Seattle Considered Giving East Precinct to Black Lives Matter
Skeptics of defunding the police might ask, “What are you going to do when a gang of thugs breaks into your house? Call Black Lives Matter?” To which the moonbats running Seattle might respond, “Sure, why not?”
During the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020, the East Precinct was abandoned to the mob, which declared an “autonomous zone” without rule of law for weeks on end. This was allowed to happen because local Democrats sided with the criminals. Now we learn that they considered officially turning over the East Precinct to Black Lives Matter.
From the Seattle Times:
At the height of Seattle’s racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station’s operations, newly released documents show. …
The draft resolution for transferring the property to Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County (BLMSKC) included a July 1 effective date, and Durkan’s office subsequently discussed the possibility with the nonprofit, which at one point pushed to remake the building as a hub for public health and community care.
As it turns out, July 1 was the day the police reclaimed the East Precinct, after abandoning it on June 8.
The building is worth $millions, but apparently BLM had not yet acquired its extravagant taste for acquiring property.
In a recent deposition, former Deputy Mayor Casey Sixkiller said the Durkan administration nixed the East Precinct transfer possibility after the activists decided they didn’t want the property.
Where was the federal government while mobs of thugs were taking over police stations? Keeping out, at the request of local Democrat authorities. As the BBC reported in June 2020:
State authorities in the north-western US state of Washington have hit back after President Donald Trump threatened to “take back” a police-free district controlled by protesters in Seattle.
Governor Jay Inslee said Mr Trump should stay out of the state’s business, and Seattle’s mayor said any invasion of the city would be illegal.
Democrat policy has predictably resulted in an explosion of violent crime. Democrats control the White House now. Biden’s press secretary sneers at us for believing that crime is a problem.
At the time of the BLM-Antifa insurrection in Seattle that resulted in them seizing city property and erecting a hard border guarded by people with guns, Gov. @JayInslee & @MayorJenny both told President Trump to keep federal officers away from helping. https://t.co/2g0syqh3wE
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 1, 2022
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