TERRORISM Seattle CHOP barriers being cleared by city crews, cops at scene; Protesters then began to construct a makeshift barricade

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Wednesday, 01 July 2020The Block Party Is Over. Arrests Made After Mayor Orders End of CHOP.
Written by Luis Miguel






The Block Party Is Over. Arrests Made After Mayor Orders End of CHOP.

The experiment in anarchy is over — for now.
Seattle police cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) on Wednesday following an emergency order from Mayor Jenny Durkan (D). Numerous arrests were made as the city retook possession of the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, citing violence and lawlessness in the area as their primary motives for shutting down the insurrection.
Durkan issued an executive order declaring the cop-free zone an “unlawful assembly” on Wednesday that gave protesters 48 hours to vacate the six-block zone.

At 5:00 a.m., dozens of officers with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) moved onto the scene, some wearing riot gear. Police say any protesters who remain in the area will be subject to arrest. Workers with the Department of Transportation are taking down CHOP signs and removing the barricades that served as the autonomous zone’s border.

And just like that, at 5am, #CHOP is closed. #seattleprotest #CHAZ pic.twitter.com/gVWsrhua0d
— Dustin Akers (@DustinAkers) July 1, 2020

Authorities have already arrested at least 23 individuals, including a 29-year-old man armed with a pipe and kitchen knife. Officers also reported sightings of people with guns in cars circling the area. The vehicles had no visible license plates.


In a statement, Police Chief Carmen Best said:
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.  
As I have said, and I will say again, I support peaceful demonstrations. Black Lives Matter, and I too want to help propel this movement toward meaningful change in our community. 

But enough is enough.  
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.
It should be noted that while the autonomous zone was created to protest the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, both of the fatal victims of the recent shootings in the area were black.

Dustin Akers, a Seattle resident who lives in the heart of the CHOP area, shared a notice sent by his apartment complex that described the dire living conditions since police abandoned the zone to rioters three weeks ago.
“Since the occupation of the streets surrounding our building, tenants have been subjected to violence, threats, vandalism, noise, lewd conduct, public defecation, daily fights and limited access to the building,” the complex wrote.
Mayor Durkan was originally supportive of CHOP, infamously comparing it to a “block party.” She pushed back at President Trump’s vows to restore order if she failed to do so.

But she had a change of heart as violence in the zone escalated — and as the anarchy began hitting too close to home.
Durkan has called for the City Council to investigate Kshama Sawant, a self-proclaimed “socialist” member of the council who marched hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters to the mayor’s home, let hundreds into City Hall after hours without following coronavirus guidelines, and encouraged the occupation of the East Precinct. Sawant recently called for Durkan’s resignation.

“All of us have joined hundreds of demonstrations across the city, but Council Member Sawant and her followers chose to do so with reckless disregard of the safety of my family and children,” Durkan wrote in an e-mail to City Council President Lorena Gonzalez, accusing Sawat of acting “in violation of the law.”

Durkans’s 180 on CHOP is not unlike the story of another Washington mayor — Cheryl Selby of Olympia.
While Selby has been a proponent of the Black Lives Matter protests and riots that have occurred across the country since the death of George Floyd, she called the movement out for “domestic terrorism” after they vandalized her home.
“It hurts when you’re giving so much to your community,” the mayor added.

What politicians such as Selby and Durkan fail to understand is that no amount of appeasement will ever satisfy the mob. Those committing looting and arson in the name of “social justice” aren’t peaceful protesters who will be satisfied with some reform. They are Marxist revolutionaries who want to burn down the entire system in order to build socialist tyranny in its place.

Those who still believe the fantasy that such a state would be a “worker’s paradise” need only look at the failed experiment that is CHOP to see the reality. Communities that follow in its footsteps can expect nothing less than violence, robbery, and anarchy.

Image: screenshot from YouTube video
Luis Miguel is a marketer and writer whose journalistic endeavors shed light on the Deep State, the immigration crisis, and the enemies of freedom. Follow his exploits on Facebook, Twitter, Bitchute, and at luisantoniomiguel.com.
 

Dennis Olson

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www.foxnews.com/media/seattle-chop-violence-media-insisted-peaceful

Media narrative of peaceful Seattle CHOP zone turned upside down as mayor sends in police to stop violence
Brian Flood
8-10 minutes

As protesters and armed anarchists seized control last month of a swath of Seattle's downtown that includes a police station, dubbing it Capitol Hill Organized Protest, the local and mainstream media largely echoed elected leaders by insisting it was a peaceful protest – until people started getting killed.

