© REUTERS/Lindsey WassonA Seattle Police officer trying to secure a crime scene after a fatal shooting in the CHOP/CHAZ zone, June 29, 2020.
Two African-Americans have been killed and two more seriously injured in the so-called CHOP zone of Seattle, Washington.
City authorities continue to pretend everything is fine, because apparently only some black lives matter.Set up by Black Lives Matter protesters and their self-described Antifa "allies" on June 10, the zone was initially known as Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) before it was renamed Occupied Protest (CHOP), apparently in a reference to the French revolutionaries' beheading spree that preceded the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. It is centered on the East Precinct, abandoned by Seattle PD on orders from Chief Carmen Best and Mayor Jenny Durkan.
Over the past three weeks, however,
four black men have been shot - two of them fatally. The latest incident happened in the early hours of Monday, and claimed the life of a 16-year-old African-American male, while a 14-year-old is in the hospital in critical condition, according to the
Seattle PD. The white Jeep Cherokee they were in was found riddled with bullets on 12 Avenue between Pike and Pine - just outside the East Precinct.
Chief Best said the crime scene had been tampered with, and that police had no luck interviewing witnesses as "people are not being cooperative with our requests for help."
Monday's incident was the second fatal shooting since the establishment of the zone. On June 20, a 19-year old African-American man was shot and killed inside the zone. Another man, of unknown age, was hospitalized with "life-threatening injuries."
Comment: One would hope that showcasing irrationality would jar folks back into sanity. It is more likely this social trend, cause or cross - in casting out the benefits of historical context, progress and reason - is just the beginning of a great societal demise.