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2020-06-10 -Lurid Crime Tales-

[Fox News] Seattle protesters storm City Hall, demand mayor resign after driving police out of area, declaring autonomous zone

Hundreds of protesters, aided by a sympathetic City Council member, stormed Seattle's City Hall Tuesday night to demand the mayor's resignation, just days after seizing a six-block downtown zone that includes a shuttered police precinct.

Demonstrators remained peaceful, without reports of violence or injuries, but are pushing Mayor Jenny Durkan to step down if she refuses to defund the city's police department.

The protesters continued to camp out in a self-declared "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ)-- a region spanning six blocks and encompassing the precinct-- which has effectively been abandoned by law enforcement after the Seattle Police Department closed the East Precinct on Monday.
Much more at link, with pictures.

Courtesy of lord garth, Red State reports on the above-unnamed City Council member and the events leading up to the storming. Lots of tweets with video at the link:

Late on Tuesday night, hundreds of protestors entered Seattle City Hall. It is believed that City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who has a key to the building, opened it up for them.

Sawant called her colleagues "sellouts" and "corporate politicians.

Also:

Earlier on Tuesday, Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County filed a lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department over the “violent tactics it has used to break up largely peaceful protests in recent days.”

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-06-10 10:53|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top
File under: Antifa

#1 This has gone beyond "demonstrations" to outright anarchy and secession. We are in the midst of a civil war, and too few people understand that -- including our president and the DC bureaucrats. It will only end in bloodshed and destruction. I fear for our nation.

Posted by Old Patriot 2020-06-10 12:26|| 2020-06-10 12:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Apparently Bane, and Dr. Crane's Courts are being discussed.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-10 12:29|| 2020-06-10 12:29|| Front Page Top

#3 including our president

I would disagree with you there, Old Patriot.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-10 12:30|| 2020-06-10 12:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Who run Seattle before the Intifada?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-10 12:39|| 2020-06-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Grapeshot, whiff thereof. Proceed accordingly.

They are calling for armed guards for their barricades. I think that a visit from a suitable detachment of military is in order. Maybe start with a Warthog or Apache visit.

Posted by AlanC 2020-06-10 12:58|| 2020-06-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Just down the road.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-10 13:06|| 2020-06-10 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Who run Seattle before the Intifada?

g(r)omgoru, Wikipedia has more than anyone wants to know about Seattle’s governance. To whit:

Seattle's political culture is very liberal and progressive for the United States, with over 80% of the population voting for the Democratic Party. All precincts in Seattle voted for Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.[263] In partisan elections for the Washington State Legislature and United States Congress, nearly all elections are won by Democrats. Although local elections are nonpartisan, most of the city's elected officials are known to be Democrats.

In 1926, Seattle became the first major American city to elect a female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes.[264] It has also elected an openly gay mayor, Ed Murray,[265] and a third-party socialist councillor, Kshama Sawant.[266] For the first time in United States history, an openly gay black woman was elected to public office when Sherry Harris was elected as a Seattle city councillor in 1991.[267][268] The majority of the city council is female.[269]

Seattle is widely considered one of the most socially liberal cities in the United States, even surpassing Portland.[271] In the 2012 U.S. general election, a majority of Seattleites voted to approve Referendum 74 and legalize gay marriage in Washington state.[272] In the same election, an overwhelming majority of Seattleites also voted to approve the legalization of the recreational use of cannabis in the state.[273] Like much of the Pacific Northwest (which has the lowest rate of church attendance in the United States and consistently reports the highest percentage of atheism[274][275]), church attendance, religious belief, and political influence of religious leaders are much lower than in other parts of America.[276]

In July 2012, Seattle banned plastic shopping bags.[277] In June 2014 the city passed a local ordinance to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour on a staged basis from 2015 to 2021. When fully implemented the $15 hourly rate will be the highest minimum wage in the nation.[278]

