More than 100 tenants and advocates, organized by the
Regional Tenant Organizing Network, blocked eviction
hearings at the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San
Jose, California Wednesday morning, protesting the
displacement of renters during the coronavirus pandemic.
Protesters blocking the courthouse entrance effectively
shut down the court in the morning hours before being
violently removed by County Sheriff’s Deputies. Nine
protesters were arrested on the charge of disrupting court
operations. In a video on Twitter
that gained over 19,000 views in a few hours, a protester is
seen being dragged violently away from the crowd by a squad
of deputies.