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During the CHAZ/CHOP occupation, "person-related crime" increased 525% over the same period last year, with sharp increases in homicides, robberies & aggravated assaults. Also noted in the EO: "an alarming recent rise in COVID-19 numbers across the region" https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/07/01/mayor-durkan-issues-emergency-order-regarding-capitol-hill-protest-zone/ …
Generally unreported outside local and right-leaning news outlets, two teenagers were shot and one killed because the city gave up on clearing CHOP Sunday (as planned). This isn't an acceptable way to run a city. If you wait until you're burying children, you waited too long.
The EO specifically notes that the city freely provided the occupiers "basic hygiene" (portable toilets), water, electricity, and garbage removal services. The city did not provide adequate policing, and as a result dozens of people were robbed, beaten or killed.
I'm surrounded by strong free speech advocates, and I've never heard *anyone* argue that people claiming to be protesters should be permitted to obstruct police from getting to a wounded victim or subsequently investigating a violent crime. The process breakdown here is surreal
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