It is a crime. Those cameras are recording evidence for criminal investigations; turning them off to prevent things from being recorded is a form of obstruction. Trouble is that it's the guys who enforce the law who are committing the crime.
This is my girlfriend. We appreciate Lackluster for sharing her story and raising awareness. We are engaging with the comments at home in disbelief because literally what everyone is saying definitely went through our heads when we first witnessed this tragedy. Everything was shambled, broken, stolen, or lost. With no apology or accountability, just to offer her 2 months free rent. SMH Thank you for all of the positive support.
Wow I'm so sorry this happened to you guys! You definitely need to speak with an attorney. You could easily find one that would pick up this case and you need to be compensated financially !🥺
Two months of "free" rent is the most heartless, irresponsible, disrespectful offer they could've said nothing and it would've been kinder than "2 months of rent." Disgusting!!!
@@OregonSingles Maybe a year of free rent. And with cops involved that could be civil rights/search and seizure territory. Entering w/o warrant. Failure to train officers, etc.
They offered 2 months of no rent when they illegally entered a house, stole valuable possessions and read private medical records, caused emotional stress to a pregnant woman and her children. Do not accept this insulting offer. Get a lawyer.
Unless this was on top of replacing every missing or broken item, a service to come in and do the cleaning up and restoring the home to the way it was before, this seems like an absurd offer they should expect would be rejected. Just the broken and missing items pictured here totals more than two months rent. Two months rent on top of making her whole is still insultingly low in compensation for the trauma, but considering the monetary loss exceeds that by far, it's just an absurd offer.
The state is sovereign and does not make mistakes! This type of videos are fabricated. Welcome to the new normal in the Republic of USA. You will own nothing, and will be happy
P.S. They should ask their lawyer if they can hold rent payments(they would still have to be escrowed). They need to ask their lawyer to make sure they do EVERYTHING they can to screw over the aparment management. Make it hurt and maybe they will be more careful in the future.
Suing is expensive and time consuming. It could take years to wind through the court system. Any judgment could take years to collect. An out of court settlement is far preferable as it’s faster and must be paid immediately.
Some innocent family’s home got robbed and items thrown destroyed because they all can’t read a document. SMH. And they don’t even have any remorse at all.
They turned the cameras off. Friendly reminder body cams are not for our safety. The cops would never agree to wear cameras they werent in full control of, and were primarily for their own safety
Yeah that moment was very telling. In my eyes, that was the moment in time that the body cameras should have been running until the homeowner arrived and was spoken with and given contact information for immediate assistance.
Body cameras aren't about safety, they are about more evidence to convict you with that is why when they realize that the shoe is on the other foot and THEY are the ones being filed committing crimes and the body cameras will work against them, they turn them off.
At least that one cop wasn't a complete moron..."What woman expecting a child would allow this...?" One without stuff to lose...If not for that one cop, everything would have been gone!
@@dominickjasso5500 well, i dunno about that, but if you want to know what drives progress, technology, and invention, its capitalism 100% you probably love and trust the government im guessing. because you think they can do everything for you, better than someone who is selling and creating better ways of life. when did that shift happen that people trust the government?? lol what!??! in america its tradition to distrust, its basically in my constitution. i doubt your an american, thats why i said my.
Failure to double- and triple-check the apartment number before entering demonstrates a reckless disregard for civil rights. Now, put it all back just like you found it.
The cops should have patted down the movers since valuables were missing. Then arrested anyone that stole something. MAYBE that would have kept them out of the forth coming lawsuits. Maybe.
The fact someone had to go retrieve the key from an employee who should know what unit is getting tossed out yet gave the WRONG one is so far beyond incompetent!!
