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| Seattle reaches deal with 'CHOP' to remove temporary roadblocks, replace with concrete barriers |
| 2020-06-17 |
| [FoxNews] The city of Seattle and protesters occupying the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" have reached an agreement that will remove temporary roadblocks and replace them with concrete barriers, Fox News has been told. The Seattle Department of Transportation is installing concrete barriers in the middle of Pine Street, running East and West, which will split the road for both pedestrian and vehicle traffic. This will allow for emergency service vehicles to pass through the area. The agreement will reduce the area protesters previously called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, from about six or seven city blocks to just three. This is the first time in weeks traffic will be able to pass by the shuttered East Police Precinct. Fox News has confirmed the agreement to replace the wooden barrier set in place by the protesters with concrete barriers with Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities. The Seattle Police Department is not overseeing the concrete barrier being put in place. The development comes after the Seattle City Council on Monday voted unanimously to ban police from using chokeholds, and crowd-control devices like tear gas and pepper spray. A federal judge on Friday issued a temporary order banning Seattle police from using tear gas, pepper spray, and foam-tipped projectiles against protesters. The court found that the department had used less-lethal weapons “disproportionately and without provocation,” stifling free speech. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 Do I have to put in a dollar if it turns out it wasn't the Bee after all? |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-06-17 15:02 |
| #9 How can property owners and residents in other parts of the US be sure that their home and property won't be made part of a newly established special zone behind a concrete wall in a couple of days or weeks? By not electing communists and lunatics to their city councils. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-06-17 13:27 |
| #8 "How can property owners and residents in other parts of the US be sure that their home and property won't be made part of a newly established special zone behind a concrete wall in a couple of days or weeks?" Depends on where the 'other parts of the US' are as to the property owners' responses. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-06-17 11:26 |
| #7 What about equal protection and the republican form of government for those beyond the How can property owners and residents in other parts of the US be sure that their home and property won't be made part of a newly established special zone behind a concrete wall in a couple of days or weeks? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-06-17 10:29 |
| #6 Reading the headline, I seriously expected this to be a Bee story. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-06-17 10:24 |
| #5 Block off the streets going in with trash. Instead of sending the garbage trucks to dump at the landfill, use them to block off the streets leading in. About 4 weeks and viola, they're no longer an issue. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-06-17 10:20 |
| #4 Just freaking cut cell reception in that area and see them surrender. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-17 10:00 |
| #3 Good -- concrete barriers will do better at blocking shrapnel. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-06-17 09:51 |
| #2 Too bad none of the residents and businesses of the occupied territories were represented :( |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-06-17 09:06 |
| #1 And so now the city of Seattle owns the Antifa insurrection. They are one and the same. Here we go. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-06-17 01:47 |