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Residents gather to protest single mother, children evicted from Detroit home

Protesters say mother was illegally evicted after she rejected her landlord’s advances

DETROIT – Members of the Detroit Eviction Defense and Detroit Will Breathe peacefully demonstrated Saturday outside the Detroit Police Department’s 10th Precinct.

The demonstration started at noon. The protesters called for justice and said Whitney Burney and her family were illegally evicted by their landlord in December with the help of Detroit police officers.

Detroit police said the eviction should not have happened and the city is working to find a home for Burney and her four children.


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