Wokko wrote:Seattle Mayor just said that police will return to the CHAZ/CHOP and take it back from Antifa and BLM. The zone that was barricaded off and turned into some kind of woke commune has seen rapes, murders, extortion, robbery and a warlord in the space of a couple of weeks. I don't think Communism has ever failed so fast.
The people there are armed so if they're itching for a fight it could be another Waco type siege.
^ Please link your sources, so people can have a look at the reports for themselves. Not twitter from a bloke in Orange County, some actual reportage from someone who might be in a position to say something useful.
Here's part of the Seattle Times' report, which is quite lengthy:
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that the Seattle Police Department will be returning to its abandoned East Precinct building “peacefully and in the near future,” following a weekend in which three people were shot in the protest area that has emerged around the building.
Durkan said the city would attempt to phase down nighttime activity in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, known as CHOP or CHAZ, but would not be using police to clear the area. Rather, Durkan said, they’d be asking people to leave the area voluntarily at night, offering resources for those going through homelessness and working with community groups to try to cajole people to leave the area, where dozens of tents have sprouted up in recent weeks, along with couches, guerrilla gardens and graffiti.
“It’s time for people to go home, it is time for us to restore Cal Anderson and Capitol Hill so it can be a vibrant part of the community,” Durkan said. “The impacts on the businesses and residents and the community are now too much.”
Shifting the protests away from evening hours mirrors changes sought by some protesters themselves.
Some organizers affiliated with the protest zone distributed an unsigned letter Sunday calling for “suggested” CHOP hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to encourage the area “to stop being a chaotic, immobile zone” in the overnight hours
Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best, at a news conference, offered no specific timeline for returning to the East Precinct, but that it would be done in a “phased” way.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... rkan-says/
