Seattle Gives Thugs Six Blocks of the City to Run

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 12:31:00 P.M. EDT

(SEATTLE CITY JOURNAL) Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

For the past week, Black Lives Matter and Antifa-affiliated activists have engaged in a pitched battle with Seattle police officers and National Guard soldiers in the neighborhood, with the heaviest conflict occurring at the intersection of 11th and Pike, where law enforcement had constructed a barricade to defend the Seattle Police East Precinct building. Hoping to break through the barricade, protesters attacked officers with bricks, bottles, rocks, and improvised explosive devices, sending some officers to the hospital. At the same time, activists circulated videos of the conflict and accused the police of brutality, demanding that the city cease using teargas and other anti-riot techniques.

Then, in a stunning turn of events, the City of Seattle made the decision to abandon the East Precinct and surrender the neighborhood to the protesters. “This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation,” explained Chief Carmen Best. Officers and National Guardsmen emptied out the facility, boarded it up, and retreated. Immediately afterward, Black Lives Matter protesters, Antifa black shirts, and armed members of the hard-Left John Brown Gun Club seized control of the neighborhood, moved the barricades into a defensive position, and declared it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone—even putting up a cardboard sign at the barricades declaring “you are now leaving the USA.”

On the new rebel state’s first night, the atmosphere was festive and triumphant. Hooded men spray-painted the police station with slogans and anarchist symbols, renaming it the “Seattle People’s Department East Precinct.” Raz Simone, a local rapper with an AK-47 slung from his shoulder and a pistol attached to his hip, screamed, “This is war!” into a white-and-red megaphone and instructed armed paramilitaries to guard the barricades in shifts. Later in the night, Simone was filmed allegedly assaulting multiple protestors who disobeyed his orders, informing them that he was the "police" now, sparking fears that he was becoming the de facto warlord of the autonomous zone. A homeless man with a baseball bat wandered along the borderline and two unofficial medics in medieval-style chain mail stood ready for action.

Nikkita Oliver, a radical activist and former mayoral candidate, emerged as a critical voice of the protest movement and assumed a leadership role in the newly declared autonomous zone. After night fell and a light rain began falling, she spoke to the crowd and outlined the ideological commitments behind the occupation. “[We need to] align ourselves with the global struggle that acknowledges [that] the United States plays a role in racialized capitalism,” she told protestors. “Racialized capitalism is built upon patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism.”

The following day, a coalition of black activists associated with the autonomous zone released a more specific list of demands, including the total abolition of the Seattle Police Department, the retrial of all racial minorities serving prison time for violent crimes, and the replacement of the police with autonomous “restorative/transformative accountability programs.” Activists pledged to maintain control of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone until their demands are met—setting the stage for a long-term occupation and the establishment of a parallel political authority.

The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill. According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city’s “leadership is in chaos” and “the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000.”
--GRA


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 12:48:00 P.M. EDT

MORE ON THE SEATTLE CHAOS

(Radio 770 Seattle) As protests continue and Seattle leaders turn their backs on the Seattle Police Department, some cops are deciding to call it quits.

Seattle police officers email, text, and tweet at me about how they no longer want to work for a city that despises them so much.

Two years ago, cops felt dismayed and attacked by a city that didn’t value them. They were called racist murderers by Socialist Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant and felt the council were too quick to demonize them. There was a “mass exodus” of cops at the time.

Please consider a donation to the Seattle Police Foundation to help purchase ‘mourning badges’ for officers, after the city change [sic] their policy.

Now, you have Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda listening to a man demanding cops kill themselves, and rather than condemn the threats, she justifies them. Councilmember Debora Juarez says it’s not just “a few bad apples” in the police department. She said the whole tree is rotten.

Fearing she’ll be impeached, Mayor Jenny Durkan pushed cops under the bus and sacrificed them — and their East Precinct — to placate a group of protesters that will never vote for her and a council she will never control.

GRA: I posted these two stories to show you what the rioters want to inflict on our (?) cities—takeovers of city blocks and removal of police. If not stood up to—as it appears the Seattle mayor refuses to do, only total negro anarchy can be expected—not only in Seattle, but other thugs in other cities, who are watching how this evolves.
--GRA