Mother fights to save dead daughter's belongings after squatters invade home
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2018
- Instead of mourning her daughter's unexpected death, Gerry Clark is fighting to save what little she can after squatters moved in to her home.
I'm a cop. CDTP and auto theft ARE a crime and are NOT civil issues. I do not understand their thinking or justification.
Makes you wonder if that happens to be a corrupted precinct and one the squatters a close friend there...
I find these videos amusing..
They know the old sqwaters laws....that was to populate the land....this needs to change....they are stealing homes from honest hard working ctizens....they need to change the laws to update with time....
@@FurlowT If that's your thought process, you're dumb as hell
No, I do not understand either ... I think there should be a law on the side of Homeowner, whether Civil or Criminal, why should people who have worked, pay their taxes be allowed to suffer like this. This family have gone through enough, and it is insult to injury for this mother, who could not grieve properly. It is really sickening.
My heart breaks for her. She lost her child!! She SHOULD NOT be having to deal with any BS like this.
they stole her belongings and it's not criminal are they kidding
So breaking and entering a dead persons house isnt a crime? Since fucking when?
@@ravenfox926 this is why I have an alarm system. If anyone tries to break in...it is breaking and entering and they are arrested. With no alarm system these pple can break in and change the locks. Simply telling the police they live there with a fake lease makes it a civil matter and you have to EVICT.
@@bonitaohyea9258 Pretty sure they weren't thinking of all this while they were busy burying her. And thats what these Assholes were counting on. This wouldn't have happened in my family. Going into my family home like they did is akin to getting stage 4 cancer.......fatal.
@@ravenfox926 there are many families who never thought this would happen to them.
@@bonitaohyea9258 Not EXACTLY what I meant. You see None of our houses are ever empty and our properties are close together for added security. Also, many of my family members are kinda survivalist types (latino, not anglo), who really don't take too kindly to trespassers.
I'll never understand how criminals seem to get more rights than a homeowner does...
Or a renter. Renters have to deal with squatters as well. We can end up with them as neighbours. Not fun.
That's the ridiculous way of the world these days. Criminals apparently have more rights than their victims. Squatters have more rights than home owners. Madness.
Bcs they are the secret weapon of the regime against the population.
Why the hell am i wasting my time abiding by the law?
It does make you wonder when justice only comes to those with political connections and money.
@Skip White Not wrong. I know for a fact that if there was a squatter in the property of our mayor (who is one of those corrupt real estate connected assholes)...there would be an immediate eviction and someone going to jail. That doesn't happen for the private citizen.
This stuff plays out repeatedly across the country. Those connected to law enforcement get special treatment, those connected to government get special treatment and those who play nice with these two groups often get special treatment. That's just how it is.
How about hiring several big, scary people to go in when the squatters aren't there, throw all their crap out and announce that THEIR now squatting there now. Let that asshole go to the cops about THAT!
EXACTLY
Raven Fox damn you smart as fuck
This should be CRIMINAL...!! They need to be put in Jail.....!!!!
Shoot
no squatters need to be KILLED, they are worthless people who have NO intentions to better themselves
My heart goes out to this Mom.
I feel SO sorry for Wendy's mother and family and friends....
💜 AMEN, I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY SOON HER MOTHER FINDS PEACE 🙏💜
As an old combat Marine, if this scenario come up; the guy is dead.
I hear you Brother!
As an Ultra Liberal I agree.
Since when are auto theft, property theft (in excess of $2500.00), and criminal damage to property, civil matters and not criminal offenses? There is a police chief in Colorado Springs who's got some 'splainin to do.
i say every state has a lot to explain to home owner's going threw this same fight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What happened to the police upholding the laws?? This is absolutely ridiculous
Whatever they feel about the home invasion(its f@cking criminal) or the property theft/damage(also f@cking criminal) the damn car going missing is certainly f@cking criminal and should have been investigated on at least 2 points..
no1...if the squatters took it its a crime ...so get off their arse and do something
no2...if the squatters didnt take it its still a f@cking crime...and get off their arse and do something
How is stealing a car civil when there was no permission or contract given. It's crazy.
I bet if she shot him the cops would come.... :-P
I believe this Cole guy is some big shots son or relative
He needs to get put down.
Lazy policemen! Shame! Shame! Shame! If it was their family member's home I bet the squatters would be in jail in a jiffy.
