Seattle Planned on Giving Police Station to Black Lives Matter

Former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan (D.) planned in June 2020 to give the police department’s East Precinct building to Black Lives Matter activists, who were then rioting and looting throughout the city, the Seattle Times reported Sunday.

Calvin Goings, a Durkan appointee who still serves as the city’s director of finance and administrative services, on June 8, 2020, emailed a draft resolution to the mayor that would have transferred ownership of the multimillion-dollar building to Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, the far-left group’s local affiliate.

While the city ultimately did not transfer the building, rioters converged in front of the East Precinct as Goings sent the email, leading police to abandon the building. After officers evacuated, activists took control of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which includes the East Precinct, and set up a police-free “autonomous zone.”

During the nine-day period in which anti-police activists ruled the “zone,” the area saw four shootings, two of which were fatal, in addition to arson and multiple sexual assaults. The crime spike led Durkan to send police back in to retake the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or “CHAZ” as it became known.- READ MORE