Portland police chief tells protesters to put down their weapons as armed activists set up autonomous zone protected by booby-traps to protest eviction of black family as violent crime spikes in the neighborhood
The Kinney family have owned the Red House since the 1950s but took out a new mortgage to pay defense lawyers for their son, William III in 2002
The house went into foreclosure and was sold to a developer in 2018 and the family say they were evicted at gunpoint three months ago
A group of activists have camped at the home ever since to express their outrage against gentrification and the eviction of the black and Indigenous family
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Armed protesters have set up a new autonomous zone in Portland to protest the eviction of a black family.
Demonstrators have barricaded themselves in the property, dubbed the Red House on the Mississippi, and have set up booby-traps, laid down homemade spike strips to puncture the tires of vehicles and are stock piling weapons as they prepare to defend the home.
Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell issued a plea to demonstrators Wednesday to put down your weapons and warned officers will use force if necessary to clear the occupation.