Of course they had to begin the lawsuit by stating they are not against Black Lives Matter — or they might be literally cancelled. As in put into the ground.
“Rather, this lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of plaintiffs — businesses, employees, and residents in and around CHOP — which have been overrun by the city of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large,” the lawsuit said.
…Mayor Jenny Durkan has expressed support for the protest, calling it “a peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world,” and the city has helped it by providing different barricades to better protect participants from vehicles.
But following three shootings in the area on consecutive nights beginning last weekend, Durkan said this week the city would wind down the protest zone…
…In the class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, about a dozen businesses, residents and property owners said they had sometimes been threatened for photographing protesters in public areas or for cleaning graffiti off their storefronts. The owner of the auto shop Car Tender said a burglar broke in the night of June 14, started a fire using hand sanitizer as an accelerant, and then attacked his son with a knife when confronted.
The owner and his son managed to put out the fire and detain the burglar, the complaint said, but police never responded to their 911 calls. A large crowd of “CHOP participants” then came to the scene and forced the owner to release the arsonist, it said.
…The plaintiffs are seeking damages for lost business, property damage and deprivation of their property rights as well as the restoration of full public access.
That last part seems like they’re seeking injunctive relief to compel Mayor Jenny to do her fucking job.
Stupidity breeds stupidity or as was said Stupid is as Stupid Dose and Minneapolis is model of Liberal Stupidity. I hope they win their lawsuit against the City Council of Idiots
These businesses are no doubt owned by wealthy liberals.
These neighborhoods are no doubt filled with liberals, too.
So, it might interest them to learn that, as CHAZ/CHOP breaks up they are leaving behind a VOTERs GUIDE!
Yup.
Just vote for Biden, for Inslee and for Durkan.
This is a screenshot of the official twitter from CHOP.
I hope this is successful and widely copied. Businesses pay a LOT of taxes for services, one of which is reasonable protection from immature anarchists simply walking in and taking over a district. I guess it’s a lot of fun to be “mayor” or “governor” but it needs to be emphasized that certain responsibilities comes with the job and being liked by protesters is not part of the job description.
@Nan G: Note that as soon as it is made clear opposition to their occupation is on the way, they disperse. Brave, courageous revolutionaries!