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Boy, you certainly have my number! In the future I'll be sure to run all my posts past you for your approval
Not sure how squatting--essentially trying to steal an apartment--is an "easy target." They were caught and arrested immediately. And if you're not interested in gentrification issues, that's fine but it's certainly topical for many of the rest of us.
Er, they openly said in the article exactly why they chose them. They didn't like white people moving into the neighborhood. Also the article says the tenants left (as in, got away from crazy squatters) but not that they moved.
Something about this story doesn't quite make sense. The gunpoint robbery was on Thursday, yet the squatters (who apparently moved in just after robbing the tenants) didn't get arrested til Saturday at the address where the squatters were staying? Where were the police from Thursday to Sunday?
That said, I did like the story and I thought about posting it. It combines so many of the favorite issues on C-D, it's hard to resist. Gentrification, ghetto behavior, crime, white people pioneers in Brooklyn, hate crimes that aren't classified as hate crimes because it's black vs white instead of white vs black, real estate...
Insane, outrageous, and I doubt it is the last story we will hear.
It is very difficult to prove that someone has no legal right to be somewhere - apropos of the question, why so much time passed.
I would guess that the perpetrators are investigating their options, illegal lock-out and all.
There was an unbelievable story about squatters on lower Morningside (I think ?), last ten years. In the end, the owners had to buy them out. And they had only squatted because they heard that a couple had bought the building. The squatters sproceeded to move in, and then reported unsafe conditions to HPD. And so on.
Insane, outrageous, and I doubt it is the last story we will hear.
It is very difficult to prove that someone has no right to be somewhere legally - apropos of the question, why so much time passed.
So if I have a home invasion at gunpoint and the robbers force their way into my apartment with their gun, at the same time pushing me out in the hallway and locking the door, and I call the police it will take 2 days or so for them to arrest the criminals? Due to the possibility the people brandishing a gun and making death threats might have a legal right to the apartment they invaded with a loaded weapon?
So if I have a home invasion at gunpoint and the robbers force their way into my apartment with their gun, at the same time pushing me out in the hallway and locking the door, and I call the police it will take 2 days or so for them to arrest the criminals? Due to the possibility the people brandishing a gun and making death threats might have a legal right to the apartment they invaded with a loaded weapon?
That sounds reasonable
Oh, I assure you that many things regarding tenants, or even "tenants," are thoroughly UNreasonable.
People are desperate and I could see things picking up in that realm.
I am generally sympathetic to tenants but I have seen some unbelievable things.
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