Saturday, June 20, 2020

Seattle PD union chief calls for real 'leadership' after fatal shooting in CHAZ/CHOP

According to reports, there were at least two incidents of shooting violence inside Seattle's police-free Capitol Hill Protest (CHOP) zone likely inspired by the lack of effective leadership, according to Seattle Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan.

Solan spoke with "Fox & Friends Weekend" host Pete Hegseth on Saturday and said that Seattle is "no longer the summer of love" like the idiot Mayor Jenny Durkan claimed. He said it was the "summer of chaos." Sadly, the facts bear him out.

The Seattle Times reports that police homicide and assault detectives are investigating an early morning shooting at the summer of chaos that killed one person with a second victim in critical condition. Both victims are black and this time the media can't blame it on the police.

The Seattle Police Department's (SPD) public information officer Sgt. Lauren Truscott told the Times that although she didn't know if detectives had collared anyone for the crime, they are reviewing public-source video and body-camera video for evidence.

The dead victim is a 19-year-old male; the other victim has been taken to the hospital life-threatening injuries. The shooting inside the zone occurred around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, CHOP time, according to the SPD.

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media, except for ABC News,  did not think the story was worthy of reporting because it was not a cop shooting a black man during the "summer of love", but likely an anarchist.

Police said a "violent crowd" prevented them accessing to the victims, which may have saved the young man's life if they stood down. They said they were later informed that both victims had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP "medics" who are trained in first aid and rioting.

Police said the suspect or suspects ran away and are still at large.

ABC News reported that "The zone was established June 8 after Seattle police largely withdrew from the Capitol Hill district, leaving a void for protesters."

Actually, the police withdrew because they were ordered by the leftist mayor to withdraw, who evidently models herself after Comrade Bill de Blasio, the useless Democrat Mayor of New York City.
Solan said Saturday: "Early this morning, that violence was raw and real where one of our community members lost their life and police are still not allowed into that area and were prevented to providing that police service to the area to locate victors and/or render aid. [It’s] very troubling what’s going on."
SPD's closest East Precinct building lies abandoned, on orders of Mayor Durkan, following days of tense confrontations with protesters in the wake of George Floyd's  death in Minneapolis, MN.
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Solan continued: "It can't stand in America, and this is a direct result of city leadership, elected officials failing the reasonable community of Seattle to enforce the rule of law," he told Hegseth. "And, this just isn't the area occupied in a six-block zone where police are still forbidden and still don't have their East precinct. This is now impacting our entire city."

According to Solan, the department's West precinct was also defaced with anti-police graffiti overnight.

"And again, we're left wondering what's next?" he asked. "And, now our elected officials have removed our ability to have less lethal chemical munitions that are effective for us to disburse unruly violent crowds to protect those police facilities -- let alone ourselves."

Solan doesn't see a solution or compromise on the horizon.

"Well, you're going to have to have the political backbone to finally enforce the rule of law, because if this continues to spiral down -- which we saw earlier this morning with a homicide -- I don't see what the remedy is," he admitted.

There is no doubt that defunding the police is exactly the opposite strategy to assuage the problems. But everything about leftism is always the opposite of reality.

Just consider what Antifa stands for.


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