Earlier today Allahpundit wrote about the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) which was set up in Seattle after police retreated from a few square blocks. The denizens of this new experiment in police-free living were probably envisioning a utopia full of peace and community love. Instead they got a new self-appointed police force led by a rapper named Raz Simone.
Early this morning someone posted a video clip to Reddit which shows Simone and a group of people confronting a graffiti artist. Things escalate and eventually the tagger is assaulted by someone in the group and has his phone taken away. The video is about an hour long but here’s a summary created by someone in the Reddit thread:
tl;dw: Man was tagging over someone else’s art, Raz and group approach and separate him from crowd, chasing him for two blocks. He begins to film them with his phone, they take it from him. He tries to get it back and they attack him, kicking him in the head and breaking his glasses. At one point, Raz threatens to shoot the man. They then begin to gaslight him that it was all his fault. Audio only for most of the end, because woman in Raz’ crew filming puts the phone in her pocket while the stream continues.
Someone else created this timeline of significant moments in the video. I’ve verified that this is roughly accurate though some of the wording is slightly different than in the actual video:
0:35: “We are the police of this community now!”
6:20: “For your own safety, you need to go” seems like a thinly veiled threat
7:10: “You might need a little love tap” as a cutesy way of describing earlier assault
9:10: “We got to the point where addressing the point physically was the best way to get our point across.”
11:00: Video blacked out as conflict heats up.
12:30: Someone starts yelling “WHAT THE FUCK” for reasons unclear. Based on later context, this appears to be when most of the assault occurred, may have involved kicking, definitely broke his glasses.
13:20: “Give me your phone and sit down.” / “You just broke my glasses! I’m blind!” /”If you don’t sit down, I’ll make you sit down!”
13:45: “You just broke my glasses and stole my phone!”
14:45: “You just broke my glasses!” “Yeah, we should have broken your face!”
15:10: “Don’t be making no threats n****, I’ll blow your brains out” (the “threat” appears to have been “I want to leave here within the next 15 minutes”, I think?)
Eventually, the victim of the assault did get his phone back and stuck around for a “conversation” which, according to Raz Simone solved everything. Here’s a brief portion of the video followed by Raz Simone’s claim that everything ended with hugs and apologies.
This actually went beautifully and we all hugged it out and spoke with his dad. His dad now wants me to mentor him. It was great black dialogue and men apologizing to each other, abandoning pride. We all hugged each other, cried it out and it was beautiful.
— Raz Simone (@RazSimone) June 10, 2020
Not everyone is convinced this “went beautifully.” Some in the Reddit thread point out that this isn’t so different from the kind of law enforcement violence protesters have been protesting about.
Others are suggesting Simone is a de facto “warlord.”
You can watch the full clip for yourself here. Most of the action happens via audio only as the person filming put the phone in her pocket. But we do hear the victim say at least a dozen times that someone broke his glasses.While the criminal justice front of CHAZ doesn’t seem to be going very well, here’s a list of demands made by the organizers. It includes abolishing police and the courts and refers to the Seattle PD as a “terrorist cell.”
The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police…
We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department.
We’ve seen all of this before, sadly. If you were around when the Occupy protests were a thing, they also believed they had created a new utopia of equality for everyone to emulate. And then it became clear that people were being assaulted, threatened and even raped inside the camps. The lead camp in Zuccotti Park even set up a women-only tent in an effort to protect women from sexual assault.
But, hey, I’m sure the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone will work out great. Instead of all that messy due process and police we’ll just have an armed rapper and his guys wandering around smacking and threatening to kill people who get on their nerves. What could possibly go wrong?
Major league LOL!
Then comes this:
Seattle’s Autonomous Anarchist Zone Learns a Hilarious Lesson About Theft
Antifa’s Laura Couc (who had only yesterday promised to kill herself because she abuses people) tweeted:
https://twitter.com/DunsScottus/status/1270727917815967744
LOLOLOL!
Does their “autonomous zone” contain farmland?
No?
How about they break up some concrete and start planting?
Surely they don’t intend on being welfare dependent on the United States!
Hmmm reneging on earned pensions who could have given them that idea….Democrats with massive unfunded liabilities on the verge of bankrupsy?
“WHAT DO WE WANT?”
“ABOLISH THE POLICE!!”
“WHAT DO WE WANT AFTER THAT?”
“WE DON’T KNOW…. WE DIDN’T THINK THAT FAR AHEAD!”
@Nan G: Notice the lumber they need; 3.5″ X 2.5″ X 94″. 2.5″? Are they going to take 4 X 4’s and cut them down to their specifications? There is no one in CHAZ that has ever handled lumber or built anything, apparently. These are ignorant, lazy, irresponsible dumbasses with no life-experience or usable talents. Of course, no one in Seattle (Portland is apparently next) has the guts to do it, but that zone needs to be blockaded and cut off from all supply. After a week or so, then move in with batons swinging.
here’s the plan; declare war on the United States, get defeated in battle, surrender, get rebuilt with a version of the Marshal Plan… the Pelosi Plan.
@Deplorable Me:
Walls synonymous with the Warsaw ghetto should be erected stat. President Trump should cut off travel to and from the future shithole leftist city. The documentary “Seattle is Dying” is here now. Let the city die.
@Deplorable Me:
No, no, no, move upwind with webers let the smell of food waft gently into the zone. They have never gone hungry, with loud speakers offer food to all those that surrender.
Vote Democrats out. VOTE THEM OUT!
Of course, when asked about Seattle, the clueless Washington State governor said he hadn’t heard about it.
The city has the ability to turn off the gas, electric and water to that area. It needs to do so. All cell phones and computers have limited battery power. Once they lack communications ability, and no water to drink, see how long the siege lasts. And no one in, by their rules, so no one out unless they surrender to the police to be placed under arrest.
Full Video Here.
Russian Special forces: cut all power line, cut all land lines, cut all water lines, beginning thermal imaging of humans in building and begin routes, food areas and sleeping areas, cut cell service, no one get in or out..take into federal custody the gov, ag and mayor for acts of treason and sedition. on the forth morning, wake up call with Spec Army and Seal teams. any resistance will be met with deadly force.
Anyone notice the preeminent troll here is absent from this thread? We all know why. The his is an embarrassment to his political ideology.
@July 4th American: Yes, even Greg has a hard time not resisting the effects of Floyd-19
@July 4th American: No point in him commenting here. He clarified elsewhere that CHAZ was just a “buffer zone”.
“Desperate Seattle Police Hit Antifa With Fire Hose Of Axe Body Spray”
-Babylon Bee