Posted on 06/06/2020 6:56:25 PM PDT by Libloather
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant issued a statement Saturday calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan to resign, describing her as responsible for “violence and brutality” in the city’s response to “overwhelmingly peaceful” protests against institutional racism and police killings of Black people.
A harsh Durkan critic long before the current demonstrations, Sawant also called on her council colleagues Saturday to remove the mayor, if necessary. Durkan didn’t immediately return a request for comment Saturday.
In the past week, “Durkan has repeatedly unleashed Seattle police to use ever-escalating violence against ordinary people protesting the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many other black and brown people,” Sawant said in a news release.
“The police have inflicted tear gas, mace, rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades, curfews, arrests and other repressive tactics on Seattle activists and residents - including children - in an attempt to bully and silence the protest movement,” the council member said.
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Thanks Libloather.
This is awesome. Radical left circular firing squad. Let em go at it. Tooth and nail.
Kshama Sawant
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We are allowing our country to be colonized.
Go further left, Seattle. It is really working well.
She’s been quiet until now. Finally slithered out from under her rock.
Some of the elected RATS are starting to figure out that these riots are going to hurt them politically, and I guarantee outside of Minneapolis there aren’t too many RAT mayors who want to dismantle their police departments, but they’re losing control of the party to the real whacked out progressives they’ve tried to keep at arms length. I believe it’s the far left elements, the Berniebots, who are exacting their revenge on the establishment in the Democrat Party, and playing a big part in these riots.
the only place worse than a place run by liberals, is one run by liberal women.
Based on videos I saw, the only time they used rubber bullets, flash bangs, etc. was when the crowd begna to get unruly and throw things or loot and burn. Also, the same peaceful crowd that tried to steal a AR15 from a squad car before they burned it.
Just doing what Libtards do, push the extreme once the old extreme is normal.
>> institutional racism
There’s that false premise again.
Blue on Blue: The communist from India vs the white lesbian.
Can I have some?
This Mayor is doing the right thing, backing police.
Why aren’t FReepers backing her?
Maybe some people shouldn’t bring children to a riot.
Terence Williams addressed this:
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