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James O’Keefe was on the ground in Minneapolis, entering the anti-ICE autonomous zone, because that’s what these liberal cities tolerate, which is mob rule. The city was already a powder keg when Renee Good was shot and killed after ramming into an ICE agent with her car on January 7. Now, the death of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by Border Patrol, has the city on the verge of all-out civil war. Pretti was armed during the encounter, but that’s not a crime. The video isn’t as definitive as it was with Good’s shooting. We’ll see what the...

Washington’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected a recall effort against Seattle Mayor Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan over her handling of widespread summer protests. The recall effort, led by six Seattle residents, blames the mayor for the Seattle Police Department’s indiscriminate use of tear gas during weeks of protests against racial injustice and police brutality sparked by the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

SEATTLE — As the city tries to wind down the so-called Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, the city and Mayor Jenny Durkan were hit this week with a second lawsuit that seeks to hold her and other municipal leaders accountable for the situation that has unfolded inside the neighborhood. The nine-page lawsuit was filed Thursday by plaintiffs Jacob Bozeman, an attorney, and Austin Bozeman and names Durkan, Gov. Jay Inslee, the city of Seattle and Washington state as defendants who "did allow, aid, abet, and actively facilitate, the exclusive physical occupation, takeover and control of an approximate six city block...