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Anonymous ID: 6cb8e4 June 24, 2020, 11:01 p.m. No.9739781   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9800 >>9825 >>9838 >>9862 >>0013 >>0109 >>0205 >>0266 >>0297

Businesses Inside CHOP Zone File Class Action Suit Against City Of Seattle

 

More than a dozen businesses inside CHOP zone, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, file 56-page class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle. They're seeking unspecified damages, to be determined at trial.

 

https://twitter.com/PrestonTVNews/status/1276003772607508486

Anonymous ID: 6cb8e4 June 24, 2020, 11:07 p.m. No.9739825   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9862 >>0013 >>0109 >>0205 >>0266 >>0297

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SEATTLE — A collection of Seattle businesses, property owners and residents sued the city Wednesday over its tolerance of an “occupied” protest zone, saying officials have been complicit in depriving them of their rights to their property.

 

The plaintiffs - including a tattoo parlor, auto repair shop and property management firm - emphasized in the lawsuit that they were not trying to undermine the anti-police-brutality or Black Lives Matter messaging of the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.”

 

“Rather, this lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of plaintiffs - businesses, employees, and residents in and around CHOP - which have been overrun by the city of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large,” the lawsuit said.

 

The Seattle City Attorney’s Office said it had not yet seen the lawsuit but would review it.

 

Mayor Jenny Durkan has expressed support for the protest, calling it “a peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world,” and the city has helped it by providing different barricades to better protect participants from vehicles.

 

But following three shootings in the area on consecutive nights beginning last weekend, Durkan said this week the city would wind down the protest zone, at first by encouraging demonstrators to leave voluntarily, and that police would return to the precinct. But neither she nor Police Chief Carmen Best gave a specific timeline for when that would happen.

 

Patty Eakes, an attorney for the plaintiffs, separately told Durkan in a letter Wednesday that she wanted the mayor’s office to provide a timeline by Friday for clearing out the protest and returning police, or the plaintiffs would ask the court for an immediate order that full public access be restored.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/24/chop-lawsuit-businesses-residents-sue-seattle/