Zealots, anarchists, trouble makers, and drifters are all that remains. Shut it down and clear them out. They are so out of touch with reality their list of demands during their closed door meeting with the mayor contained many that Seattle/WA state already are doing.

Thank you, Bob. You are always so rational. We need to punish anyone who is being shot at. A person who is targeted by drive-by gunfire is clearly in the wrong and must be removed.

Don’t blame the Mayor, it’s the worthless city council who removed the Police department’s ability to control the crowds and take back control of the city. Where’s Sawant? If anyone needs to be removed from office, it’s the city council that needs to be removed.

Only SWAT can remove these well armed people who have now killed a 16 year old. The public doesn’t want SWAT – it looks bad. So this will not end soon.

Nora, you beat me to it: I think the only way you get the 12th and Olive Militia out of there, followed by the remaining campers is a SWAT team. I don’t think regular SPD can figure out how to dislodge them short of inflicting casualties and incurring further political damage as a result. If a SWAT team dislodges them, the SPD may have some political plausible deniability since SWAT is perceived to be an army in an of itself.

@ThankyouBob: I’ll just point out the obvious….the shootings are a result of the ongoing occupation and camping. If the mess can be brought to an end, there will be no more shootings, at least in that area. It’s not a matter of “punishing” the occupiers, it’s a matter of protecting them from further violence.

Right Bob, obviously all drive by shootings are the result of people being outside, school shootings are the result of kids going to school. Anytime an innocent bystander is killed by gun violence at the hands of the police or anyone else it’s because they shouldn’t have been where they were when they were shot. It’s the victim’s fault.

Just where is that ‘ Video” at ?

Yes- it’s bee reported that an African American adult male died and an African American 14 y/o is in critical condition.

19-year-old Renton High student Lorenzo Anderson died. (1st death) He was a young black man. Anothr victim interviewed on the news at Harborview, as also a black man.

Best told media that the person killed and the teen who was shot Monday morning are Black.

Racists aren’t giving credit to the CHOP for shooting two black kids, who may have been unarmed? Okay.

Had Oliver not been in the mayoral race, we might have elected Bob Hasegawa, who is more progressive than Durkan. If Oliver runs again, she’ll make the Chamber of Commerce very happy.

I’m puzzled as to who Durkan is pandering to so heavily. The council is a lost cause but why is Durkan bending so far for a handful of extremists in CHOP when there are 750,000 people in the whole city? Is she playing to some profile of imagined KUOW listeners? We have heard from many quite liberal minded people on Capitol Hill who have been pleading for this disaster to be ended and cleared out.

City council. Silent or complicit. If you look at council member’s twitter feeds you see silence about these killings, and for some, encouragement of CHOP . Teresa Mosqueda retweeting BS from Spek (The cops can have their precinct back any time!). Kshama Sawant, Lisa Herbold, Deborah Juarez, Andrew Lewis, Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda, Alex Pederson, Lorena Gonzales (Dan Strauss, no twitter feed). Correct me if I’m wrong, cursory check last 15 mins. Same for Girmay Zahilay, king council rep. Who at least has encouraged COVID safety and has deep community involvement.

Agree, the council is just as much to blame for this as Durkan. They had their little photo ops at the police blockades and then high-tailed it home to call for Durkan to step down; with no further action from them since.

Sawant and Gonzalez did, however, both issue statements; as reported in the Seattle Times:

Councilmember Kshama Sawant said during a council briefing the shooting “highlights the urgency to address the endemic violence in our society under capitalism.”

She said “violence was happening on Capitol Hill and in other parts of the city long before the CHOP occupation was created by the movement and we should completely reject the false claims — claims that have no basis in statistical analysis — that the CHOP occupation and the movement was the reason for any of the violence.”

Council President M. Lorena González agreed the shootings should not be attributed to the CHOP and, instead, blamed a nationwide gun violence crisis.

“There is a lot of reporting and information on social media that I think misses the point around what we are seeing manifest itself again (on Capitol Hill) and throughout the city,” she said. “Gun violence is a public health epidemic across the country. Seattle is not an exception to the plague of gun violence within our communities and this is not being caused by a specific zone within our city.”

Your ignorance is absurd – No where has it been released that the killings were made by anyone from the CHOP or outside the CHOP, and NO WHERE does it state that they were black.. For all anyone knows it could have been anyone; i.e people outside of the area looking to threaten them. If you actually stepped foot near the area, you can see the sense of community these people have created; killing each other is not one of their MOs.

From KOMO:
“Tusitala “Tiny” Toese of Vancouver was arrested in Oregon and booked into the Multnomah County Jail. Toese is known as a right-wing activist and has been associated with the Proud Boys.

According to court records, Toese showed up at a protest outside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone and then engaged in a physical fight.”

So we know there were at least a few rightwing agitators.

“The probation officer said several emails included a link to a video that shows Toese push another man while some of his associates punch the man and throw his cell phone to the ground, breaking it. Another video showed Toese and his group walking through the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest area in Seattle.”

Oh, and this paragraph is why I said “a few.”

Yep. And a weak mayor who should have housed the homeless in hotels at the start of this pandemic. As many other municipalities did. She can still do that – just put people up. Cheaper, easier, healthier for everyone.

One would have to believe that Ghost is a spoof account. Or, just another confused Leftist kiddo.

He wants to defund the police when the police effectively enforce the law – and then he flips around 180 degrees to complain that police should be defunded because they aren’t enforcing the law enough.

The failure of CHAZ/CHOP was inevitable: entitled, self-destructive people with no sense of accountability will always fail.

