Difference between revisions of "Fulton Sheriff wrongfully evicts Mother and children"

[[File:Scorpion.jpg|left|200px|Sheriff Pat Labat. Credit: Ben Hendren]]

[[File:Scorpion.jpg|left|200px|Sheriff Pat Labat. Credit: Ben Hendren]]

It is that same court order described above that the Fulton County Sheriff's Deputies claimed gave them the authority to remove all residents from 955 Tiverton Lane, which is completely erroneous and a violation of the remaining residents' Due Process rights under both the Georgia and U.S. Constitutions. Though a typical eviction is conducted by the '''Civil Processing Unit''', that wasn't enough for Sheriff Pat Labat's team in this instance. Rather, the Sheriff's Deputies called the infamous SCORPION Unit for backup when Jackson's fiance refused to vacate the home. The Fulton County Sheriff's SCORPION Unit has been under fire as of late since the World watched recordings of the Memphis SCORPION unit beating Tyre Nichols to death in Tennessee. The NAACP has since put pressure on Sheriff Labat to disband Fulton County's SCORPION Unit completely. Ironically, in an article printed just weeks later in response to the NAACP's request, "Sheriff Labat said the main focus of the SCORPION Unit in Fulton County is repeat offenders in high-crime areas with warrants out for their arrest."<ref>[https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/02/02/georgia-naacp-demands-fulton-county-sheriffs-office-disband-scorpion-unit/ Georgia NAACP demands Fulton County disband SCORPION Unit]</ref> We'd be hard pressed to buy into the notion that this alleged ''focus'' should include evicting a woman and children in the Country Club of the South without a court order. Perhaps Sheriff Labat holds broader, more creative definitions to the words "warrants" and "high-crime areas" than the rest of us.

It is that same court order described above that the Fulton County Sheriff's Deputies claimed gave them the authority to remove all residents from 955 Tiverton Lane, which is completely erroneous and a violation of the remaining residents' Due Process rights under both the Georgia and U.S. Constitutions. Though a typical eviction is conducted by the '''Civil Processing Unit''', that wasn't enough for Sheriff Pat Labat's team in this instance. Rather, the Sheriff's Deputies called the infamous SCORPION Unit for backup when Jackson's fiance refused to vacate the home. The Fulton County Sheriff's SCORPION Unit has been under fire as of late since the World watched recordings of the Memphis SCORPION unit beating Tyre Nichols to death in Tennessee. The NAACP has since put pressure on Sheriff Labat to disband Fulton County's SCORPION Unit completely. Ironically, in an article printed just weeks later in response to the NAACP's request, "Sheriff Labat said the main focus of the SCORPION Unit in Fulton County is repeat offenders in high-crime areas with warrants out for their arrest."<ref>[https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/02/02/georgia-naacp-demands-fulton-county-sheriffs-office-disband-scorpion-unit/ Georgia NAACP demands Fulton County disband SCORPION Unit]</ref> We'd be hard pressed to buy into the notion that this alleged ''focus'' should include evicting a woman and children in the Country Club of the South without a court order. Perhaps Sheriff Labat holds broader, more creative definitions to the words "warrants" and "high-crime areas" than the rest of us.

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