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by awnird·5y ago·view on hn ↗
The police are a criminal gang who have been in on the coup from the start.
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If BLM had done this blood would be flowing in the streets.
Like when they took over several square blocks of Seattle for a month and declared independence and weren't stopped by the cops until their private police force killed too many black teenagers?
1. The Seattle protests did not storm any buildings, force people out of their workplaces, or planted any bombs.

2. The SPD, for a reason they still can't explain, and against the orders of both Mayor Durkan, and Police Chief Best, chose to leave the East Precinct, and then, in a petty manner, stopped responding to calls in the entire Capitol Hill area.

3. The CHAZ occupied a public park, and the streets of the surrounding block. It did not stop the operation of businesses, legislatures, or government. It did not prevent the police from accessing the area.

What we're seeing here, is a failed coup - an attempt to prevent the peaceful, democratic transfer of power by force, at the behest of a politician. I can't believe that you can't tell the difference between a coup, and a protest. One is treason and insurrection, which carries the death penalty, while the other is a constitutionally protected right.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/21/seattle-chaz...

"police say violent crowd prevented access to victims"

Police have said a lot of things in Seattle that turned out to be complete falsehoods. Nearly every night of the protest, they'd make false statements that were trivially disproved by video evidence.

I'll believe it when its a citation from an impartial third party - a paramedic, a bystander, etc.

The fact is, the police retained access to both the East Precinct, and to CHAZ, through the latter's existence. They would show up in small groups of two or three, and were allowed in.

Do you realize how biased you come across? You can pick whatever "evidence" or "source of evidence" you want but you'd still need to apply that standard to "both sides".
I am 'biased' against statements made by the SPD, because they have a verified history of lying on this subject.
Well a woman died.
She stormed a parliament building in session. She should have fully expected exactly this outcome in any non failed state.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and all that...