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A Georgia homeowner, Loletha Hale, was arrested for criminal trespass after attempting to reclaim her home from an alleged 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. Police were called to the property on December 9 after Hale tried to regain access.
The dispute began in August when Loletha Hale found Sakemeyia Johnson in her home and contacted police. While Johnson was cited under Georgia’s Squatter Reform Act, Judge Latrevia Lates-Johnson ruled she wasn’t a squatter due to her connection to a former tenant’s partner.
A deputy, captured on body camera footage, had also advised Hale to consider the alleged squatter’s perspective, directly stating:
“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 deputy said.
See the video report below:
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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