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Seattle Police, Protesters Brace for Violence as Mayor (Durkan) Orders CHOP Cleared
Newsweak ^ | 6/23/20 | Jenni Fink, Naveed Jamali

Posted on 06/24/2020 2:33:03 PM PDT by Libloather

Some Seattle police officers are concerned that disbanding the autonomous zone being occupied by protesters could turn violent. Since officers can't use pepper spray or tear gas to force people to disperse, some officers say their only course of action could be batons and firearms.

Two weeks after protesters cordoned off and occupied parts of Capitol Hill, now named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday it would be disbanded. Officials didn't share a specific timeline for clearing the area and Durkan said the goal is to have people leave voluntarily.

But a Seattle police officer who spoke to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity, said protesters don't have to listen to law enforcement. The officer expected protesters won't be keen on vacating the area, potentially leaving officers with one option: to use force.

"We're no longer allowed to use things like tear gas and pepper spray. The only thing that we can use is our sidearms or our batons," the officer said. "...And we lose if we use force, it's gonna look ugly."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: chaz; chop; durkan; idiot; mayordurkan; police; protest; seattle; seattlemayor; socialism
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To: Libloather

Get the popcorn, folks...lots of it. This will be quite the show.

JoMa


61 posted on 06/24/2020 3:43:03 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Libloather

Nah, bring in the social workers.


62 posted on 06/24/2020 3:56:04 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Libloather

just drop job applications on them.


63 posted on 06/24/2020 3:58:11 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Libloather

I am confused. Why not use a V-MAD truck? A Vehicle Mounted Active Denial System stops riots without guns, batons, spray or gas.
https://youtu.be/dmuyLIrSjxI


64 posted on 06/24/2020 4:07:27 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: Vendome
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this honor. Gentlemen?

3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Charge!

65 posted on 06/24/2020 4:11:21 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Libloather

The mayor has to allow them to use tear gas and pepper spray to disperse this crowd of idiots. It is wrong to tie the hands of the police and then ask them to do this.


66 posted on 06/24/2020 4:26:44 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Libloather

“Following criticism of officers’ use of tear gas and pepper spray during recent protests against police brutality, a federal judge issued a 14-day order banning the tactics.”

Judges have this kind of authority?


67 posted on 06/24/2020 4:30:48 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: dfwgator

At the very beginning of this I was thinking about how the MOVE thing ended. But I’m guessing not - it’s not like they are all holed up in one area.

Now Kent State..... I hope not - that would be really bad. Although when the “protestors” have AKs, ARs and the tall buildings - it could turn into a shooting battle. Especially if the police can’t use gas, pepper spray, and the other non-lethal weapons.


68 posted on 06/24/2020 4:32:02 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: hanamizu

How about the NIKA RIOT response!


69 posted on 06/24/2020 5:02:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Cowardly mayors are experts at ‘Walking Back’ such statements made by them.

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70 posted on 06/24/2020 5:06:33 PM PDT by elbook
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To: dfwgator

Move 2: Electric Boogaloo


71 posted on 06/24/2020 5:30:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RummyChick
"This TV star is finding that out the hard way."

WHAT TV star??

72 posted on 06/24/2020 6:06:39 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (My mind is wandering, and I'm following it!)
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To: devane617
KOMO TV said the protestors moved out last night...This sounds like old news. As far as I see the city is cleaning up the garbage.

I think are in cahoots.

If this goes peacefully, IMO, it’s because an agreement was reached between the mayor and the CHOP, OR the dems/liberals/$oro$ have something else in the works that they are needed for.

I’m going out on a limb here, but I think the autonomous zone thing did not pan out as expected, especially when nobody else let another one get set up.

I think they are going to drop back and punt, and wonder what is next on tap.

Prepping is continuing.

73 posted on 06/24/2020 6:11:08 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Libloather

Where is the picture from?


74 posted on 06/24/2020 6:27:08 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Looking at the road signs, somewhere in Europe?


75 posted on 06/24/2020 7:18:41 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

My first thought too. Looking at the trucks, especially with the covered rear wheels look foreign. I am thinking, looking at some of the soldiers it looks like they are wearing blue and red berets. I am leaning toward France right now. It did give me an idea to convert one of my 1/35 Russian airport fire trucks to anti riot mode with Russian police decals.


76 posted on 06/24/2020 8:35:16 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Libloather

Seriously, surround them all and arrest them, shoot anyone who resists, and ship them off to Guantanamo. Once there, transfer many to Saudi Arabia. Let them live in tents in the desert.

They are revolutionaries, there is a Che, a Stalin, many Hitlers and for sure a Castro among them. Why suffer them to live? It is America or the punks, a time for choosing.


77 posted on 06/24/2020 10:07:16 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

My 100# german shepherd wouldn’t care for the foul taste of unwashed hippie... it would take cases of listed one to get her to bite one of them


78 posted on 06/24/2020 10:21:47 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

cases of listerine


79 posted on 06/24/2020 10:24:55 PM PDT by Mom MD
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