Homeless Couple Sues Missouri City to ask them to leave

A small town in Missouri was sued Monday by a homeless couple accused of violating their constitutional rights by forcing them to leave because they were on a street corner with a sign asking for help. Brandalyn Orchard and Edward Gillespie, who were holding a sign that said “Travel. Whatever help. Bless you”, he obeyed the police ordered them to leave Miner, Missouri, on September 26, according to the federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of the couple. The agents, who showed them copies of the ordinances against vagrancy, begging and vagrancy, the couple said they would …