Mall plays viral Baby Shark song on loop to annoy homeless people, faces backlash for ‘cruel’ move

A shopping mall in Montreal is facing backlash after using the popular children's song Baby Shark to keep away homeless people from taking shelter in its emergency exit staircases. What the mall said Complexe Desjardins, which owns the mall and the office towers in the area, has been playing the music for one year to respond to "security issues" involving people experiencing homelessness, spokesperson Jean-Benoit Turcotti told Canadian media. However, the company said they are sensitive to homelessness issues and has hired two social workers to "ensure a dialogue" with homeless people. Advocates suspect that the company grew exasperated with visible homelessness and chose the inhumane method to annoy people into leaving 'Cruel and unusual' The company says in this time, they have "noticed an improvement" at the mall even as advocates for homeless people calls the move "cruel and unusual."