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Anarchy in Seattle
City Journal ^ | 6/10/2020 | Christopher F. Rufo

Posted on 06/10/2020 8:30:27 PM PDT by catnipman

Raz Simone, a local rapper with an AK-47 ... was filmed allegedly assaulting multiple protestors who disobeyed his orders, informing them that he was the "police" now, sparking fears that he was becoming the de facto warlord of the autonomous zone.

The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill. According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city’s “leadership is in chaos” and “the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000.” The officer said that Chief Best had dispatched high-ranking police officials to the autonomous zone to establish a line of communication, but the officials were immediately sent away by armed paramilitaries at the barricades.

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To: catnipman

Add in like “Wild In The Streets”, “The Purge”, and “Pyscho” without any showers.


81 posted on 06/10/2020 11:18:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: catnipman; bitt; LucyT

Thanks catnipman, for posting.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3854320/posts?page=1#1

Ping!!!


82 posted on 06/10/2020 11:34:51 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: ocrp1982

“They are now begging people to send them food and water.”

Send ‘em some ‘Brawndo’ - it’s got electrolytes. And it will fit right in with their civic philosophy.


83 posted on 06/10/2020 11:39:02 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: All

How long before there is a Cholera breakout...good times.


84 posted on 06/10/2020 11:43:24 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: Jonty30

Liberals are too damn stupid. They are totally oblivious to what is going on.


85 posted on 06/10/2020 11:48:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Supposedly SPD essentially saying not my circus, not my monkeys to calls from with the area.

https://thedonald.win/p/Fz6WdTzo/police-response-to-capitol-hill-/


86 posted on 06/10/2020 11:50:16 PM PDT by matt04
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To: hoagy62
I feel for you. I’m originally from Chicago. Trying to sell my house and hightail it out of there. It is lost. But my liberal friends just don’t see it.
87 posted on 06/10/2020 11:51:52 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: Danette

Why do I have the feeling the restraints didn’t have much choice to go along, if they didn’t want to see their business looted.


88 posted on 06/10/2020 11:53:28 PM PDT by matt04
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To: hoagy62

bttt


89 posted on 06/10/2020 11:59:15 PM PDT by timestax
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To: cgbg

I like the way you think and couldn’t agree more. Have you ever thought about running for Congress?


90 posted on 06/11/2020 12:01:08 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Viking2002

That’s the Viking in you talkin’. Glad you’ll be on our side in the Revolution.


91 posted on 06/11/2020 12:03:00 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: catnipman
THE GREEN BERETS strafing
92 posted on 06/11/2020 12:36:11 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: catnipman

Let the scum eat or kill each other. I for one will stay clear and just let them live in the mess they made.


93 posted on 06/11/2020 12:41:54 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: HollyB

Some additional information for those who want to understand the history if Mayor Durkan and how she ended up in this predicament.

In the 1990s a huge committee was formed 8n Seattle to push for police reform.

One of the power players on the committee was Jenny Durkan, a corporate attorney.

The committee spit out a list of 29 proposed changes.....dubbed the 29 points of light.

The city came to the union to bargain for many if the cha get as required by state labor law.

The two parties came to an agreement...the police officers received improved compensation and benefits and the city got many...most actually...of the 29 points of light in the new contract.

The city being stupid failed to implement many of the concessions they received in thqy contract...someone which the police union actually wanted ajd kept asking “when are you going to get around to doing these things?”

Then Obama became Prez and Jenny Durkan checked many desired boxes for the leftist Prez....lesbian, rich from politically connected family, attorney for high powered and connected law firm....jus5 what a new leftist president would want as the US Attorney for Western Washington.

The newly minted US Attorney Jenny Durkan went about her business doing lawyer stuff until one day a Seattle cop shot and killed a native American street drunk who brandished a knife at him.

The Chief of Police at that time was John Diaz who had lucked into the position after the then mayor bungled the hiring if a competent Chief.

The hiring of Chief Diaz, a 30 year Seattle PD Officer was the result of the following circumstances.....the search committee settled on 3 candidates.

A highly competent Chief from a CA agency who they wanted to have the job, a looney tune whackadoo who was added to the list to appease the radical leftists from the community, and the token internal candidate John Diaz.

When the desired candidate met with the mayor for the courtesy meeting where he would be offered the job....a deputy mayor asked him about illegal immigration.

