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.”
>>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.
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.