only to have someone defecate in front of the restaurant as he was walking in. ... He wasn’t aware of the incident of a business owner hosing down a homeless person and had to have the crowd explain it

Did the crowd just side with defecating on the street because you got hosed down with water? If I had to choose I'd take the hose down instead of a giant turd near my door. This seems either masochism or ignorance (which includes thinking you understand history better and have some enlightened perspective), or both.