93-year-old woman handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave her care home

[leftwinger]

Those little 93 year old wrists can easily slide thru any handcuffs. She could even crack the bones slipping thru, then take off running.

 

[harmonica]

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A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

sounds exactly like when the police try to apprehend violent black criminals who resist/don't comply
the police are just doing their job
..what should the facility do?? let people stay there for free????!!!
that's it !!!!!! do whatever you want people! don't pay rent, carjack, steal, attack cops!!

 

[depotoo]

After several times telling Juanita to get her belongings and leave, she refused officers’ commands and stated, ‘Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere,’” the report said.

Fitzgerald was warned that she would be arrested if she did not leave, but continued to refuse to move.

“Juanita still did not listen and refused to leave, stating again to ‘carry me out of here,’” the report said.

The 5-foot-tall, 100 pound woman purposefully slid onto the floor as officers tried to escort her from the building and allegedly resisted officers’ attempts to lift her up, investigators said.

Fitzgerald was eventually escorted to an officer’s patrol vehicle and taken to the Lake County Jail.

The officer noted that due to her age and possibility of injury, Fitzgerald was not handcuffed.

The Eustis police report said that Franklin House staff offiered to help her move, but refused.

She also refused assistance from the Department of Children and Families, The Homeless Coalition, Department of Elder Affairs and eight other agencies, officers said.

Fitzgerald was being held at the Lake County Jail in lieu of a $500 bond on a charge of trespassing.
Eustis woman evicted days before her 94th birthday, jailed when she refuses to leave, police say

It sounds to me like she must have dementia and needs to be put in a nursing facility. Hopefully they can get a court order to take over her care. She refused all the help she was offered.

 

[Care4all]

"
A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

sounds exactly like when the police try to apprehend violent black criminals who resist/don't comply
the police are just doing their job
..what should the facility do?? let people stay there for free????!!!
that's it !!!!!! do whatever you want people! don't pay rent, carjack, steal, attack cops!!

a social worker might have been able to convince her or her doctor might have been able to explain it to her....

where have they put her?

and what was the MOLD about in the article?

 

[koshergrl]

"
A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

So it's the facility's fault that the cops killed her?

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

 

[leftwinger]

Sounds to me like she needed a visit from a home physician like the great Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

 

[depotoo]

They said they tried all that. She refused help.

She had said there was mold in her apt and and they had it tested and found none-


Fitzgerald also said she tried to pay rent in October and was refused. She said the Franklin House offered her assistance and tried to find her another home, but she refused and she has refused help from her own family.

"I don't want them to help me. I don't need no help. I've got all the help I need," Fitzgerald said pointing to the sky.

And-


Twinem also confirmed that Fitzgerald also had complained about having mold in her apartment, but said the facility had her apartment tested and no mold was found.

Twinem said officials contacted the 93-year-old woman’s family several times to try to get her help and even reached out to several agencies, including the Homeless Coalition, LiveStream Behavior Center, the United Way of Lake County, Family and Children’s Services of Lake County, the Area Agency on Aging and several other apartments and transitional housing programs. Twinem said Fitzgerald refused all the assistance offered.

“I feel like everything was done that could possibly be done to help her I feel a lot of this was brought on herself,” Franklin House resident Terri Goldberg said of Fitzgerald.
Woman, 93, arrested for not paying rent

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

sounds exactly like when the police try to apprehend violent black criminals who resist/don't comply
the police are just doing their job
..what should the facility do?? let people stay there for free????!!!
that's it !!!!!! do whatever you want people! don't pay rent, carjack, steal, attack cops!!

a social worker might have been able to convince her or her doctor might have been able to explain it to her....

where have they put her?

and what was the MOLD about in the article?

 

[depotoo]

She didn’t die. She is staying with a friend now.

"
A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

So it's the facility's fault that the cops killed her?

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

 

[koshergrl]

She didn’t die. She is staying with a friend now.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

So it's the facility's fault that the cops killed her?

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

Well that's a miracle.

 

[Care4all]

She didn’t die. She is staying with a friend now.

What we need is BIGGER AND MORE GOVERNMENT!

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

So it's the facility's fault that the cops killed her?

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

pay no attention to her, she's just off her rocker!

 

[koshergrl]

She didn’t die. She is staying with a friend now.

That seems to be the acceptable answer for some people....sadly.

The left can never connect their own dots. Government abuses old lady means we need more government. Government shoots innocent people with hands up, we need more government. Government lies and gets us into war, we need more government. The left are psychotic.

the FACILITY ABUSED HER which is not the govt imo, the police were just executing the facility's eviction notice

So it's the facility's fault that the cops killed her?

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

pay no attention to her, she's just off her rocker!

You are a fucking retard. You really are.

See, Care is an example of the types of people who need to be locked up. The criminals always are excused in her book. They are the good guys. Just followin orders!

Since when does a *facility* provide kill lists to cops?

This sounds so familiar...

"In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings."

How the Nazi's defense of 'just following orders' plays out in the mind

They were just following orders:

 

[deanrd]

I don't know why we need to treat elderly like that.

WE don't.

Republicans do. How else can they get the money to pay for corporate tax cuts.

Those old people today. You tomorrow. Republicans, take a good long look at what your party has planned for you.

