They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sort of like a feckless parent in a store with an out of control toddler who refuses to leave.
If they grow a spine and try to remove them forcefully it will create more riots and play into a narrative they don’t support - law and order. They do not want to do this.
If they do nothing they will be a laughingstock and fail in their constitutional duties to protect all citizens including those inside the “occupied territory.” This will destroy the Mayor’s ambition to be governor or seek higher office because her “base” will oppose her and the rest of the state/nation will remember her for it.
It is obvious that they will try to wait this out. It is obvious that the radicals there will not leave. I am hoping that more media get in there and start interviewing the “occupation forces”, but like Lord of the Flies - it will probably deteriorate too quickly for a full season of reality television.
The fact is that it never should have been allowed to happen. It happened because of incompetence on the part of the City Council, the Mayor, and the Police Chief. They're all culpable.
[[Sort of like a feckless parent in a store with an out of control toddler who refuses to leave.]]
Bingo- products of Dr Spock generation
The Mayor needs to be incarcerated in CHAZ along with the rest of the inmates.