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In a move that critics are calling “one of the most tasteless events I’ve ever heard of,” Berkeley landlords are celebrating the end of eviction protections in the East Bay city with a cocktail party. The Berkeley Property Owners Association, a trade group for rental property owners in Berkeley, apparently believes regaining the right to throw people out of their homes is cause for celebration — or at least a networking event. The “Fall Social Mixer: Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium” is set for the evening of Sept. 12; the event was first spotted by Berkeleyside.

About an hour passed before protesters entered the bar, at which point multiple fights broke out, Berkeleyside reported. According to one witness, a male BPOA member who attended the event slapped a female protester in the face and pushed her. Videos of the event show other violent altercations, including a protester knocking a party attendee’s eyeglasses off and a party attendee swinging their fist toward a protester.

Statement by the Landlord association:

“We condemn the actions of hostile dissidents who disrupted a private gathering at a local restaurant to intimidate, harass, and physically assault our members who are law-abiding small business owners,” read part of a statement, which was shared with SFGATE.

"Hostile dissidents" is some interesting phrasing for local residents chanting outside of a bar.

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[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

A cocktail party thrown by the Berkeley Property Owners Association in celebration of the end of the city’s eviction moratorium resulted in protests and even physical fights.

Don't worry, I brought my own cocktail cocktail

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago
[-] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Imagine if every tenant did this 🤔 they can't imprison all of them

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

"The absence of any logical explanation as to why you would engage in the offending, the fact that you lay in wait for the complainant to return home, the statement that you made to the complainant as you were setting him on fire, combined with the significant permanent and ongoing effects of the injuries which you caused the complainant persuades me to exercise this discretion," Mr Lynham said.

The sheer will needed to skew the story like this lmao
"The absence of any logical explanation" thinking-about-it

[-] Redscare867@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

The threat of homelessness isn’t violence. It’s just business baby 😎👉

  • that judge apparently
[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In a country with the highest proportion of incarcerated? They sure will try

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

imagine imprisoning like 35% of the country lmao, thatd be wild. not even the slave days had that high of numbers

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Australian king

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

niko-cocktail niko-cocktail niko-cocktail niko-cocktail the tenant union 😇

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

If there was anything that could get me to adventure-time , it would be knowing this was nearby

[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Hi, can anyone tell me how to apply for my fed posting license please? I'd like to do some fed posting now

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone gets one freebee per year. Just make sure to read it aloud to yourself and make it sound funny so the jury laughs in court.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has gotten to a point where I am actively hostile to people who criticize Mao.

Bro saw a problem and stopped it in its tracks. Rightfully fucking so

[-] wild_dog@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

hey can that one landlord nerd from the other day come back here and tell us he's a good person again? that would be funny if they popped up on this post.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

He's on the lemmy.ml version of the post on their Not The Onion community.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Disappointing. Inexcusable really. Not a single gui-better ? ORGANIZE!

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

A shame the protestors didn't capitalize better on them all being in the same place.

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

By building a brick wall about every exit sicko-peepin

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

and evicting people isn't hostile????????????????

[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] pillow@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

small business owners

it's always disconcerting when they go out of their way to say this as if they expect it to make them seem sympathetic

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

They think people interpret it as "Struggling smol bean trying to get ahead in the world" and not "My worst ever boss who was an absolutely gigantic fascist"

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh my god, so scared for the landlords. at least they didn't lie in wait outside and have each protestor follow a tipsy attendee back to their car and confront them there!

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