Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Following roughly 2 weeks of existence that have been characterized by an incessant stream of video showing beatdowns, brazen theft, armed robbery and myriad other crimes and/or ‘revolutionary’ acts, Seattle’s autonomous zone has finally sustained its first casualty since “declaring independence” from the US.
According to the Seattle PD twitter account, the shooting has been ruled a homicide.
Police investigating shooting at 10th Avenue and East Pine. Will update with additional information when available.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) June 20, 2020
Updated information on overnight homicide inside protest zone. https://t.co/AcmOeR06ZW
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) June 20, 2020
At least one person is dead with another in critical condition after a shooting early Saturday morning in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP (as they’re now calling it). The shooting comes after the mayor of Seattle decided to appease the group of mostly fringe leftists and anarchists by barring cops from using tear gas and other crowd control methods.
According to the city’s official statement, when officers arrived on scene while responding to the shooting (and to try and administer aid to the then-mortally wounded victim) a violent crowd of CHOP denizens prevented the police from reaching the individual, who soon succumbed to his wounds.
Read the full press release below:
Homicide detectives are investigating following a fatal shooting that occurred early Saturday morning at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street. One man was declared deceased at the hospital and another male is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
On June 20th, at approximately 2:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired in Cal Anderson Park. This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims. Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.
Officers responded to Harborview and were informed that one of the victims, a 19-year-old male, had died from injuries. The other victim, also a male, unknown age, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect or suspect(s) fled and are still at large. There is no description at this time.
Homicide detectives responded and are conducting a thorough investigation, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances.
Anyone with information about this shooting, or who may have video, is asked to contact the Seattle Police Department’s Violent Crime tip line at (206) 233-5000.This remains an active and on-going homicide investigation. This post will be updated as additional information becomes available.
Though according to Omari Salisbury, a resident CHOP “journalist”, the victims had already been transported to the hospital by car before police arrive. It’s not clear whether this is accurate or not. It’s also unclear how police plant to investigate the shooting.
#CHAZ / #CHOP – The @SeattlePD entered the zone with a force of about 10 officers. They asked the crowd to step back and that they were there to extract the victim out of the zone. The victim who was deceased at that time had just been transported a few minutes prior.
— Omari Salisbury (@Omarisal) June 20, 2020
According to a clip of the scene when the shots rang out, it appears 7 shots in total were fired.
Here's my clip that picked up the gunfire audio. I counted 7 shots fired @ 2:18:39, one more @ 2:19:16 pic.twitter.com/ku22c4tHcH
— Subpixel Alchemist (@MarcusKulik) June 20, 2020
Salisbury claims the shootings, which occurred “one block apart” were entirely separate incidents, which deviates from the statement given by the Seattle PD.
#CHAZ / #CHOP Two people shot in the zone tonight. Two separate shootings one block apart and moments apart.
— Omari Salisbury (@Omarisal) June 20, 2020
Alas, and as so many suspected, this bizarre experiment in appeasing a radical fringe left has resulted in bloodshed, despite its members purported commitment to peace, justice and equality.
Several dead in Minneapolis too as the Zionized police kills more US citizens..
Israelizing the American police, Palestinianizing the American people Israel has not influenced U.S. law enforcement by training it to be more violent, but rather has served as a model in creating the American Security State.
This all falls into what I call Global Palestine. Don’t think Israel is developing all its sophisticated weaponry, technologies ofrepression, tactics of population control and its Security State framework merely to control the Palestinians. They are the guinea pigs,the Occupied Territory only a laboratory. That piece of Israel’smilitary/industrial complex is geared for export, and your police are buying. Steven Graham concludes, “integration is underway between the security-industrial complexes and the military-industrial complexes ofIsrael and the United States. Even more than this, the emerging security-military-industrial complexes of the two nations are becomingumbilically connected, so much so that it might now be reasonable toconsider them as a single diversified, transnational entity.”So connect the dots. As the US police become “Israelized,” you, the Americanpeople, become “Palestinianized’ with Zionist brutality.
Don’t get fooled by guest’s speech. Or should I call it propaganda.Using the words “Israel” and “Palestine” at every two other words to send a specific message to people usually reluctant to sionist’s activities. Yes, is true American police is TOO brutal. But is also true that actual events in US have nothing to do with police brutality but rather they are an attempt to bring down the US and the entire western world from inside. Don’t think is a good thing until you know who is paying the bills here. Because the one who pays the bill is the one who collects the fruits. And if I tell you Soros&co is funding this unrest and aims to collect the fruits of the revolution? And the desired outcome of this is total globalization? Orwell’s vision and humanity nightmare. The fall of the kings is the joy of the fools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSAecJTjvlI
They were just spreading some summer of love
Investigate the mayor that obstructed the police. She also called the no cop zone ‘a summer of love’.
You are racist! ROFL!
Please don’t ‘cancel’ me :)
Mogadishu comes to America.
Americunt failed violent shithole at its best :)
Raz Simone, the warlord of the Summer of Love Zone, aka communist utopia zone, aka CHAZ, whines on Tweeter about the lack of first responders from Seattle attending to the mayhem inside paradise
https://twitter.com/RazSimone/status/1274541843779252229
This is lovely, it sounds like Africans after white farmers left.
Had the police been controlling that area in those 2 weeks, there probably would have been several homicides mostly done by the police.
Americans are now reaping what they sowed; protests, riots and murder. They thought they were too powerful, rich or very far from their victims for karma to find them, it seams they were wrong. More could be coming…
When something is falling, something else is rising. I wouldn’t be so optimistic about the outcome. Especially it is exported in western Europe too. This is just the step 2 of the project black west. First was immigration from Africa.