"SUMMER OF LOVE" ENDS FOR 'CHOP' IN SEATTLE

No 'summer of love'? Seattle mayor clears CHOP zone

Days after radical mob showed up at Democrat's house

By Art Moore
Published July 1, 2020 at 1:03pm

Just three weeks ago, Seattle Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan downplayed the seizure of a police station and several blocks of her city by radicals demanding the abolishment of the Seattle Police Department and the city's court system, suggesting it might turn into a "summer of love."

But this week, some of those radicals showed up at her house, and after murders, robberies, assaults and other violent crimes within the "autonomous zone" known as CHOP, the mayor has issued a 48-hour executive order Wednesday to vacate the area.

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best

The order declares gathering in and around the abandoned Seattle Police Departments East Precinct and nearby Cal Anderson Park as "unlawful assembly," reported local KIRO TV.