WBAI reporter Andrea Sears, who had arranged with a resident of a high-rise apartment building overlooking the site of the Dec. 17th attempted take-over of Duarte Square, to report from the resident's window of the action below.
However, when Andrea went to the pre-arranged apartment she found undercover officers already on the floor and no one answering the doorbell to the apartment she was going to report from. She reported on-air that the resident was threatened by the landlord with eviction THE NEXT DAY (Scott Somer knows they would really need 90 days for a physical eviction) if the resident let anyone from WBAI in the apartment.
This also applied to adjoining apartments. Andrea reported on this during Saturday's live coverage of the December 17th protest. She said she could have tried to cover things from the hallway window but figured she would just be thrown out and the hallway is overtly the landlord's property. This is very scary and obviously implies some sort of wiretapping or infiltration of WBAI to have found out about this arrangement between WBAI and usage of a resident's private apartment before it happened and then threatening them with homelessness to stop media coverage.
