Seattle Residents Reduced to Blocking Streets to Hold Back Violence

As liberal rule erodes civilization in moonbattery-addled Seattle, residents have taken to barricading streets to defend their homes from criminal violence.

WNEP reports:

Residents near North 98th Street and Linden Avenue North spent part of the Memorial Day weekend piling dirt, gravel, logs and chunks of concrete into roadblocks that now partially block access to three residential streets near Aurora Ave.

Supporters of the barriers said they are desperate to stop shootings they believe are tied to prostitution-related activity along the Aurora corridor.

The barricades pose an obvious problem should emergency services be required. Some think it is worth the trade-off.

Over the past month, residents documented at least eight shootings within roughly 10 blocks of their homes using incident numbers, surveillance footage and shell casings, according to neighbors who have tracked incident numbers, surveillance footage and shell casings.

Normally the police attend to matters like this. But in Seattle, the police take their orders from pro-criminal Democrat Mayor Katy Wilson. They are lucky not to have been defunded completely out of existence.

Wilson uses the police to gather information on ICE agents on behalf of illegal aliens so they can be doxed and potentially killed for bounty. Maybe the police will prove useful for punishing the residents who attempted to defend themselves with barricades.

As predicted before Wilson was elected,

Remember CHOP? If she wins, the whole city will be CHOP.

Those who do not like bullets whizzing through their windows will soon leave, further securing Katy Wilson’s hold on power by steepening Seattle’s descent down the Democrat Death Spiral.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Buyer’s Remorse Even in Seattle After Electing Leftist Mayor

Not even moonbattery-addled Seattle is too far gone to have immediate buyer’s remorse after electing Marxist Mayor Katie Wilson.

Fox News reports:

Wilson, a self-proclaimed socialist, recently went viral for laughing off the exodus of billionaires and business leaders from her city, saying, “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are super overblown,” and adding, “the ones that leave? Like, bye.”

Now, less than five months into Wilson’s term, Seattle Democratic Councilmember Rob Saka admitted to the New York Times, “I am gravely concerned,” telling the outlet, “This is real.”

Just recently, Saka was a fan, barking leftist talking points about “affordability, community, and fighting back against a resurgent Trump agenda” in support of Katie Wilson.

Even Starbucks is bailing out, expanding in Nashville while reducing its corporate presence in its original home. Former CEO Howard Schulz has already escaped to Florida, coinciding with the state’s new millionaires tax.

Seattle has sucked Washington into the vortex known as the Democrat Death Spiral, by which productive citizens escape leftist rule, leaving an ever-more left-wing constituency that elects ever more greedy and demented moonbats, securing permanent Democrat rule and irreversible decline.

On a tip from DCGere.

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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s First State of the City Address

Turns out being mayor of a large city is not an entry level job after all, even for a confirmed moonbat like Seattle communist Katie Wilson. Presenting her first State of the City address:

Twitchy reports:

And this is before she even got to her outrageous socialist proposals, such as banning grocery stores from closing locations in the city. (She said later in her address that government-run grocery stores were in the future.)

No need to watch the rest to learn the state of Seattle. It has entered the Democrat Death Spiral. The last sane people will continue to escape, ensuring the election of ever more deranged, malevolent, and incompetent moonbats.

On a tip from DCGere.

Seattle Mayor in Insurrection Against US Government

Maybe Tampon Tim Walz is not far off with his talk of civil war. In Minneapolis, the police chief urges citizens to call 911 on ICE agents. In Philadelphia, the district attorney and the sheriff bark that they will arrest and imprison federal agents. Ultramoonbat Katie Wilson, no longer sponging off her parents, is now Mayor of Seattle. So this report from American Greatness should come as no surprise:

Wilson has announced plans to mobilize the city’s police force to gather intelligence on ICE agents conducting immigration enforcement operations and share that information with “community partners” on the streets.

That is, she will help possibly ChiCom-funded radical left outfits dox ICE agents, whose families have been targeted by liberals and who have bounties placed on them by foreign criminal cartels.

Wilson said she will also bar federal immigration officers from utilizing city-controlled property, “including parks, parking lots, plazas, vacant lots, garages, and Seattle Center – for civil immigration enforcement.”

The intent to obstruct law enforcement could not be more clear. Yet she still has a use for the police:

Specifically, the mayor directed the Seattle Police Department “to investigate, verify, and document reports of immigration enforcement activity.”

Meanwhile, Seattle has one of the highest crime rates in the country.

As always, taxpayers pick up the tab for the moonbattery:

The self-identified Democrat-Socialist [i.e., Wilson] said the city will allocate $4 million, previously appropriated by the City Council, to left-wing organizations providing legal defense to illegal aliens and “community support.”

It is official. In Seattle, local government is on the side of foreign lawbreakers against the federal government. This situation is not tenable.

Hold on, there is an update:

The Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) released a statement on social media Friday afternoon blasting Wilson’s “ludicrous” executive order for “pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other.”

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes has indicated a willingness to go along with Wilson et al. by not participating in immigration enforcement and by documenting incidents on behalf of anti-ICE moonbats. But SPOG President Mike Solan is defiant:

“I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns.”

Looks like there are still legitimate LEOs on the Seattle police force. Leftists have some purging to do.

On tips from abcanc and seaoh.

Fiend Who Put Out Elderly Woman’s Eye Is Transgender

Liberal authorities who refuse to fulfill their most basic function by protecting the public from him share blame for homeless psycho Fale Vaigalepa Pea putting out a 75-year-old woman’s eye in Seattle. Police describe him as “a regular” who is “notorious for random assaults.” The liberal establishment’s promotion of transsexualism — which is closely linked to violence — did not help matters. Pea says he is a woman:

By now it must be obvious to even the most devout liberals that egging on crazy people to wander off into delusions does not improve public safety.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Liberal Authorities Share Blame for Vicious Random Attack on Elderly Woman

Following Geoge Floyd’s fentanyl overdose, Seattle jumped on the anti-police bandwagon, even abandoning the East Precinct to a police-free anarchy zone and later paying $10 million to BLM rioters. The city continues to be run by moonbats who side with criminals against the law-abiding. Consequently, we read stories like this — via KATU:

Newly-released videos show the moments a man attacked a woman at random outside the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle earlier this month.

Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through the end of it and used both hands to swing the weapon and strike the victim, 75-year-old Jeanette Marken, in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court.

The hit gouged out Marken’s eye, and she just learned that she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye…

Pea did not act alone. Those who keep letting him loose share responsibility:

[Pea] has been booked eight times this year, though Seattle Municipal Court and King County Superior Court records show none of his arrests this year resulted in charges prior to the assault on Marken. Seattle police have arrested Pea repeatedly this year for charges of assault, indecent exposure, drugs, property destruction, unlawful use of weapons, and malicious mischief.

Police describe him as “a regular” who is “notorious for random assaults.” Their job is to arrest him so that the liberals in charge can set him loose again.

Mayor Bruce Harrell is known for siding with career criminals. The situation is unlikely to improve soon, considering that his incoming replacement Katie Wilson ran against him from even further to the left.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

Seattle’s Next Mayor No Longer Sponging Off Parents

Letting moonbats vote does have one advantage. Zohran Mamdani won’t need to live off his parents. The same goes for his fellow communist mayor-elect Katie Wilson in Seattle:

Wilson, an activist who has been widely compared to socialist Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, unseated incumbent Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Nov. 12. She wrote on X that her new role as Seattle mayor, which pays about $230,000, will allow her to get off her parents’ dole for expensive childcare.

Now she is a ward of the public. If things go as planned, we all will be soon.

On a tip from Franco.