Recall that in mid-June, the mayor of Seattle (the representative of the US democratic party) Jenny Durkan for opportunistic reasons went on about the protesters and ordered the police to leave the area lasted for several days of clashes with protesters. As a result the local police station and several surrounding quarters of the city was immediately captured by “left-wing radicals”. The President of the United States Donald trump demanded to restore order in the city. But it turned out to be very problematic. The first attempt to remove the barricades painted graffiti from concrete blocks, garbage cans and old furniture was not a success – dozens of protesters last week threw himself on the ground, blocking the path of the machinery.
In the end, “Autonomous zone” originally attracted energeticheskim romanticism complete lack of control to the authorities a few thousand Americans quickly turned into the territory of vandalism and looting. It is not surprising that in the environment here the flying misfits immediately began dismantling local criminal gangs. In the end, created for the fight against police violence against African Americans “zone” was killed by two black teenagers, a few people were hospitalized with stab and gunshot wounds.
This development is fully discredited the very idea of protests as well as fears for their own safety made the most of the “occupied” downtown Seattle is more or less sane activists to go home. This fact and took advantage of the local authorities, after the second, have proved more successful operation on the elimination zone. As reported by the Seattle Times, it was attended by over a hundred heavily equipped police and several armored vehicles. The police said that all the protesters who will try to get back to stripped from them, the district, subject to arrest. “What happened on these streets over the past weeks, it was the lawlessness and brutality,” said the chief of police of Seattle Carmen the best.