The spin by the Seattle Times and national outlets that covered it belied the violent and dangerous origin of the area that began on June 8, when Seattle police abandoned their own station and allowed self-described anarchists to create a "police-free" zone. On Wednesday, police went back in and finished clearing out the area, after multiple shootings, an alleged rape and at least two murders.

“CHOP violently seized six blocks of downtown Seattle, guarded the area they stole with semi-automatic rifles and appointed a leader who called himself a warlord and the media spun it as a fun time with ‘free snacks,’” Washington Times columnist Tim Young told Fox News.

LATEST SEATTLE CHOP SHOOTING KILLS 16-YEAR-OLD BOY, CRITICALLY WOUNDS 14-YEAR-OLD BOY

“That's as insane as saying Boko Haram was just trying to start a dating service when they kidnapped nearly 300 women in Nigeria a few years ago,” Young added. “And those liberal outlets probably still can't figure out why people call them fake news.”

Since it was established, there have been at least four shootings, two of which left a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old dead in separate incidents. Seattle police made more than a dozen arrests after Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering an unlawful assembly – a far cry from how it was originally portrayed by the media and by Durkan herself.

The mayor responded to criticism of her leadership by President Trump by tweeting that he should not be "so afraid of democracy."

“The CHOP has become lawless and brutal,” Police Chief Carmen Best said Wednesday in a written statement. “Four shootings – two fatal – robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.”

The Seattle Times was perhaps the most egregious when it came to celebrating the cop-free area. The paper boasted about free snacks and pleasant smells inside the zone, called CHAZ at the time, on June 10.

SEATTLE'S CHOP HAS SEEN SHOOTINGS, VANDALISM, OTHER CRIMES AS OFFICIALS VOW TO DISMANTLE IT

“Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie – Ava DuVernay’s “13th” – showing after dark,” Seattle Times reporter Evan Bush wrote. “Perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.”

Bush described the area as “Seattle’s quirky, lefty Capitol Hill,” noting that organizers “envisioned education initiatives, programs to address homelessness and building a community movement where unarmed police are designed to de-escalate.”

The Seattle Times even reported on the delightful odor the “calm and peaceful crowd” were providing residents.

“The streets smelled like the Fourth of July, as people seared hot dogs on curbside grills,” Bush wrote.

The following day, the Seattle Times focused on poets and artists performing inside the area, noting that despite the “festival-like atmosphere” gatherers are often reminded they’re protesting, not partying.

By June 13, Seattle Times business reporter Paul Roberts praised the “community garden” and ways the demonstrators could “advance the goals” of the city’s "newest tourist attraction."

“Dozens of people with rakes and wheelbarrows spread topsoil and chicken manure in newly planted gardens,” Roberts wrote. “Others gathered in small groups to discuss plans for no-till farming and fundraising for medical supplies.”

“It's obvious to media consumers that journalists put protesters above property. It remains to be seen how they would greet an occupation of the Seattle Times. It probably depends on which political agenda you're pushing,” NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News.

“It's also obvious that to cover something when you can glorify it as a ‘street festival’ and then stop covering it when people die, underlines why people dislike the fakery of liberal ‘news’ reporting,” Graham added, pointing to three recent NewsBusters studies as evidence.

While the Seattle Times celebrated CHOP on a local level, other mainstream news outlets raised eyebrows on a larger stage.

FOX NEWS CHANNEL FINISHES QUARTER WITH RECORD-SETTING VIEWERSHIP

NewsBusters reported on June 22 that CBS’ “Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” both skipped coverage of a deadly shooting inside CHOP. Another study, conducted on June 23, indicated that evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC all ignored another shooting in the area.

“The networks had been actively trying to protect the encampment’s radicals from criticism. First, they turned a blind eye altogether, and when they had no choice but to cover the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,' as it was called at the time, they downplayed the craziness and provided cover,” Media Research Center news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro wrote after studying coverage of CHOP on ABC, NBC and CBS’ newscasts.

“When the shooting and killing started, they tried to cover it up. They refused to report on the black teen who was shot and killed in the zone last Saturday. And there was no mention of the Sunday or Tuesday shooting at any point during the week,” Fondacaro wrote. ”It was those shootings that were the impetus for the businesses and residents to band together and sue the city for not protecting their rights and property.”

University of North Carolina professor Lois A. Boynton is a fellow in the University’s Parr Center for Ethics. She feels coverage of CHOP “points to some of the basic challenges journalists, all media outlets, face when reporting on contentious and polarizing issues.”

