'Anarchist Jurisdiction' No Longer: Biden Rescinds Designation
SEATTLE, WA — The Emerald City is an anarchist jurisdiction no longer.
Thursday, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order rescinding seven of his predecessor's actions. Among them, a memorandum entitled "Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients of Federal Funds That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities" — the same memorandum that ultimately caused Seattle to be designated an "anarchist jurisdiction" and threatened to cut off federal funding to the city.
Trump's memo came largely as a response to the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (or CHOP) which for nearly a month took up several blocks of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The protest, an extension of the nationwide outcry following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, was loosely organized but broadly called for greater police accountability and for the Seattle Police Department to be defunded by 50% or more.
At the time, the occupation drew national headlines and eventually the ire of then-President Donald Trump.
"Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW & ORDER!" tweeted Trump on July 8, the same day of the CHOP's founding.
Mayor Jenny Durkan ultimately ordered that police sweep the CHOP and return to the East Precinct, which they did on July 1. Dozens were arrested. That sweep, however, did not satiate the Mango Mussolini and two months later he issued his memorandum.
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