Quote:City crews arrived in Seattle early Friday morning to remove barriers in the downtown "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" zone (CHOP) but were met with resistance from protesters, who laid in the streets in front of vehicles and on top of makeshift structures.
"City workers were met with significant resistance by protesters, who grew increasingly agitated and aggressive," a spokesperson for Mayor Jenny Durkan's office told Fox News.
Workers from Seattle's Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6 a.m. local time with trucks and heavy construction machinery and were staged around the edges of the protest area. They ended up leaving the site at 8 a.m. without removing the barriers.
City workers intended to remove barriers blocking roadways and clean up Cal Anderson Park, which has been inhabited for weeks by protesters in tents, the mayor's spokesperson told Fox News.
Efforts also include offering social services to protesters to "encourage those living overnight in Cal Anderson to begin leaving the area or, if experiencing homelessness, to take an offer for shelter," the spokesperson said.
The city intends to encourage protesters to leave the area, Durkan announced on Monday, following several shootings that broke out in the zone.
Protesters were apparently holding out on allowing barriers to be removed Friday -- which would signal a small step towards compromise with the city -- because "we require that our demands are met," David Lewis, one of the CHOP organizers said, King5 reported.
Protesters designated a six-block radius of downtown Seattle a "cop free" zone, and police from the East Precinct that fell were forced to retreat from the area weeks ago, as demonstrators marched against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Floyd died in police custody after a police officer kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes, and his death has sparked a national outcry for an overhaul of police practices.
The city said they will give organizers 72 hours to confer with demonstrators before the barriers are moved and talks with community organizers and city services are ongoing.
"Safety is the City’s first priority, and planning is ongoing for how to safely transition the Capitol Hill area," the mayor's spokesperson told Fox News.
Demonstraters are calling on Durkan to defund the police. Durkan was initially largely supportive of the protests and their takeover of the area, but following the violence that erupted in recent days, she has said police will be allowed to return to their precinct in the coming weeks, although she has not specified an exact date.
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Did anybody think these people were actually going to leave? Oh, that's right, the (Democrat) Governor and Mayor did, never mind.
But the mayor said they will leave peacefully.
Get medieval on em. Does anyone know what a siege is? See how long the tough gals can last. I say less than a day...
I know the weak assed mayor or governor won’t do a damn thing but it’s fun to imagine (all the people, living life in peace ohh oh ohhhhh You might say that I’m a dreamer)
They have it backward. Build a wall around them. Dont let them out of their zone. Jam all communications. Cut off all water and power services. No one in, no one out.
Then set the demands.
Time to give these arseclowns some lead supplements.
(06-26-2020 11:19 PM)shere khan Wrote: [ -> ]They have it backward. Build a wall around them. Dont let them out of their zone. Jam all communications. Cut off all water and power services. No one in, no one out.
Then set the demands.
You got it all correct except the 'no one in' part. Have ICE start rounding up all the illegals that crossed our southern border and simply dump them into CHOP/CHAZ/Cwatever and keep the CHAZ/Chop/Cwhatever walls up. You solve two problems: 'deporting" all the illegals (there's about 30,000,000 of them--imagine how nice it will be for them all to live in the Chop-zone together, singing "peacefully", while the CHOP leadership decides how to provide toilets, food, running water and electricity for their newfound compadres. then, I'd ask ICE to get the 70,000 or so "non-Dreamers and dump them in there as well. let CHOP school them in Chop/Chaz University and Chaz elementary schools, et cetera (there's no "x" in that phrase).
Problem solved, because as everyone knows, the illegals "need" to stay- let them all 30,000,000 stay in CHOP! Wonderful!
(06-26-2020 06:58 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:City crews arrived in Seattle early Friday morning to remove barriers in the downtown "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" zone (CHOP) but were met with resistance from protesters, who laid in the streets in front of vehicles and on top of makeshift structures.
"City workers were met with significant resistance by protesters, who grew increasingly agitated and aggressive," a spokesperson for Mayor Jenny Durkan's office told Fox News.
Workers from Seattle's Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6 a.m. local time with trucks and heavy construction machinery and were staged around the edges of the protest area. They ended up leaving the site at 8 a.m. without removing the barriers.
City workers intended to remove barriers blocking roadways and clean up Cal Anderson Park, which has been inhabited for weeks by protesters in tents, the mayor's spokesperson told Fox News.
Efforts also include offering social services to protesters to "encourage those living overnight in Cal Anderson to begin leaving the area or, if experiencing homelessness, to take an offer for shelter," the spokesperson said.
The city intends to encourage protesters to leave the area, Durkan announced on Monday, following several shootings that broke out in the zone.
Protesters were apparently holding out on allowing barriers to be removed Friday -- which would signal a small step towards compromise with the city -- because "we require that our demands are met," David Lewis, one of the CHOP organizers said, King5 reported.
Protesters designated a six-block radius of downtown Seattle a "cop free" zone, and police from the East Precinct that fell were forced to retreat from the area weeks ago, as demonstrators marched against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Floyd died in police custody after a police officer kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes, and his death has sparked a national outcry for an overhaul of police practices.
The city said they will give organizers 72 hours to confer with demonstrators before the barriers are moved and talks with community organizers and city services are ongoing.
"Safety is the City’s first priority, and planning is ongoing for how to safely transition the Capitol Hill area," the mayor's spokesperson told Fox News.
Demonstraters are calling on Durkan to defund the police. Durkan was initially largely supportive of the protests and their takeover of the area, but following the violence that erupted in recent days, she has said police will be allowed to return to their precinct in the coming weeks, although she has not specified an exact date.
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Did anybody think these people were actually going to leave? Oh, that's right, the (Democrat) Governor and Mayor did, never mind.
Now hold on. The supposed mayor? Yes.
The absentee “governor”? He isn’t aware of any of this going on. Said so himself. And this clod fancied himself a POTUS.
I hope that they hold out until the 4th when Patriots arrive to 'help' restore the mess back to the city and show the Chazzhats the error of their ways.