Did this really just happen?

[_Some Schmo]

Are you ok with people seceding into their own little autonomous zones?

Given the lack of national leadership, what else can people do? We already live in little autonomous zones. They're called "states."

[_Icarus]

They're being left alone for the moment. That doesn't make it autonomous in the way you're probably thinking.

It's a group of people gathering lawfully and exercising their First Amendment right of free speech, said Mayor Jenny Durkan.

"It is patriotism," Durkan added.

The group gathered after Seattle police abandoned a precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday and effectively handed the area over to the protesters they had clashed with for days.

According to media reports from around the area, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, has a festival-like energy where people are peacefully gathering and discussing how to better the world in an experiment of a society without police amid calls around the country to "defund" departments.

'Go back to your bunker':Seattle mayor, Washington governor fire back at Trump threat to handle protests

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 173968001/

[_Res Ipsa]

Black doctors talk about how they are feeling. A very moving piece. https://Twitter.com/drjessigold/status/ ... 89856?s=21

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

A Marine who stood outside the Utah capitol building for three hours in nearly 100 degree heat shares his thoughts on the Constitution and equality:

https://ibb.co/VDSYSNS

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

WSJ apparently gets trolled too by Andy Ngo with regard to the ‘get the guns’ tweet:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/officials- ... 1591918047

- Doc

[_Icarus]

He had a Nazi tattoo on his arm, too. Amazing that we keep finding white supremacists at these things, but have yet to turn up any Antifa admin.

A heavily armed man at a Vegas Black Lives Matter protest, who was wearing a Homeland Security badge and jeans, has been charged with impersonating an officer,
@reviewjournal
reports.

@DanJClarkPhoto
captured these photos of the man: https://Twitter.com/MichelleRindels/sta ... 14596?s=20

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/arm ... er-2051755

[_Icarus]

I guess we're going to be seeing more and more of these past cases come to light now:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/us/video ... index.html

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://ibb.co/gMmFv6V

SS tattoo and 0351 (Infantry Assault).

edit: “When told the complaint would be closed, Sanns became agitated and irate,” the court documents stated. He then told an internal affairs sergeant that he worked with the CIA.

When federal investigators searched his home on Tuesday, Sanns admitted being at the Black Lives Matter protest and told them he was an “off-the-books contractor for a federal agency.”

:rolleyes:

- Doc

[_Icarus]

https://ibb.co/gMmFv6V

SS tattoo and 0351 (Infantry Assault).

edit: “When told the complaint would be closed, Sanns became agitated and irate,” the court documents stated. He then told an internal affairs sergeant that he worked with the CIA.

When federal investigators searched his home on Tuesday, Sanns admitted being at the Black Lives Matter protest and told them he was an “off-the-books contractor for a federal agency.”

:rolleyes:

- Doc

[_moksha]

A Marine who stood outside the Utah capitol building for three hours in nearly 100 degree heat shares his thoughts on the Constitution and equality:

https://ibb.co/VDSYSNS

- Doc

Wow.