Black tenants accuse Antioch police of trying to drive them out

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

- A group of African American, low-income tenants accused the city of Antioch in a lawsuit Wednesday of trying to drive them out of federally subsidized housing by creating a police squad to target blacks for arrests, harassment and pressure on their landlords to evict them.

As more black families have been drawn to affordable housing in the Contra Costa County community, “the city has reacted with alarm and hostility to the newcomers, choosing to scapegoat them as the cause of economic downturn,” lawyers for five renters declared in papers filed in federal court in San Francisco.

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