I'm sure this will work out well in the end.

fk those idiots too...

the nw is as racist as it gets....

they deserve every fk'n bit of this bs....

it's quite fonzies watching what happens when 'they' cummmm into your 'hood'....

I say let it play out. Call it a liberal social experiment. It should be educational for the entire country to watch what happens.

This sounds like a great idea!!!

This is what happens when you abandon all authority to police your city. Seizing six city blocks and booting people out.

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The socialist council member Kshama Sawant let them in last night

Quote:Hundreds of protesters, aided by a sympathetic City Council member, stormed Seattle's City Hall Tuesday night to demand the mayor's resignation, just days after seizing a six-block downtown zone that includes a shuttered police precinct.

Demonstrators remained peaceful, without reports of violence or injuries, but are pushing Mayor Jenny Durkan to step down if she refuses to defund the city's police department.

The protesters continued to camp out in a self-declared “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ)-- a region spanning six blocks and encompassing the precinct-- which has effectively been abandoned by law enforcement after the Seattle Police Department closed the East Precinct on Monday.

For more than two weeks following the death of George Floyd -- an unarmed black man who died in police custody after a former Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes -- hundreds of demonstrators all over the country took to the streets to condemn police brutality.

In some cities, like Seattle, pockets of violence erupted as a result of clashes with law enforcement.

On Sunday night, a protester in Capitol Hill was shot and wounded and in another incident, a man drove his car through a throng of protesters and opened fire when a demonstrator approached the car window, police said.

After nearly two weeks of sparring -- during which protesters threw glass bottles, rocks, and other items at police, and officers deployed pepper spray and tear gas to break up crowds -- the police department made efforts to roll back aggressive policing tactics in an effort to quell the violence.

Since the police cleared out two nights ago, the area has remained relatively peaceful, despite the ongoing demonstrations.

Police said they will be responding to the area only if there is a 911 call for an emergency.

On Friday, Durkan banned the use of tear gas by police, but protesters say it's far from enough in a climate fraught with tension and distrust for law enforcement.

Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant met protesters inside City Hall on Tuesday night-- even though the building is usually closed at night-- Komo News reported.

In response to Tuesday night's protests, Durkan's office said in a statement that she remains committed to making "actual steps on policing" and other measures of reform.

"As the person who originally investigated the Seattle Police Department for the unconstitutional use of force, Mayor Durkan believes that SPD can lead the nation on continued reforms and accountability, but knows this week has eroded trust at a time when trust is most crucial," the statement said.

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Kashama Sawant SHOULD have been removed from office last November, but she “beat” her opponent with 1,500 mail votes a week after the election. Yeah, mail ballots. The day after the election, it looked as if her oppoment might win, but miracle Dem mail ballots kept coming in to put her ahead by 1,500 votes. This woman should have been run out of town.

So be it. I really hope the police tell them to pound sand when, and they will, call to ask for some kind of assistance.

Apparently they have declared themselves no longer a part of the United States.

HOWEVER, they still want Seattle to have Sanitation Services come through to pick up trash.

On display for the country to see. The voters of this country.

Let them ruin Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis etc. etc...

(06-10-2020 12:02 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Apparently they have declared themselves no longer a part of the United States.

HOWEVER, they still want Seattle to have Sanitation Services come through to pick up trash.

The Lazy but Rage-filled Soviet of East Seattle?

(06-10-2020 12:02 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Apparently they have declared themselves no longer a part of the United States.

So they are foreign nationalists that have taken over part of the US? So they are stupid and are inviting an attack that will defend "stolen" American soil.

This is great. Absolutely great. They can have the entire western coast states for all I care. They're a new country, cut off all federal funding.

(06-10-2020 12:02 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Apparently they have declared themselves no longer a part of the United States.

HOWEVER, they still want Seattle to have Sanitation Services come through to pick up trash.

Bwahaha.... Uhm... NOPE! :) Personally if they're trying to declare they seceeded from the United States... Send in the troops, plain and simple in this case.

(06-10-2020 12:02 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Apparently they have declared themselves no longer a part of the United States.

HOWEVER, they still want Seattle to have Sanitation Services come through to pick up trash.

There was a movement to have an area, known as the South Valley, here in Bernalillo County to become its own city. They expected the County to Sheriff and Fire departments buildings, personnel and equipment to become theirs upon incorporation. The county told them no, and that if they did become incorporated the county would move all of its assets elsewhere. The movement failed shortly after that.

Also there is this village that is surrounded on three sides by ABQ, the fourth side by an unincorporated part of the county. Several years ago, their Mayor began criticizing the City of ABQ over something I cannot recall. He soon shut up. Supposedly ABQ officials threatened to stop sanitation, water and policing services to the village.

Seattle's Autonomous Anarchist Zone Learns a Hilarious Lesson About Theft

Quote:The CHAZ collective thanked the mayor for her gift of a six-block area of America the mayor does not personally own (and which includes about 500 homes of actual Americans) by storming city hall and demanding that she resign unless she disbands the police.

One problem did crop up, though. Kind of an important one. According to a tweet from the inside.....

Quote:The homeles people we invited took away all the food at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

we need more food to keep the area operational. please if possible bring vegan meat substitutes, fruits, oats, soy products, etc. - anything to help us eat

Quote:Call the police!

Right — CHAZ wants to disband the police. The police are over in America anyway, and American police have no obligation to help non-American CHAZ.

CHAZ has no farms or orchards. CHAZ is paved over with streets and buildings. CHAZ cannot feed itself.

In addition to being dependent on America, which it despises, CHAZ is a hypocritical anarchist collective. It wants to enforce its borders.
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It’s a pity CHAZ has no indigenous lumber supply.

Or electricity. Or water supply.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/br...ft-n514252

Funny how these leftists don't think things through very well - or at all. This is a sneak peek for those paying attention to what cities without police look like. The homeless stole their food. LOL

Quote:In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic. This is no simple request to end police brutality. We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes for the cultural and historic advancement of the City of Seattle, and to ease the struggles of its people. This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department. These are words from that night, June 8th, 2020.

For ease of consideration, we’ve broken these demands into four categories: The Justice System, Health and Human Services, Economics, and Education.
Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.

The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest.
We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.

We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles.

We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.

We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service.

We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community.

We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail.

We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.

We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.

We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.

We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system.

We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.

We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.

We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.

We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city.

We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington.

We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record.

We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.

We also have economic demands that must be addressed.

We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.

We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.

We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country.

We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions.

We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.

Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”

We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.

We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.

We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.

Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.

We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.

We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media.

We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.

Transcribed by @irie_kenya and @AustinCHowe. Special thanks to Magik for starting and facilitating the discussion to create this list, to Omari Salisbury for the idea to break the list into categories, and as well a thanks to Kshama Sawant for being the only Seattle official to discuss with the people on Free Capitol Hill the night that it was liberated.

Although we have liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle, we must not forget that we stand on land already once stolen from the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and whose brother, John T. Williams of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe up north was murdered by the Seattle Police Department 10 years ago.

Black Lives Matter — All day, Every day.

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There are said to be about 500 residences in that area. Wonder how they feel about leaving America? Wonder how/if any are trying to come and go?

(06-10-2020 12:57 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  There are said to be about 500 residences in that area. Wonder how they feel about leaving America? Wonder how/if any are trying to come and go?

This could be all of us soon

I think we can wait them out.

Im sure they are all Democrat voters. In the end, we all get the government we demand and deserve. The problem is too many people dont understand what they are really voting for.

(06-10-2020 01:07 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I think we can wait them out.

Yep, eventually they'll need mom and dad to pay for something and they'll go home.