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Boynton explained that biases can come from many things, including story angle, what gets emphasized and what doesn’t, who reporters select as sources and a reporter’s choice of words.

“Reporters, editors and producers need to be cognizant of how readers and viewers are interpreting their stories and what impact that may have on the community’s well-being and news outlet’s professional reputation,” Boynton told Fox News.

When Durkan announced last week that officials would end the police-free zone – CNN and MSNBC didn’t feel it was particularly newsworthy.

News broke during the 7 p.m. ET hour on Monday that Seattle’s mayor said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality – but CNN’s 7 p.m. program, “Erin Burnett Outfront” did not mention the news as it unfolded.

CNN continued to ignore the news during its primetime programming, as there was no coverage on back-to-back editions of “Anderson Cooper 360” from 8-10 p.m. ET or during Don Lemon’s “CNN Tonight,” which aired from 10-midnight ET.

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MSNBC completely ignored CHOP altogether from 7-midnight ET on the day of Durkan's announcement as “MSNBC Live,” “All in with Chris Hayes,” The Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” all declined to report the news of Seattle’s CHOP possibly drawing to a close.

“Most mainstream media outlets have bent over backward to portray the civil unrest as peaceful actions supporting the general aims of justice. That narrative gets largely disrupted if those news organizations now focus on the chaos in places like Seattle,” DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News at the time.

The mainstream media narrative has extended to other stories, like St. Louis. CNN’s Chris Cuomo was accused of siding with the "mob" on Tuesday night during a contentious interview with Mark McCloskey, the man who went viral for brandishing a gun alongside his wife as the couple protected their home from protesters.

An attorney for McCloskey insisted the couple only retrieved their weapons after they observed multiple people in the crowd who were armed.

Fox News’ Stephen Sorace and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
 

imminence

Membership Revoked
Yeah...ummm, about that.



The cops couldn't even ensure that city workers could do their job.

Sorry

You got nothing.

Ohh, I'm sure they have orders for minimal contact, but aren't even meeting that bar.


Maybe it's some kind of cop-out?
Yeah about that. SSSHHHHHH. Executive order signed late last night ! CHOP. No more due to government policy. Not because Seattle PD refused . Period .
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Yeah about that. SSSHHHHHH. Executive order signed late last night ! CHOP. No more due to government policy. Not because Seattle PD refused . Period .

((shrug))

They still abandoned their precinct and I'm still not impressed with them.

The rest of the department left them twisting in the wind.

The response should have been like the guys who went into the Benghazi embassy, against Hillary's orders.
 
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imminence

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((shrug))

They still abandoned their precinct and I'm still not impressed with them.

The rest of the department left them twisting in the wind.

The response should have been like the guys who went into the Benghazi embassy, against Hillary's orders.
Agreed. However , this was coming from the top. Mayor & Higher, therefore they had no say!
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Oh Ms Mayor, can you come out and play with us?

We really want to get along with your Blue Friends - but they're so ROUGH.

And we don't like glass, and we LOOOVE bricks, and gunz, and self administered "substances."

And we're fresh out of spray paint - can we borrow some from the local Ace Hardware?

Please come out and play - pretty please?

Trump must be laughing...

Dobbin
 

northern watch

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Breaking: Seattle Mayor wants to oust Marxist Councilwoman

By Rebel News
July 01, 2020

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is finally putting her foot down on the far-left insurgency in Seattle that led to the creation of the so-called “Capitol Hill Occupied Zone,” or CHOP—and she’s doing so by calling for the expulsion of Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.

Earlier this month, Sawant, an avowed Marxist, led a mob of far-left protesters into City Hall against city regulations after hours by unlocking the doors and allowing them to make demands of the city.

Sawant has also been a vocal opponent of Durkan, and has repeatedly called for her resignation as mayor—not for the same reasons conservatives do, but because Sawant wants to see someone farther to the left take the seat away from the liberal Democrat
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According to journalist Brandi Kruse, who broke the news on Twitter, Durkan sent a letter to Seattle’s City Council urging members to take action against Sawant, up to and including expulsion.

The letter accuses Sawant of allowing hundreds of protesters into City Hall, which put the safety of city workers at risk, which not only opened them to the threat of violence but also exposed them to the coronavirus in the enclosed space.

Durkan also accuses Sawant of leading a protest to the mayor’s home. The mayor’s address is confidential due to her work as a U.S. Attorney, which can potentially endanger her life.