@@eltorocal Yes, and the deputies need to be sued. The black woman who talks about notifying people of the eviction may work for the property management company, in which case she should also definitely be sued. Even if she works for the sheriff instead, she and the property management company should still be part of the lawsuit. But if it was a master key, the employee who gave them the key did nothing wrong.
the option to disable a body cam just shouldn't exist, when an officer takes the body cam out of the charging station it should just starts recording and only stops when it is put back to the charging station and then it starts uploading the movie the a secure place where the officer can't get to
@@dennispetersen2558 exactly... this is 2024. memory cards are cheap. those things should record constantly. But the police department allows them to be turned off to keep the cops out of trouble.,
@@rudder727 It could easily be set up to autocratically turn on once the officer steps out of the vehicle for any interaction with the public, and the dash cameras (front and inside) should cover the moments they're in the vehicle.
@@KingBrandon-zd3ci Because prerequisites everyone needs to take for every degree don’t exist. How about you admit you’re too stupid and never went to college?
A year would be a good place to start. If I were that property owner, I’d be bending over backwards to accommodate this family. I’d immediately write them a $10,000 check to try go towards replacing whatever was destroyed. Doing it that way would cost WAAYYYYY less than a lawyer and would prove that I care about my tenants. And the employee who caused all of this would’ve been fired on the spot that same day using the same police present that day to escort her off of the premises. If the property owner isn’t already bending over backwards, then she should definitely be seeking damages on top of that.
@@GLuck-r9e I'd have laughed in their faces. It seems she didnt take it anyway, but even if rent was 3 or 4k thats a slap in the face offer. This is going to cost the management company 6 digits. Minimum.
I was a property manager for many years. The property management company and the sheriff's department are screwed. She has major lawsuit on her hands. I hope she has a vicious enough lawyer
My wife did property management for years as well for hundreds of properties. Her comment: "Oh Oh, that's going to end very badly for the managers and the Sherriff!"
@@underduress5761 This would not be a qualified immunity situation. Qualified immunity is reserved for when an officer errs on the side of violating your rights when it isn't otherwise clear in law or case law. This is a case of negligence on at least one party, most certainly including officers involved. This is criminal since it resulted in the destruction of property, invasion of privacy without warrant or probable cause.
If she had come home during the eviction, I'm sure they would have gone "hands on," shoved her around and forced her to lay face down in the parking lot. Strictly for officer safety, of course!
Had she been home they would have arrested her to justify what they did. They would have falsely claimed she had a warrant and said that’s why they went inside to get her.
They won't be. I live 5 minutes from this complex and Howard County cops are despicable. They are all above the law and can do no wrong. I've lived here my entire life and while I've never been in trouble with the law, I have needed help and they literally don't care.
Flagrant neglect since you can see the one sheriff open up the paperwork not 2 feet away from the number plate for the apartment and not even do a first check against each other.
There probably will be consequences since she's employed a lawyer. Of course the consequences will be paid for by the taxpayer, not the clowns who can't read an eviction document. They'll investigate themselves and find they've done nothing wrong.
@@user-bf8tv8xv4w Not a lawyer, but in this case I believe the property management company would be liable for most of the damages since they were present overseeing the eviction and got the wrong apartment.
They destroyed their property, because they didn't check the warrant. All they get is two free months?! That building owner is just as responsible for letting them in.
I hope they continue their grievance with a lawsuit. This is an appalling display of incompetence, ignorance, vandalism, stupidity, on and on. Who makes sure employees have any sort of education.
@@Argonisgema Hell, my refrigerator has about $700 in food in it right now. I'd be demanding 3 years free rent, minimal. Plus the cost of a hotel for the immediate future as that apartment isn't fit for habitation.
That would require proving that they weren't entitled to do it, and specifically knew it. Since they had a court order with a slightly different address, that would be impossible to prove, as it's clear that they thought that it was the right address. Qualified immunity actually doesn't apply to criminal matters, but in this case, it is the normal protections for criminal defendants that would make the difference.
Because it was an honest mistake. The property management company escorted them to the apartment and told them "this is the one". The cops should have been more diligent, but this is the landlord's fault, and they are going to be the ones paying to make this family whole.
