Police Evict Occupy MN From Foreclosed Home

[annm4peace]

Run time: 04:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1x_UPdFDLY   Posted on YouTube: November 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: OccupyMNTV Views on YouTube: 271   Posted on DU: November 20, 2011 By DU Member: annm4peace Views on DU: 1979

 
(this is from last night, Sat 11/19)


Minneapolis police kicked in the door of a foreclosed home and evicted seven to eight Occupy MN protesters just after noon today. A dozen or so squad cars and the fire department were called to the home of an University of Minnesota professor in South Minneapolis who owned the home until U.S. Bank foreclosed on it. There were no arrests made today.

Today’s raid follows an unsuccessful attempt by police last night to evict the protesters. Two protesters were arrested during that failed eviction last night, one for trespassing another for resisting arrest. Police arrived at the home just three hours after protesters occupied it.

Last night police were thwarted as more than 100 activists linked arms around Sára Kaiser’s foreclosed home and successfully prevented Minneapolis police officers from boarding up the house and kicking them off the property, with chants of “You can’t evict them all.” Within minutes, the officers left the scene with their two arrested demonstrators in tow, and the demonstrators re-entered the house at 3334 25th Ave. South.

In the video provided by Occupy MN of Saturday’s failed eviction, police are asked why they are blocking entry into the house.
“We’re doing an investigation” says one of the officers “We’re making sure that no one can come in because it’s a numbers and it’s a safety issue right now….because you guys outnumber us right now by a lot.”

When police returned to the home today at 12:30pm, they were greeted by a much smaller crowd of seven to eight demonstrators. The demonstrators left peacefully and police began the process of boarding up the house. Occupy MN has called a 4:30pm meeting for it’s members to plan its next moves.

This is the second foreclosed home to be “occupied”

Earlier this month, Occupy MN moved into Monique White’s foreclosed home in North Minneapolis to prevent U.S. Bank from evicting her. The move arguably made the local Occupy movement both more ethnically diverse, and more relevant.

Yesterday, dozens of activists expanded their reach by staging a rally outside Sára Kaiser’s home, which was also foreclosed upon by U.S. Bank. Kaiser is a Hungarian immigrant who has lived in the United States for 13 years: she is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota and also teaches Cultural Anthopology at Metro State University. The single mother fell victim to an adjustable home loan and lost legal possession of her home.

Unlike Monique White’s home in North Minneapolis, Sára Kaiser’s home is officially on the real estate market, with a “for sale” sign out front that the Occupy activists removed yesterday and stashed in the back yard before the rally began. Hours before the rally, the first heavy snowfall of the year descended on their heads.

About an hour and a half before the police arrived to make arrests, a squad car was seen circling the block. According to a report in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, the two activists arrested were Devin Lee Wynn-Shemanek and Michael Anthony Bounds, both 19 years old. Bounds was charged with burglary, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s jail roster; Wynn-Shemanek was arrested for obstruction of justice, Minneapolis Police Sgt. John Sullivan told the Pioneer Press. The mortgage company that owns the house reportedly alerted the police department and asked them to remove the protestors.

After Saturday night’s raid one of the protesters proclaimed to onlookers , “If your homes every get foreclosed, call us. We’ll be there.”

(activists were actually chanting this to the Police who were trying to start to put up plywood on the windows. They were also chanting to the police "you are the 99%")

http://www.theuptake.org/2011/11/20/occupy-mn-activists-hold-second-foreclosed-home-despite-arrests/

* the local Sunday "Star Tribune" failed to report on the raid and arrest of 2 people, with 70+ activists, 10 cops in south minneapolis **

[grasswire]

1. same thing happened in Portland

Occupiers took over a foreclosed home. Cops kicked them out.

[annm4peace]

3. Keep of the fight.

I hope more homeowners allow the Occupations to help them fight back and more people get involved.

It is obvious not enough politicians are going to do it so we have to.

[annm4peace]

2. as I was posting this, I see the cops came back two hours ago, Sunday 11/20

http://www.occupymn.org/


MPD booted in the door of the second foreclosed home, occupiers have left peacefully. Emergency meeting tonight, Sunday 11/20 at 5pm at MARS 3458 Minnehaha Ave S
(in southeast Minneapolis.. close to Lake St. if coming from the south you can come up Hiawatha or HWY 55 and go west on 34th st a couple blocks to MInnehaha Ave S.



Our People's Plaza needs hand warmers, gloves, wool socks, hot drinks.

[jwirr]

4. Did the owner get a chance to see proof that the bank even knew

where the deed is located at? This seems to be the basis for refusing to leave the property.

I was very proud of the Occupiers. Go MN.

[annm4peace]

6. Ok, just read a little more info on the mortgage

Fox9 reported that PHH Mortgage owns the house.


looks like PHH Mortgage is a baaaadddd company

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/phh_mortgage.html



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/30/david-brash-phh-mortgage_n_842707.html

"A federal jury has awarded a Georgia man more than $21 million in a lawsuit pitting the homeowner against one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers.

U.S. Army sergeant David Brash was awarded the damages in March, after a Columbus, Ga. jury found that PHH Mortgage, the country's eighth largest mortgage servicer, had incorrectly reported Brash to credit score companies as "seriously delinquent" despite the fact that all his mortgage payments had been automatically deducted from his paycheck."


Here is a litte info on the company
http://corporate.phh.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=187859&p=irol-irhome

http://corporate.phh.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=187859&p=irol-govmanage



PHH Mortgage
Heather McElrath
Director of Public Relations
[e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. "The mortgage company that owns the house reportedly alerted the police department and asked them to

... remove the protestors."

:eyes:

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Go #Minneapolis! Thanks for the video.