Scott Adams claims Durkan won. I don't think so. Well, I mean if by "win" you mean "salvage what is left of a career." Both she and the Chief of police look haggard. The haughty "we gonna own Trump" attitude is gone now. Just a "we need to bury this in the backyard and never speak of it again" look.
Even a bland and meaningless positioning statment about "We're working with leaders to get this under control in a mutually beneficial way" would've looked better.
Instead, to own Drumpf (tm), she just couldn't help but stridently and arrogantly say "Not only is this little street festival not a problem, but I wholeheartedly endorse it and I dare the President to show his true colors by stopping what's just another Summer of Love"
And then the bodies started stacking up.
And then the mob came for her for not letting them stack them fast enough.
TDS and the cult-like behavior it induces from the True Believers in fully-automated luxury space progressivism means you can't ever commit less than 200% to your ideals.
You can't just let opponents lose, you have to ratfuck them into the ground and go on record that you're doing it, otherwise your purity will be called into question.
On one hand, I feel bad for her, living inside the big, blue, echo box means an entire civic government, from Chief Executive down to dog catcher, collectively, have NO IDEA how to govern effectively and grade performance on irrelevant "feel good" politics that do more harm in practice than good, despite arguably noble motives. I think a lot of these people have been promoted well beyond their competence level due to political purity and how progressive they look in the roles and are in denial (and allowed to be in denial by continuing blind support) that what they FEEL doesn't translate to results at street-level. They don't GET that leadership means you have to spank some of your own people even when you like them, and believe in ruinous PC policy that there are no bad actors on your side, just misunderstood victims and that promising to give kids ice cream and a trophy if they just stop tantruming is the way to go.
She was set up for failure by being "taught" how to lead by a system that fundamentally misunderstands it's own purpose (a leader defers to the most powerless) and denies human nature and basic psychology when this is pointed out. (deescalation is the solution, remove all laws and everyone will "naturally" get along!) .
Nonetheless, a reckoning is due when you fuck up that bad.
It's not 100% the coach's fault if a team with no talent on the roster goes 1 - 15 for the season, but, he's still gonna get fired, especially if he keeps talking trash about the good teams and crowing about his constant "moral victories" won despite nothing on-field going right.