A Denver business owner is being fined by the City of Denver for refusing to clean up feces from the homeless people who defecate on a daily basis in front of his business. It has now at a point where the business owner is being taken to court.

Jawaid Bazyar is the CEO of an internet service provider in Colorado. When he talks about the city it sounds like many describe San Francisco. He said the city has turned into a “bathroom stall” with crime, feces and used syringes all over the place.

Despite having complained to the police repeatedly, nothing seemed to change and Bazyar grew distraught at the prospect of his employees having to clean up the potentially hazardous waste. The city of Denver responded by issuing him a citation and fining him for not keeping the property clean.

The @CityofDenver is telling a business owner that he has to clean up the feces, needles and garbage that people are leaving outside of his business. He tells @CBS4Dom & I that the city should take care of it because it's a public health issue – @CBSDenver 10pm. #Denver pic.twitter.com/5uBHjyT1i2 — Mark Neitro (@CBS4Mark) November 9, 2019

The businessman believes the problem goes deeper than just what’s happening on the sidewalk outside his business.

Jawaid Bazyar has seen it all outside of his business near Curtis St. and 24th in Denver’s Five Points Neighborhood.

“There’s food, trash, drug deals. In the alley, we get the defecation, drug needles,” he told CBS’s Dominic Garcia.

This short interview provides the background to the story and how things grew so far out of control.

The point the owner is trying to make with the city is that he and his employees are neither trained nor equipped to deal with human waste and hypodermic needles, both of which could potentially carry disease. He describes it as a health hazard and blames the city for not enforcing laws against drug use, prostitution, public defecation and camping on the alleys and sidewalks.

The city disagreed and has informed him that he will be facing additional fines and fees as long as he continues to fail to clean up the alleyway.

Bazyar says that the police rarely respond to calls and a spokesperson for the Denver Public Health Department had issued multiple warnings to Bazyar before they started fining him.

Bazyar told CBS Denver that he is going to take the City of Denver to court over the situation, saying, “”If the city’s not going to enforce laws against trespassing, or camping, or public defecation and just make me bare the cost of these problems that’s just not right.”

“I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do,” Bazyar told KDVR. “The government’s primary job is public safety. I think it’s a lot of politicians don’t want to be seen as anti-homeless or heartless.”

What’s going on outside of Mr. Bazyar’s business is likely a preview of what we’ll be seeing more of in San Francisco soon. The new District Attorney there has announced his plans to end arrests and prosecutions of people doing precisely what’s going on in the alley outside this shop. And once the word gets around on the street that the cops won’t do anything about it, the floodgates are open.

Denver has lessened certain penalties to protect illegal aliens from being deported.