Posted on 11/04/2021 3:02:06 AM PDT by Libloather
SEATTLE — A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Horace Anderson and the estate of his deceased son, Lorenzo Anderson, a 19-year-old who was shot near the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone.
The lawsuit holds Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, City Council Member Kshama Sawant and the City of Seattle responsible for the death.
CHOP was a seven-block, police-free protest zone that the mayor, City Council and other government entities allowed during the George Floyd protests.
Lorenzo Anderson was shot in the early morning hours of June 20, 2020, on Pine Street, and Seattle medics refused to enter the CHOP zone because Seattle police could not secure the scene.
A bystander took him to Harborview Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The lawsuit claims there are more than 2,400 pages of exhibits that provide evidence showing that actions and inactions by the defendants “were directly responsible for the chaos promoted and encouraged that lead to the wrongful and preventable death of (Lorenzo) Anderson.”
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I predict a battle between ‘sovereign immunity’ and ‘negligent & willful failure to police for public safety’. The Seattle lawyers will obviously push for the former.
20, even 10 years ago, if we were to read of an American City that declares a section as ‘police free’, we would wonder WTF. Now comes the legitimate legal battle, the first of many!
Oh, and just a note of observance, strange how the purely local and ‘no national leadership’ rioters have gone home. I guess that COVID has caught up to them, otherwise I might think that the blue cities wanted riots during 2020 campaign season.
That someone named Kshama holds elected office in Seattle tells the whole story.
If I were Seattle, I’d push for a change of venue - to the CHOP. When the plaintiffs say it doesn’t exist anymore, I’d tell them, “Well, the laws in CHOP applied at the time you clients family member entered it. Any claims you have need to be brought against the former residents.”
Man, that would be fantastic. Didn’t they have a lsush fund that certain outside parties were contributing to? Kind of like the BLM cash went to certain select people, so to did the CHOP money go to some certain people.
>>Seattle medics refused to enter the CHOP zone because Seattle police could not secure the scene.
standard practice - paramedics and EMT’s don’t get paid to risk their lives in dangerous locations....thats what the social workers are for.
https://www.chop.edu/
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Every jurisdiction has sovereign immunity. There was a court case in Los Angeles years ago. A woman knew that gang members were on their way to kill her nephew who lived with her. She called the police and told them they needed to arrive within 15 minutes to prevent it. They showed up in 30 minutes, after nephew killed. She sued ... and lost due to sovereign immunity. Arm yourselves!!
This will go nowhere. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the police have no duty to protect any individual, even if they remove your ability to defend yourself.
“That someone named Kshama holds elected office in Seattle tells the whole story.”
Not unique to Seattle. Seems about the same as BLM activist getting elected to city council in Des Moines, IA. Article posted yesterday.
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