The two-story row house hadn't been occupied in about four years. As Short walked through the rooms with an entourage of police officers, he noted that the smoke detectors were not hard-wired, there were holes in the floors and ceilings, the back door was boarded up and there were no utilities, he said. This building is declared unsafe. Ya'll have to leave. After he left, police tried to clear the building and arrested the three activists who kept working.
Crack dealers do it.
They go into a house that isn't theirs and stay there. This is not different. Joe Gentile, a police spokesman. After the patrol cars rolled away, after the yellow crime scene tape was stretched across the steps and after police stood guard at the door, the debates continued. And all he's doing is looking for a place to live, too.