weddingsinger: After all I've seen from the police in this country  the past month or so I'm gonna go ahead and presume this is probably true.

I think it is unlikely that they intentionally screwed up the address so they could go in and violently clear out all the black people from this particular house.  That said, I think it is totally believable that a city would push their police services to aggressively pursue every warrant they could, on a targeted area that a developer wanted to gentrify, in order to pressure all the poor people, who just happen to be black and vote against the local GOP, to leave.

Again, I think the problem is the local governments being too focused on increasing their tax base by pushing up property values at the expense of anyone who is not a property owners, which means that the poor and minorities suffer, because old rich white people don't want to live or shop around any of them.  We really need to abolish taxation on the municipal level, and just have the state collect all property and taxes, other than federal taxes, and then distribute to communities based on their need, rather than their privilege.  That would remove the incentive of local governments to push out and punish poor people, and it mean that poorer communities got the same level of education, infrastructure, and policing as wealthy white communities. All fines issued from the local municipality should have to go to the state budget as well, so towns can't use ticketing as a revenue stream.