They're not even police officers. I'd rip their badges from their uniforms and throw them in the nearest trash can.
If that was my house, I would hire four of the biggest bad asses that I could find and we would go into the house with my shotgun and force them out. I would dare them to call the police. My mortgage/deed and utility bills + receipts would be all the proof I would need to prove the house is mine plus the things in it. Then I would demand that they get arrested for breaking into my house.
If the cops claim they can’t do anything about it, I would file a complaint with the state attorney, I would hire a lawyer and I would write a letter to the editors of every major newspapers in the country.
In the meantime, they will be forced out, with or without the cops help.
Wow! Glad I don't live in Colorado Springs, where breaking and entering, and car theft is considered civil, not criminal...I guess if you steal a cop car there, then it's ok, it's just a civil matter the cops then have no right to pursue.
MuteSwanArt I love my home.... but Colorado Springs law is MESSED UP. Rewards criminals.... punishes the innocent
Blue state justice?
My wife passed away 19 months ago. Right now I don't really much give a damn about anything. The house is pretty much the way she left it. Her feminine items, all of her belongings. Up until a few months ago I still kept her food in the refrigerator. Everything is pretty much the same way she left it. I have her jewelry, her coins, etc.
If squatters were to break into my house while I was gone and took anything of my wife's out of the house I would go to jail. I would probably go to jail for a long, long time. I would not wait for the Police on that one. I had better just leave it at that.
How are you know man?
Now"
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Better. I just started therapy a week ago. I'll never be made whole, but perhaps it will help me to live with what happened, as well as how she passed away. Thank you for asking. Have a nice day.
@@Ma007rk Thats good to hear, Suicide isnt the answer man I just lost my baby due to miscarriage. Gotta be strong and face the storm. May the universe give you fortitude.
@@neo496
I was what the doctors called a "passive" suicide risk. What that means is I wouldn't actually go out and do the deed, so to speak but I wouldn't have cared if a car would have ran over me or if somebody would have wanted to rob me. I probably would have said "no, you're going to have to kill me". I was one of those kinds. I wasn't going to actually do it myself, but if somebody else did it, be my guest.
And they ask why people take things into there own hands
So very sorry for this lovely lady. God bless you.😍
Wow! I’m so deeply touched... I have no words. What a complete injustice & failure to act on behalf of our “law enforcement”. They cld’ve at least paid an “unofficial” visit... to scare those squatter cockroaches! And too bad the neighbors or good samaritans Cldn’t have gotten together to kick them out.
I don't get it. WHY is this not B&E????
Not Civil!
It's clearly criminal!
She already has to endure the pain of losing her daughter then to see how strangers destroyed your daughters home. I just couldn't deal.
Squatters should have NO rights!
They're not tenants!
They're robbers,thieves, breaking and entering,committing destruction of another person's property!
WHEN SQUATTERS ARE IN COURT MOVE THEM OUT AN CHANGED LOCKS
Stop calling them squatters and start calling them trespassers
Jack Cole will not live to see 45... I’m never wrong. All of the lies he has told and all of the people he has hurt have formed so much bad energy that his dark cloud is now right behind him.... Bye Jack.
Hmmm, I showed up at my daughters and found these people shot dead.
Evict? They broke in. The actual hell?
They should be ashamed of themselves for dropping this case like they did. The police were outrageous!
I feel for this family. ❤️
Drive by shooting as they come in or out. There would be some dead m/f's
It's sad, if go to Wal-Mart & steal hamburger meat you can be sent off to jail, but if you steal a house🏠 there is nothing the cops can do, it's a civil matter.🤔
Yep imagine its just that simple for complete strangers to take your property, and you have to fight a lengthy process to get the rights to your property back. Inconceivable.
What a beautiful woman. May she rest in peace.
this is when private citizens step up to the plate and physically remove the squatters by whatever means necessary.
This is insane
This is repulsive!
This is also happening in Australia too, last I heard.
A criminal prosecution needs to be taken out against the police.
Perhaps another solution is to call the police and report that you found unknown occupants in your home, and they appear to have died of lead poisoning.
