CHAZ/CHOP: Autonomous No Cop Zone and Commune Declared In Seattle - Render unto Warlord Raz what is owed to Warlord Raz

Thanks for the summary, although my heart is broken because of ducklings. I hope it's not true...

The ducklings are fine, I was being sarcastic while reporting on it last night. Watched it on stream, the woman with the box walked off camera so I couldn't see where they eventually wound up.

Twitter says they were in a box and the crowd was "trying to reunite with their mama duck". A further update said they reunited with the mother, but may not have escaped back to nature yet.

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(nice attempt at hiding the name, dumbass)

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Bonus clip: the duck family before getting trapped behind the candles.

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Least for now, until the gang-types take over. Personally, I'd like to see the National Guard move in with tanks, then go to city hall and arrest the mayor.. Fuck these assholes. Mods, didn't see a similar thread, so here I am.


CHAZ, a 'no Cop Co-op': Here's what Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone looks like
Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY 3 hrs ago



In Seattle, a group of peaceful protesters have cornered off several city blocks and established the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – a sort of protest haven where artists paint murals, speakers discuss topics of racial equity, snacks are handed out for free and virtually no police are in sight.

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Protests went from violent to peaceful in Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

President Donald Trump has branded the protest society as a group of "ugly Anarchists" and "Domestic Terrorists," but the city's mayor says Trump doesn't get it. It's a group of people gathering lawfully and exercising their First Amendment right of free speech, said Mayor Jenny Durkan.

"It is patriotism," Durkan added. (JS - Bullshit, just hasn't the guts to kick these fucks out.)

The group gathered after Seattle police abandoned a precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday and effectively handed the area over to the protesters they had clashed with for days.
According to media reports from around the area, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, has a festival-like energy where people are peacefully gathering and discussing how to better the world in an experiment of a society without police amid calls around the country to "defund" departments.

'Go back to your bunker': Seattle mayor, Washington governor fire back at Trump threat to handle protests

    • Slide 1 of 25: People walk past street art that reads Welcome to CHAZ, June 11, 2020, inside what is being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle. Following days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from the neighborhood, and protesters have created a festival-like scene that has President Donald Trump fuming.
    • Slide 2 of 25: Seattle Police Assistant Chief Deanna Nollette and Assistant Chief Adrian Diaz are blocked by protesters from entering the newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle on June 11, 2020.
    • Slide 3 of 25: The word people is spray painted over the word police on the closed Seattle Police Department's East Precinct now surrounded by the area known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle, Wash. on June 11, 2020. The area surrounding the East Precinct building has come to be known as the CHAZ, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Volunteer medics are available to tend to medical needs, alongside tents with medical supplies, gourmet food donated form local restaurants, fruit, snacks, water bottles free for whomever needed them.
    • Slide 4 of 25: Mark Henry Jr. of Black Lives Matter addresses a crowd in an area being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) located on streets that reopened to pedestrian traffic after Seattle Police closed the East Precinct, in Seattle, Wash. on June 11, 2020.

Slide 1 of 25: People walk past street art that reads "Welcome to CHAZ," June 11, 2020, inside what is being called the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" in Seattle. Following days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from the neighborhood, and protesters have created a festival-like scene that has President Donald Trump fuming.
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People walk past street art that reads "Welcome to CHAZ," June 11, 2020, inside what is being called the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" in Seattle. Following days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from the neighborhood, and protesters have created a festival-like scene that has President Donald Trump fuming.

Where is the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?

According to a Seattle Times map of the area, the zone spans several city blocks. It runs east to west along East Pine Street from 10th to 13th Avenues East. On 12th Avenue East, the zone extended down to East Pike Street. Some tents and a community garden have been set up in Cal Anderson Park, which runs along East Pine Street.
Capitol Hill is a neighborhood northeast of downtown Seattle and the famous Pike Place Market. The neighborhood is popular with many young residents in the city and home to many diverse artistic spaces, restaurants and Cal Anderson Park, named after Washington's first openly gay legislator.



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a close up of a box: The word people is spray painted over the word police on the closed Seattle Police Department's East Precinct now surrounded by the area known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2020.

© JASON REDMOND, AFP via Getty Images The word "people" is spray painted over the word "police" on the closed Seattle Police Department's East Precinct now surrounded by the area known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2020.

How did protesters first occupy the area?