5 million dollar lawsuit. And name that property manager as a defendant. Take everything she owns. Car, furniture, bank accounts, garnish wages, cell phone, electronics, tv, EVERYTHING!
Law in most states will award 3x damages plus attorneys fees. There wasn't $1.6m of possessions in the house, so probaly won't see $5m. She will get $6,000 and 3 free months rent.
@JeffKubel Most money comes from Emotional distress inflicted, especially when children are involved and affected by blatant negligence of officials and parties involved. Easy 500K to 1 million for a good lawyer.
Well, it's pretty much always been an empty slogan hasn't it? Unless it's about what they're really doing. Protecting the bottom line, maybe serving up some road piracy.
So, not only do police nit know our Constitutional Rights, but they can't read. I guess that would explain not knowing our Rights. My heart goes out to this woman and her children. I hope she's able to get the fair compensation she deserves, although nothing will replace her sense of security.
its kind of funny that here in 2024 the requirment to become a police officer is just like the TV show "police academy" ( wich was a tv show that was a "what if" type of thing about police lowering the standard so low that anyone could become police )
@@Aaron-rk5kl The superiors don't employ people who may in the future be a challenge to their positions , they want dumb order followers , which is exactly what they have got !
@@bryanjones14 actual it sounds like it depends on the situation. HIPAA regulations are cut and dry for people in the medical field. For cops to get access to patient data in most cases must acquire it through a warrant unless it is needed for medical emergencies. In this case it is neither but like I was saying I'm not a 100% but if the cop saw the information, recognized it for what it was but then shared it with other people in that room or talked about it with other people or even cops that then could be looked at as a violation of protected patient information.
it was out in the open, there was no violation. the ultrasound was on her fridge, she put it there. There was no way for someone not to see it. even if they weren't illegally evicting her. If the management had needed to enter the house for an emergency, say a plumbing burst pipe, they'd have seen her ultrasound, that's not a violation as they did not seek it out. it was in public. If you give or present the information to someone yourself, they are not violating HIPAA by being aware of it.
Jewelry was missing. One of those workers stole her jury and the cops should be fully responsible for not double or triple checking the eviction notice.
Glad to hear you have a lawyer working for you now! I hope you buy a new home of your own, free and clear, with your winnings from this case! God bless you and your family.
It doesn't make sense for the workers to be charged. Unless they were somehow told "You are being paid to illegally trash this person's apartment", which they weren't.
If she ends up suing, she should definitely not settle and take it to a jury trial. There is no jury in America that wouldn't be outraged and find the property management company at fault and probably get her the maximum settlement amount.
@@erich6860no them workers are just as to blame as the police they should have had their own paperwork with the property number to be evicted and should have done their own checking 🤷🏻♂️
I agree. Eviction notices are public information so every person who went in that apartment should have read and verified the information for themselves. If any one of them were being wrongfully evicted, they would want a higher standard of verification.
Can't. Best she can do in an attempt to do that is move out of that county, buy a place of her own, and build a moat around it with her own little army to protect her from our govt.
Number one she probably can't that's why she needs to sue for enough to buy her a home and I would make sure that the police and the apartment complex does it
The number is on the door! The property management company and the sheriff's department are both complacent and willing participants, negligent in their duties. I hope she gets several hundred thousand out of her lawsuit
1. The apartment complex is giving her 2 month free rent. 2. If caught jaywalking, the cops will not prosecute. She's lucky...some go to jail for questioning authoriti'
Doesn't it seem strange to you how easily the legal tenants are evicted, and the owners cannot evict the people who illegally occupy their properties, lasting for years?!
The moving company did not make the mistake. They are not there to fix the mistake of police and the apartment management. After being informed I was not legally allowed to be there, I would not want to touch their belongings either or enter the apartment again. A mistake is one thing, "fixing" it without permission is an intentional crime.
