Following “ongoing violence and public safety issues,” Seattle’s mayor has issued an executive order to clear the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone — a several block, autonomous police-free zone — and Seattle police enforced the order Wednesday morning.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said in a statement, “This order, and our police response, comes after weeks of violence in and around the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, including four shootings, resulting in multiple injuries and the deaths of two teenagers.”
“I support peaceful demonstrations,” Best said, adding, “the CHOP has become lawless and brutal. Four shootings — two fatal — robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.”
Police began issuing dispersal orders early Wednesday, and as of approximately 5:20 a.m. local time, officers made about 10 arrests, the department said.
The CHOP zone was formed after explosive standoffs between protesters and Seattle police after the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota who died while in police custody. Following days of clashes, Seattle police on June 8 largely withdrew from the Capitol Hill district, leaving a void for protesters.
The protesters seized a roughly six-block area, including the east precinct, to create an “autonomous police-free zone.”
The zone remained for weeks, and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told ABC News’ “Nightline” last month that it required time and distance to de-escalate the tensions between the people and police.
“We need to have some time for people to feel that they have had the ability to protest and raise their voices and have the time to work, not just with the people on Capitol Hill but with all of Seattle,” she said.
“These protests are protests fundamentally about a policing system that has tried to dominate Black Americans through the history of our country. You don’t meet those protests with domination. You meet them with listening and with change,” Durkan said.
Turns out, the shooter that murdered the 2 black kids, is from the John Brown Gun Club. A communist militia. They were all over their social media celebrating and calling the kids Nazi’s and fascists. They lied on video claiming that the kids were armed, when in reality, they weren’t.
Links, please?
And just like that it’s all over?
That’s all they had to do to break up the little staged coup?
They must’ve found the easy button but it may have had something to do with people organizing and wanting to address them head on, without being controlled opposition.
It was not UNTIL these rioters showed up at the Mayors house that she suddenly had a change of heart. Less than 6 hours after seeing the protesting in front of her home and her neighborhood, she issued the emergency order for Police to go in and take back CHOP.
yup, her door and windows were tagged with ‘BLM’
God damn right. Not reported.
Good job I was going to reply the same damn thing.
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fireworks-patriots-bikers-plan-retake-of-chaz-in-seattle/270113 ……. imagine their disappointment, uh huh
What happen to there rights to breaks shit up and burn Other folks shit to the ground shot anyone they don’t like mayor huh what’s up…. oh I got it as long as it someone else getting fxched .. My hope would be they show up to your house every night you commie w