Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Michigan ACORN "Subprime" Protestors Storm Washington Mutual Subsidiary; Cops Called In

The Detroit News reports:
  • "Police had to quell a sit-in Tuesday afternoon after angry protesters complaining about lending practices stormed into a mortgage office [in Livonia, Michigan]. More than a dozen members of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now descended on an office of Long Beach Mortgage about 4:30 p.m. They chanted "predatory lender, criminal offender." The company is the sub-prime branch of Washington Mutual Mortgage Co."

For more, see Livonia:Protesters storm mortgage firm.