Posted on 06/11/2020 8:56:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
People with guns are checking the identification of individuals trying to enter an area in Seattle run by far-left activists and groups like Antifa, the Seattle Police Department said.
“We have been hearing from community members that they have been subjected to barricades set up by the protesters, with some armed individuals running them as checkpoints into the neighborhood,” Assistant Chief Deanna Nollette told reporters on Wednesday.
“While they have a constitutionally protected right to bear arms, and while Washington is an open carry state, there is no legal right for those arms to be used to intimidate community members,” she added.
Police officials have also heard of businesses and citizens being asked to pay a fee to operate in the area, which is known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and includes about 500 houses. That would be the crime of extortion, Nollette said.
Anyone feeling threatened, intimidated, or extorted should call 911, she added.
The takeover of the area was completed after police officers abandoned the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct because of threats it would be burned down.
Because the building is connected to apartment buildings and businesses, officials made the choice to board it up and secure it before relocating officers.
Nollette said police want to return to normal operations at the precinct, which would improve response times and capabilities within the neighborhood. But there is no set plan for how to return yet, she said.
Putting up barricades and blocking some people from entering isn’t legal, the police official continued. “However, in an effort to try to cooperate and collaborate, and move forward peacefully, we’re trying to get a dialogue going so that we can figure out the way to resolve this without unduly impacting the citizens and businesses that are operating in that area,”
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Yikes.
Papers please! Welcome, we’re your new totalitarian overlords. Sure didn’t take long to go full Stalin, next step, GULAG!
Looks like a scene out Batman, “The Dark Night Rises”. Scarecrow is perfectly outfitted to be the judge.
Attention citizens of SeattleStan, LAStan, NYCStan, MinneapoliStan, and ChicagoStan!
Your new BLM police force is here to help you!
Don't call 911!
We will find you!
Have your weekly public safety donation, in cash and handy in a sealed brown paper lunch bag!
Thank you!
ma'a as-salaama!!!
Remember, don't call us, we will find you when we want to.
Thanks to DCBryan1 for the photo above!
“Hello, alt-911? A gang is trying to break into my house!!!”
“We know. We’re already there.”
“Then that means it’s ... oh!”
42 posted on 06/10/2020 2:39:49 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
This is what ISIS does. Anyone remember? Setting up “checkpoints”, and the like.
These feckless idiots in blue cities deserve whet they get.
Will they require Voter ID?
In this brave new world, it seems Male and Female alike have large breasts. They don’t look ready for battle, hunger, or anything else in their new society.
How do we get them to start a riot at the Mexican border?
Oh. I know. President Trump should threaten to send in the military if they go to the border.
Boeing Get Going!
Move so quickly, dust won’t settle on your shoes or wings!
Texas or other state in the south or south-west will welcome you.
Imagine, if they killed all the protesters, there would be no protesting...
Where are all those people going potty? Oh. Right. The sidewalks.
Thank you for posting the pictures. Now we have proof that the democrat party is organizing the chaos and the destruction of our country.
Giving these people enough rope to hang themselves is a good tactic. The question is how much is enough to allow them to expose themselves and their true intentions, and openly bind themselves to this radical agenda which is foreign to mainstream opinion.
But their will be a point the President Trump will need to demonstrate he is the leader of the free world and will not allow anarchists to usurp this freedom. When the time is right I would hope the president will make a prime time announcement concerning the use of military police and the federalizing of the national guard.
He should clearly point out the situation concerning domestic terrorism taking place in America and his actions are only to remove these elements from the streets and have nothing to do with peaceful protests in America. He should confirm his commitment on keeping the neighborhoods of the American citizen safe from domestic terrorism.
Clearly timing is important since the American people need to be somewhat aware of what is happening to cities in the country so that the mains stream media can not contradict his message.
Then every politician up for election who supported these groups need to be permanently connected to these groups by their opponent.
One last thing the new name for Sleepy Joe should now be Segregation Joe.
This will all be Trump’s fault.
wobblies
Burn it down. All of it.
Got my vote.
Bye-Bye “Civil Rights” you Fascists...
LOL!
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