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She’s 90 years old, it’s a safe conclusion that the taxpayer was already paying for her medical care via medicare and she was already released (from jail) and the charges were dropped (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread). The original comment just made up the cost to farm outrage, and it’s fucking ridiculous they felt the need to do that on a post about a 90 year old being evicted.

I know it’s rough to see propaganda you agree with called out, but that’s what’s happening here. That people are reacting as though I’m devaluing or excusing this travesty, I’m not, is the reason I’m doing it - even propaganda you agree with poisons the discussion. Hell, to my eye the cost to throw an ancient woman out of her housing being so incredibly cheap should really make this story all the more disgusting, as it highlights how cheap human suffering really is.

“Hundreds of thousands of dollars” dude, absurd exaggeration doesn’t help anyone. an eviction requires a single non-emergency callout, which in flordia costs around $2500 (evictions are usually categorized as property crime)

Legal filings are covered by the landlord and are significantly more expensive (numbers I am seeing for florida are hovering around $5000, but like all things legal it varies wildly). This was disgusting, but the state isn’t paying out orders of magnitude more than the loss just to protect some random landlord.

Fir the uninformed (me), who was the alternative people might lose their shit over?

Big of you to assume they’d let a girl join…

one of the few ethical businesses.

Unfortunately, while they ultimately capitulated to the union at the last minute, they were still pulling union-busting shit like this in the run up. Costco isn’t magically the one moral business, they’re just broadly less openly shitty to their workers than other warehouses (amazon, target, etc.). They’re also a lot better about PR than most of the other big companies, which is why most people never hear about this but everyone has heard about the “don’t change the price of the hotdog” thing.

Why in the fuck are we suddenly cheering extrajudicial killing just because, for once, it wasn’t someone from our side?

… Oh, yeah okay, it wasn’t someone from our side. For once.