Posted on 06/16/2020 10:39:15 AM PDT by Libloather
SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says officers will go into the several-block area being occupied by protesters if there are threats to public safety.
Police pulled back from a part of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood after recent clashes with people protesting the Minneapolis death of George Floyd near the department’s East Precinct. A festival-like atmosphere has emerged in the area, now called the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” with participants painting a Black Lives Matter mural on the street and planting a community garden.
Best spoke after a business owner near the protest area complained that police didn’t respond when he called 911 to report a break-in and vandalism.
“There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle,” Best said told reporters Monday afternoon. “I think that the picture has been painted in many areas that shows the city is under siege. That is not the case.”
John McDermott, the owner of an auto shop, told KIRO-TV he phoned authorities multiple times about the incident Sunday night.
Best said officers have written multiple police reports for crimes reported in that area in the past 48 hours. Dispatchers and officers are coordinating with crime victims or callers to meet police on the edges of the CHOP boundaries, she said, adding officers will go in if there’s an urgent situation.
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[[Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says officers will go into the several-block area being occupied by protesters if there are threats to public safety. ]]
A Homo sexually assaulted a street preacher- have you arrested the gay sexual predator yet?
Exactly how is that not a cop-free zone? "Officers will go in" means they haven't yet.
[[Best said told reporters Monday afternoon. “I think that the picture has been painted in many areas that shows the city is under siege. That is not the case.”]]
You are operating from OUTSIDE the area- and you stand there and tell us the city isn’t under siege? Will you know pee on our foot and tell us it’s raining out?
They will eventually get tired of this nonsense and go home.
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Leaving millions of dollars in damage which they won’t have to pay for.
They have HUGE statue of STALIN somewhere in Seattle...and they LOVE IT!! THAT will NEVER be torn down!
Ah, well. OK then. They have "Written multiple police reports". Problem solved.
“Not dealing with this immediately only breeds more lawlessness.”
The CHAZ folks will get tired of playing dictator and go home eventually and the left-wing media will present it as a successful strategy by the Mayor to calm things down and show they didn’t need President Trump.
Not true, of course, but I am predicting how they will spin the outcome.
Oooookkkayy...writting reports counts I guess🙄
and the first thing they did was to build a border , a wall, then they stand guard with guns. . They are supposed to be against guns and borders they tell us. More hypocrisy from the left.
“Meanwhile the property owners of the occupied zone are getting hosed.”
QUESTIONS RE THE OCCUPANCY!
Have the invaders confiscated the homes/bedrooms for their use and removed the legal owners?
Where are the invaders getting their groceries from and are they cooking in the street?
What are the invaders doing about bathing, peeing and pooping? In the street or ???
Are the invders bring personally owned autos into this zone they have created?
Just curious....
So the people of Seattle need to let the Democrats they elected to be in charge, know this.
Before all this Insanity started, if you tried walking around Downtown Seattle with an AR-15 slung over your Shoulder you would have seen what the Police would have considered a threat to Public Safety.
A master of the obvious would ask the police chief how they’re supposed to know there’s a problem in a place they can’t go into
Somebody really needs to get hosed. I don’t understand why armored water trucks can’t go into these areas and literally hose the thugs out. High pressure hoses would only need to be aimed at their feet.
They will eventually get tired of this nonsense and go home.
They’ve got nothing else to do. Historically, squatting “protests” have gone on for months or even years. Remember the tree sitters in Berkeley? That lasted for nearly 2 years.
male?female?trans?
“They will eventually get tired of this nonsense and go home.”
Isn’t that what was said about the Occupy freaks who had to be bulldozed out?
“Dispatchers and officers are coordinating with crime victims or callers to meet police on the edges of the CHOP boundaries”
You’ve been shot? Could you walk over to the boundary? A police officer will meet you there.
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