By Amani Chiari | Author of Walls of Silence
On April 22, 2025, a tenant at a rural Minnesota apartment complex experienced a medical emergency following an act of repeated mail vandalism tied to ongoing harassment by a property manager. According to supporting documentation, the individual lost consciousness for approximately 20 minutes.
The incident is one of many episodes of unconsciousness that had been occurring since approximately the same time the year prior after the rental tenants residence, controlled by a lifetime registered sex offender Richard Neumann who had been increasing in hostility as his Adult Grooming efforts did not succeed to coerce the tenant into a sexual relationship, was infested with a German cockroach outbreak after the woman in Richard Neumann's home Sarah Doe whom Neumann sent to beat the tenant (and attempt to stab them) was temporarily removed by a temporarily fearful Richard Neumann as damage control in case police were called. Neumann removed Sarah Doe's items from the rental office (his basement apartment) and in doing so, scattered a roach infestation living in his unit by secreting the infestation and its origin (because he's employed by the property owner Don Klyberg) treating only his unit with over the counter methods and this drove the infestation to other places in the building.
The tenant, physically disabled as a result of an ongoing pattern of systemic abuse—specifically healthcare fraud originating from inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) lies and corruption which serve to support internal embezzlement of the funding by the very middlemen DHS receiving medical funding on behalf of the states disabled despite their history of physical abuse, legal and financial exploitation of the disabled and retaliation against family members which attempt to rescue the disabled from this known abuse and this embezzlement scheme blocks access to daily medical treatment, support and staff which the victims need or the victims would need to be in nursing homes or assisted living to receive the proper level of medical treatment—which this embezzlement scheme the disabled victims are systematically barred from medical treatment in their homes and from facilities through the lies, corruption and disallowance of FIRST PERSON ABUSE COMPLAINTS WHICH MANIFEST AS FRAUD—ABUSIVE CLAIMS THAT VICTIMS ARE IN REASONABLE MEDICAL CONDITION WHEN THEY ARE NOT AND THAT THEY ARE RECIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT WHEN THEY ARE NOT AND RETALITORY FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE VICTIM'S ACTIONS TO DISCREDIT AN VICTIMS THAT ASSERT RIGHTS OR MAKE COMPLAINTS I.E. "THE EXACT BEHAVIOR THE STATE ADMITTED TO COMMITTING INSIDE FACILITIES WHEN THEY SETTLED JENSEN VS. THE STATE OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, After sixteen years (an average time period) going everywhere possible within the states borders for protection the victim understood the only hope for their dangerously frail condition and accessing medical treatment was to exercise their federal right to relocate outside of the state where this abuse was happening and ALL agencies and institutions in the state as well as the media were helping to keep going, The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) federally contracted Housing Authorities Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) and Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority (SNRHA) conspired together and committed federal fraud by refusing to release the victims signed housing choice voucher and request for tenancy approval forms required to enter into New rental outside of the state and violence including certain forced overdose through injection at the victims hotel and possible retaliatory sterilization under that overdose to accomplish this criminal fraud leaving the victim with new permanent physical disability, hundreds of thousands in destruction/loss of all property, more than 30,000.00 in false housing debt, false denials of PPP and EDIL loans for their LLC, illegal annd false withdraw of their national driving privileges' and 1775 days of forced, illegal, homelessness which resulted in attempted capture by a sex trafficking ring forcing the victim back to Minnesota only to be held in the proximity of sexual predators via housing — first at 904 Rice Street, Saint Paul Minnesota where the victim was charged criminally for exercising the second amendment right to protect themselves during a sexual attack and now daily at the current location for the second year without intervention despite police, city hall, city attorney, city inspector, therapist and attorney general all receiving reports of sexual hostility, coercion, property damage, theft, daily harassment and the refusal to make state mandated repairs due to the rejection of sexual demands by the landlord.
The stress of sexual harassment, property neglect, and intimidation in rental housing, blockade to clinical medical treatment, massive infestation controlling diet, sleep, blood pressure— has resulted in serious health consequences including uncontrollable episodes of unconsciousness. The victim has been medically documented as at risk of stroke due to high blood pressure since escaping the state in 2020 to be seen by medical providers outside the state who would document the victims physical condition—which the state of Minnesota is still suppressing and systematically worsening.
Such episodes are not isolated. Medical professionals acknowledge that stress-related disorders, especially those tied to chronic discrimination and trauma, significantly raise the risk of heart disease, stroke, and early death. If the Minnesota Office of African American Health is serious about lowering Black mortality rates, it must confront the impact of oppression and systemic abuse as a root cause of poor health.
Reports of harassment in these cases are specific, well-documented, and involve named individuals and entities. Yet when Black Minnesotans speak of systemic abuse, their experiences are often reduced to abstraction—lumped under generic terms like “inequity” or “disparity”—instead of being treated as real, criminal harm. Meanwhile, reports of Black crime are highly specific, highly visible, and often weaponized. This imbalance shapes public perception. It allows abuse against Black communities to be normalized, while the abusers remain nameless and unaccountable.
Environments where harassment and intimidation go unchecked are public safety threats. And yet, individuals involved in such abuse often continue to secure employment or contracts in housing, healthcare, or public services. Transparency—naming the parties involved, understanding how systems failed, and exposing misconduct—is not about vengeance. It’s a deterrent. It’s harm prevention. It’s justice.
Following the April 22 incident, the tenant delayed essential mail retrieval for several days, fearing renewed conflict. It is a striking example of how systemic abuse interrupts daily life and has financial, psychological, and physical consequences. Victims of systemic racism often suffer from trauma that is rarely acknowledged in clinical spaces. Despite the clear overlap between long-term exposure to racism and post-traumatic stress, there is a critical shortage of therapists equipped to treat it—let alone name it.
This reality leads to unconscious avoidance behaviors. It erodes economic participation. And it has nothing to do with personal failure. It is the direct result of living under threat.
Mental health experts have long called for the inclusion of Legal Abuse Syndrome in diagnostic frameworks. The condition arises from prolonged exposure to injustice, intimidation, and systemic harm—particularly in legal, housing, and healthcare systems. Yet, to date, it remains unrecognized in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), even as it describes the lived reality of many Black Americans.
The racial wealth gap in Minnesota is among the worst in the nation. White families hold 80% more wealth than Black families on average. This isn’t coincidental—it’s the result of theft. Theft of peace. Theft of time. Theft of health and opportunity. And until those who steal it are identified, confronted, and stopped, there can be no meaningful equity.
Minnesota must do better. The laws exist. The regulations exist. What’s missing is the will to enforce them when Black people are harmed.
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