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Andy Ngo’s CHAZ/CHOP Five Day Sleepover
Undercover NY Post reporter Andy Ngo goes deep
Andy Ngo penetrates CHAZ/CHOP
Some say the press is doing a lousy job, if any, of covering the CHAZ/CHOP rioters kidnapping and robbery of 30,000 Capitol Hill residents. Mayor Durkan’s demented “Summer of Love” statement has received well-earned ridicule and left her complicit in many, many assaults and at least one murder.
Andy Ngo penetrated the police no go zone and reports on his findings in the New York Post:
During five undercover days and nights in the zone, I witnessed a continuing experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality. In order to avoid being exposed as a journalist — several reporters have been barred or expelled — I slept and showered outside the zone. (Those inside have no showers but they do have portable bathrooms.) I took meals, and most of my water breaks, elsewhere because I was reluctant to remove my mask and risk being recognized. Every day I entered the zone twice through its semi-porous borders — once in the early afternoon, and again after sundown, staying until the wee hours.
Crime has surged inside and outside the zone.
On Saturday morning, a shooting erupted that left at least one person dead and another injured near a border checkpoint. Police were reportedly met with resistance when they tried to get to the victims, who apparently were then taken in private cars to the hospital. Cops made it into the zone to gather shell casings and evidence, some reports said, as police in riot gear stood at the border.
On Thursday, police arrested Robert James after he left the CHAZ. He is accused of sexually assaulting a deaf woman who was lured inside a tent. The same day, former city council candidate Isaiah Willoughby was arrested on suspicion of starting the arson attack on the East Precinct June 8.
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CHAZ occupants, ranging from several hundred to 10,000 depending on the day, with many openly armed, control all of the Capitol Hill neighborhood near downtown. The neighborhood is the heart of Seattle’s gay and counter-culture district, and is densely filled with businesses and apartment buildings. CHAZ now claims all of it.
Before the takeover, violent clashes between rioters and police defending the east precinct resulted in dozens of officers injured by rocks and other projectiles. Protesters and rioters complained of police brutality, leading Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Chief Best to ban cops from using tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bangs for 30 days.
CHAZ is having reverberating effects elsewhere. In the early hours of Thursday morning, Antifa and other left-wing protesters established an “autonomous zone” in downtown Portland, Ore. They stole city and business property to build a wall. At least one protester was seen carrying a rifle. The area was later cleared by police but far-left activists are determined to try again. Protesters in Nashville and other cities have attempted to recreate their own “autonomous zones” modeled after CHAZ but have so far been stopped by law enforcement.
Why have so many jurisdictions worked hard to avoid their own “Summer of Love”?
Durkan has banned the use of tear gas, pepper spray, and flashbangs because the rapists, murders, and thieves of BLM and Antifa expressed outrage at those “extreme” measures.
But there is more:
Those unfortunate enough to have homes or businesses within CHAZ — an estimated 30,000 residents — have no say over their new overlords. Residents have discreetly voiced their concerns to local media. Gunshots and “screams of terror” at night have been reported. A resident of an apartment building came out twice to ask protesters to leave the alley where the entrance is. They brushed him off.
Every business and property inside CHAZ has been vandalized with graffiti. Most messages say some variation of “Black Lives Matter” or “George Floyd,” but other messages call for the murder of police. Most businesses are boarded up. “ACAB” — all cops are bastards, an Antifa slogan — is written over them.
Businesses outside CHAZ are also suffering. Last week, the Trader Joe’s in Capitol Hill announced it was closing immediately and indefinitely because of “safety and security concerns.” Then last Sunday night, around 100 angry protesters sprinted toward a nearby auto repair shop to “rescue” a comrade who had been detained. All it took to sic the mob on the business was one man yelling into a microphone inside CHAZ. According to the police report, the store’s owner, John McDermott, stopped Richard Hanks after he allegedly broke into the business, stole property and tried to start a fire. The owner and his son said they called police “multiple times” but cops and firefighters never responded.
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And he gives special attention to Antifa and its little friends:
Left-wing political groups have capitalized on the opportunity to recruit new members. The Democratic Socialists of America features prominently in addition to the Seattle Revolutionary Socialists. But in the absence of any vetting, perhaps intentionally, extremists have also set up shop. One station that operates off-and-on distributes extremist anarchist-communist agitprop — the political ideology of Antifa. In one manual titled, “Blockade, Occupy, Strike Back,” instructions show how to use human shields against police, and make rudimentary “bombs” using light bulbs and paint.
Another booklet is titled “Against the Police and the Prison World They Maintain.” It features short essays on why police, capitalism and the state must be destroyed by any means necessary, including through violence. One section explains how the media are enemies used to “pacify” revolutionaries.
If I were going to organize a “Summer of Love”, I know I’d want these hate clowns to organize it. Not that BLM is any better, their home page promotes the destruction of the traditional family. That objective will not improve the lives of black trapped in the underclass culture.
