🚨This is the list of demands, BLM protesters have issued after taking over 6 square blocks of Seattle after city officials ordered police + unarmed national guard to abandon the area and their precinct bldg and stand down. #seattle #SeattleAutonomousZone medium.com/@seattleblmano…
First demand - not only #abolishICE but disband and #defundpolice 100% 2nd demand: No armed forces - nobody allowed to be armed to move them out of the autonomous zone - are you sensing a trend here?
Irony here is @GovInslee just sent National Guard he refused to arm home. Now he is going to need a special forces unit to recover 6 blocks of the city - tho no way he wld order that. So now it’s a stand-off. Someone on twitter made a reference to Basra, Iraq, but this is the US
Eye witnesses say unarmed Special Operators frm Wash. Air Natl. Guard and Army Natl. Guard led effort to save police precinct Monday night + get all people, weapons out. Then @GovInslee and/or other govt officials sent them home Tues., hrs later protratrs stormed city hall.
*protesters
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