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A Georgia woman is the one who ended up in handcuffs after attempting to move back into her own home which was occupied by a squatter, and to add insult to injury, was lectured by a cop about her privilege.

In a local news outlet’s video of the December 9 incident that has gone viral on social media, homeowner Loletha Hale is seen in a squad car after she was arrested and charged with criminal trespass for trying to evict Sakemeyia Johnson from the premises, a person who she had just won a court fight against.

“I spent the night on a mat on a concrete floor in deplorable conditions. While this woman, this squatter slept in my home,” Hale told WSB-TV 2 Atlanta.

“To see that woman walk into my mom’s house while I was in the police car, something is wrong with this picture. Something is inherently wrong with this picture,” she said.

In the video, an off-camera police officer is heard telling her to be sympathetic to the alleged squatter’s point of view.

“Just think of it from this perspective, though. Everybody isn’t as fortunate as you to have a bed. All the little things, a bed in their house, food in the kitchen,” the cop said.

Hale was treated like she’s the one who committed a crime when she returned to the home to begin cleaning it out after a judge ruled in her favor over Johnson but did not have a “signed writ of possession” allowing her to proceed with the eviction.

According to WSB, police said she had “executed an illegal eviction and forcibly removed Ms. Johnson’s belongings.”

“She just caught up out of nowhere. She had this guy with him, and I locked the door. I locked the screen door, and he forced himself in telling us to get out,” Johnson told the police.

The arrest capped off an ordeal that began in August when Hale found the alleged squatter in her home and called the police who cited Johnson under the new Georgia Squatter Reform Act.

However, a Clayton County magistrate judge ruled that “Sakemeyia Johnson is not a squatter” since she’s a relative of a previously evicted tenant’s partner.

“How can she not be squatting when I’ve never had any type of contract relationship with this person?” Hale asked.

The homeowner told the outlet that she believed that Johnson had moved out after she prevailed in court.

“I returned on Monday to start painting and she had broken the locks at my property,” she said. According to WSB-TV, Johnson hasn’t been charged with any crime.

X users offered up their takes on the twisted situation.

It’s yet another example of the sad state of America circa 2024 where criminals and other wrongdoers are allowed to play the victim while the real victims are often the ones who end up in trouble with the law.

Chris Donaldson
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