelessness has skyrocketed in the city over the past few months to levels never seen before.
Former NBA player Bill Walton has railed against San Diego's woke mayor, Todd Gloria, for failing to address the city's growing homelessness crisis
Walton claimed in an email to the mayor last month that he was assaulted by a group of homeless residents when he was riding his bike through a park. He posted this picture of homeless people in the city earlier this week
Walton, 69, has even resorted to calling the mayor out on Instagram over the past few days
Walton's first email to the woke mayor apparently came on August 24, when he wrote: 'You peak of the rights of the [homeless], what about our rights?
'We follow the rules of a functioning society, why are others allowed to disregard those rules?'
He continued to write that the mayor's 'lack of action is unacceptable, as is the conduct of the homeless population.'
Walton later sent the email about the attack while riding his bike, according to Voice of San Diego, before sending one final email on September 2 telling Gloria: 'You have failed us and yourself.'
More recently, the sports broadcaster took to Instagram to air out his frustrations.
On Saturday, he shared a photo of homeless people camped out at a park, writing: 'Will San Diego Mayor @ToddGloria please give us our park, our bike paths, our neighborhood, our community and our lives back?
'The homeless situation is getting worse instead of better, and it costs more to keep people on the street than to get them off,' he claimed.
'We need consistent engagement, more bridge shelters, combined with more services and consistent enforcement, and we need it NOW.'
Then on Monday, Walton shared another photo of tents laid out on a swath of grass, writing: 'Sadly, and with a broken heart, I can no longer say that my hometown of San Diego is the greatest place in the world.
'I can no longer say that SD is a safe, healthy, clean and beautiful place; I can no longer urge my family, friends, tourists and businesses to come to SD to live, work and play.
'I can no longer say that our neighborhood of the last 43 yeas is still my dream, I am brokenhearted.
'Mayor @ToddGloria — clean up our city and let us reclaim our lives, we must fix our homeless crisis.
'We need engagement, rehabilitation and constant enforcement, and we need