 

[leftwinger]

Hey if you don't pay your rent? What to do? Building owner has rights too. Other Tenants don't like the stink........allegedly moldy stink. Unless she is Black, Muslim or Mexican Illegal...gotta go.

She can stand around the bonfire under the freeway sipping Port with the bums. You want equal treatment, right?

 

[koshergrl]

Hey if you don't pay your rent? What to do? Building owner has rights too. Other Tenants don't like the stink........allegedly moldy stink. Unless she is Black, Muslim or Mexican Illegal...gotta go.

She can stand around the bonfire under the freeway sipping Port with the bums. You want equal treatment, right?

In Care's world, the criminals have the rights and the guns and the money.
The rest of us should shut up and let them kill us.

 

[Foxfyre]

"
A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

I think the article also said she was not cuffed???? Some conflicting information there. And also she refused several other options offered her? I would think it more humane to take her to jail than to dump her on the street. And even a 93-year-old cannot willfully refuse to pay rent or follow the rules of any facility.

I know my 91-year-old aunt who, with my permission, makes me and my husband her first line of defense/rescue in all matters is quite mentally and physically capable of knowing what is right and wrong in a situation. She is fully mentally capable to know that she must follow rules required for her and everybody else's safety and that she has to pay her bills or face the same consequences as anybody else.

So I don't know what the whole story is there and can't make an informed opinion as to who is in the wrong.

 

[depotoo]

Adrianna Iwasinski

@AIwasinski
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15h

Replying to @RosaSalpietro and 4 others
She was living in an independent living facility, not assisted living. And other tenants say they tried to help her but she refused. Help even from local charity groups. But I think many of us can agree that jail is not where she belongs.




And she is out of jail. Sad it got to that. I think the police didn’t know what to do at that point. Too bad the courts didn’t appoint an ad litem.

 

[depotoo]

Seems they cuffed her when getting her to the car as she kept squirming out of her chair to the floor, but once in the vehicle, took the cuffs off. She was cuffed when interviewed by the press. They stated is was standard protocol.
Sounds like she wasn’t willing to receive any help, even other tenants offered her help, but she refused that as well. She just wanted to stay there, no matter what. I worry if she was having money troubles, but too proud to ask for help, even when offered help or maybe even scammed. If not, dementia is probably setting in.

What ever the reason just a sad story all around. Too bad her family didn’t just show up to help when they were contacted.

"
A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, from Lake County, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mold in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

A Lake County sheriff’s spokesperson said a deputy tried to connect Ms Fitzgerald with members of her family and other housing facilities, but she refused. She also allegedly turned down the offer to stay with a nurse who worked there.

The report states that as officers attempted to escort her out of the building, she intentionally slid down her chair onto the floor, and resisted police when they tried to pick her up.

They eventually managed to get her out of the independent living facility and put her in the back of a patrol car without handcuffs, it said.

pensioner still faces charges of trespassing and is due to appear in court on 27 December.

Karen Twinem, a spokesperson for National Church Residences, told WKMG Ms Fitzgerald had said she would not pay rent because she thought she would die soon. "

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jalied after refusing to leave care home



It seems excessive to handcuff her, she's not exactly a threat.

I think the article also said she was not cuffed???? Some conflicting information there. And also she refused several other options offered her? I would think it more humane to take her to jail than to dump her on the street. And even a 93-year-old cannot willfully refuse to pay rent or follow the rules of any facility.

I know my 91-year-old aunt who, with my permission, makes me and my husband her first line of defense/rescue in all matters is quite mentally and physically capable of knowing what is right and wrong in a situation. She is fully mentally capable to know that she must follow rules required for her and everybody else's safety and that she has to pay her bills or face the same consequences as anybody else.

So I don't know what the whole story is there and can't make an informed opinion as to who is in the wrong.

 

[Aba Incieni]

When I was little my grammy was cooking beans and she kept saying they wouldn't cook. It went on for hours. Finally they checked and she was cooking our marbles.

 

[KissMy]

Police body cam of arrest

 

[Foxfyre]

Adrianna Iwasinski

@AIwasinski
·
15h

Replying to @RosaSalpietro and 4 others
She was living in an independent living facility, not assisted living. And other tenants say they tried to help her but she refused. Help even from local charity groups. But I think many of us can agree that jail is not where she belongs.




And she is out of jail. Sad it got to that. I think the police didn’t know what to do at that point. Too bad the courts didn’t appoint an ad litem.

When we lived in another state, I was part of an effort to organize and raise funding for a domestic violence facility in our area as no program for that existed at that time. Until we could raise sufficient funding to build and staff a safe house for domestic violence victims, we would place them in homes of our group until we could arrange for something more permanent for them. We worked closely with law enforcement in that as it definitely put us and our families at risk should a violent person find out where his wife and/or kids were placed. And because the victims were not always reliable to keep their whereabouts confidential, we maintained a hard and fast rule that only one family would be placed in any private home at any given time. This at the recommendation of the police.

The Salvation Army would take as many as they could, but they were limited by law as to how many people could reside at their facility at any given time and they often were full of the homeless or others who for whatever reason needed shelter.

So if there was no safe house or other facility to place a woman and/or kids, the police sometimes housed them over night at the jail rather than put them out on the street.

In this day and age, I can just imagine the snowflakes and cop haters would headline it: "Woman and kids, victim of domestic violence, jailed."