Millions? How the hell would you be entitled to “millions” for someone accidentally moving your stuff. You didn’t lose any money? Why would you be entitled to any money? wtf?
I wouldn't unpack her stuff either. it's not my mistake and I already violated her personal space enough. And, who the heck wants that stuff now that there has been 20 sets of fingerprints of people she don't know breathing and going thru her stuff.
*What should happen:* 1) They should be made to return everything to the exact state they found it it. A photo hanging on the fridge was crumpled? They should take it to a photo lab, to be repaired, scanned, enhanced, and reprinted in the exact same quality, and then reattached to the fridge, exactly where it was. Screen of an iPad damaged? They should take it to Apple, and have them clone the drive onto a new iPad (making it functionally identical), and have the original professionally shredded (for privacy). Every single thing, precisely restored to exactly how it was before they entered the apartment. This would be meticulous work for hundreds of specialists, adding up to tens of thousand work hours, costing millions of dollars, just to restore the apartment. It'll give them perspective on how much easier it is to break things, than to repair them, and hopefully motivate them to avoid breaking things in the future. 2) The tenants should not only be compensated for having their lives completely upended, but even for the slightest, most trivial inconvenience on top of that. Obviously, any time they need to spend on the process should be compensated, and they should be provided alternative accommodations until the apartment is restored. 3) Turning off a bodycam is destruction of evidence. The deputies should be prosecuted on the assumption that what they destroyed was the most incriminating statements imaginable in that circumstance, and be convicted if they fail to prove positively that they didn't make those statements. Basically, if they can't prove that they were *not* talking about how they deliberately and maliciously targeted these tenants, they should be convicted of having done exactly that. *What will happen:* Nothing much.
@@douglassmith3016 You absolutely do not have to prove malicious intent in a burglary case in most states. Otherwise, some guy gets caught breaking into your house in the middle of the night and he gets off just saying "Hey, I thought it was my house."
@@Iamrightyouarewrong most crimes (including burglary) require intent. This was obviously an accident. You can be held civilly liable for a accident but it isn’t criminal.
Pizza hut and door dash dont get paid if they go to the wrong property. Police get paid regardless of showing up at the right property, and they also get paid to sit in court and claim qualified immunity
@@cypeman8037Oh right, that's all? Nothing really, is that what you are saying? Ffs, she is totally innocent in all this and every single one of them present didn't care one iota. They basically tossed her life processions in bags, and dumped it.
This is what happens when people are graduated from school without being able to read. It's just that simple. Who could possible be expected to VERIFY a document before DESTROYING someone's life.
@@chriscald9426 This seems to be a common occurrence with Sherriff depts and police depts all over the U.S. Breaking into the wrong address and people getting hurt because of it.
Was it the police or the eviction team who read who was supposed to be evicted? I know both of them should have known, but the company responsible for removing the items, the property management, and the cops should all have read who was being evicted, but yet all 3 of them failed to realize the problem. So i guess that means the police are the ones guilty of not verifying they were at the correct address, as the other 2 parties could claim they were going off what the cops told them.
The 'Marshal' was acting as a Law Enforcement Rep. - so, his Dept's. responsible along with the Property Mgmt. Co. I guess None of those involved thought 30 seconds of reading to *_Confirm the Eviction_* was worth the effort. *_-•- P e a c e -•-_*
@@SoloWryder There weren't any Marshals involved in this incident. Those idiots were Sheriff's Deputies... Supposedly the most ardent defenders of Constitutional rights 😂
@@StopResisting ▪︎ My bad. Where _I'm_ from, 'Marshals' are into Ugly details like Evictions and, will even partner with 'Bounty Hunters'. So, going _rogue_ Or being 'Loose' with Protocols might be a daily issue.
Two months of free rent is an absolute joke. I would have offered to pay for anything missing, damaged, ruined AND at least 6 months of free rent, and go from there. By being cheap, unempathetic morons, they are likely going to have to dish out 2-5 years worth of rent for legal fees and the lawsuit settlement.
