A notorious Seattle neighbourhood set up following the George Floyd rioting is back in the hands of police – with barely a whisper from protesters..After two people – including a 16-year-old boy – were shot and killed around the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone – police moved in on Canada Day and cleared up the area..The police also reclaimed their abandoned precinct, which the protesters had been using as their headquarters..Bulldozers with police protection moved in and destroyed protesters’ camps which had been set up June 8..At least 31 people were arrested at the CHAZ zone where crime has risen by more than 500 per cent in just over three weeks. .“Finally. Twenty-some days and several deaths too late. The rule of law must not fade in and out with the fashions of the radical left,” Senate Majority Leader McConnell tweeted..Police said they found “recovered improvised spike strips” with the area..Seattle police tweeted: “Because suspects in recent shootings may still be in the area, and because numerous people in the area are in possession of firearms, Seattle Police officers involved in this morning’s response will be equipped with additional protective gear.”.Police chief Carmen Best said: “Our job is to support peaceful demonstration but what has happened on these streets over the last two weeks is lawless and it’s brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable..“(CHAZ) has become lawless and brutal. Four shootings, two fatal, robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area..“I was just stunned by the amount of graffiti, garbage and property destruction,” Best said..Thousands of protesters – many hailing from the far-left ANTIFA terrorist organization – took over the six-square block area of Seattle, where no police officers were allowed..Just was just 24 hours a day of protesting, music, dancing and communing without a cop in sight, they quickly run out of food, putting out a plea for “vegan meat alternatives” and other soy-based food donations..At the heart of the CHAZ is a Seattle police precinct, abandoned by officers and now being used by gun-tooting warlords who have established themselves as the new keepers of law and order.. ChazCHAZ .They had a list of demands, including the “abolition” of the Seattle Police Department and its attached court system, free college for all people in the state, as well as “the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.”.The streets were apparently controlled by a hip hop artist-turned-warlord by the name of Raz Simone, who has established an armed private police force that does not hesitate to dole out beatings to communal scofflaws..Another video shows Raz and friends confronting a man for making unauthorized graffiti on Raz’s turf, which results in the “police” stealing the man’s phone, breaking his glasses, and reportedly repeatedly kicking him in the head..“We are the police of this community here now,” the man is told before the beating..The video reveals Raz’s gang telling the man, “For your own safety, you need to go,” and “You might need a little love tap” before seeming to assault him..The vandal is then ordered to hand over his phone as tribute to Raz, under the threat of more violence. “You just broke my glasses! I’m blind! You just broke my glasses and stole my phone!” the man pleads, before being told, “Yeah, we should have broken your face.”.“Don’t be making no threats … I’ll blow your brains out,” Raz says..In other sections of CHAZ, there were tents with supplies for volunteer medics as well as food donated by local restaurants, along with fruit, snacks and water bottles..“The scene here is peaceful as hell,” said a demonstrator who identified herself as Jahtia B..“This is our city. I was born and raised in this city. Let’s give it to the people, the people who live in Seattle and have been thriving here,” she told AFP news agency..Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant disputed accounts of violence or intimidation by protesters within the area and said it was more like a street fair with political discussions and a drum circle.. CHAZ has fallenCHAZ occupiers .“The right wing has been spreading rumours that there is some sort of lawlessness and crime taking place at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, but it is exactly the opposite of that,” said Sawant, .U.S President Donald Trump and Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan engaged in a war of words over the Zone..“Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will,” Trump warned Durkan and Washington state governor Jay Inslee – both Democrats – in a tweet, calling the protesters “domestic terrorists” who have taken over Seattle..“This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped (sic) IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST,” he said in another tweet.. Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .Durkan replied, telling Trump to “go back to his bunker” a reference to when Trump sheltered in the White House bunker after D.C protests and riots got too close..Inslee tweeted: “A man who is totally incapable of governing should stay out of Washington state’s business. ‘Stoop’ tweeting.”. CHAZ has fallenCHAZ .Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby7694
