Yep — people (and the assholes in authority) in the so-called “land of the free” have an extremely hard time minding their own damn business and keeping their traps zipped when something doesn’t concern them.
Though I suspect there was more to some of those stories, like a bad blood between neighbors and someone looking for an excuse to make their neighbor’s life difficult. Also, Ukrainian Village in Chicago is relatively white, and the mom in question just so happened to be of Afro-Latina heritage…