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Seattle officials said that they saw no evidence of antifa groups organizing in the zone, [62] but some small-business owners blamed antifa for violence and intimidating their patrons. [30] SPD Chief Carmen Best said on June 15, "There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle", indicating that officers would go into the zone if there were ...
The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29, 2020, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins, often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots. Participants expressed opposition to systemic racism, police brutality and violence ...
[23] In August 2020, many small business owners interviewed by The New York Times in what was the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle blamed people they identified as antifa for much of the violence and intimidation of their patrons while distinguishing antifa from Black Lives Matter.
The killing is also referenced on the Anti-Defamation League's page on antifa, as the only "suspected antifa-related murder" to date; [68] and the New America Foundation's tally of killings during terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, as the first recorded fatality in a far-left attack, while far right attacks have been regularly recorded ...
The Trump administration sent a tactical team to Seattle on Thursday in anticipation of protests this weekend despite the objections of the Seattle mayor and Washington state governor, who warned ...
This is in part because "antifa is a moniker, not a single group", making it difficult to attribute any violence directly to the movement. [304] According to a report by researchers affiliated with Rutgers University, left-wing groups are now employing "many of the same tactics against police and other targets during the social justice protests ...
The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, [ 1] were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999.
August 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM. SEATTLE - Seattle city leaders say they are going to crack down on the violence stemming from sex crime turf wars in North Seattle with a new law. Neighbors and business ...