The cops arrested a drive by shooter the 1st night of the riots. They’ve arrested the same person several times before for gun crimes. Miraculously, someone came up with $310,000 in cash to bail him out.

If he shoots even more people, that’s not on the cops. Ask yourself who is bailing gang bangers out with $310,000 in cash.

And they recently arrested a suspect in Georgia suspected to have murdered a twenty one year old black man last summer on the basketball courts at Bobby Morris. So, the police are actively trying to apprehend the people who commit this violence. Good luck with that given the hostility from potential witnesses at CHOP.

And one last thing. The first shooting listed here, the one involving the car and alleged relative of an East Precinct officer, occurred before CHOP was even established. It really should not be listed with those occurring after CHOP came into being.

Why has Sawant gone silent on CHOP? She was such a big fan. Now nothing. Certainly no words of criticism or leadership from that blowhard opportunist no that things have gone sideways.

Far-Left / anarcho-communist ranks are mostly made up of miserable, lazy people who would rather drag others down to their level than raise themselves up.

It doesn’t defy logic or common sense for them: losing at life is what they have always been all about.

If you voted for Sawant then its really hard to have any sympathy for you. She was a full throated supporter of CHAZ/CHOP from back when her and her minions “took over” city hall then marched back up to what was known as CHAZ at the time.

Voters in the highly dense Pike/Pike corridor, and more broadly all the young people that moved into all the fancy new high density buildings up and down Broadway and 12th put Sawant in office. My guess is most of you had no idea how radical she really is. The kids on the hill thought it would be so cool to troll all the rest of Seattle (you know, that places were people have single family homes, are raising children, and being long term active members of their local communities). On election night you all thought you could cast a vote for Sawant, throw on your che guvera t-shirt and head out to poquitos, lost lake and oddfellows to cosplay as a socialist revolutionary without any repercussions.

I’m sure is was so funny for a while to watch all the rest of Seattle lose their minds with Sawant Derangement Syndrome as you laughed about how you had saddled the rest of the city with your district’s version of the village idiot, but now the chickens have come home to roost. In the future I hope you all think before to cast votes just to troll the rest of us in the city who aren’t fully embracing your urbanist lifestyle

I voted for Sawant and regret it with complete deep conviction.

I switched votes at the last minute – as a FU for amazon and it’s $1 million last minute attempt to buy the election. Backfired. I am living proof. And I am so sorry I did that. This was a very sad event today at CHOP and I feel we need thoughtful council members who will look at these lives lost with compassion and leadership, not through the eyes of their ‘movement.’

Cool, so you’re totally getting what you want from her? You wanted Pike/Pine to turn into Falluja; where CHOP Security shoot indiscriminately into cars driving down 12th, where local business have hired heavily armed security details, where there are varying types of armed criminals shooting any old random night? Because make no mistake about it, without Sawant CHOP would have never existed, she sets the socialist agenda in the city. The city would have swept it out night one just like Portland and every other city in America.

And where is she now because she sure was right out there front and center when this was all just “summer of love” wasn’t she? Now that teenage black kids are dying in there street where is she? Oh that’s right, she moved her mob up to the safety of D4 to march on the mayors personal residence, a mayor who was a federal prosecutor by the way. Does that seem smart? If something bad happens to our mayor as a result of your representative leading an angry mob to her home you still going to be cool with her?

Yeah, screw D3, If only it was Capitol Hill that was accessible only by bridge instead of W Seattle. The rest of the sane people in this city could just wait for the bridges to fall down once Sawant pissed away all the money to her socialist/lobbyist friends (and boyfriend). Anyone know how to de-annex a neighborhood? I’d rather have white center as part of the city than the hill at this point.

Like I said, SO deeply under your skin. You and your minions try WAY to hard to make a connection between Sawant and the violence caused by outside agitators at CHOP and the false narratives you spin daily on this Blog make you seem incredibly desperate. Try going outside and taking a walk or screaming into your pillow. I genuinely think it could help

Thanks for the advice, but your lack of imagination is pitiful. Scream into a pillow? That what you all do down there in your 400 sq ft apartments these days? The nice thing about not being in D3; we can use our parks!

Today was beautiful, this afternoon I went for a nice 3 mile run while my kids rode their bikes around the park. Anyone doing that at Cal Anderson these days?

Sorry for not wanting to standby while sawant trashes the rest of the city the way she did Cal Anderson.

@ Ridiculous content: I am really aghast that an otherwise-responsible resident of D3 is “proud” to have voted for Sawant. As evidenced by other comments in this thread, many people who voted for Sawant are now regretting it. The only reason she won is because of the unfortunate, last-minute cash from Amazon, which resulted in many people voting for her because they objected to big money in politics, and not because they actually supported her.

Do you not see that Sawant is a really strident, divisive councilmember, and that all she cares about is her “movement.”?

@bob

I dont regret voting for Sawant at all. I voted her in based on her platform and convictions and continue to support her folowing through on those promises. The commenters on CHS blog do not represent the community of D3 as a whole. I doubt the vast majority even live here. Using comments from a blog as your sample data to make a wild proclamation regarding public sentiment toward Sawant is not convincing or the least bit accurate as an information source. Try not to be so shocked other people don’t think like you and want to see real changes to our tax structure in Seattle and remember the ‘others’ are the majority of D3 voters.

Outside agitators? You are delusional Ridiculous content! There is video proof that atleast some of these shootings happened by CHOP occupiers. Yea, I bet you’ll be loving the place when some of the “private security” “Chop police” guys who answer to no one, come to your house and have their way with you at Gun point and then leave you and your children dead. With no one to hold them accountable. Or a stray bullet comes thru your window and hits your kid, while their playing “cops” & robbers in the streets.