I stumbled onto this report from CNN from last summer about the CHOP zone in Seattle. Keep in mind that this is a report that is pretty much on the side of the people involved, which means that things must have been much worse than they actually said. For example, they fail to note that a young man who was shot and killed in the zone, Lorenzo Anderson, was black and was shot by another black man. Still, what they reported was bad enough. Here are some of the more amusing points:
• “There were constant rumors that White power groups were just hours away, ready to bring violence.”
• The firefighters and paramedics wouldn’t go in unless the police went in, and the police were not going in. The activists didn’t seem to understand this because they expected paramedics to come in when there were emergencies.
• “Protesters said they felt they’d been expected to solve society’s most difficult problems on their own.” Well, yes. If you start your own little country, then that is what you need to think about.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis there was a gathering to commemorate the death of George Floyd at the site where he died. This area is a no-go zone for the police, and almost predictably, shots rang out. See here. I have to say that this is pretty funny, except for the fact that the clueless will almost certainly blame white supremacists.
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