Anyone with eyes and an ounce of common sense could have, SHOULD have seen that when a mob started taking over a neighborhood , erecting barricades, destroying property, bullying and attacking people and the police being chased out it was not going to be good and it would end event worse. And it did.
Block parties happen every year in Seattle in dozens and dozens of neighborhoods with permits. Each block party puts up barricades and closes street traffic.
The BLM event was touted as a block party.
Many people simply didn’t know. Don’t blame them. They’re not stupid, they just don’t spend all their time watching politics and when they do hear something, it’s the Mayor describing the BLM as a protest block party.
The mayor was calling it the “summer of love.” To this young man and his friends, it probably looked like a big party.
At 19, didn’t you ever go somewhere your parents didn’t want you to go? The way I see it, most of us were lucky to make it to 25.