Posted on 09/18/2020 2:58:58 AM PDT by Libloather
SEATTLE mayor Jenny Durkan could reportedly face charges for failing to clear the "autonomous zone" set up by Black Lives Matter protesters in the city earlier this year.
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The area expanded, eventually taking up six blocks and a park, and remained in place for over three weeks before being cleared on July 1 by police following an emergency order from Mayor Durkan.
Attorney general William Barr has now asked prosecutors in the civil rights division of the Justice Department to look into whether Durkan could be charged for failing to clear the area sooner, the New York Times reported.
Barr is also said to have asked prosecutors to consider bringing sedition charges against rioters and others who committed violent crimes during the unrest across the US.
The US law against sedition states that it is a crime to "conspire to overthrow or destroy by force the government" or to oppose the government's authority "by force".
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
I predict this ends right here at "look into" and "Consider."
I’ll believe that Barr is willing do to anything but flap his gums when I see it.
AND—The couple in Missouri PAID for their streets-—because they lived in a PRIVATE/GATED community.
Lets not rush into this....... (/s )
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