'It is patriotism': Seattle's mayor rebukes Trump for saying 'autonomous zone' protesters are terror

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Source: msn

Seattle's mayor scolded President Donald Donald Trump for calling protesters occupying the city's autonomous zone "domestic terrorists," and instead labeled them patriots. Since Monday, a band of protesters have occupied a fenced-off section of the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood, after clashing with police during protests over George Floyd's death.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — or CHAZ — consists of tent, free food, art-making, and film screenings, and has remained peaceful, as Insider's Isaac Scher reported. In a Wednesday tweet, Trump said: "Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW & ORDER!"

And on Thursday, Trump called occupants of the "autonomous zone" and "ugly Anarchists" who "must be stopped IMMEDIATELY." Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle has since taken issue with Trump's characterization. "It's clear @realDonaldTrump doesn't understand what's happening on five square blocks of our City," Durkan said in a series of tweets published late Thursday. "Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society and provide true equity for communities of color is not terrorism — it is patriotism."

"CHAZ is not a lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection — it is a peaceful expression of our community's collective grief and their desire to build a better world," she added. Durkan continued her attack on the president, tweeting "one of the things the President will never understand, is that listening to community is not a weakness, it is a strength."



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[Maeve]

1. The mayor is one of our national treasures

[soothsayer]

2. Like it

[hot2na]

3. Love it.

[keithbvadu2]

4. "a fenced-off section"

"a fenced-off section"

Dubya called those authorized protest areas.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. protest areas? the whole country is a "protest area.

perhaps donald ding dong should re read american history about the time of the revolution and its causes.

[soothsayer]

6. He's back with a tweet

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Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, “it is a Summer of Love”. These Liberal Dems don’t have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death. Must end this Seattle takeover now!

[TalenaGor]

7. hes going to try to label all the left as terrorists and then bomb us all

[soothsayer]

8. He's back with a tweet

Link to tweet

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