https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...HOP+protest+zone._7_1_2020&utm_term=

Updated July 1, 2020 at 6:36 am

By Seattle Times staff
The Seattle Police Department swept into CHOP early Wednesday with heavily equipped officers and tactical vehicles to clear out the Capitol Hill protest zone. Police issued dispersal orders and had arrested about a dozen people as of 5:23 a.m., the department tweeted.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order that went out at 4:58 a.m. declaring the “gathering in this area an unlawful assembly requiring immediate action from city agencies, including the Police Department.”

At least 100 police officers equipped with body armor, batons, helmets and weapons moved into CHOP. “Anyone who remains in the area, or returns to the area, is subject to arrest,” the department tweeted.
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Police reported people were overturning portable toilets as officers swept the area.

“This order, and our police response, comes after weeks of violence in and around the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests Zone, including four shootings, resulting in multiple injuries and the deaths of two teenagers,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said in a statement. She was watching Wednesday morning from a staging area at the fire station on 13th Avenue and East Pine Street.

Police said anyone seeking to leave the area without getting arrested could do so through the south end of the zone, toward Pike Street.

The sweep comes one day after police and other city employees removed some barriers at the CHOP with heavy equipment at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street. But within an hour Tuesday, protesters had erected their own makeshift barricade as a replacement.

Tuesday’s back-and-forth over barriers was the latest episode in a stalemate between the city and protesters, who for about three weeks occupied several blocks around the park and the Police Department’s East Precinct. Police left the precinct after standoffs and clashes with protesters calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality.

Calls to bring law enforcement back to the East Precinct and shut down CHOP have been amplified by four shootings in the area over about a nine-day span, including one Monday morning that killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded a 14-year-old boy.

Parents and grandparents have to smell that moving back into their basements.

Gee, do you think the mayor's change of heart has anything to do with them going to her home? Maybe these protestors should be encouraged to go to more public officials homes. Let them taste what they allow others to go through.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/...281-b8177945-8696-4cfb-afa8-dfda5f9ccf1f

I'm sure that's part of it, plus the shootings, plus the idea of patriotic Americans taking care of business on Independence Day.

I'll bet that precinct building is full of feces.

They needed to set up the fireworks battery.

The falling sparks should help disinfect the area...

Maybe she wanted to avoid the conflict the bikers were bringing!
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Was that debunked already?🤷‍♂️

The Seattle Police Chief seems pretty sensible from a couple interviews and briefings I saw.

She should run for Mayor.

It's about time!

If she was sensible she would never have been appointed chief of police in Seattle.

And have you noticed not a word was said by the cops regarding the comm equipment, guns and ammo abandoned in the police station when the cops bailed? Did ya wonder where the little bolsheviks got the AR rifles they handed out to their “security” thugs?

White bodies to the front!

I don’t think they should be retaking CHAZ but agree with this tactic if it is going down. The first and harshest punishment should fall on the traitors.

Youtube removed it.

I don't know too much about her, but she did come up through the ranks of Seattle PD, 28 years.


The one before her, O'Toole, I don't think ever served as a real police officer, but was edumucated and an appointee to executive positions in Boston, Ireland, and Seattle.

No they didn't.

You just can't imbed the link.

"declaring the “gathering in this area an unlawful assembly requiring immediate action from city agencies, including the Police Department.”

I guess "immediate" means 3 weeks.

The mayor was scared spitless that the bikers were really going to roll in and sort it out. The mayor knows the police have to show restraint and the bikers will not. 23 arrested is better than 23 dead.
Probably after the weekend the mayor will look the other way and let them set up again.

Ah man... I was hoping the Bikers were going to get to do that....

About 3 weeks late but better late than never.........

plus the exodus of businesses

That’s kinda disappointing. I was hoping for it to be reinforced from the exterior and lit afire.

That mayor, when she talks on camera,,,she comes across as a druggie to me. Her speech patterns aren’t normal,

Durkin needs to be recalled.

Can’t believe they put up with it that long!

sure, but conservatives have the mistaken impression that the voters are opposed to what she has done. if she were up for re-electon next week she'd probably win

What are the odds Don Trump was going to cut off federal aid to WA rather quickly if this wasn’t broke up by July 4?

That's pretty stupid right there.

And I am betting the majority of people there will still vote Democrat/Communist and can't be taught --------------- even when they are in danger of being overrun or killed.

You can't fix stupid.

This is pretty simple calculus for them. The bad press outweighed the good press. As soon as black people started getting shot in there by other blacks or commies, they had no choice. Plus the outside chance of bikers showing up on the 4th was a no win scenario for them.

They need to be overrun. Too stupid to learn.

Don’t know if it’s good or bad, but she wasn’t a finalist. McLay, Frizell and Reyes were the top three selected to go under review for the position. The “Community leaders” had a problem with her not making the cut.

Seattle Times Article

So, the social experiment meant to show less need for law enforcement.......actually failed?

Imagine that.

Metro.......mass exits?

Now, lawsuits for already bankrupt cities?

This and this ^

Fugg the whole place and the horse they rode in on.

It’s a perfect example of the utter lunacy the left is peddling to any reasonable thinking person. But I bet they will still vote the same exact way next time.

The spray painted walls make everything looks so quaint and inviting.

LOL

What a fugking schit hole.

I don't want to see one penny of Federal dollars spent on rebuilding... they voted for it

Montanamarine: Maybe you are being facetious - I don't know. But she is a double dumb, liberal, bull dagger, apologist for law and order - NOT a police chief!
Of course she (it?) has to be screwed up to be hired in that schithole of a once wonderful city.
She would NOT make a pimple on a run of the mill policeman's ass!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Ah........... me too the Harley guys would have thumped those pajama sisies !!

I doubt it would be a “ probably”, she would win big.

Then close your eyes, or pluck them out, cuz...

That libtard, "summer of love" mayor thought all this was just so funny until the mob was led to her house.

Chop, chop, it's all gone in a just few hours, SWAT takes it down, machinery moves barricades. Then she finds out it was a city councilwoman who used her key to let them in the building and reportedly, led them to the mayor's house.

Funny how fast the narrative changed. Burning and looting someone else's stuff is just a summer of love. Threatening her stuff, different story. Libtards can dish it out, they just can't take it.

SO, this means that whole Chop mess could have been neutralized an hour or two after it happened.

DF.

Total Speculation, but wouldn't it be interesting to conjecture that the Hells Angels or other motorcycle gangs were planning to take the CHOP site down on July 4th, and the Mayor just felt like she had to act now to take the wind out of the sails of that little project.

It means it could have been neutralized Before it happened.

She knew in advance that it was coming, she ordered the police to vacate the precinct before it was actually underway.

What they don’t understand is the fact that they won’t escape the mob. They’re just being saved for last.

Could have sold tickets to that...

The popcorn concessions would have been lucrative (if it lasted long enough)...

DF

Wussies gave up too easy to a bunch of bike cops . Where the fight in these wimps ?

Little communist chkunt mayor Jenny Durkan finally stop scratching her ass?

Laughing.

Exactly.

This is French Revolution style stuff, the reign of terror. Robespierre, their ring leader, fed a bunch of people to the guillotine, only to finally end up there himself.

Mob rule ultimately eats their own, no justice, no order, just raw emotions with corresponding actions.

DF

Exactly right. Which is why I wish it would’ve kept going. Because every day that place existed showed the world just how fugged up the left and their proposals are.