Chaos erupts in Seattle, Portland on inauguration day
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Election 2020: Police in cities nationwide bracing for potential unrest in days before, after Nov. 3
Many police departments hoping for the best, planning for the worst around Election Day. The backdrop of a summer of civil unrest in America’s largest cities and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic looms large as motivated voters prepare to submit their ballots for president in less than two weeks. Police departments – many of which saw days, weeks, and even monthslong…
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Black Lives Matter crowd demands Seattle homeowners ‘give up’ property: ‘We coming for it’
‘Economic justice for black people…. needs to look like land transfer in my opinion because land is wealth.’ Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle demand homeowners give up their property as a form of reparations, Aug. 12, 2020. The march through neighborhoods was live-streamed by Concrete Reporting via the Periscope app. (Image: Periscope app live…
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Seattle police retake precinct in CHOP, arrest multiple protesters following Durkan orders
Police Chief Carmen Best said “enough is enough” after fatal shootings in the area. Seattle police have retaken the East Precinct after clearing out the protest area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, making more than a dozen arrests after Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering an unlawful assembly. Police issued the order to…
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It Only Took 2 Days For Seattle’s “Autonomous Zone” To Descend Into Chaos
It is hard to believe that this is actually happening in America… Protesters in Seattle decided that they were going to give us a living, breathing example of how the world should really operate. The police were completely kicked out of a six block area of downtown Seattle, and armed guards were posted at all…
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Trump vows he won’t ‘let Seattle be occupied by anarchists,’ will ‘straighten it out’ if local leaders don’t
President Trump told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in an exclusive interview Thursday that his administration is “not going to let Seattle be occupied by anarchists.” “If there were more toughness, you wouldn’t have the kind of devastation that you had in Minneapolis and in Seattle. I mean, let’s see what’s going on in Seattle,” Trump told Faulkner….
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