Georgia squatters unshaken by recent law change, return to Atlanta home: 'They don't respect the law'

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"It's really just burglary and these people, the squatters that we have had in our community, have had guns and sex trafficking and one overdosed on fentanyl, and these people have guns, so they are comfortable with going into someone's house, not knowing if they are really there or if they want to come home or not, so I think it needs to be stiffer penalties," he told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
(Courtesy of Mel Keyton) The South Fulton Police Department arrived in Keyton's neighborhood on Saturday and arrested six squatters who took over a nearly half-million-dollar home around last Christmas and stole a neighbor's car while they were out of town.
SQUATTERS RETURN TO GEORGIA NEIGHBORHOOD AFTER ARREST: ‘WORST CRIMINAL ACTIVITY I’VE EVER SEEN' Keyton, who is the president of the Hampton Oaks Homeowners Association and is running as a Democrat in the Peach State's 65th State House District, reacted to Georgia's new squatting law with some positivity, saying the change is a step in the right direction, but said the issue is much bigger.
"We have to get these corporations to check because they really don't want to be in the business of being landlords, and it caused more harm than help to communities like mine."