I’d sue the cops and the property management company and move out of there asap if she’s able to afford it! They had like 10 people there, not one of them could read an address number?!??
I worked for a mortgage company during the height of the housing crisis, and the amount of times we saw the wrong house get emptied for a foreclosure was staggering. People would lose everything because workers were too lazy to double-check paperwork.
I was a MP in the army. First thing we were taught is to make sure you are at the right address first. How is something so basic missed. It makes me sick to see something that could so easily be avoided happen, time and time again.
@@Bosco-nq2kk We joke and call you fake cops, but the military always has higher standards. Our ROE in country was way stricter than domestic cops. Everytime I had to deal with MPs, it really was completely my fault. And I was still treated 1000% a lot better than the slop I just witnessed.
I am a maintenance supervisor and I have been doing this work for over 30 years. There's no way that this should ever happen. The fault belongs on the management company, but also belongs to the police officers as well. It's almost impossible for you to pull the right key and get the wrong apartment. But if you are using a master key that could happen. Management is supposed to know who is being He evicted. and who is not. The deputy's job is to verify that the paperwork is legit. And it corresponds with the right address before any executions. I hope that they find a good lawyer and Soothe the hell out of these people involved. This case is both criminal and civil. The criminal part is the unlawful entry and removal and destruction of property with a civil action should take on the The deputies and the management company for wrongful Eviction. and negligence. 4:29 and police officers behave for negligence.
Getting a lawyer will help big time. I once had property maintenance accidentally flood my apt, causing a lot of damage. The manager said they weren't responsible for damage as I should have had renter's insurance. So I talked to a lawyer who wrote a letter. The manager came back so fast to offer apologies and a fat check.
Yep, and they're gonna get QI on this. Happens all the time with wrong addresses, wrong plate number, wrong birthdate, wrong name. If I did that in my work, I would be held liable. I know this for fact because I know idiots in my line of work who have done it and they were held 100% liable. "Oopsy" didn't and doesn't work. Such a joke.
Company is screwed most tenant agreements say that the company can’t enter your property without advanced notice so not only are they breaking the law they’re in breach of their own contract. This is gonna cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I agree they deserve millions, but the shity state of Maryland will make sure that doesn't happen and Howard county is one of the more richer counties in the state, so Maryland is definitely going to take care of that police clown department.
Indeed. That itself is illegal in Maryland. They cannot break items or throw items away without giving the tenant an opportunity to retrieve. Usually its by the end of the day if Im not mistaken. They have to place everything outside.
In California the landlord is allowed to keep the stuff if it's worth more than $400 and he has to auction it off and take his cut out of it whatever's owed. So technically if you leave anything it's not yours anymore. It makes sense though if you owe rent money and you don't get your stuff out it's not your stuff anymore
It's more to like make things go smoothly. If you get evicted it's not out the realm of possibility that someone will be upset and cause a scene. However God damn if you give a guy a gun and the power to detain people make sure they can fucking read Jesus christ
Eviction is a legal process so the police are involved. Otherwise no one would ever get evicted. But they have to be accurate when doing this stuff. The taxpayers will now have to fork over a lot of money for their stupidity.
People that get evicted usually aren't the most stable, level-headed people. A lot of them don't handle it very well. Also, as the other guy mentioned, an eviction is something a court orders and the police ensure it happens.
That is beyond gross negligence. The moment they shut off their body cameras at the moment they should have faced an automatic job loss with no pension and no qualified immunity. The screw-ups need to pay for their screw UPS and not the taxpayer.
It's okay that the lawyers have to deal with the compensation for this person who was wronged by the sheriff's department and the property managers. Two months of rent is an insult to everything she has lost, especially the humiliation she went through in having her private life exposed.
Sue Shiriffs office, movers and property managers. How many hands did the paperwork go through AND no one noticed THEY all got the address wrong??! Except one Deputy??! Sue them into their next lives!
