Boston Cops Arrest Four Protestors Chained To Foreclosed Home In Attempt To Block Homeowner Eviction

In Boston, Massachusetts, The Boston Herald reports:

• Four protesters chained to a deck and yelling “No eviction!” were arrested in Roxbury this morning for trying to block a woman’s eviction from a condo that is under foreclosure. Several Boston police officers made attempts to coax the four protesters, chained to each other, off the wooden deck behind Paula Taylor’s condo, but those efforts were rebuffed. After more than an hour of negotiations and as a group of loud, clapping protesters chanted on the street, police cut the chains and arrested all four - two men and two women who were volunteers with a housing advocacy group.

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• Steve Meacham, director of City Life, the non-profit advocacy group that has organized several eviction blockades amid the spiraling mortgage crisis in the city, vowed that protesters would continue to thwart evictions. “This is the beginning of a struggle that will not weaken,” said Meacham.

• A representative from the law office of Harmon Law, handling the eviction for the bank, referred comment to Countrywide, which handled Taylor’s loan.

For more, see Four arrested at Roxbury foreclosure protest.

See also, WCVB-TV Channel 5: Four Arrested During Foreclosure Protest (Company Takes Possession Of Roxbury Condo) (read story) (watch Channel 5 video).