Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
When protestors took over Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in June and mounted an “occupied protest” aimed at defunding local police, the city’s mayor, Jenny Durkin, said it was not a “lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection,” but a “peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world.”
An in-depth report in the New York Times that includes interviews with residents and business owners who were caught inside the “autonomous zone” says it was something far more sinister.
And a group of local business owners is suing Seattle for refusing to deploy law enforcement to protect them and intentionally lending support to the occupiers:
The lawsuit by the small-business owners, filed by the firm Calfo Eakes on June 24, seizes on such language [as that in Mayor Durkin’s Twitter feed], pointing out that the city knew what was happening and provided material support for the occupation.
Matthew Ploszaj, a Capitol Hill resident, is one of the complainants. He said his apartment building, blocks from Mr. Khan’s shop, was broken into four times during the occupation. The Seattle Police were called each time and never came to his apartment, according to Mr. Ploszaj. When he and another resident called the police after one burglary, they told him to meet them outside the occupation zone, about eight blocks away. He and other residents spent nights at a friend’s house outside the area during the height of the protests.
The employees of Bergman’s Lock and Key say they were followed by demonstrators with baseball bats. Cure Cocktail, a local bar and charcuterie, said its workers were asked by protesters to pledge loyalty to the movement: “Are you for the CHOP or are you for the police?” they were asked, according to the lawsuit.
Durkin’s office sidestepped the lawsuit, and the incidents the Times documented:
A spokeswoman for Mayor Durkan did not comment on the lawsuit but acknowledged frustrations from small businesses.
“Many who live and work in Capitol Hill and other parts of the city continue to witness daily protests that are rightly demanding an end to systemic racism,” she wrote. “In some circumstances, businesses and residents have faced property destruction in the last two months.”
She encouraged the businesses to file claims.
Image Credit: By Daniel Schwen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Watch some progressive stinker in a black robe rule the city cannot be sued.
A black robe is not bulletproof.
But it is the Mayor and her lackeys who should face the Tree of Liberty.
without a doubt.
They have a right to protest, no matter the damage of the deaths caused, they have better RIGHTS than LAW ABIDING CITIZENS!
The mayor just doesn’t want to take any responsibility for any of that.
I hope those business people sue them idiots into bankruptcy, that what they deserve! Finely some people are standing up against this tyranny rule by these incompetent idiots. Get them business owners!!!!!!!!
If the election process was not rigged in Washington State, there would be a severe political backlash against the corrupt mayor and governor (and their minions)! These good folks in business and the peaceful residents should be encouraged to file federal charges and/or lawsuits for the intentional infringement of their rights. I would donate to such a “fund me” effort and there still are a few decent attorney’s in the US who have the balls. What is truly despicable is that the entire business and residential community should have risen up to stand by these folks when they were needed most! Who will stand up for them, when it is their time of need? Americans need to pull together and quite being tricked into fighting amongst themselves, to be able to clearly see that it is the criminals of humanity who are causing their biggest troubles. Ask why these politicians, government workers, and high profile business “leaders” are intentionally causing conflict within America? That is the greatest red flag clue that there are far greater problems Americans need to deal with!
Time to train for the next civil war. As my dad taught me, prepare for the worst, pray for the best. Let’s hope we only have to train, but I feel I may be wrong, let’s hope I am. Oooooo-rah !!!
BE READY FOR THE NEXT REVOLUTION ON OUR SOIL…
I pray God will oversee this judicial action to set an explicit example for others to follow and thereby drive-out these Anti-God rulers and politicians.
Can anyone tell me how Antifa is different from Al Capone’s mob, the Mafia, Murder Inc., etc.? Many more individuals and business owners should be suing the Seattle Government and they should also sue the separate individuals such as the Mayor, City Council members and city administrators. In the cases where the businesses did have insurance, their insurance companies should be suing the municipal government also.
Is it to much to hope that the democrat citizens of these blue states see the harm their left wing public servants are letting happen, without an ounce of concern for the law abiding, tax paying business owners, and that the same citizens and business owners vote red in November!?!
Under the term malicious intent, any government here can be sued.
The first claim should be the REMOVAL of this POS mayor and even the POS governor and JAIL time for RIOTERS!
Good. They need to sue the city of Seattle, then they need to relocate to a moe sane place. Any city or state run by Democrats is total insanity. No one should support the DemonRat fools.
All of the blue states that are governed by the democrats/communists party should have lawsuits brought against them for dereliction of duty and outright support for BLM, Antifa and other organized criminal gangs that have inflicted damage to businesses, homes, bodily injury and deaths etc. Sue them for everything that they own as well as prosecuting and convicting them for their support for anarchy and sentence them to at least 75 years or more with no parole. If they are guilty of murder, then fry their sorry butts.