On October 6, 2014, Seattle officially replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, honoring Seattle's Native American community and acknowledging the controversies surrounding the legacy of Christopher Columbus.[279][280]

On May 9, 2017, Mayor Murray announced he would not seek re-election[281] following a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of several teenaged boys in the 1980s.[282] Murray resigned as mayor on September 12, 2017, effective at 5 p.m. on September 13, 2017,[283] hours after The Seattle Times reported a fifth allegation of child sexual abuse.[284]

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-10 13:17|| 2020-06-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, look, it's the Committee For Public Safety, with all their cutting edge ideas.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-06-10 13:23|| 2020-06-10 13:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I was like being facetious, TW.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-10 13:34|| 2020-06-10 13:34|| Front Page Top

#10 My dear, you know you need to add LOL or ;-) or /facetiousness if you want me to pick up on such subtleties. When you don’t, inevitably I’ll use up an excessive number of Fred’s bytes to share information about things you already inferred.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-10 14:05|| 2020-06-10 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 The majority of the city council is female.

Hm

Posted by charger 2020-06-10 14:11|| 2020-06-10 14:11|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 Gomen'nasai

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-10 14:19|| 2020-06-10 14:19|| Front Page Top

#13 six out of nine on city council are female so not quite a gynecocracy

however, all for sustainability, diversity (except for viewpoint diversity), etc.

Posted by lord garth 2020-06-10 14:29|| 2020-06-10 14:29|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm sure none of those three males are Clint Eastwood or John Wayne types.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-10 14:35|| 2020-06-10 14:35|| Front Page Top

#15 aided by a sympathetic City Council member

Another commie import Kshama Sawant
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We should have wrote our own damn code. And we did until the overlords greed got out of hand.

Posted by Large Hatrack3141 2020-06-10 14:42|| 2020-06-10 14:42|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ Or Chuck Norris.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-06-10 15:00|| 2020-06-10 15:00|| Front Page Top

#17 Sighhh... #16 is in reference to #14

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-06-10 15:02|| 2020-06-10 15:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Obviously

Posted by KBK 2020-06-10 17:47|| 2020-06-10 17:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Seems setting up an alternate city-government is the City version of treason.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-10 18:57|| 2020-06-10 18:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Apparently some rapper has declared he and his gang are the police and is already on video beating people.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-06-10 20:22|| 2020-06-10 20:22|| Front Page Top

#21 Didn't it take months for the scenario in Lord of the Flies to develop?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-10 20:30|| 2020-06-10 20:30|| Front Page Top

#22 Given this defund local Police move, I am wondering if this is part of a greater plan?

Like to use the unrest as a means to gain acceptance for a DC Swamp controlled National Police Force (Gestapo) to restore order?

OR, to force Trump to use the NG to restore order. Which they will use to start another Impeachment process and play for Black voters that have given up on the Democrats.

Posted by NN2N 2020-06-10 20:50|| 2020-06-10 20:50|| Front Page Top

#23 Obama was talking about some kind of national police force, wasn't he?

Posted by charger 2020-06-10 21:12|| 2020-06-10 21:12|| Front Page Top

#24 HAHAHAHAHAHA, BLM hasn't just jumped the shark, they're buggering it's dead carcass. The Democrats have maybe a week to get as far away from them as they can before every mom with kids under 10 maybe howls for BLM blood. They want to cancel Paw Patrol and euthanize the police dog!

BLM hates Paw Patrol

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-06-10 21:17|| 2020-06-10 21:17|| Front Page Top

#25 No, he was talking something like the Tonton Macute

Posted by Mercutio 2020-06-10 21:19|| 2020-06-10 21:19|| Front Page Top

#26 Maximum chaos and split the black vote away from Trump by trying to get him to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by KBK 2020-06-10 21:35|| 2020-06-10 21:35|| Front Page Top

#27 Obama was talking about some kind of national police force, wasn't he?

I keep remembering that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-10 21:40|| 2020-06-10 21:40|| Front Page Top

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