OK, we thought — we knew — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan was a moonbat, which she proved by calling the abandoning of a police precinct to a mob and letting them barricade several blocks of the city to create an autonomous “no-cop zone” the equivalent to the summer of love and a street festival — nothing more than the First Amendment at work.
But there’s someone in Seattle far crazier than Durkan, and that’s socialist council member Kashama Sawant, who’s obviously very, very deeply invested in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, serving as a model for a socialist USA.
There’d already been a handful of shootings in CHOP, but a drive-by shooting Monday morning left a man dead and a 14-year-old injured.
A man was killed and a 14-year-old boy critically injured in a shooting in Seattle's CHOP autonomous zone. Thousands of people have occupied the area since June 8, demanding police reform. https://t.co/oSR4j3codX
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 29, 2020
Teen, 16, dies & 14-year-old is wounded after Seattle antifa/BLM CHAZ security fire shots into their car. Video shows a man yelling, “You're not dead yet?” Police are trying to investigate but the crime scene had been tampered with. https://t.co/DkKXfSrYEK
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2020
Multiple camera angles captured audio of the shooting at CHAZ on Sunday night. You can hear a paranoid militant freaking out followed by the sound of a vehicle. Multiple shots (sounds like a rifle) come from within CHAZ, before a loud crash and more shots. pic.twitter.com/b5W73t5D5S
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 29, 2020
As we said, Sawant is desperate to make CHOP look good and blamed capitalism for the fatal shooting.
Deepest condolences from Socialist Alternative and my Council office to the family and friends and fellow activists of the community member who was tragically killed in the drive-by shooting at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP).
— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) June 29, 2020
While we await details of this tragic killing, it highlights capitalism's brutality & endemic violence. Our movement rejects insinuations & falsehoods perpetuated by corporate & conservative media that this violence is outcome of CHOP or of our movement.https://t.co/AsbMeUiRgp
— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) June 29, 2020
Don’t forget: Sawant already suggested the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in CHOP could have been a right-wing attack and that President Trump bore direct responsibility. So that fatal shooting was Trump’s fault, and this fatal shooting was capitalism’s fault, but the corporate media would try to make it look like CHOP wasn’t the summer of love after all.
"Siri, what is 'word salad'?"
— BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A HATE GROUP. (@jontheharris) June 29, 2020
Your "movement" is destroying lives and getting people killed. Resign tomorrow.
— John Blackout (@ReigningBrain) June 29, 2020
This is a joke right? SMFH. I live in your district and am seriously considering moving and leaving Seattle for the first time. Thanks.
— Alcena Plum (@Alcena) June 29, 2020
Not before you vote her out.
— Train Wreck (@DollyKola) June 29, 2020
Ain't no capitalists in the CHOP, hon. Where you been?
— Cindy Beauciel ? (@cindy_crawley) June 29, 2020
She's spouting nonsense that supports her narrative. There is nothing actually factual about her words. It's all hot air.
— John Hulet (@fanlitfan) June 29, 2020
As opposed to the peace and prosperity that communist nations are known for.
— Taylor Svehlak (@TaylorSvehlak) June 29, 2020
“highlights capitalism's brutality & endemic violence”
Mao, Stalin unavailable for comment
— Sweater Yams (@Sweater_Yams_) June 29, 2020
Blame is the only thing socialists manufacture.
— Kim Jong-unthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) June 29, 2020
I am your constituent yet you are not actually listening to us. This is seriously your response?
— MCB (@jrdmcbroom) June 29, 2020
What is this word salad? Six people have been shot, two killed, and many others assaulted and robbed in Seattle's "autonomous zone." The City is facing a federal lawsuit because of it. There's no denying that it was a totally lawless mess from the start.
— Enrique on Pause ??? (@enrique_pause) June 29, 2020
CHAZ/CHOP was a capitalist zone? Are you high?
— Jason Jordan ? (@jasonjordan2814) June 29, 2020
Oh, Kshama, this is some plutonium grade malarky.
— Mark O. Van Wagoner (@VanWagoner) June 29, 2020
You are a political fraud. You were either never educated in civics or political philosophy, or you are subverting political philosophy for your own ideological mission. You are responsible in part for the decline of Seattle and these needless deaths. Blood on your hands. We see.
— Grace (@graceisforyou) June 29, 2020
"The free market caused these shootings to happen." – Collectivists with obvious ulterior motives
— Guy Faux (@Faux_Guy_) June 29, 2020
— Phil (@philllosoraptor) June 29, 2020
And just like that, CHOP wasn't "real" socialism.
— BasedOnMerit (@on_merit) June 29, 2020
But a true CHOP has never been tried.
— Rob Reber (@RREEB9) June 29, 2020
Blames capitalism for socialist failures…que buena vida.
— Hankin (@avnerarik) June 29, 2020
— Spehss Oddeteee (@Nick07088476) June 29, 2020
I’m pretty sure it was people not corporations or the media that did the shooting.
— yakipat76 (@yakipat76) June 29, 2020
How? Literally how?
— Sgt. K. Onyx (@SgtKOnyx) June 29, 2020
Is there anyone in Seattle that isn’t bat shit crazy?!
— Cr8zyWhackFunky (@Cr8zyWhackFunky) June 29, 2020
Tone deaf and false. As usual. Please stop voting for this person Seattle.
— M (@LostinPNW) June 29, 2020
These people are hilariously lacking in shame. Your little Lord of the Flies summer camp ended exactly the way everyone thought it would https://t.co/zqhMikJLvK
— Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) June 29, 2020
I live here. Armed CHOP occupants who erected an illegal barrier at 12th and were “defending their territory” shot two black men. End of story. Happy to switch homes with you so that you too can be an eyewitness.
— Mel (@4voiceMel) June 29, 2020
Related:
Seattle’s socialist council member suggests fatal CHOP shooting might have been a right-wing attack, says President Trump ‘bears direct responsibility’ https://t.co/LQXGPdCFlO
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 21, 2020
