Posted on 10/03/2011 6:20:37 AM PDT by Immerito
The Harris family's life began to unravel around dawn on the last day of August.
R.J. Harris, who is 77, was in bed when a noise jolted him awake.
Bam. What was that?
Bam. It sounded like an explosion.
Bam. The front door swung open and officers in masks swarmed inside, pointing rifles.
Police! Hands up! Police!
Harris' wife, an aunt, a son, a grandson, a granddaughter, a great-grandson and a cousin all bolted awake. From the floor above, where one of the Harris daughters lives with her family, came the blast and stench of smoke bombs.
Mr. Harris, standing in the middle of the house that he bought 41 years ago, that has lodged his large family through the neighborhood's gentrification, kept thinking: All you had to do was knock.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Are they in a covenanted neighborhood? If so I missed that. If so the problem could have been dealt with through the association instead of with a SWAT team.
I didn’t infer that you implied that you approve. I simply commented on the character of the information you relayed.
We can’t have the common proletariat daring to think he can live among the patricians, comrade.
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It sounds kind of like “block busting” in the opposite direction. Rich person moves into a poor neighborhood and fixes his place up well beyond the local standard. Then another does the same followed by another until they become the majority and force the last of the original residents out.
Because you HAVE to justify the cool toys bought with public funds SOMEHOW.
Yep, it’s a shame.
May this will come back to haunt those who are working to force the homeowners out.
Hopefully a few local churches will pitch in to get the house up to code.
Just hope they are getting some good advice because there is no reason for them to have to lose their home. Wonder how they can afford the taxes? They have to be pretty steep.
Whenever I read that cops are Americans, too, and would never take bad orders I simply remember articles like this. They take bad orders every day and love to do so.
Well, so long as the officers are safe..../s
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