Sorry I checked out y'all, am terrible reporter, dealing with fires at work and family 10x the size of CHOP…
Anyway, just thought I’d give my final observations. The last dates I was there were 6/19 and 6/25, and also was out working nearby the morning they cleared the zone (7/1). There was a yuge decrease in size of the crowd and change in atmosphere between those dates. It still didn’t feel sketchy during the day to me, I was just more interested in people watching the LARPers than actual BLM talks. Sadly I never did get to see the knight in a full suit of armor (or the elusive dairy cow).
There’s buku video of each incident as several people were consistently livestreaming, along with cell phone and security cameras. I found it pretty entertaining up through the CHOP security AR-15 copypasta guy stealing one of the reporters’ phones while livestreaming immediately following the second shooting. He didn’t realize it was still streaming and didn’t figure it out for some time. Morons. I was watching that live and got a kick out of it. But then I got pretty sick from seeing the aftermath of the last shooting, and later the person getting hit on the freeway. I advise against it if you haven’t seen them. I’ve since thought better of dumping that whole video collection here.
Here’s a decent summary from Seattle Times yesterday on what’s known from the last event.
‘Everybody down!’: What happened at the shooting that killed a teenager and led to CHOP’s shutdown
There was also this
exclusive interview with one of the teens’ friends from the Daily Fail (make sure pop-up blockers are on...)
With the demise of CHOP, SPD had a golden public relations opportunity. Predictably, they blew it. A court order and city council law hasn’t stopped the cops from continuing to use riot control weapons. After they cleared the area, they ironically set up ID control checkpoints (which they had falsely accused CHOP of doing previously) and blocked off more streets than protestors had. Residents were denied entry to their homes for days. SPD went right back to violently assaulting folks for so much as breathing on their police lines (which, ya know, is basically what led to the CHOP situation in the first place).
clip 1,
clip 2 (another angle in the comments show the officer go in for a ****ing flying squirrel clothesline tackle on another guy)
Maybe I missed it in itt or maybe it’s being discussed elsewhere, but the latest seattle protest-related death was another vehicular assault this past weekend. What didn’t get reported in national news was that on the same night, within an hour and within a mile of the interstate incident, an off-duty SPD officer rammed another crowd of protesters. It was the second such incident with SPD or an immediate family member, and at least the 6th such incident in Seattle in recent weeks overall.
Apparently it’s a national problem. And then you have geniuses like the veteran seattle officer (
and cousin of the governor!) posting an “all lives splatter” meme on facebook hours later, which of course was liked and shared by a number of local law enforcement… And then just plain weird **** like the police chief yesterday tweeting her condolences for the passing of an infamous local child rapist.
The shitshow goes on