Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was stumped Wednesday afternoon when a reporter asked him at an online press conference about the takeover of part of downtown Seattle by radical leftists: “That’s news to me,” he said, laughing.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Seattle Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan stated that a “fringe” is “stealing the peaceful protest message for justice for George Floyd” and the city of Seattle “has lost all the political will to enforce the rule of law.”
“Radical Left Governor Jay Inslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Take back your city NOW.”
Protesters who have cordoned off several blocks in Seattle, declaring it a “cop-free zone” and “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” have released a long list of demands, including abolition of the Seattle Police Department and prisons, amnesty for all illegal migrants, and free health care and college for all, especially for blacks as a form of reparations.
More than 250 Microsoft employees have urged CEO Satya Nadella to cancel the company’s contracts with the Seattle Police Department as part of a larger movement to defund the city’s police force. Nadella has bowed to the pressure, saying “My response is this: Yes. We have to act. And our actions must reflect the values of our company and be directly informed by the needs of the Black and African American community.”
The group of far-left protesters who have set up an “autonomous zone” in Seattle include Antifa activists, some of whom are armed.
Protestors in Seattle have taken over city blocks, baracking streets and encouraging others to occupy the city on social media.
An NBC News reporter covering the riots over George Floyd’s death in Seattle was hit with a flash-bang grenade during a live broadcast on Monday night.
A group of volunteers was spotted cleaning up graffiti and boarding up buildings of businesses in downtown Seattle Sunday morning after riots over the death of George Floyd the night before decimated the city.
Rioters in Seattle, Washington, looted mannequins from clothing stores during protests over the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A rioter in Seattle, Washington, looted a cheesecake from the city’s Cheesecake Factory restaurant, local news media confirmed.
Several Seattle police vehicles were set ablaze as riots rage Saturday in the city’s downtown area over the death of George Floyd.
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWM) have been forced to throw away tens of thousands of Chinese-produced coronavirus testing kits after they discovered last week that some of them showed signs of contamination.
Law enforcement officials in Seattle are cracking down on hate crimes and urging residents to call 911 over “racist name-calling.”
Three Seattle-area homeless shelters have been closed because of coronavirus infections, and the residents inside have been “quarantined” inside the facilities for 14 days.
These taxpayer-subsidized welfare queens are not only blacklisting the American president from communicating with Americans, these fascists are then going to abuse their corporate power to decide what the public should and should not be allowed to hear from their own president.
A single traveler from China infected 39 people in Washington state with the coronavirus, according to virus expert Trevor Bedford.
SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday — leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
The State of Washington has been hit harder than any other state, when it comes to deaths resulting from the coronavirus.
Starbucks suspended use of reusable cups on Wednesday, as the world grapples with the global coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon announced on Tuesday that an employee working at one of its Seattle, Washington, offices has tested positive for coronavirus.
Washington state announced Tuesday that a seventh person is dead from coronavirus in the Seattle area as the deadly outbreak continues to spread in parts of the United States.
A man was found guilty Tuesday after he sexually assaulted a woman on a flight from London, England, to Seattle, Washington, in January 2018.
Voters in the King Conservation District, which includes 1.2 million people in the Greater Seattle area, will soon be able to vote via smartphone in a first for U.S. elections. One professor specializing in election technology called the entire concept of voting via smartphone “a very stupid idea.”
An Army soldier surprised his mother, a school resource officer at an Atlanta high school after he came home early from a two-year deployment and showed up at school.
Several states will reportedly increase their minimum wage rates in the new year, according to payroll experts Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
The director of a Seattle homelessness agency has resigned after her office’s annual conference featured a transgender stripper who danced topless and gave lap dances.
A Seattle public official has been placed on paid leave after it was reported she hired a transgender stripper to dance topless at her agency’s annual homelessness conference.
High-tech sector job growth is overwhelmingly benefiting three California cities, plus Seattle and Boston, while the rest of the U.S. has been left behind in the dust, according to a new study.
Boeing, the second biggest beneficiary of United States Defense Department government contracts, outsourced American software jobs to foreign graduates for $9 an hour, a new report states.
The Tacoma, Washington, City Council voted Tuesday to increase prices on guns and ammunition sales within city limits.
Seattle schools are putting into place a K-12 curriculum to teach about how Western culture has “appropriated” math and used it to oppress minorities.
A Seattle man earned his 74th criminal conviction after being convicted of throwing hot coffee on a two-year-old child in a stroller.
Superior Court Judge Anita Farris struck down Seattle’s gun storage ordinance Monday, ruling that it violates the state’s 36-year-old preemption law.
Seattle-based startup Picnic recently revealed a pizza-making robot that can produce 300 pies an hour with very little human intervention.
The Seattle public schools are using math (of all things) as just one more gateway drug into the destructive addiction of victimization.
A hacker broke the code of a Seattle electronic road sign on Wednesday to make the message read, “Impeach the bastard.”
An NYC Parks spokeswoman is unable to corroborate the Warren campaign’s claim of 20,000 people attending the presidential candidate’s Monday rally in Washington Square Park, telling Breitbart News that NYC Parks permitted Warren’s event for an audience of 8,000 – 10,000.
A Republican councilman has proposed a $1 million plan to bus homeless people out of the Seattle, Washington, area reports said.
A Jesuit priest brought a group of children who had just received their first Communion to the hospital to bless a gay man who had announced his intention to marry his partner and then commit suicide.
