[ConservativeMind]

Home invaders should be shot, because they are not legally there.

They are thieves, breaking and entering a privately-owned home.

How can this be a tenant situation when there are no tenants? Why don’t police listen to the home owner and evict them, instead of requiring home owners to defend their property with lethal force?

[SunkenCiv]

That’s kind of mean. Loud too. Better burn it to the ground with the squatters inside, then pin the fire on the squatters and collect the insurance money. Then sue the state and city.

[Vaduz]

Intruders are tenants says city

Sounds more like rot feeding

[Dr. Sivana]

Why don’t police listen to the home owner and evict them, instead of requiring home owners to defend their property with lethal force?

On August 2, 1990, I bought a distressed property for rehab from HUD in Meriden, CT.

One night, the police came. A owman claimed I was in "her house". The previous owner was a youmg man who died in a motorcycle accident. The woman was delusional. I had the deed. I never heard from her again.

The police cannot legally distinguish between my case and the ones in California, yet. This could be ameliorated by updating the law, as Florida has done.

[catnipman]

“Why don’t police listen to the home owner and evict them, instead of requiring home owners to defend their property with lethal force?”

because states opposed to private property, such as Washington state and California, define squatters as tenants, subject to the full panoply of tenant “protection” laws and regulations ...

[TexasGator]

“Why don’t police listen to the home owner and evict them, instead of requiring home owners to defend their property with lethal force?”

Because of the law.

[lastchance]

Police don’t do evictions without a court order.

[Fledermaus]

Agreed.