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.
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!!