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A Southern California mayor said he wants to give his city’s homeless population “all the fentanyl they want” and later called for a federal ‘purge.’ In a February city council meeting, Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris responded to a resident’s concern about the city’s handling of its homeless population by saying: ‘What I want to do is give them free fentanyl… I mean, that’s what I want to do. I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.’”