In one such incident in the Bronx, in 1984, a police officer shot and killed a 66-year-old black woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, who was resisting eviction for nonpayment of rent.

On the morning of Oct. 29, 1984, City Housing Authority officials summoned the police after reporting that Mrs. Bumpurs was resisting eviction.

In requesting NYPD assistance, housing authority workers told police that Bumpurs was emotionally disturbed, had threatened to throw boiling lye, and was using a knife to resist eviction.

The Guji also acquired firearms during this period, and used them to resist eviction from the Park afterwards.

To many in the neighborhood, the community group's three-year effort to resist eviction symbolized a broader struggle against the gentrification of the Lower East Side.

In the 1870s, the Fenians tried to organise the tenant farmers in County Mayo to resist eviction.

The statement did not indicate whether the owners would resist eviction.

The rest of the Nama resisted eviction throughout the apartheid era, and Kooper also was brought back by the community.

The party is expected to acknowledge that the court "stands on the shoulders" of the crofters of the Braes who resisted eviction.

Charas has been resisting eviction ever since.