Extremist protestors/rioters cause damage, they go free while taxpayers pay the bill
Two rulings this week demonstrate how the discrimination and bias of our political leaders is costing taxpayers a lot of money.
- A King County jury awarded the father of Antonio Mays Jr. $30 million because the City of Seattle was negligent in allowing extremists to take over many blocks of Capital Hill during the 2020 riots. This dereliction of duties then resulted in the death of the 16-year-old Mays who was shot by a CHAZ “security guard” before other CHAZ security guards kept medics from immediately treating the gun wounds. (NOTE: While taxpayers write the check to the Mays family, the person who directed the city’s riot response, former Mayor Jenny Durkan, will continue to receive her hefty government pension and taxpayer funded benefits.)
- The University of Washington decided to allow 23 students to return to their classrooms despite the million dollars in damage they caused to the school’s engineering building during a violent protest last May. The vandalizers donned black masks before bursting into the building, frightening UW employees as they went on a rampage causing damage to the building and equipment before setting two large fires in the outside garbage dumpsters. No charges have been filed against the rioters and at this point only the Washington State taxpayers will pay for the damages.
During the 2020 riots, Mayor Durkan repeatedly caved into the liberal rioters’ demand and failed to criticize their actions. She embarrassedly equated their violence to “the Summer of Love.”
King County Executive Dow Constantine had his staff warmly greeted the protestors and hand out COVID masks before the rioters set fire to cars and caused damage to downtown Seattle businesses.
Then Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the state’s highest ranking public safety official, hid from the press and refused to support the police officers who were being physically attacked by the protestors.
Governor Jay Inslee was asked about the violent takeover of Capitol Hill at a press conference and he responded by pretending he had never heard of the violence, then focused his attention on the doodles he was creating.
It is hard to imagine that any of these partisan politicians would have been so laissez faire in their response to the violence if it were Right-wing rioters setting fires, physically attacking police officers, or taking over the police precinct. Evidently, they each have one set of rules for their supporters and another set of rules for everyone else.
The same is true with those who caused the damage on the UW campus. The school has built a disturbing record of showing favoritism to liberal extremists, and lack of tolerance for any other viewpoint.
The university recently lost a major federal court ruling stating it violated the 1st Amendment rights of a professor who refused to include liberal messaging in his syllabus. The school is constantly at the bottom of all US public universities for protecting free speech according to national surveys released by The Fire. UW Atmospheric Studies Professor Cliff Mass (often a target of liberal hatred due to his refusal to ignore science when determining his views on Climate Change) has written extensively about the favoritism liberal extremist receive from campus administrators.
Again, it is hard to imagine school leaders allowing 23 Right-wing extremist back into class if they had frightened UW workers, caused a million dollars damage to a building, and set fire in outside dumpsters. Yet they have with Left-wing extremist.
Liberals in charge of our state, county, city, and universities seem to believe that since they hold of the reigns of power they are allowed to set one set of cushy rules for their supporters while everyone else must play by a stricter set of rules. As the results, Left wing activists are allowed to commit crimes and have the taxpayers pay for the dame they have done.