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19 years old and special needs is still a child to me.

Kids get out and do things together, they run in groups. Most avoid trouble. In this instance, the CHAZ-CHOP happening was promoted as a block party which Seattle has each year for all neighborhoods that get a permit, a “Summer of Love”, with BLM touted as center stage acts performing as rock stars for the thousands of purple-pink day glow tattooed street urchins and college kids nearby.

I’m less than 3 miles from it along the shoreline in the leafy rich area but travel to it because it has my closest bank branch which has now been closed down going on three months for the pandemic but still has an ATM.

I know the area very well as I get haircuts there. It’s not my favorite area of the City by any means but it’s conveniently close for routine things.

There are tons of young people and by and large they’re good kids although not politically mature, they are seen as prey by socialist agitators but I’d say most of the kids diss the ‘Unite for World Socialism’ memes plastered on poles along the street. Most of the ones I come across are polite and wanting to do the right thing. They work in the markets, Trader Joe’s, assorted shops, trying to pay their rent and utilities, shacked up like sardines in the apartments around the area while trying to get ahead by attending college. It’s a familiar scene in many American cities.

So this young 19-year old gets taken by his peers to the BLM “Summer of Love” not unlike I would step out onto my deck to watch fireworks over the water. It’s an attraction. His loving father is snoozing at home so he happily skips to the nearby CHAZ-CHOP happening for the excitement. And now he’s dead and his father is heartbroken.

For sure, the first killing should have been a warning. Hell, the presence of Antifa and barricades was all my instincts needed to stay away and adapt to doing business elsewhere. But I’m mature and this kid wasn’t.

The Mayor’s political career is over. She is to blame. And I’m not casting blame on her for partisan opportunity or convenience. She failed to protect private property and uphold public safety. In fact, she facilitated the opposite. And now a kid is dead and a family is grieving.

I speculate, with strong intuition and understanding, that this Mayor was communicating with other leftist power players to set a trap for President Trump to create a ‘Kent State’ incident for the world to see and use to condemn the President and his supporters. I believe they wanted as this Mayor described, a “heavy-handed” response from Trump that could be used for melodramatic propaganda purposes. But the President is too smart for them.