Unicorn Riot | Nearly 100 Venezuelan Migrant Families Were Evicted by a Multi-Agency Show of Force @UnicornRiot | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Residents at the Fitzsimons Place Apartments in Aurora, CO, who are predominantly Venezuelan migrants, were told six days ago that they needed to vacate their homes by 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, or they face arrest. Over 100 law enforcement officers from a variety of agencies showed up at the apartment complex around 7:15 a.m., saying everyone who was not a leaseholder or expressly helping a leaseholder move the last of their belongings needed to leave the property, including media.
After the residents were pushed out of their homes by the city, many of them congregated a block away at the intersection of Oswego St and E 16th Ave with supporters and community organizers who were handing out water, coffee and food. There was also a table with members of the East Colfax Community Collective who were writing down residents' information to get them into temporary hotels, which Aurora Deputy Director of Communications Ryan Luby said the city was going to be paying for through the end of August.
Among the former residents of the Fitzsimons Place Apartments were dozens of young children, the youngest was eight days old.
Luby also mentioned how the apartments' owner and/or manager are scheduled to go to three different municipal court trials over the next two months "specifically related to these outstanding code violations."
Luby said the city has been building a case "for a long time," and that they knew about the code violations since 2020, yet when asked why the residents were only given six days to vacate, he said "because the water was going to get shut off today."
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Residents at the Fitzsimons Place Apartments in Aurora, CO, who are predominantly Venezuelan migrants, were told six days ago that they needed to vacate their homes by 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, or they face arrest. Over 100 law enforcement officers from a variety of agencies showed up at the apartment complex around 7:15 a.m., saying everyone who was not a leaseholder or expressly helping a leaseholder move the last of their belongings needed to leave the property, including media.
After the residents were pushed out of their homes by the city, many of them congregated a block away at the intersection of Oswego St and E 16th Ave with supporters and community organizers who were handing out water, coffee and food. There was also a table with members of the East Colfax Community Collective who were writing down residents' information to get them into temporary hotels, which Aurora Deputy Director of Communications Ryan Luby said the city was going to be paying for through the end of August.
Among the former residents of the Fitzsimons Place Apartments were dozens of young children, the youngest was eight days old.
Luby also mentioned how the apartments' owner and/or manager are scheduled to go to three different municipal court trials over the next two months "specifically related to these outstanding code violations."
Luby said the city has been building a case "for a long time," and that they knew about the code violations since 2020, yet when asked why the residents were only given six days to vacate, he said "because the water was going to get shut off today."
Watch our three-hour long stream from the eviction here: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/nearly-100-migrant-families-evicted-from-aurora-co-slumlord-apartment/
Support independent media: https://unicornriot.ninja/donate/
