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Posted on 08/07/2020 7:37:09 AM PDT by C19fan
Faizel Khan was being told by the news media and his own mayor that the protests in his hometown were peaceful, with “a block party atmosphere.”
Georgia student suspended after posting a photo of a crowded school hallway… Photo flashback: Antonio Banderas's life and career in pictures The New York Times logoAbolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure
SEATTLE — Faizel Khan was being told by the news media and his own mayor that the protests in his hometown were peaceful, with “a block party atmosphere.”
a man standing in front of a counter: Faizel Khan, who owns a coffee shop, is part of a lawsuit that says Seattle let occupying protesters damage property and stifle revenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.© Grant Hindsley for The New York Times Faizel Khan, who owns a coffee shop, is part of a lawsuit that says Seattle let occupying protesters damage property and stifle revenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. But that was not what he saw through the windows of his Seattle coffee shop. He saw encampments overtaking the sidewalks. He saw roving bands of masked protesters smashing windows and looting.
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Something always fills the gap.
Cue the warlords.
Abolish the police and repeal EVERY gun control law .... simultaneously ....
Follow the damn drug money. The fact nobody is saying this obvious fact is troubling. It’s obviously drug money behind defunding police. And pulling police from poor neighborhoods, etc.
The (virtually all-white) contingent of BLM in Rockland, ME has petitioned to have the town police dept defunded. Today, in the local paper, is a picture of the police chief and the county sheriff both taking a knee. Maybe I’m for defunding now.
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They are not going to abolish the police. As long as they have been people there have been police. If they get rid of all of them on Monday, by Wednesday there will be a new bunch. They may give them a different name but there will always be police. Use your head.
Abolish liberalism and save the country
The movie, Dredd, was eerily similar to the seattle-portland situations.
Seriously. Boo frickin’ hoo. Like the idiot woman who was more afraid about supporting “conservative critique of BLM” by speaking out than defending her own interest.
Hey moron, you deserve everything that has happened to you and a lot more.
Abolish the police and repeal EVERY gun control law .... simultaneously ....
The DNC, party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Joe Biden has figured out new ways to legally kill the descendents of their former slaves, blacks in Blue Cities, like Chicago!:
Leo Terrell: ‘Joe Biden Has the Mindset of a Plantation Owner
townhall ^ | 08/07/2020 | Leah Barkoukis
1. Fund Planned Parenthood to slaughter unborn black babies whose Black Baby Lives Mean Nothing.
2. Defund the police in blue cities like Chicago, NY City, Seattle and Portland.
3. Elect Joe Bidementia as our president!
Thanks to “defund the police” and the Democrat Blue cities going along with it, violent crime including homicide is surging in most of America’s largest blue cities. While the raw numbers are terrible for Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and other very blue and large American cities.
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Hold massive BLM protests in Blue Cities with high Covid 19 infection rates. Like the one planned in DC for teachers, coordinated by the DNC’s long time BLM overseer, Al Sharpton.
Then, let the killer virus Covid 19 take out more blacks participating in the protests involving 100,000 BLMers, packed together, yelling and screaming while protesting. That will spread the CV 19 into their BLM mobs to take it home with them.
Marxist Democrat urban areas will become surreal 21st century ghost towns. Residential, commercial real estate and populations are declining daily. Soon, they will be haunted mostly by the strange and deranged. Street cops don’t even want to accompany the coroners to pick up the black bodies much less perform active policing or peacekeeping.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3870374/posts?page=5#5 by allendale
It’s strange times in New York City. COVID — and confused government policies — has commercial buildings desolate in Manhattan. Few are returning to work in their offices despite politicians proclaiming otherwise. Restaurants can open for food but not for drinks. Gatherings are forbidden — unless it is to protest. Crime is through the roof, months after elected officials allowed looting and forced police to turn a blind eye.
A rabid dog doesn’t care who it bites, and there’s only one thing to do with it.
“confused government policies”
Confusion is a favorite tool of the father of all lies.
I’m a little shocked the NYT ran this. I’m sure some of their precious staff were triggered. I anticipate some firings for the editor who green lighted the article.
I’m so heartbroken that I can’t look at “Antonio Banderas’s life and career in pictures.”
What'll it take???
“Schadenfreude. You Seattle voters who put people like the Marxist Kshama Sawant in power did not believe the rhetoric they were spewing?”
Question is, did they learn anything?
How come these articles never ask this question. Who did you vote for, and are you going to vote for them again?
But that was not what he saw through the windows of his Seattle coffee shop. He saw encampments overtaking the sidewalks. He saw roving bands of masked protesters smashing windows and looting.
Young white men wielding guns would harangue customers as well as Mr. Khan, a gay man of Middle Eastern descent who moved here from Texas so he could more comfortably be out. To get into his coffee shop, he sometimes had to seek the permission of self-appointed armed guards to cross a border they had erected.
“They barricaded us all in here,” Mr. Khan said. “And they were sitting in lawn chairs with guns.”
For 23 days in June, about six blocks in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood were claimed by left-wing demonstrators and declared police-free. Protesters hailed it as liberation — from police oppression, from white supremacy — and a catalyst for a national movement. . . .
Now a group of local businesses owners — including a locksmith, the owner of a tattoo parlor, a mechanic, the owners of a Mexican restaurant and Mr. Khan — is suing the city. The lawsuit claims that “Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public” resulted in enormous property damage and lost revenue. . . . The Seattle lawsuit — and interviews with shop owners in cities like Portland and Minneapolis — underscores a key question: Can businesses still rely on local governments, which are now rethinking the role of the police, to keep them safe? The issue is especially tense in Seattle, where the city government not only permitted the establishment of a police-free zone, but provided infrastructure like concrete barriers and portable toilets to sustain it.
It was supposed to be the Summer of Love!?
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