First Red House, now a new Portland occupation simmers
Piedmont resident cites sovereign citizen separation from America as she battles foreclosure.
Another contested eviction situation similar to the so-called Red House on Mississippi simmers less than two miles away in North Portland.
Only this time, citing a high risk of confrontation and violence, sheriff s deputies have put off the eviction indefinitely.
Brenulla White-Bey, a 66-year-old retired Multnomah County nutrition counselor who stopped paying her mortgage five years ago but declines to leave her former house, told the Portland Tribune the authorities have got it wrong. We are about love, truth, peace, freedom and justice for all, she said, calling her situation totally different from that of the Kinney family, whose refusal to leave their North Mississippi home and the subsequent clash between activists and police made headlines around the country in December.
In 2017, the Kinney family stopped paying their mortgage on their North Mississippi home.
The family blamed their decision on confusing paperwork. But others have noted that the members of the family have adopted some of the trademark tactics of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, which often refuses to acknowledge laws or government authority, and which sometimes clashes with banks and landlords, tying up the courts to make debts go away.
In 2018, the bank foreclosed on the Kinneys. Two brothers, Roman and Edward Ozeruga, bought the house at an auction.
In 2020, after the sheriff s office attempted to evict the family in September, William Kinney III, who goes by William Nietzche, called for an Occupy Wall Street -style encampment.
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With protesters’ occupation of the North Portland neighborhood around the so-called “Red House on Mississippi” rounding its fourth day, it remains unclear if there is a peaceful path to resolving a conflict that started two years ago, when a mixed-race family’s long-time home was foreclosed on by their lender, leading law enforcement to try to remove them on Tuesday.
The Kinney family and their supporters have cast the fight as a continuation of the long saga of gentrification, discrimination and predatory subprime lending that has gutted Portland’s historically Black neighborhoods and replaced them with yuppified apartments and condos.
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