SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with leaders of the CHOP, hours after demonstrators stopped city crews from removing barricades.
Conditions changed this week, but the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone remains largely in place.
This, even though the mayor met for a little less than an hour with the protestors and after an impromptu tour of the CHOP by the top brass of the city’s Fire Department.
Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins exited a closed-door meeting with the leaders of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone just after 12:30. He was soon tailed by protestors, still angry with Seattle police over the deadly shooting here last weekend.
“The fire department, I love you guys,” Mark Anthony told Scoggins. “The ambulances, I love you guys. But they are making your jobs harder and you need to hold them accountable.”
“And we all have to own it,” Scoggins replied.
But when asked whether the area likely would not be cleared Friday, Scoggins replied, “Yeah, I don’t have that answer. You can draw your own conclusions.”
“We’re gonna have parks crews coming in, meeting, cleaning up some of the park,” added Stephanie Formas, Seattle Mayor’s Chief of Staff....(Read more)
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