Very heartbreaking
I am waiting to do the walk through at my mothers home right now after squatter went through all her belongings when I am n a office studio on the same property and forced out having to evict them. She was in icu and comfort care then hospice and they were moving her boat and atv's when she was dying. I did not leave her side but I did call the police from hospice and let he boat go to continue her critical LAST 2 days care and again when I first went in and the "tenants" I had to evict started threatening to stick the phone I was calling the police on up my ass. Police told me to return to my office and hinder them without eviction. Since her death every step out of the office door ( I was inside my moms home daily feeding her and helping her until she went in the ambulance. Now I do know that in the trash cans were all of the picture on the walls with smashed frames and torn up photos, paper works and a lifetime of mementos destroyed, jewelry box dumped in the trash on top of it all for spite. No help
The most important role of government is to keep law-abiding citizens safe from criminals. Too often they've failed.
This is completely appalling. That poor mother. Wtf is wrong with our legal system?
Wow!!!! Unbelievable!!!! Legal theft.
This is so very sad. I feel terrible for the Mother of this beautiful daughter she lost. So many people in our society are just vile.
kick the back door in call police have them arrested for breaking and entering
My dad died 2 /5/06. Squatters were in on the 6 th. I got there .....got license # of their car, went directly to the police. They would not make a police report. Police woman said......that I didn't own the place. Go through probate she said.
My dad out lived two wives. He retired at 48. .....30 and out.....he could afford to.
When it was all said and done.....all that was left was a laundry hamper with odds and ends that was in his junk drawer.......
I think if this happened again.......I'm going in with my 44 Remington magnum blazing. Then......God will sort it out.....not probate.
Protect and serve.
Something is in the water in colorado!!!!Strange things happen there.😕
Didn't know in Colorado Springs you could steal a car and it's not considered criminal. Go figure?!
What kind of law that US can't control the squatters? This is trespassing, thief, carnapping, invasion of properties, and so on
The reason squatters have rights is because no one wants to deal with them
As a Colorado resident, I call BS on this entire case. It is easy for the police to push most anything off as a "civil" case, rather than "criminal". All they are doing is supporting the criminals that they claim to want to rid the streets and honest citizens of. It is great that a law is now in place, but there are so many charges in this case that could have been pursued if the police department wanted to take the time to put in the hard work. Excuses of the "lack of law" is only used when a department has no interest in a particular case. I doubt that anyone who studies law would argue that law enforcement can get extraordinarily creative when building a criminal case against people that they choose to doggedly take down. This case was just not worth their time. Easy as that. I am a supporter of law enforcement on a whole. I have great respect for all of the hard working men and women who protect us and work to keep the communities that they serve safe. I don't support departments who use lazy excuses to only "serve and protect" certain citizens when it somehow benefits them in some way. This kind of "passing-the-buck" garbage is too widespread in the US, and there needs to be across-the-board changes made in the whole institution of law enforcement in the entire nation. ~Peace!
This is just awful, so sorry for all your looses.
I had to leave my home on two occasions due to injury; I stayed with my sister in another part of town. I was never once a squatting victim; I never had squatters in my home
We already have laws against thieft.
Let's put it all over the news so we can show the squatters exactly how to do it
Unfortunately, the law as it is currently written gives the police no jurisdiction over these matters because they are "not criminal, but civil matters." The squatters know their rights, and take advantage to the limits. It is up to us to get behind new laws that protect private property against marauders who are sociopaths without conscience. Me, if I saw some vigilante justice applied to these bloodsuckers, I would not be bothered.
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That is very possible the squatter killed the daughter. It might be criminal investigation on this case. He had all reasons to do that.
In the very least the guy stole the car.
They can just take a whole car now? Have police simply given up?
How come theft is not criminal ??????
The unauthorized use of a car is a crime and should be considered stolen property
Heartbreaking I feel so horrible for the mom
How the hell is breaking into a house that isn't yours not a criminal matter.
How could the authorities allow these creatures to do this and get away with it? How did they find out this lady had died? They are heartless low life's who deserve no mercy or consideration.
He's claiming they were married, maybe he found out about her in the obituaries or something
Sad poor lady.
The law makers in that state and senate are who is really responsible, Republican Douglas L. Lamborn is the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 5th congressional district, in office since 2007, he needs to get a bill passed and signed in to law. Then the police can kick a-holes like this out and keep it from happening.
If I was that lady I would go and squat in the Mayors home or Chief of polices home....I bet they would have her in jail in 30 seconds..
Squatter=breaking and entering=equals criminal
It's simple, I find you on my property without permission and you don't leave... well, we will see what happens.
