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    As COVID Deaths Explode and End of Eviction Moratorium Looms, Portland Community Beats Back Eviction Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on December 11, 2020, 7:32 am

    It's Going Down, 9 December 2020

    On Tuesday morning, Portland community members successfully repealed
    heavily armed and militarized Multnomah County Sheriffs backed by
    Portland police officers, who were attempting to evict the
    Afro-Indigenous Kinney family, who has lived in the "Red House on
    Mississippi" in the North Portland neighborhood for 65 years.

    Since September, people have been protesting the eviction of a Black &
    Indigenous family from their home in Portland. Activists put up a 24/7
    eviction blockade around the Red House on Mississippi. Today, Mayor
    Wheeler threatened them with police violence.
    https://t.co/8wHSReHncO pic.twitter.com/iDsqE3oSay
    -- pdx law grrrl (@pdxlawgrrrl) December 9, 2020

    The eviction began in the early morning, after officers officers
    "violently dismantled the 75+ day "Red House" [support] encampment,"
    and then "entered the home itself, destroying its interior, and
    violently arrested two residents - injuring at least one." Supporters
    and neighbors responded by pushing police off the property, into their
    cars, and out of the area. Police cars had their windows busted out,
    were covered in paint, and their tires were slashed, while riot police
    were confronted, driven back with rocks, sprayed with a fire
    extinguisher, and according to one report, were "chased... into a full
    retreat reminiscent of recent street warfare seen in Paris." Police
    responded by firing tear-gas at the crowd. Tuesday's attempted
    eviction is only the latest in a series of attempts to remove the
    family from the home in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
    -- https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-housing-defense-barricades/

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