Thomas Kelly, 37, died on July 10, five days after being beaten with electric walking sticks, flashlights, leather and chains, as well as kicking by six police officers who were part of a police patrol in the town of Fullerton, California.

After this incident, Thomas was sent to a nearby hospital, but arrived in a coma. His face revealed multiple bruises, scrapes and minor cuts.

Thomas was part of a growing army of people in the U.S. which many identify indiscriminately as the homeless, homeless or displaced in a system that degrades human beings every day.

Many years ago, in 1986, in New York, on 42nd Street between First and Second Avenue, east of Manhattan, an elderly man was surviving severe bad weather with his face ulcerated by cold temperatures, near the UN headquarters, He was living on public charity.

This man was the public image and a denunciation before the world and the UN of a persistent problem in the country that self-proclaimed itself to be the big defender of human rights.

Perhaps without knowing it, he was part of the ranks of an army of about 40,000 people like him who had nowhere to live in this metropolis. Tunnels, bridges, subways and questionable run down hostels were his dwelling, in the best of cases.

Almost thirty years later, the presence of the homeless in the United States has increased. The economic crisis, unemployment, drugs, discrimination, war veterans and others without help push millions of Americans to this situation.

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