At one point the hottest selling ticket in the pristine high-altitude airways for activists, including climate alarmists during the Covid-19 supposed pandemic, was a metaphorical direct flight from anywhere in the US and Canada scheduled to arrive in the Seattle during the inferno of the Summer. For the residents of the city, it seemed as though certain neighborhoods of were taken over by an unrelenting infestation of protestors, some paid, and the others given a temporary release from mental health facilities.
Ironies abound; the pretend commuter flights ferrying social justice warriors are a metaphor for the unhinged frenzy of a demonstration in public that in a light second escalated from a lingering mob to a sea of violence with the essence of the remaining humanity shrewdly consumed by cultural cannibals. Seattle police were politely informed by the chain of command beginning with the city council to stand down to the lunacy, destruction of property and violence.
While Newton proved that for “every reaction, there is an equal but opposite reaction”, the dog days in the middle months of 2020 brought throngs of people to the newly established CHAZ/CHOP eminent domain zone seized by protesters under the pretense of “love” which is ironic considering people lost their lives. Under the watch of former mayor Jenny Durkin civil unrest burned like a toxic wildfire.
Six years later the invasion of the unruly has reached the first resolution in series of court-ordered retributions, six years too late. The initial decision by a judge awarding the efforts of law-abiding citizens a sum of money can be quantified as a reverse reparation. While the scope of the damage can never be undone to heal the wounds of extremists allowed by the city to seize thirteen square blocks bordering the downtown Seattle corridor, at the very least accountability is discernable within an ecosystem that is typically fueled by a stingy defiance and propelled by anarchy.
While the participants in the alleged series of incidents which devolved into the CHAZ/CHOP demilitarized zone, including prominent members of the abominable Black Lives Matter instigators declared the takeover of the portion of the city as the “Summer of Love” and over the course of the occupation four people were murdered. Durkin’s forgettable tenure left a legacy of an ultra-soft stance on crime and a deplorable intolerance towards law enforcement emanating from city hall leading to major delays in resolving glaring issues which originated internally, including the mismanagement in providing closure for those impacted by the enablement of criminals. The initial outcome for the victims and their families was well beyond the confines of the acceptable and fathomable in a scathing critique of certain elements of society that are underserving of the privilege of existence or existing.
According to KOMO-TV one of the murder victims’ family was awarded a $30 million judgement after filing a lawsuit against the city of Seattle with charges of negligence and procedural indifference. A jury found that city officials were complicit and liable for the death of a 16-year-old teenager. The article notes that the family did not even receive a verbal or written apology from the city for the travesty and death of their relative.
While the circumstances of the tragedies are examined and deliberated within the legal system, public concern of where is the money coming from to compensate the family of the victims originating. The question remains, are taxpayers within city or the state on the hook for the egregious incompetence of the government in failing to prevent a snowball from becoming an avalanche of radicalized and unruly lawlessness resulting in citizens paying the ultimate price?
The above narrative is simply a warning that Democratically controlled municipalities are dysfunctional as justice is outweighed by political correctness and a fetish for special interests.