Additionally, Durkan accuses Sawant of using her position as councilwoman to pursue her personal political agenda, and allowing protesters to occupy city territory, including the East Precinct, which was forced to evacuate following a mob of Black Lives Matter and Antifa demonstrators who set up camp in the Capitol Hill district of the city.

"Policy disagreements do not justify a Councilmember who potentially uses their position in violation of law or who recklessly undermines the safety of others, all for political theatre,” wrote Durkan.

Breaking: Seattle Mayor wants to oust Marxist Councilwoman
 

blueinterceptor

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Breaking: Seattle Mayor wants to oust Marxist Councilwoman

By Rebel News
July 01, 2020

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is finally putting her foot down on the far-left insurgency in Seattle that led to the creation of the so-called “Capitol Hill Occupied Zone,” or CHOP—and she’s doing so by calling for the expulsion of Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.

Earlier this month, Sawant, an avowed Marxist, led a mob of far-left protesters into City Hall against city regulations after hours by unlocking the doors and allowing them to make demands of the city.

Sawant has also been a vocal opponent of Durkan, and has repeatedly called for her resignation as mayor—not for the same reasons conservatives do, but because Sawant wants to see someone farther to the left take the seat away from the liberal Democrat
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According to journalist Brandi Kruse, who broke the news on Twitter, Durkan sent a letter to Seattle’s City Council urging members to take action against Sawant, up to and including expulsion.

The letter accuses Sawant of allowing hundreds of protesters into City Hall, which put the safety of city workers at risk, which not only opened them to the threat of violence but also exposed them to the coronavirus in the enclosed space.

Durkan also accuses Sawant of leading a protest to the mayor’s home. The mayor’s address is confidential due to her work as a U.S. Attorney, which can potentially endanger her life.

Additionally, Durkan accuses Sawant of using her position as councilwoman to pursue her personal political agenda, and allowing protesters to occupy city territory, including the East Precinct, which was forced to evacuate following a mob of Black Lives Matter and Antifa demonstrators who set up camp in the Capitol Hill district of the city.

"Policy disagreements do not justify a Councilmember who potentially uses their position in violation of law or who recklessly undermines the safety of others, all for political theatre,” wrote Durkan.

Breaking: Seattle Mayor wants to oust Marxist Councilwoman

If the mayor feels that she has broken the law, then perhaps she could contact the appropriate authorities, like maybe the police, to do something about it.
The mayor knows her political career is done.
 

Murt

Veteran Member
"Policy disagreements do not justify a Councilmember who potentially uses their position in violation of law or who recklessly undermines the safety of others, all for political theatre,” wrote Durkan.

but it is OK for a mayor
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
“It hurts when you’re giving so much to your community,” the mayor added.
Sort of like taxpayers, who give and expect something in return, but are not at all guaranteed the return like those who work for government.

Dobbin
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Where is CHOP's warlord leader? arrested or did he slip away.
Seemingly slipped away as the luster of Woodstock turned into the tarnish of being held accountable for violence.

Not to mention evidence of gun-running (Fed Offense) documented by unwitting and seemingly unpursued cell-phone video documentation on Twitter.

Mentioned as gone by the Real Estate Agent/Manager who toured the scene at least 6 times during the "event" and documented at least one for Youtube.

Raz had a "presence" before his Summer of Love. Unlike the homeless, he has something to lose. We have not heard the last of him. Either Federal Charges OR he will be coming out with his new CD composed while enjoying his "Freedom."

I'm sure, like him, the CD will be a "work of art."

Dobbin
 

Squid

Veteran Member
Sort of like taxpayers, who give and expect something in return, but are not at all guaranteed the return like those who work for government.

Dobbin
Just like a liberal twit who thinks giving away other peoples money, possessions, safety is giving. Yep just like the media demanding we the people ‘give’ more.

At some point we might start giving back won’t that confuse the hell out of them.
 

Hambone

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So the police have completely blocked anyone from accessing nearly 2 whole blocks to anyone so city workers can remove trash and clean the area.
 

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Hambone

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Here's an example of the graffiti left behind, it's way worse in the zone area. And they're literally using a water truck to clean.Also either they're torching the graffiti on the street or grinding it off,not sure.
The homeless that I knew would move in are now camped out in the outlier areas but there's a lot of them..
 

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Street graffiti removed
 

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"Policy disagreements do not justify a Councilmember who potentially uses their position in violation of law or who recklessly undermines the safety of others, all for political theatre,” wrote Durkan.

but it is OK for a mayor

Mayors are more equal than council members.
 
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