Posted on 06/11/2020 6:40:43 PM PDT by Morgana
(CNN)Seattle police want to resume operations at a downtown precinct they left empty as protesters began occupying the area around it. The area around the precinct is now occupied by protesters, some of whom are calling it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. According to CNN affiliate KOMO, police boarded up the East Precinct building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and left it unoccupied during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Protesters have also hung signs on the East Precinct, KOMO reported, some of which read "Seattle People Department" and "The Property of the People." But Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan says the city will not be accepting federal troops to move the protesters out. "The threat to invade Seattle -- to divide and incite violence in our city -- is not only unwelcome, it would be illegal," Durkan said at a Thursday press conference. She added that the majority of the protests have been peaceful.
Her comments come as a response to President Donald Trump's tweets earlier in the day. President Trump had tweeted to Durkan and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, "Take back your city NOW. If you don't do it, I will."
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That’s so adorable!
Then he could just have announced that any city or state that wished to take advantage of these resources would only need to make a request and they would be sent as quickly as possible.
Any destruction allowed by local officials who failed to call in the Guard would be on them completely.
By threatening to send in the Guard, and failing to do so, Trump has put himself in a no-win situation.
You don’t get an autonomous zone. That’s insurrection. Armed insurrection by reports. Send in the military, take any survivors prisoner and conduct military courts. Treat them as hostile combatants.
Those six blocks are as much an “autonomous zone” as they are an empire. Take them back and arrest those wanna-be revolutionaries.
A lot of diapers are gonna need to be changed when this is all over.
I do not think it is possible to be dumber than Mayor Durkan.
Daddy daddy please make those bad people go away.
Do the police in Seattle just drink milk and water all day?
They need to be on a comedy show.
Force the mayor to 'send in the troops'.
Let her deal with the optics.
Accepting troops? Does Durkan think there is a choice once that decision is made? In a just world Durkan and all of her council would be arrested first for not stopping the anarchy
yep
Those parts of the state which don’t want to be part of the leftist coast should just do the same thing:declare themselves autonomous regions, and ignore the state government from then on.
I am sure many counties outside of metro Seattle would be thrilled to be autonomous from Olympia.
Two can play at that game...
These bums don’t own anything. They’re interlopers. Communist insurgents.
Yeah. A commie free zone. Two can play.
Just bust a MOVE!
Why does the mayor let this go on? What is to be gained by letting the insurrection persist? Will this set an example for other seditionists?
I wonder if the police boxed up and took everything in the evidence room with them when retreating from the precinct?? Otherwise all their pending cases go down the drain.
Scanner traffic saying they might move in at 9PM
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