All law enforcement has to do is take the squatters in for questionings. For a couple odf hours while the real home owners do whatever they need.! No arrest no legal actions , non of that our justice system is a fraud stuff. Just a little common sense approach to all of this. They moved in, and somebody moved them out. End of story..
Not criminal?? Just that sofa alone is over $1000.⁰⁰ and where I come from, theft over a thousand is a FELONY
As my business law professor would remind us, we have a legal system, not a justice system.
SO'S HONESTLY GOING ON NOW W/ BILL # 15 FROM THE VIDEO HERE........
Why would anyone burglarize a home anymore? You get arrested for that. And it's normally a felony. Just move in, refuse to leave, take whatever you want, sell it, whatever & it's called a civil matter?
Are the cops buying the furniture or maybe a judge if they do not support home owners Government should have to give all taxes payed and not collect until the shit is out
How is the car issue a Civil?? The vehicle is well over $1,000 & being operated without the permission of the owner. That’s a lot a bit of Grand Larceny.
Even if there is no law to arrest squatters stealing is still a crime to stupid cops and law system
We received a message from a Colorado Police Department stating that the criminals have freedom of speech when we sent documentation & information to get the criminals arrested so others aren't harmed. I sent that message with the so....o called Officer's info and the information we sent to the police to get the criminals arrested and sent it to International Law Enforcement. There's some 1800 unsolved crime's in Colorado alone.
This family needs to see if someone is using the dead Victim's Identity. However, we stood & showed the Police pictures of the deceased and the Death Certificate and couldn't get the criminals arrested. It's absolutely horrifying
What the hell!!! What do these people think they are. This scares me. I don't know what happening to this world. No concern!!!
How is this a civil case? Trespassing is a crime. It is a criminal case.
Why are people so heartless. How could people do things like that.
Grand theft auto is NOT a civil matter and has absolutely nothing legally to do with squatting. I’m a federal attorney and judge so I’m well aware of the law that governs both. I sincerely hope this woman sues C Springs for all she can because this is gross dereliction of duty. I pray they aren’t being advised by counsel because that would add incompetent legal advice to the existing pile of ignorance in this case.
Where I come from, this type of thing is handled immediately. There's none of this months on end of unoccupancy. Wtf
Get a job! Take a loan n buy ur own house!!!! The guy said it in one word ....." Parasites"....
First and foremost there are cases out there where real squatters take over a home and this should be criminal. Except this is not one of them. A little internet time spent reading the actual reports online would explain why even the county prosecutor did not touch this as this was not some open and shut stranger "squatter" taking over a poor woman's deceased daughters property. More like a middle aged woman who died of self inflicted alcohol abuse, who was estranged from her adult daughter and ex husband who lived in another state, who had a P.O.S. druggie live-in boyfriend with a record who was even known to the deceased woman's sister, ex husband, and her grown daughter as they were all texting back & forth and on facebook with the "squatter" er, I mean live in boyfriend as the poor woman was on life support in the hospital before they pulled the plug on her. Take a story hungry news station, place a picture of what the woman looked like 22 years ago, and her grieving mother telling her side with the other family members who now say this s just instead a 'squatter", and run this as a sensational story on what's wrong with the system, it's all the Police's fault, is more like what this is. And now 3 years later, 85,000 views, and over 300 angry comments later every single person believes this story as reported here verbatim, when they in fact only have half the true story. There is always two sides to every story and then the truth. If anything to be taken away from this, if you are single, have a potential dark side of life live-in partner, get a will made if you don't want your partner to clean you out while your family is stuck in probate with an attorney waiting on your estate ruling. And make sure your family has a copy of that will. Case Closed.
Squatting should be a trespassing charge which is a crime.
What is the difference between trespassing and squatting. You mean you can just go into someone’s house and take over their property. This is a shame.
so the city AND the county refused to do anything? Minneapolis PD is notorious for not doing their jobs, but we go up to the County Sheriff if that's the case. IDK if they know if CO follows that protocol
You do not need a lawyer to evict anyone. Just file for eviction within the courts and serve the papers
Sometimes you have no choice than put the law into your own hand.
What about the break and enter.
The police were extremely negligent. They could arrest that guy for felony theft of the car. #disgusting.
I could have swore that trespassing and home invasion was criminal. Way to go Colorado on your new bill making it criminal.
oh hell no
Squatter breaks and enters into a house that isn't his...
Police: That is a civil matter...
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I bet if it was a cop's house it wouldn't be civil.