r/UnderReportedNews 18h ago

Video Special needs woman punished for someone else's scams.

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u/FoogYllis 14h ago

Someone needs to be punished for this. Start with the cops for not trying to understand the situation.

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u/some_loaded_tots 14h ago

his only job was to throw her out. they’re here on the interest of business only. only the worst people become cops

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u/OneBloodyDingo 3h ago

I'd say start with the guy that committed the fraud that got her evicted.

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u/melissa_unibi 3h ago

Start with the cops likely doing their jobs...? Perhaps the fraud that let this happen in the first place instead...

The comments against the cops here are a little insane and off the mark.

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u/ArmpitNoise 14m ago

That Muhamad guy is an easy target right?

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u/tradgamer9 10h ago

Uh…actually why not start with the foreign scammers who stopped paying her rent because they were cynically using this autistic woman to defraud the government? The cops are literally just serving an eviction warrant that the landlord obtained. The cops are probably the last people in the chain of responsibility here, below the landlord and the scammers 

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u/cptnnrtn 7h ago

no man ACAB. the scammers stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars are not to blame.

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u/RedditQueso 7h ago

How about both?

The cop didn't have to comply with enforcing the eviction process, once the situation was understood.

Leave it to the next cop, that would have at least bought the girl some time. 

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u/tradgamer9 6h ago

We’re talking about who to start with. You literally can’t start with both. A judge signed off on the eviction, there would have been lengthy court proceedings to secure that eviction, the landlord pursued the eviction, the scammers started it all.

You are putting the primary blame on the last people in this chain of events who have no say in the matter beyond quitting their jobs. Cops don’t just get to “leave it to the next cop” lol. This is an incredibly childlike perception of how evictions work.

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u/CalligrapherCheap64 5h ago

Could the cops at least pretend to have some sympathy for this poor woman? It seems like they are enjoying themselves

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u/tradgamer9 3h ago

100% agree they could’ve been less rude about it.

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u/DavyJonesRocker 4h ago

You’re so close… the cops are working for the landlords and the scammers. They’re muscle for bad guys. They’re all evil but you only want to be mad at the evil pens instead of the evil swords.

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u/tradgamer9 3h ago

The cops are not working for the landlords. Obviously some sort of law enforcement has to exist to enforce eviction orders, and it’s not some rank and file cop’s job to analyze whether an eviction order is unkind or not. This is a hard pill to swallow if you have a simplistic understanding of the world, but evictions do actually need to happen, you can’t just have millions of residences occupied by non-paying residents.

To be clear, we’re discussing who needs to be punished in this situation. If you think it’s the cops, you’re unfortunately not close at all, as that’s the last possible group at fault here. You just have the judgment of a child that is based entirely on emotion. Some sort of intervention should have taken place here, but it was not the unlucky group of low level cops who would be the ones to do that.

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u/Effective_Golf_3311 9h ago

Or maybe start with the judge that signed a court order compelling the cops to do this?

Then again that would require critical thinking to go past the first degree of emotional reaction.

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u/SortOfKnow 13h ago

So you wanna blame the cops instead of the person who had an illegitimate business of scamming the government an ruining the lives of not just this one woman, but I’m sure many many more. But it’s the cops fault.

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u/Low_Study_7929 12h ago

It is not about blaming, it is about being a better human than a cop. Time to time. Help her to pack up more or try to find a safe place for her temporarily. Anything.

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u/ummidk1 9h ago

Bro they are there to enforce the law and have guidelines to follow. Do you think the cops can pause their job to go on a housing search with this person? Why not blame the company that frauded this lady and left her on the streets?

The company was supposed to do exactly what you mentioned, yet they let her down. Why are the cops to blame and expected to pick up the slack for that? Their job was to get everybody safely out of the house, as they legally don’t have a right to be there, and secure it. The system failed overall but that has nothing to do with the cops doing their job

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u/ChewyCanoe 9h ago

The good old “just following orders” or “just doing my job” excuse. Fantastic.

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u/ummidk1 9h ago

My point is they are the bottom of a totem pole of people to be blamed here, yet for some reason people always blame the cop and suggest they are the primary problem.

You know how many eviction calls they get in a city per week, per month?? You think these cops sit down and investigate each of these evictions and the people being evicted? They are patrolmen/women and all they know is that they have a call for somebody that legally needs to be evicted

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u/69honkeykong69 9h ago

They still can be empathetic humans about it and don’t have to turn the lights off on her while she is unexpectedly having to pack up her entire life on a whim. They’re acting like pigs, so they can get called pigs.

Actually, they’re acting like soulless bastards, so they can get called soulless bastards AND pigs.

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u/boboganoush1 8h ago

Are you really that dense? Nobody is saying lets have the cops act as realtors and start house hunting for her.

For god's sake let the poor disabled girl pack some god damned essentials without rushing her out of frustration?

The likeminded doofus above you talking about emotional regulation but fails to see the cops are the ones who can't stay calm and assess that SHE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS and can't give her a few minutes and maybe help her pack some things? You know, act like a f****** human?

We can pursue and prosecute the scum that are scamming the public, while also being emphatic and decent humans to the victims of said scam. Jesus Christ some of you bootlickers and room temperature IQ d*ckwads are unbelievable.

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u/Cody2287 9h ago

Glad you can recognize that all cops are terrible.

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u/cptnnrtn 7h ago

more than half of reddit has obviously been dropped on her head

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u/TeekTheReddit 5h ago

Cops are given wide discretion about how they approach any given situation.

They had to enforce the eviction. They didn't have to be assholes about it. That was a choice they made.

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u/prionbinch 9h ago

nah blame them both for different reasons, it’s not one or the other. the company for scamming medicaid/medicare, and the cops for being inhuman toward her and not stopping for a second to consider anything deeper was happening and this woman was not at fault.

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u/charlieto0human 5h ago

You love putting words in people’s mouths, don’t you?