Squatter standoff captured on camera in Queens

Dan Krauth has the latest on the standoff.

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[Brklyn_NuYawka]

This is a STUPID law. I am triggered watching this video 🤬

[Brunomgonzalez]

This is the most fucking backwards law I've ever seen. The HOMEOWNER was kicked out while the squatter with no proof gets to stay?!?! wtf is going on. Squatters better pray they never meet the right one.

[aBMWEnthusiast]

Let me get this straight: if a homeowner attempts to remove a squatter from their property, the homeowner is told it is a civil matter & the police can not do anything. In contrast, when the same squatter alleges the homeowner illegally removed them from a home they have no right to, the homeowner gets arrested. America!

[Vampagan]

If that was a politician's house, I guarantee you this would be a completely different video.

[greggreg]

You’re better off to pay 10 hard-core gang members to go in there and make sure the suckers don’t come back😮😮😮

[FindMissingKids]

Sue the police department for false imprisonment. They admitted on camera they didnt see a lease.

[ExplodingParrotChannel]

We should make a protest against these squatter laws. This has gotten outrageous.

[Walter_Sobchak_]

She needs to sue the squatters and the police for false imprisonment.

[doofsdoofs]

Shame on ABC 7 for blurring the squatters' faces.

[Valhalla_Heathen]

The fact that squatters have more rights than homeowners is seriously mind boggling! 😑

[xeulpnb]

That is absolutely insane how could you be arrested for someone moving into your house ???

[eiforget]

I don’t understand why squatting isn’t considered breaking and entering. It just shouldn’t be this hard to get people out of a home that you own and they have no right to.

[lc]

Unbelievable. The squatter is telling her that she needs to pay him to leave. What a piece of sh*t!

[Sheri]

If a person is hired to do work in someone else's home, that doesn't give him the right to also live there. Doesn't even sound like anyone hired him. He just saw a loophole to bully someone. He's abusing the system. Shame on him.

[carriecree]

Be smart: if you have a vacant home, contact the utility providers and put in file that your services are OFF without your social security number to verify for future service activation. Inform them that you don't rent the property and nobody should be trying to use utilities. Notify the USPS that the home is vacant and forward any mail being sent to your main residence.

Take away the oven, fridge, laundry machines, the microwave, etc.

Squatters prefer free amenities, so don't provide them with any.

[jjjjj]

I met an older gentleman who was hospitalized and was doing poorly. At first his children thought he was going to pass away but he didn’t. He was scheduled to move into an assisted living facility and his kids helped him by emptying his home to prepare it for sale. After a month at assisted living he was doing so much better that everyone thought he should move back into his home. Unfortunately squatters had taken over with a fake lease and all sorts of problems ensued. Eventually he got his house back but it took about 8 months. Imagine beating the odds and surviving cancer you thought would kill you just to be greeted with something like that. If this was your parent, imagine all of the frustration, stress, anger. Why is it that cheats, snakes, and liars have the upper hand in this situation while honest, hardworking people who play by the rules have to suffer? It’s a shame how many loopholes we’ve let our govt create which allow things like this happen. Letting people run amuck with no consequences does nothing but create chaos and division among society.

[uzyg]

I’M GLAD THERE WERE CAMERAS AND THIS IS GOING VIRAL! This is WILD 😭

[theprofessional]

This seems like an onion story . These stupid politicians have destroyed my hometown . I feel so bad for that poor woman.

[glamdolly]

Appalling, how can the squatter claim any legal right to live there when he has no valid lease? The law must be changed to protect home owners.

A woman was just murdered when she came home to find two squatters (a man and a woman), in her New York apartment. The situation is way out of hand.

[TheMarkanthony]

Wtf the poor woman, how she kept her composure i dont know. This must be very sad for her as her mother left it to her.
Id be furious