So, so much wrong with this story,

The suspect's records revealed he had been released twice from Los Angeles County jail on felony charges just a few days before the Santa Monica attack.

This part sums up what it's like to live in blue cities. These democrat clowns never hold felons for trial - they just let them out to go victimize the citizenry again. When confronted with this stuff they always shrug their shoulders and say, "This is a crisis...but what can you do?"

This guy was lucky in two ways. I'll be that there's a 99% chance he identified himself as a city councilman on the phone to 911. Anybody else? The police never would have shown up.

And notice also how this idiot was actually helping the homeless guy tear the signs down? Why not say, "Stop tearing the signs down?"

You're 1,000% right on the homeless fat guy being a wimp. A lot of them carry knives around - it's common here in Seattle to see them with butcher knives tucked behind their pants. Since most laws don't apply to these people, who cares if they're carrying something with more than 4" of blade? This dude is lucky he didn't get his face slashed off.