Seattle, like most cities in the United States, saw major protests in the days that followed George Floyd's killing in the custody of Minneapolis police.
For days, protesters and police in riot gear faced off nightly outside the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct.
In response to outcries against the tactics used by police in Seattle to control the crowds, Durkan promised at a news conference last week there would be a 30-day ban on the use of CS gas, commonly known as tear gas.
Despite that ban, police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators over the weekend, prompting a new wave of outrage from activists and City Council members. In response, the Seattle Police Department removed barricades from outside the East Precinct.
The Seattle Times reported that after the police barricades were removed, demonstrators quickly moved in with their own barricades and closed the area to vehicles.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said Thursday it was her decision to use tear gas after the ban, as she said officers believed there could be violence, but it was not her decision to surrender the building, per the Times.

a group of people walking down the street: Human Rights Attorney Mike Withey, who says he represented people in Seattle's World Trade Organization (WTO) protests, addresses a crowd in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

© JASON REDMOND, AFP via Getty Images Human Rights Attorney Mike Withey, who says he represented people in Seattle's World Trade Organization (WTO) protests, addresses a crowd in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

What's the scene like inside the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?
News reports describe the occupied area as peaceful and safe. The words "Black Lives Matter" were painted on East Pine Street. Free food has been handed out at a "No Cop Co-op." Speakers, poets and other performers share ideas and art.
A sign on the abandoned police precinct reads that the building is "property of the Seattle people." The Seattle Times reported that some protesters hope to turn the building into a community center.
A community garden has also been planted in Cal Anderson Park. "We’re forced to build new plots because people are giving us so many plants," Marcus Henderson, who was working in the gardens, told the Seattle Times.
Francis Vann, a 15-year-old high school freshman, told the newspaper that the movement happening inside the area is being driven by young people.
“A lot of times, the older people criticize the young people for how we choose to show our grief,” Vann said. “It kind of takes a lot to stir up emotions with the young people, but once we’re mad, we’re mad. And we’re mad. It’s the young people’s energy that’s out here and the old people’s wisdom that’s keeping us out here.”
a group of people standing in front of a building: A sign which reads this is property of the Seattle people is pictured on the closed Seattle Police Department's East Precinct.

© JASON REDMOND, AFP via Getty Images A sign which reads "this is property of the Seattle people" is pictured on the closed Seattle Police Department's East Precinct

Are businesses being threatened?


No.
Seattle police claimed earlier this week that some businesses housed inside the area are being extorted and forced to pay a fee to operate in the area. Best said Thursday that claim was false. "That has not happened affirmatively," Best said, per the Seattle Times. "We haven't had any formal reports of this occurring." (JS - Translated, that means extortions are happening but the victims are afraid to report them. And just wait until the rapes, burglaries, etc., get going.)

Restaurant owners told the newspaper the protest has actually been good for business with more walk-ups. "This protest has not hurt us at all," Bok a Bok Chicken co-owner Brian O'Connor told the Seattle Times.
a group of people skiing down a snow covered slope: The words Black Lives Matter are painted in the middle of East Pine Street.

© JASON REDMOND, AFP via Getty Images The words "Black Lives Matter" are painted in the middle of East Pine Street.

Will police return to the area?

Police officials have said they plan to return to the abandoned precinct, but there is no timeline.
"We don’t want to introduce additional flashpoints," Durkan said at a news conference about police's potential return, the Seattle Times reported.
The Seattle Times reported that a group of officers were spotted at the police precinct Thursday evening and that there was a brief confrontation with protesters. Some protesters claimed they were pepper sprayed during the incident, the newspaper reported.


 
Our Warlord talking to a trump supporter, glad to see Raz as a gun enthusiast. The Trump dude said he wants to come back with a Trump 2020 T-shirt and chill in CHAZ
Raz based as hell says he's fine with it

I'm officially Raz 2020
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Raz is genuinely the best thing to come out of this. Guy's just one of those cool libertarian bros that turn out oddly a-political despite getting involved in politics. I've dealth with some in the past back in the student union times and it's always a treat. Glad to see the american version is alive and well and somehow still found in the oddest positions you'd never imagine them in. He needs to run for president with Joe Exotic for 2024 for the libertarian party. It'd be great see the establishment have to deal with an actual upsurge of "I want gay married couples to defend their marihuana plants with guns!" Just when they finally thought they were safe as Trump leaves office. You thought cheetoman was the end? We goin deeper!

It's like reading the leftists praising JonesTown...
right before... they had an... 'issue'...

Yeah radical political endeavors sure have an odd tendency to start being praised constantly with the mainstream trying to cover the blemishes and their members singing their endless praises until suddently, inexplicably, totally unpredictably, against all logic, they have "issues" and suddently there's memorials talking about tragic events...
 
Our Warlord talking to a trump supporter, glad to see Raz as a gun enthusiast. The Trump dude said he wants to come back with a Trump 2020 T-shirt and chill in CHAZ
Raz based as hell says he's fine with it

I'm officially Raz 2020
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If both of them are serious about this, Raz and his lot would do well to provide him protection. Trump dude is going to be walking into a wolf den in a suit of armor made entirely out of raw steaks, so I hope Raz isn't trying to bamboozle him
 
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