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Norma Thornton is suing over a Bullhead City, Ariz., ordinance that regulates food-sharing events in public parks as her attorney argues the city "has criminalized kindness" after she was arrested for feeding homeless people, though the charges against the 78-year-old were eventually dropped.
Norma Thornton says she learned from a young age that it was important to help those when you can, and at 78 years of age, she has been doing just that. And it got her arrested.
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