Crowd protests Miami evictions it claims are illegal

Police waded through a crowd chanting “Shame! Shame!” and “The banks got a bailout! The people got sold out!” to evict three families from a low-income apartment complex in Miami’s Liberty City yesterday. Miami police also arrested a housing activist and a tenant for interfering with the evictions.

The buildings were sold in foreclosure last year, and the confrontation has become the latest battle by activists attempting to keep poor people in their homes during an unprecedented housing and economic crisis that has left Miami with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country.