His report concludes:
What will happen if demands aren’t met? Jaiden Grayson, a young black woman who has developed a large following in CHAZ, told a filmmaker: “Respond to the demands of the people or prepare to be met with any means necessary. … It’s not even a warning. I’m letting people know what comes next.”
So what is Durkan smoking, anyway, and why is Governor Inslee too frightened to act? If they think that what happens in CHAZ stays in CHAZ, they have never met people like Andy Ngo. The people who have been “disempowered”, victimized, robbed, raped, murdered, are the people who voted for and paid taxes to support this mayor and this governor.
I challenge the pollsters to canvas these residents.
You were saying that President Trump is weak (or not tough) because he backed down. How has he backed down and on what?
Border Wall: faced with a modicum of legal resistance, Trump has pretty much abandoned this project. “On December 17, 2019, acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan stated that 93 miles of barriers has been built during the Trump administration; according to CBP figures, at least 90 miles of that replaced existing structures.”
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s fine with governors making their own decisions about how and when to reopen their states — a quick retreat from the day before, when he insisted that such choices were up to only him because his “authority is total.””
Countless times he has threatened to place tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, European goods, only to back off after “talks” from which we have gotten very little to no change in those countries trade behaviors.
He threatened to to classify China as a currency manipulator, and then backed down, receiving nothing in return.
“… a high-stakes meeting at the White House, centered on the FBI’s reported used of an informant on the Trump campaign. Ahead of the meetings, there was speculation that Trump, who had tweeted furiously about the informant, would demand an unusual inquiry into the Justice Department or force Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein out. Instead, the meeting ended with a plan for future meetings, and the Justice Department’s committing to do more or less what it had already committed to doing.”
“On a June 2017 call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, Trump was supposed to scold the Saudis for their offensive against Qatar. After Salman delivered a flattering series of compliments, the president dropped his objections.”
“when the U.S. announced it would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the move. Trump said the U.S. would withhold aid from those who voted for the resolution. “Let them vote against us,” he said. “We’ll save a lot. We don’t care. But this isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars.” Yet when the White House released its budget for 2019, “not a single country lost funding on the basis of voting against the U.S. at the UN”
“Trump held a meeting with members of Congress to discuss gun control following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. He ridiculed lawmakers for being too timid in confronting the NRA and asked them to take up proposals opposed by the group. Days later, he met with the NRA, and when he unveiled his slate of ideas to combat gun violence, it included none of the proposals the NRA opposed”
etc.
Abandoned? Or lost? He’s not a king.
That’s not what he insisted. He insisted that he could reopen and he offered the legal citation. He also always made it plain that it should be a local thing.
This is pretty vague. I do believe, also, that behavioral change has been claimed. There is no permanent win; there is always ongoing negotiation.
If true (what does he say about it?), that isn’t a burned bridge. What is to stop it from being pursued again?
By the way, pursued where? It’s all jockeying.
He doesn’t have a home team. I think he’s done as good as possible considering he doesn’t have effective surrogates. Speaking of optics, him directly “interfering” in investigations of him or his campaign would have been enough pretext to have him removed. IMO.
“Supposed to”? Says who?
Personally, I don’t believe that these calls really take place without knowing what is happening ahead of time. Diplomacy is rarely blunt, and it frequently seeks the lesser of evils when good isn’t available.
On what basis did they lose funding then? Says who?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/americas/mexico-sends-15000-troops-to-us-mexico-border-intl/index.html And Mexico is paying for it.
Can you be more specific? Which ideas did he favor which the NRA opposed? Which slate of ideas did he unveil? Is that all the final word?
More generally, are you opposed to compromise? I’m not, if the compromise gets us somewhere.
The agreement guarantees U.S. farmers greater access to Canada’s agriculture market and puts new e-commerce rules in place. It dictates that a higher percentage of autos be made from parts manufactured in North America and requires that at least 40% of vehicle production be done by workers earning at least $16 an hour.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/29/trade-donald-trump-sign-revised-agreement-mexico-canada/4599825002/
@williamdean — “when the U.S. announced it would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the move. Trump said the U.S. would withhold aid from those who voted for the resolution. Yet when the White House released its budget for 2019, ‘not a single country lost funding on the basis of voting against the U.S. at the UN’.”
That maybe so, but he still recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Sisyphus, glad to read your comments as I agree totally.
Some people here seem unaware that there have been reports of 18 or more chartered buses unloading 60 to 70 people a piece: the “crisis actors” and Anti Fa forces of trouble makers into communities where such perps were not normally walking around causing trouble.
I do hope that someone other than you, me and Tucker Carlson realizes tweeting about rioting is not the same as making a very important executive decision. I expected a lot more from Pres Trump than a Chamberlain response. Appeasement never holds up civil norms for long. If the Commander in Chief does not respond in a forceful manner to begin with, it sends the signal that the same rioting behaviors can occur repeatedly.
And if Trump doesn’t understand how new riots somehow mysteriously will occur throughout the cities of America the first weekend in November, he will have only himself to blame.