A notorious Seattle neighbourhood set up following the George Floyd rioting is back in the hands of police – with barely a whisper from protesters..After two people – including a 16-year-old boy – were shot and killed around the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone – police moved in on Canada Day and cleared up the area..The police also reclaimed their abandoned precinct, which the protesters had been using as their headquarters..Bulldozers with police protection moved in and destroyed protesters’ camps which had been set up June 8..At least 31 people were arrested at the CHAZ zone where crime has risen by more than 500 per cent in just over three weeks. .“Finally. Twenty-some days and several deaths too late. The rule of law must not fade in and out with the fashions of the radical left,” Senate Majority Leader McConnell tweeted..Police said they found “recovered improvised spike strips” with the area..Seattle police tweeted: “Because suspects in recent shootings may still be in the area, and because numerous people in the area are in possession of firearms, Seattle Police officers involved in this morning’s response will be equipped with additional protective gear.”.Police chief Carmen Best said: “Our job is to support peaceful demonstration but what has happened on these streets over the last two weeks is lawless and it’s brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable..“(CHAZ) has become lawless and brutal. Four shootings, two fatal, robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area..“I was just stunned by the amount of graffiti, garbage and property destruction,” Best said..Thousands of protesters – many hailing from the far-left ANTIFA terrorist organization – took over the six-square block area of Seattle, where no police officers were allowed..Just was just 24 hours a day of protesting, music, dancing and communing without a cop in sight, they quickly run out of food, putting out a plea for “vegan meat alternatives” and other soy-based food donations..At the heart of the CHAZ is a Seattle police precinct, abandoned by officers and now being used by gun-tooting warlords who have established themselves as the new keepers of law and order.. ChazCHAZ .They had a list of demands, including the “abolition” of the Seattle Police Department and its attached court system, free college for all people in the state, as well as “the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.”.The streets were apparently controlled by a hip hop artist-turned-warlord by the name of Raz Simone, who has established an armed private police force that does not hesitate to dole out beatings to communal scofflaws..Another video shows Raz and friends confronting a man for making unauthorized graffiti on Raz’s turf, which results in the “police” stealing the man’s phone, breaking his glasses, and reportedly repeatedly kicking him in the head..“We are the police of this community here now,” the man is told before the beating..The video reveals Raz’s gang telling the man, “For your own safety, you need to go,” and “You might need a little love tap” before seeming to assault him..The vandal is then ordered to hand over his phone as tribute to Raz, under the threat of more violence. “You just broke my glasses! I’m blind! You just broke my glasses and stole my phone!” the man pleads, before being told, “Yeah, we should have broken your face.”.“Don’t be making no threats … I’ll blow your brains out,” Raz says..In other sections of CHAZ, there were tents with supplies for volunteer medics as well as food donated by local restaurants, along with fruit, snacks and water bottles..“The scene here is peaceful as hell,” said a demonstrator who identified herself as Jahtia B..“This is our city. I was born and raised in this city. Let’s give it to the people, the people who live in Seattle and have been thriving here,” she told AFP news agency..Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant disputed accounts of violence or intimidation by protesters within the area and said it was more like a street fair with political discussions and a drum circle.. CHAZ has fallenCHAZ occupiers .“The right wing has been spreading rumours that there is some sort of lawlessness and crime taking place at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, but it is exactly the opposite of that,” said Sawant, .U.S President Donald Trump and Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan engaged in a war of words over the Zone..“Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will,” Trump warned Durkan and Washington state governor Jay Inslee – both Democrats – in a tweet, calling the protesters “domestic terrorists” who have taken over Seattle..“This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped (sic) IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST,” he said in another tweet.. Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .Durkan replied, telling Trump to “go back to his bunker” a reference to when Trump sheltered in the White House bunker after D.C protests and riots got too close..Inslee tweeted: “A man who is totally incapable of governing should stay out of Washington state’s business. ‘Stoop’ tweeting.”. CHAZ has fallenCHAZ .Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby7694