The guard was caught red-handed stealing from an elderly woman's purse. Instead of being charged… all of the homeowners were instructed to remove their door cams.
Huh??
After doorbell camera catches security guard stealing from elderly woman’s purse, HOA forces homeowners to remove their cameras
MIAMI-DADE, FL – According to a report from 7News, a Northeast Miami-Dade condo homeowner was “ordered” by her condo association to remove her doorbell camera just days after another resident’s doorbell camera caught a theft involving the building’s security guard.
The woman, identified as Magdalena Cuprys, who lives at The Towers of Quayside condominiums, expressed her anger and frustration. She said:
“It made me mad to be honest with you.”
Back in June, video footage from another resident’s doorbell camera on Quayside Tower Four appeared to show the security guard of the building taking something from an injured elderly woman’s purse while first responders tended to her during an incident.
And that video immediately went viral on social media; it was also aired on 7News. The 83-year-old woman who was taken to the hospital to be treated for her injuries after falling, opted not to press charges against the now fired security guard.
She stated that she wasn’t sure if anything was actually stolen from her purse despite the footage showing the security guard removing something from the bag and stuffing it in her pants.
Cuprys, who lives in a neighboring tower at Quayside, said she was glad to have her doorbell camera like the resident who captured the video of the theft by the security guard.
She said that she even mentioned it within a Quayside Facebook group, which appears to be the catalyst to her being “required” to remove the doorbell. She said in a statement:
“As soon as I posted that I have a Ring doorbell, the next day I received a letter from the [homeowners] association stating that I was violating condo rules and that I have to remove my camera.”
In the letter she received, Cuprys said that the tower’s association cited “a material alteration of a common element” as the reason behind the order to remove the doorbell camera. She added:
“It’s a cover-up, basically.”
Cuprys, who is an attorney, posted about the letter on social media, adding:
“I took a picture of the complete letter and I posted it on the Facebook group so that they could all see what it stated.”
She said that the safety of her loved ones is the most important to thing to her, which is why she has the doorbell camera. She said:
“I have a small child who is 8 and this was put up for my safety. They’re more concerned about us not wanting to video things that happened and share them with other residents.”
The letter she received states that she is violating a uniformity rule, but she showed a 7News crew many clear examples of other doors on her floor that appear to also deviate from the rule, with knockers, security reinforcements, and religious decorations.
She said that the doorbell rule is a double standard and its not fair. She added:
“If something happens tomorrow, there’s no camera because they’ve asked to have them all taken off.”
As for the security guard, even though she was captured in the surveillance video and was terminated from the job, no criminal charges were ever filed against her.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/hoa-forces-homeowners-to-remove-their-doorbell-cameras/