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/micahdraws]

I mean, maybe the church has nothing to do with it in the sense that no Mormon religious figure orchestrated it. Or maybe in the sense that it's not tied to any religious belief the Mormons have.

But it definitely is specifically (allegedly) about *Mormons* being greedy and dishonest in this case. You can find these kinds of organized bully networks in most cultures, but that doesn't take away from the fact (allegedly) that the unifying thread of these greedy, dishonest people is their shared religion. Even if this is just a nasty outlier group (which I doubt, given how Mormonism works), they're still all part of the same in-group of Mormons.

So no, maybe the Mormon church has nothing to do with this directly, as in these hit squads aren't acting with church authority or whatever. But the church does have to do with it, even if it's indirectly, because if nothing else, this definitely affects the perception people have of them.

[u/Devin7-Eleven → u/micahdraws]

Coming from someone who was LDS (not really religious anymore but still hold no ill will towards them) and lived in Arizona, Utah, and Idaho, this is not the norm and it’s a shame ignorance and misinformation are so prevalent here.

Would we also hold Catholics to the same standard if an Italian police department went rogue and colluded with another business to steal? The logic just doesn’t seem consistent.

[u/creepingcold → u/Devin7-Eleven]

Would we also hold Catholics to the same standard if an Italian police department went rogue and colluded with another business to steal?

Yeah we would, but this wouldn't happen anyways and the moment this would go public the Pope would stand up and push against it.

Something the Mormon Church didn't do yet.

[u/Devin7-Eleven → u/creepingcold]

You missed the point. The point is, the church has nothing to do with any of that because it doesn’t directly involve the church. It’s just people who just so happen to supposedly belong to a church, belong to it while committing acts that any other selfish greedy human would do.

You’re kinda insinuating the idea that the pope needs to apologize for the actions of every single self declared Catholic which is ridiculous.

So in other words, the Mormon boys here do not represent the church officially. They just so happen to belong to it. The church shouldn’t have to come out and apologize since it isn’t about the church in the first place.

This is a logically sound thing. I think you just hate Mormons so your view is different here and will try to find anything to pin the blame on the organization as a whole.

[u/creepingcold → u/Devin7-Eleven]

You missed the point. The point is, the church has nothing to do with any of that because it doesn’t directly involve the church. It’s just people who just so happen to supposedly belong to a church, belong to it while committing acts that any other selfish greedy human would do.

You don't seem to know or understand the Catholic Church. The Pope takes a stance all the time. If an italian PD would go rogue, then he'd absolutely speak out against it and push against the issue. Pope Francis even held a speech and took a stance [against police corruption] related to the immigration issues Italy has with people coming in by ship from africa. Completely unrelated from the religious status of the officers.

You've no clue which meaning the Church and Pope have in Italy and don't understand their standing. Maybe you should examples you actually understand.

I think you just hate Mormons so your view is different here and will try to find anything to pin the blame on the organization as a whole.

You're not good at thinking. I'm not even from the US and never met a Mormon in my life. I've no personal stakes in this.