This article comes from “infowars.com”
A Georgia woman was jailed after she called police to remove a squatter from her own property on Saturday.
Loletha Hale, the rightful owner of the house, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and a misdemeanor count of terroristic threats for trying to move back into her home that had been occupied by a squatter.
“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 Atlanta.
INSANE. A Georgia homeowner was thrown in jail for criminal trespass after she called the police on a squatter in her home.
A police officer told her to look at things from the squatter’s point of view because not everyone is as fortunate as her to have a bed. pic.twitter.com/g9mq98ywPr
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“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.
The dispute began in August when Hale discovered the alleged squatter, Sakemeyia Johnson, in the home and contacted police.
Authorities cited Johnson under Georgia’s new Squatter Reform Act.
“How can she not be squatting when I’ve never had any type of contract relationship with this person?” Hale said.
The Clayton County Magistrate Court ruled that the woman wasn’t a squatter because she was connected to a previously evicted tenant’s partner.
But in November, a magistrate judge ruled in Hale’s favor, and she told the outlet that she thought Johnson had moved out of the home after she was handed the victory in court last month.
“I returned on Monday to start painting and she had broken the locks at my property,” Hale said.
But instead, Johnson had changed the locks.
“She just caught up out of nowhere,” Johnson told police. “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.”
The police said, according to WSB-TV, that Hale “executed an illegal eviction and forcibly removed Ms. Johnson’s belongings.”
But police confirmed with the judge that Hale did not have a “signed writ of possession,” which would allow Hale to legally evict Johnson.
To add insult to injury, a Clayton County Sheriff’s deputy admonished Hale, suggesting she “check her privilege” and empathize with the squatter.
“Just think of it from this perspective, though,” the deputy said. “Everybody isn’t as fortunate as you to have a bed. All the little things, a bed in their house, food in the kitchen.”
Johnson has not been charged with any crimes.