Cities across America require landlords to evict domestic violence VICTIMS

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13. Thank you for posting this. It really sickens me.

I lived this. In total. It was circa early 1990's, pre-Oj and Nicole Simpson. . I had a "fellow" renter who stalked me. He lived down the hall from me.

Three Am, and many nights he would bang on my door to tell me to turn my music down. (There was no music on - I was sound asleep in a quiet apartment when he banged on my door.)

When I called police, they would say I had no rights as he paid rent too. And if I didn't like his actions, maybe I
should move. They would say I provoked him. When I stayed away from my own residence, to avoid this happening, then he would threaten my thirteen year old son.

He made death threats. Others in the building heard these. Nothing happened. Not even when the witnesses made reports to the police on my behalf.

Luckily I won some money in an unrelated court proceeding, and was able to move out of there. Right before my luck changed, I actually thought of getting a damn gun and just blowing the guy away - how dare he threaten my son! (If that had been how my fate had played out, I imagine I would be typing this from a women's correctional facility right now!)

I can't believe all these many years since, and this kind of behavior is still going on. With the police and society still blaming the victim. It is beyond disgusting.