it is their property, so it is wrong for something like that!

Wow, that was depressing and the outright lies in it, astounding.

we need our freedom back! Thanks, Gina R Gant

Welcome to the USSA. You have no rights, no trial, no habeas corpus … and police can lie with immunity, but if you lie you go to jail.

The man should get each and every name and file criminal charges and civil suit for theft of private property and trespassing. When the city notified him the first time, he could have filed a lien on the property for 2 million in damages per person, per incident, and sent a notice of demand to all the city county and state offices. That would have stopped them before this, and if it didn’t… he’d own them any way!

According to info in that video this happened at Claymont, Delaware.
The uniformed officer is with Delaware STATE Police & the police car is labeled State Police
The trucks & workers were from Delaware Dept. of Transportation
The pole did appear to be in the right of way (between the sidewalk & the curb)

When did the woman who did the all the talking show I.D. or identify herself, but the wronged homeowner did call her “Officier”.
The woman who did all the talking absolutely did lie to the homeowner.

I hope the people of Delaware respond to this. Tho is may have been a lawful action I would believe there are more important matters for the State Police & Delaware DOT to spend taxpayers’ money on.

Mail boxes are in the “right of way” too, but that doesn’t give the state the right to just go ripping them up for NO REASON. If they NEED to move the poles, that’s one thing, but to assert this power over a pissing contest is wrong.
What I’m hearing here is ONE person complained in the community they live in about the hoops, so the state spends big $$$ to go round stealing peoples personal property, rip them all out? … and in a hostile fashion, no time is given to complain, no time to have their side of the story heard at the town hall meeting or by there reps? Bull crap.

What this sounds like to me, is one group of kids playing in a street that has too much traffic for it, and not moving fast enough when cars are coming, so 1 guy makes a big deal out of it, then the state says, ‘well, we have to do all of them if we do one, or it can be perceived as unfair or racist’.

Instead of messing with the hoops, they should have gone after the kids causing the problem, and if they couldn’t do that, they should of told that guy to go find another cause and dropped it all together.

Just another case of “there ought to be a law’ mentality, no thought behind it, jus a knee jerk reaction to a problem.
One size fits all means it fits no one.

What a SAD SAD day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was mishandled badly by the officers involved, what do you tell children or in my case my grand children, my grandson was sitting in my lap and watched this misfortunate situation unfold and asked why did they do that, why did that lady policeman lie, would you let a policeman lie if she worked for you.

So, I explained when reasonable people no longer conduct themselves in a reasonable manner bad things happen. I attempted to explain to him that following an internal investigation both officers would be confronted with disciplinary action up to termination if they worked for me. He asked why would I firer the man (police officer) he didn’t talk? I told him that is why he took an oath when he became a police officer. It was also his job not to blindly follow or take direction from a senior officer or fellow officer. I told him it is never acceptable to lie in order to accomplish your job! It seems we will be having several conversation over this matter during the next few weeks, as we should!

They are just conditioning you to following orders without question, and being pushed around. The airpots, bus depots, on the street, on your property, and next, in your home.

makes me sick.unaccountable govmnt employees.and we pay these tyrants!how long will we take orders from the hired hands?

editor: you say to answere “CIVILLY”. that is what our state and federal representatives wants us to do,but, they DO NOT HEAR US when we do.
don’t know the circumstances,but that state trooper would have been holding me back. who in hell was the young lady to be calling the shots.
and also, the persons name would have been revealed to me that caused this. when you have kids, it’s nice to hear the b’ball bouncing,at least you know where they are.
when I was a child 55 yeras ago. we had hoops from old barrell rings on trees with NO net.
I think it’s coming time when we will have to get fiscal and say whats on our mind. old sarges view!

Where did this happen? You need to publish the name of the city, town, county, the mayor, the police chief and the names of the town/city council members that passed and allowed this law to be used against its citizens. Everyone who sees this video should wright, e-mail, call or personally visit the police station and the mayors office and let your feelings be known on just how wrong this kind of abuse is. By the way, who was the mouthy, smartly dressed blond with the expensive hair du barking out the orders to the home owners. The public really needs to know her name and contact info.

I am amazed at the sheep like people we have as public servants. They can not think for themselves ,they are slaves to the system. They all knew this was not the right thing to do , they did it anyway. A very bad precedent.The dippy biddy with the attitude , who lied on camera should be dismissed from her position now!

Notice the name of the city and officials responsible was not included? The faceless gestapo will always prevail. If this happens to you, publish the names and organizations of these fascists. The people have power.

Confiscation without payment of product.Not a neighborhood I’d want to live in. I look at basketball hoops as a sign of vitality and energy within a community and Lord knows our kids need the exercise.Their priorities were way off base.

Aside from the loss of the B-ball, the home-owner is imputed with property taxes for the length of ownership.

Property taxes are a lien in perpetuity–to argue that no resident ever owns their property. Of course, the resident will lose their property should they be unable to pay taxes–even if there is no outstanding mortgage. Owning propety is not out-right ownership.

It is soon time to rise up fellow Americans!!…

Fascist Bastards! Liars and Low Lifes. At what point will people start absolutely losing it on elected officials? Soon I hope.

Basketball hoops?? Where’s the priority here? How about going after 20 million illegals?
Elaine

I guess the government would rather see kids hanging in the streets, than playing basketball. I could not believe my eyes, what the %#$&!!

Great use of public funds. No little old ladies jaywalking in that town?

Unfortunately, from what I could tell, the basketball hoop was implanted in the public right of way which does not belong to property owners. I am sure that the county or city where this occurred has had ordinances on the books for decades prohibiting the erection of such structures.

The lesson to be learned here is that rights given or the blind eye selective enforcement of said ordinances can be taken away at any time unlike our inalienable God given rights.

An important thing to remember is that when government works toward granting rights to education, social security and healthcare is that they may also decide the quality and distribution, or simply take it away all together.

I wonder of Karolyn can feel the chains yet?. These folk sure can. They had their property stolen from them at gunpoint by the people who were supposed to protect them. (Serve and protect. Remember?) They were told to get in the house like the Royal Guard used to tell peasants in England.

This is going on more and more, all over the USA. That is why me and many other will rise up against this and all the other disjustest in this land. When the call goes out much will change. We need to go back to basics. I hope these people get some justice from this video post. Public officials don’t like to be shown as liers.

This video shows a frightening, disgusting abuse of personal property rights. Theft by public officials. It was totally uncalled for to remove their property [ie, basketball hoop] even AFTER telling them they could keep it. The American people should rise up and DARE to protect personal property, personal belongings, and the right to speak to whomever, whenever. Truly appalling video.