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On Saturday afternoon, Rosey White spoke into a megaphone, reliving the trauma of when officials illegally evicted her in 2016. The eviction started a chain reaction of obstacles for her.
It was the first time she ever became homeless, and she wasn t alone in her struggles.
White was one out of the handful of speakerswho gathered outside of Detroit Police Department s Public Safety Headquarters to protest illegal and police-aided evictions on Saturday. The group of over 80 people also marched across downtown Detroit.
White said she was evicted late on a dark evening evening in December 2016 and she lost everything. With nowhere else to go, she had to stay in a homeless shelter. The eviction forced White to rebuild her life step-by-step.
Detroit police reviewing eviction policy after assisting landlord who wrongfully kicked mom out of home
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Detroit police reworking eviction policy after tenants wrongfully removed
Detroit police are reviewing policy relating to how their officers approach landlord-tenant disagreements after one woman and her kids were wrongfully kicked out of their apartment. Activists are encouraging others to speak up about their own experiences as well.
Falsely labeled as a squatter by her landlord in late 2016, White says she was the victim of a lie that was perpetrated by law enforcement who forced her out of her home. I had nowhere to go and I ultimately ended up homeless because of it, she said.