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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Is Optimistic An NBA Team Will Return To Her City

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Is Optimistic An NBA Team Will Return To Her City

More than a decade after the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics moved to the Midwest to become the Oklahoma City Thunder, basketball fans in the Emerald City continue to hold out hope that the club will return in a new iteration. On Thursday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan lent credence to the notion that her town will be […]

3y ago

Amazon Is Rumored To Be Ditching Seattle Due To ‘Insane Taxes’

Amazon Is Rumored To Be Ditching Seattle Due To ‘Insane Taxes’

Amazon has always been headquartered in or around the northwestern city of Seattle, but rumor has it the online shopping behemoth might soon abandon its hometown. According to My Northwest, Amazon is putting out “feelers” to begin expanding the company outside of Seattle, with the ultimate goal of leaving the Emerald City altogether. The rumors […]

4y ago

Seattle Hockey Team Officially Named ‘Kraken’ After Years Of Speculation

Seattle Hockey Team Officially Named ‘Kraken’ After Years Of Speculation

The NHL’s newest expansion team in Seattle announced Thursday its nickname will be the Kraken, ESPN reported. The move comes after years of speculation dating back to December 2018 when the NHL Board of Governors unanimously voted to welcome Seattle into the league as the 32nd expansion team. The announcement was delivered through a live […]

4y ago

Summer Taylor, One Of Two Seattle Protesters Hit By Car Driving Into Crowd, Dies

Summer Taylor, One Of Two Seattle Protesters Hit By Car Driving Into Crowd, Dies

Summer Taylor, one of two Seattle protesters who were hit by a car that drove into the crowd, has died, KING-TV reported. She was 24. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning, a group of protesters was demonstrating on a stretch of Interstate 5 in the downtown section of the […]

4y ago

Car Drives Into Crowd Of Protesters In Seattle, Two People Injured, One Critically

Car Drives Into Crowd Of Protesters In Seattle, Two People Injured, One Critically

A man is in custody after police say he drove his car into a crowd of protesters in Seattle, injuring two people, including one critically. As KING-TV reports, at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, protesters were gathered on a section of Interstate 5 in the city’s downtown. Though that particular section of the road […]

4y ago

Seattle Autonomous Zone To Shut Down As Mayor Orders Police To Return After Third Shooting

Seattle Autonomous Zone To Shut Down As Mayor Orders Police To Return After Third Shooting

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that police would be returning to the area known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, effectively ending the social experiment in the four-block zone. The move comes after the third person was shot in the police-free zone. “A recent silent march had nearly 85,000 peaceful attendees whose message […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Warns Of ‘Serious Force’ If Protesters Attempt To Create DC Autonomous Zone

Donald Trump Warns Of ‘Serious Force’ If Protesters Attempt To Create DC Autonomous Zone

President Donald Trump came out firmly against a District of Columbia autonomous zone on Tuesday, warning protesters that they would be swiftly dealt with if they attempted to set up in the capital city. “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning. […]

4y ago

CHAZ ‘Warlord’ Raz Simone Claims That Paramedics Refused To Help Injured Civilians

CHAZ ‘Warlord’ Raz Simone Claims That Paramedics Refused To Help Injured Civilians

Rapper Raz Simone, who has recently been called one of the leaders, if not the sole leader, of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — also known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — claimed on Twitter that paramedics had refused to administer first aid to civilians in need. In a tweet published on Saturday night, […]

4y ago

One Man Dead, Second Victim In Critical Condition After Shooting In Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest

One Man Dead, Second Victim In Critical Condition After Shooting In Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest

Early on Saturday morning, at least two people were shot in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) area, according to a post on the Seattle Police Department’s website. One of the people shot, a 19-year-old man, died. The other man who was shot during the incident is currently at Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. […]

4y ago

Seattle Black Clergy Members Join Donald Trump In Blaming Mayor Jenny Durkan And Lend Support To Police Chief

Seattle Black Clergy Members Join Donald Trump In Blaming Mayor Jenny Durkan And Lend Support To Police Chief

African American clergy members with churches in Seattle have come out in support of Police Chief Carmen Best and put blame on Mayor Jenny Durkan in the aftermath of the east precinct being taken over by protesters. Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died in police custody, took […]

4y ago

Seattle Police Face Outrage After A Video Of A Pepper-Sprayed Child Goes Viral

Seattle Police Face Outrage After A Video Of A Pepper-Sprayed Child Goes Viral

Police in Seattle are facing a growing chorus of criticism after a video showing the aftermath of a pepper-sprayed child has gone viral on social media. According to The Guardian, the confrontation happened during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Seattle on May 30. Mando Avery claimed that he attended the event with […]

4y ago

Fox News Apologizes For Using Altered, Misleading Photos In Reports On Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Fox News Apologizes For Using Altered, Misleading Photos In Reports On Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Fox News has issued an apology after using a series of digitally altered and misleading photographs in reporting on Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) this week. As The Seattle Times reported, the conservative cable news network came under fire after images of a man holding a rifle at an entrance to the area in […]

4y ago

Video Shows Seattle ‘CHAZ’ Speaker Urging White Attendees To Give Cash To Black Protesters

Video Shows Seattle ‘CHAZ’ Speaker Urging White Attendees To Give Cash To Black Protesters

Demonstrators in the newly formed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) of Seattle, Washington were videoed encouraging the white protesters to find their African American counterparts and give them $10 before leaving the ongoing demonstration. The video, which was uploaded on Saturday, showed a speaker addressing a crowd formed in CHAZ, informing his fellow demonstrators that […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Turns Up The Heat On Seattle ‘Anarchists’ During Thursday Interview

Donald Trump Turns Up The Heat On Seattle ‘Anarchists’ During Thursday Interview

President Donald Trump told Fox News‘ Harris Faulkner that he had no intention of backing away from conflict in Seattle, Washington, in the face of demonstrators who have occupied part of the city. