The violence of the housing crisis
I think that headline says it all, but the details are just gut-wrenching.
McKinney admitted she fell behind on payments for more than a year during the pandemic. An eviction notice was filed and on May 24, the Fulton County Marshal’s office executed it.Body camera footage obtained by CBS46 Investigates revealed law enforcement waited more than 35 minutes for McKinney to come out after knocking on her door and windows, calling out her name, and identifying why they were there.
Eventually, property staff kicked in the door so marshals would not be responsible for any damage. McKinney can be heard screaming and crying, along with her teenage daughter.
McKinney appears to lay on the ground crying, attempting to slide away, and not following commands. Marshals can be heard saying, “last chance, get your hands up, ma’am, please.” They ask for her to be still, and warned she’d be tased.
“I’ll die, I’ll die,” McKinney screamed. “I have stage IV cancer.”
When asked why she didn’t answer her door, McKinney said she was weak and equally “afraid” of the officers and of the prospect of being homeless.
After she was tased, McKinney was treated by emergency medical personnel who arrived on scene.
Because that's what you do when you see a sick woman, lying on the ground and crying. You taze her.
And right after that to celebrate you look for some puppies to kick, and kittens to drown.
Why? What would you do?
“It’s been awful,” she said. “I’ve been having to go to treatments, several different days and my health has been very, very degenerated.” McKinney said her citation for obstruction is set to be dismissed.
“People are desperate,” said Daniel Pasciuti, a Georgia State University sociology professor who also is a leader at the school’s Center for Access to Justice. “They’re looking for help. Rents are rising very rapidly in Georgia, especially in metro Atlanta.”
“Anywhere from 60 to 65 percent” of evictions are millennials and young families, Pasciuti said, while the remaining tend to be disabled and sick people on fixed incomes.
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Damn cops.
Do they not have moms or sisters who could find themselves harmed by cops?
Karma, you cop bastards!
Texas gets very little right, but this once, they help. The Texas Supreme Court has placed a halt to foreclosures and evictions for 3 months. Texas has set up a program to offset costs of rent loss to landlords, and a fund for renters to assist with rent.
The pandemic will determine how long this moratorium will last.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I have some long time friends in Ft. Worth (I grew up there)
and just in case they haven't heard about that new law is there any particular place they need to contact to find out more? These friends watch no news, at best it'll be on, but muted and the newspaper is just for classifieds and sports reporting.
Maybe they've heard from others, maybe not.
There have to be some good people at work for this to happen, especially in Texas.
Fwiw I'm multi-gen Texan but I live in Washington State so I'm disconnected to news on the ground in Texas and my sister living outside of Paris doesn't watch news and doesn't get a newspaper.
I gotta say I'm impressed that this law was even possible.
Thnx
Tell them
to look at the State Bar of Texas, Texas Supreme Court Emergency Orders. I get emails when the Court does something like that. If they can't find it, don't hesitate to pm me, I will try to find it for them. I might be able to find the actual email from them that I received maybe last week.
I know I told my asst. today, no evictions clients until November.
It was a 60 day moratorium, giving all Justices of the peace to give another 60 day extension.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Nothing like having
your priorities straight.
Minimal to no help for people like this, but $80 billion and counting for endless war in Ukraine...
Glad my daughter got the hell out of ATL - not everyone has that option, though.
It has begun...
As a first post here, I realize that we have now reached that point of circling around what is going to be a lot of people dying in the streets, regardless of what state they live in. Reading the article, much of those affected are young or old on fixed incomes. That's a lot of Americans.
I live in PA, but as my third and final state where I see this going on, I don't find many of our united states united, unless you consider how they seem to get behind gentrification as a way of ignoring the working poor, and very poor. It's a dog-damned shame.
Some great first post, eh?
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Thanks, @JtC
I find it hard to integrate here after leaving a discussion board I really wish I could give tribute to (JackpineRadicals). There's a story within the tribute. One of the first thing I looked at was the member list, where I recognized some old names.
Jump right on in...
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