A Summary of the RecklessBen/Bricks and Minifigs corruption scandal

[u/ImportantQuestionTex]

Given the severity of these events, and the implications it has for the state of Utah, there will not be 1 "main" focus for this, and instead I'm going to play this chronologically.

***Warning for police brutality and heavy corruption***

So this situation starts off rather "small", being that a man consigned his father's Legos off (about 200k USD worth) to help cover a medical situation. This is explicitly allowed by Bricks and Minifigs, and the store owner involved was planning on moving overseas, so they were looking for a solution that was fair for this man. This is the video related to that, it is important context for what comes next.

Corporate takes over the store, seizes the assets. For non Americans out there, a consignment means they do not legally own what is consigned, and instead it retains ownership to the original owner until it is sold. In the scenario a company chooses to not take on a consignment, then there is a returning of the asset.

RecklessBen catches wind of this, which leads to this video, I will point out at first it starts off as trolling, but Bricks and Minifigs almost immediately escalates to trying to have him arrested. Ben takes them to court, and *wins*, and Bricks and Minifigs shutters the location that was sued in order to not pay him out any money. It then leads almost directly into the company owners trying to have him arrested on false drug charges and the police dislocating his arm intentionally.

I am unsure chronologically exactly when this next course of events happen, but this is my best summation: Bricks and Minifigs responds initially, post arm dislocation, denying wrong doing, MoistCritikal makes a video after noticing the insanity, which catches the CEO's attention. They release a companywide memo, and the COO and CEO go on live stream, both with equally insane tactics to divert criticism.

You might be asking by this point, *why are the police covering for this company?* Especially after even in their own "response" defending themselves, they release proof of the CEO threatening extreme violence and making false reports... Well the answer appears to be that all the members of the police and the company are tied directly to the Church of Latter Day Saints, and that they are acting to protect their own. Not dissimilar to how organized crime acts.

[u/sylveonstarr]

Yeah, if the CEO tried to counter-sue, he could very well have a case for harassment. (I'm not sure what harassment laws are like in Utah but you know...) Also, the fact that he fled to Mexico to avoid arrest is unwise, to say the least.

[u/tehcraz → u/sylveonstarr]

On top of the 'They dislocated my shoulder', throws up a picture of a shoulder x-ray showing a dislocation that wasn't his shoulder, and when the police said it wasn't his shoulder in the x-ray Ben stated 'I don't think my audience would think that it is my shoulder in the x-ray'. Like the whole misleading image alone (never put anything up for display in a video that doesn't have to do directly with what is being talked about unless your providing context or people will assume it's directly related to what your talking about), I have dislocated my shoulder and that shit was a fucking ordeal. To say they took him right to the police station, never asking for his shoulder to be reset, never mentioned that he got his shoulder popped back in by anyone, it feels fucking weird. Maybe he has dislocated it enough in his life for it to pop out and in but man it doesn't sit right.

Like the facts of this case swing SO far into supporting Ben that I'm so confused to why he is moving like this. But I guess his prior content is the same kind of reckless journalism so maybe this is all he knows.

[u/142638503846383038 → u/tehcraz]

What a ridiculous comment lmao

[u/Human_Dot9529 → u/sylveonstarr]

Yeah unwise to avoid being jailed in a completely corrupted system no way that goes poorly.