Three Mothers Occupy an empty house in Oakland for 2 months are evicted with armored vehicles

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/01/moms-4-housing-oakland-housing-crisis-arrests-alameda-county-police-riot-gear/


(Those arrested from inside the house were mothers Jesse Turner, 25; Tolani King, 46; and Misty Cross, 38, all of Oakland. They had previously asked for help from Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf, who they said sat there with a poker face. Later after the raid, when she was on TV, she said how much she cared about them and what a travesty it was to be evicted in a military style. The Mothers said she had to have know about the plans by police to use this military force.)

Before dawn on Tuesday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office descended on a residential block in West Oakland with armored vehicles, guns drawn. The thirty-some officers—including a contingent in military-style fatigues and helmets—showed up not to respond to a riot or the apocalypse, but rather to enforce the eviction of a handful of mothers and their children, a group who has turned their occupation of a house into a (peaceful) protest movement under the banner Moms 4 Housing.


Interview with Misty Cross, one of the moms who was arrested, and her daughter Destiny Johnson. Also with Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland office for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.

Part 1 of the interview
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/moms_4_housing

Part 2 of the interview
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/moms4housing_meet_the_mother_daughter_armed

2928 Magnolia, Oakland, CA