A Protester Just Interrupted Google's Developer Conference
Jun 25, 2014, 22:31 IST
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About 1 hour into Google's developer conference, Google I/O, a woman made her way through the Moscone Center, holding a T-shirt in protest of Jack Halprin, who is part of Google's legal team.
Back in April, protesters gathered around Halprin's house in San Francisco, accusing him of evicting people from a building, including several so-called "Ellis Act evictions." The Ellis Act is a provision in California that enables landlords to evict tenants in order to "go out of business."
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Although she disrupted the keynote, the people onstage seemed unaffected and continued.
Security guards escorted her out of the building after a few minutes.
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