Posted on 06/16/2020 8:50:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seattle’s taking a page from the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. When half of the New Orleans Police Department walked off the job before and after Katrina, private security firms answered the call. Today, Seattle’s swells, who cheered on anti-police protesters from their high-rises and Madrona manses, are doing the same thing.
With apologies to “Top Gun,” the Seattle elite’s egos are writing checks the rest of us poor schmucks have to pay.
Business owners, afraid that Mayor Jenny Durkan will continue to let the rioters go buck wild while simultaneously standing down the cops, are hiring private security at a frantic pace.
The Seattle Times reports that local security firms have been swamped with calls asking for private security to watch their businesses in case rioters, arsonists and looters further target them.
It was the Monday after weekend protests occurred in downtown Seattle over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Fortress Security Services, co-owned by Bamba and her husband, Deschamps, was besieged by local businesses seeking armed guards to protect their property.
“My phone shows I logged more than 200 calls that day,’’ said Denise Bamba, adding the couple turned down numerous requests because the company didn’t have enough guards.
Other security companies also reported an uptick in protection requests from businesses of all sizes and residential complexes downtown, in Capitol Hill [home of CHAZ], Pioneer Square and even Redmond, West Seattle and Tukwila. Fueling the surge, they say, are fears police consumed with controlling protests won’t prioritize property protection.
The calls have been coming from all over, but there’s an especially urgent bunch of requests from Capitol Hill. This is the home of the six-block area taken over by rioters and protesters known as CHAZ,
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Even with their own private security, it’s still Mogadishu. If that is what they want, they’re even dumber than I thought.
Why would they need Security for Peaceful Protests??
THis is how the Third World operates. Private security for the rich. Everybody else is on their own.
Liberals are stupid people that want everyone else to live with their beliefs and decisions but themselves.
Wonder how many “protesters” are leaving Chaz with backpacks full of cash.Are there any banks within the friendly confines of Chaz?
Wait until one of their security people shoots a rioter.
Yeah, that is what I was thinking.
Private security is excellent deterrence, but a lot of the Seattle “protestors” are drugged out zombies who won’t get the message.
I’ve wondered what cities like Seattle will do if the police forces resign in the wake of this defunding nonsense and form private security companies available for police work at $100/hr/guard?
Cash has pictures of dead white racists on it—no way the lefties would want any part of it. ;-)
Think liberals should now be known as LIEberals!!
A more appropriate response.
Hey, private security guy. Pull that trigger and see where you wind up.
It is a suicide cult.
They might as well keep pulling.....at that point, “in for a penny, in for a pound.”
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Liberal Elite - Hypocrites all
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Liberals are stupid people that want everyone else to live with their beliefs and decisions but themselves.”
Very astute, very true, and well stated with brevity.
"Paging Mr. Second Amendment, paging Mr. Second Amendment."
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