He replied that immigration was the feds job but if they really wanted to solve the problem they would first need to cut off the inflow of newly arriving illegal aliens.

That deputy mayor, who wanted to get in good with the local LA Raza chapter leaked the answer to them and the papers ran wild with it.

That desired candidate decided if he was going to get back doomed before he was even offered the job he wanted no part if Seattle.

That left whackadoo insano from East Palo Alto and Mr. Mouth breathing Lucky ass last man standing....John Diaz.

So Diaz got the job.

Now back to the dead drunk.....Jenny Durkan HATED HATED HATED John Diaz and saw her opportunity to agitate for “reform” while sticking it to John Diaz.

She used the killing of the “woodcarver” street drunk to begin a pattern and practice investigation into Seattle PD which resulted in a settlement agreement requiring my a court monitor to oversee changes to the dept’s use of force policies and some other items.

During Durkan’s rise to prominence shebaligned herself with the crazy left to amass favors and power.

The Mayor at the time of the Woodcarver’s
Killing was a pedophile of note and a guy man....Ed the Ped Murray.

He had to resign after the leftists finally turned on him when the 6th accuser came forward.

That left the field wide open for Jenny Durkan to win the Mayoral race....and she ascended to the mayoral throne.

Now remember...she started in the 90s pushing reform, forced a consent decree/settlement agreement on the Seattle PD as an US Attorney, then became Mayor and in charge of the police department she had rammed the consent decree upon

She was then highly invested in the success of the dept. completing the agreement and getting the judge to release the dept. from supervision.

While she was going through all the efforts to complete it....the leftists she was aligned with were not satisfied with the progress and began slipping away from.hwr as she tried to get the judge t release the Seattle PD.

Several radical leftists were elected to the city council during these years as well as one full on communist Kshama Sawant.

Then George Floyd was killed and the extreme leftists raised hell, demanded more “reform” of Seattle PD.

Mayor Durkan was fully vested in checking the box “consent decree completed” and the dept. actually had finished all the required reforms.

But alas....now the revolutionary had loved long enough to become the counter revolutionary....and her old alloes and pals hate her now.

At least 4 of the 9 city council members want her to resign after the riots nearly burned down the dow town core, the SPD had to use CS gas on the rioters and later someone the violent proresters who had mixed in with the “peacefull protesters.”

The city council was in full revolt against SPD and the Mayor...even coming to the protest lines and trying to provoke the officers into overreacting.

The antifa and anarchists orchestrated the events perfectly resulting in the SPD being forced to abandon a precinct.

Which how we have now ended up with 6 square blocks of the capital hill neighborhood become “CHAZ” The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone where no poloce can go and where there is a competition ongoing to see which warlord will.rose to the top ajd be in charge.

The current favorite is a local rapper “Raz” who had been walking around with an AK47 and assaulting journalists and others while stating “I am the police now”


94 posted on 06/11/2020 1:16:20 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Unlike Bloomberg, I have said "Fat broads"and "Horsefaced Lesbians" but cuz I luv them both.)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig; Billthedrill

Bill....you may enjoy this breakdown I put togerher.


95 posted on 06/11/2020 1:31:42 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: ocrp1982
[BTW, they invited the homeless in to join them today. The homeless took all of their food supplies. They are now begging people to send them food and water.]


96 posted on 06/11/2020 1:33:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Another hostile democrat city I don’t have the desire to ever see again.
They might as well have Rocket Man run these dumps.
My list of places to visit, sports to follow and movies to watch gets smaller by the day.
Hiking, hunting, camping and fishing for me.


97 posted on 06/11/2020 1:35:43 AM PDT by ar10
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To: cgbg

Yet the police admit that the trend is public support for the animals.


98 posted on 06/11/2020 1:44:51 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: gr8eman
I prefer to think of it as the democRats succeeding from the Union.

Again.

99 posted on 06/11/2020 1:55:15 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: deadrock

I am thinking of this as some sort of combination of Mad Max and Zombiland.

The thing is that when the law doesn’t matter, there cant be any other rules that govern society. Things will spiral quickly into a dystopian future we only visualized in movies.

At some point the majority of people will understand it is better to just be an outlaw just to survive.


100 posted on 06/11/2020 2:02:39 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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