Seizing six square blocks June 8 in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, Antifa has its first territorial foothold in a major American City, vanquishing the Seattle Police East Precinct Station, posting an autonomous zone, cordoning off the area with barricades and armed patrols. Seattle police abandoned the area Monday, creating the vacuum for Antifa and Black Lives Matter [BLM] over the May 25 chokehold death in Minneapolis of 46-year-old George Floyd. Floyd’s eight-minute-forty-six second viral-running video of his murder by 44-year-old Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin sparked street demonstrations, rioting, looting, arson and anarchy around the country. President Donald Trump called in the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to stop demonstrators from torching structures and defacing historic public monuments like the Lincoln Memorial. Los Angeles and New York also called in the National Guard.
Unlike other major cities that sought to arrest control of the streets from protesters, Seattle surrendered the six-block square Capitol Hill neighborhood, with police abandoning the East Precinct Station. Seattle’s 62-year-old liberal Mayor Jenny Durkan, after Seattle Police Department’s crowd-control tactics failed to secure the area, did nothing. Seattle police used tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang grenades trying to disperse demonstrators all to no avail, as protesters seized the East Precinct Police Station. Violent demonstrators pelted the police with projectiles, driving the police out of Capitol Hill with Durkan acquiescing to street violence. Calling the violent protesters “anarchists,” 73-year-old President Donald Trump threatened to take action to remove Antifa and BLM from Capitol Hill’s Autonomous Zone. “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t, I will,” Trump tweeted today.
Speaking today to the press 69-year-old Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a former Democrat candidate, feigned that he knew nothing about the Antifa/BLM takeover of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, refusing to answer questions about the standoff. “The U.S. military serves to protect Americans, not the fragility on an insecure president,” Inslee tweeted. Why Inslee has no problem with violent protesters seizing six-square-blocks in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is anyone’s guess. Both Durkan and Inslee capitulated to Antifa and BLM, unwilling to commit local or state law enforcement to retake the embattled area. What game Durkan and Inslee play out is anyone’s guess. Antifa and BLM have set detailed material demands before agreeing to vacate seized Seattle territory. Trump wants Inslee and Durkan to enforce the law, removing protesters from the Capitol Hill Autonomous zone.
Durkan seems at odds with 55-year-old Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, the city’s first black police chief. Best said today at a press conference with Durkan that protesters would not be allowed to occupy Capitol Hill much longer. Protesters have shown no willingness to negotiate a peaceful resolution with police and city officials. Antifa protesters demand that Seattle dismantle its police department before they’d enter into any discussions or negotiations. Antifa wants police reform and racial justice for blacks and indigenous groups once sovereign tribal territory in Seattle. ‘You are entering free Capitol Hill” and “No Cop co-op” said signs of street vendors selling water and other necessities on the streets. Together with Black Lives Matter, Antifa seized the six-block Seattle neighborhood to make a point that the people want nothing less than racial justice for the disenfranchised.
Trump’s applying maxium pressure on Durkan and Inslee to take back the streets from Antifa and BLM. “The people that you see here have all come together because we see injustice in our system and we want to be part of the solution,” said Mark Henry Jr. of Black Lives Matter. Antifa and Black Lives Matter have figured out if the policing authority quits, like Best’s Seattle Police, the sky is the limit for radical groups seizing territory all over the country. Like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] that seized one-third of Iraq and Syria’s sovereign territory, if there’s no commanding legal authority. terrorists seize the streets. Antifa and BLM have learned well from ISIS how to grab land from local authorities. Best and Inslee have sympathies for Antifa and BLM, unwilling to confront them with local, state or federal police fearing more violence. Durkan and Islee continue to play games.
American civil society is built on the Constitution and rule of law, has been upended by Antifa and BLM, thinking they can blackmail elected officials with the threat of more street violence. BLM’s 39-year-old Co-founder Alicia Garza told the press June 5 that if she doesn’t get what she wants, violent street demonstrations would continue. Antifa and BLM are not non-violent protest groups. Modeled after the Black Panthers, Antifa and BLM demand’s the de-funding of police departments around the country before they stop disrupting civil society with violent street demonstrations. “Donald Trump can call us a terrorist if he likes to but when you see out here is people coming together and loving each other,” Henry said, omitting Antifa and BLM’s armed patrols guarding Capitol Hill’s Autonomous Zone. Without reestablishing control of the streets, Antifa and BLM anarchy will spread to other cities.
