Seattle To Pay $3.6 Million in Damages to Businesses Over 2020 BLM Riots

New court filings reveal that Seattle will reimburse business owners $3.650,000 for the damages they sustained in 2020’s Black Lives Matter and Antifa Riots.

The city was sued by business owners for damages caused in part by the 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone protest. This 16-block area of the city was where left-wing activists blocked police entry for three weeks. Seattle settled with the business owners to compensate them for damages. Post Millennial reportedFor refusing to crackdown on the rioters

Thomas Zilly District Judge Attributed to the business City negligence causes owners to suffer losses. “Plaintiffs plausibly allege that the city’s actions—encouraging CHOP participants to wall off the area and agreeing to a ‘no response’ zone within and near CHOP’s borders—foreseeably placed plaintiffs in a worse position,” Zilly wrote.

Jenny Durkan (D.), the then-mayor of Jenny, claimed that the CHAZ was a peaceful demonstration. This refers to the neighborhood occupation as the “summer of love.” Durkan dismissed Donald Trump as president at the time Warning He said he would act if Seattle authorities fail to reclaim the city.

“The threat to invade Seattle, to divide and incite violence in our city, is not only unwelcome, it would be illegal,” Durkan said.

Between June and July 2020, the area experienced a 250 percent increase of rapes, robberies and murders. Seattle coffee shop owner remembered being “barricaded” In his store by gun-wielding demonstrators, New York Times It was reported at the time. The autonomous zone was where the sand was. Multiple shootingsA 16-year old and a 19 year-old were both killed in the accident.

Property damage estimated at $2 billion as a result of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 According To receive a report from an insurance agency.