Posted on 07/03/2020 1:31:44 PM PDT by Libloather
SEATTLE - As suddenly as it appeared, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest was gone.
**SNIP**
Durkan’s destruction of the CHOP was a reversal of her previous position. On June 12, when Trump accused her of letting anarchists take over the city, Durkan responded, “Seattle is fine. Don’t be so afraid of democracy.”
But over the last few weeks, the CHOP had become increasingly controversial. While the daytime scene resembled a music festival or cultural event, the nights became more violent. Six shootings, two of them fatal, occurred in or near the zone in the last two weeks of June, a rate of violence that exceeds the average for both the Capitol Hill neighborhood and Seattle as a whole. Protesters repeatedly clashed with the city over the placement of road barriers and access for emergency vehicles.
At the same time, the CHOP became a fixture of right-wing news sites. In the first week of its existence, Fox News ran 71 segments on the CHOP (the network later admitted to manipulating news pictures to give the impression that armed guards were manning entrances during the daytime). Sites like Breitbart and The Daily Caller ran near-daily dispatches.
**SNIP**
To the Trump administration and other Republicans, the CHOP served as an example of failed Democratic policies. To Seattle’s protesters, though, it was a reaction to how leaders who identify as Democrats still hold strikingly conservative views when it comes to criminal justice and policing.
“It’s not Democrats versus Republicans, it’s people versus police,” said J., a community organizer who declined to provide her full name due to fear of police retaliation.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I'm not holding my breath waiting for a criminal indictment, but I would think it a high probability for civil suits of some sort, maybe wrongful death.
Hannity interviews father of 19 year old killed in CHOP. Very sad.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-chop-horace-lorenzo-anderson-trump-mayor-call
We’re a constitutional republic.
Exactly. And what just went on in Seattle was a democracy = mob rule.
This is why the founding fathers disliked a democracy.
I wish the word "democracy" would fall from favor as a description of the USA.
Unless you caught your wife with the pool boy... 😋
Ping!
(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.Leftists always have this definition of “democracy” in mind.
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat.
— The Principles of Communism
(I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same.
— Woodrow Wilson
Nope. The next DNC talking point / partisan media shill meme? That it was the Democrats who stopped the rioters.
LOL
Democrats thought they could make this a story of ‘cops vs protestors’... but it became ‘citizens vs crappy Mayors’....
Dems took a big hit with this multi-city stunt...
I wonder when Raz Simone snuck out of CHOP ?
There was a report that he left early last week. Can’t find it now but I saw it on FR.
thanks. I couldn’t find anything on any searches and he hasn’t tweeted since 6/28
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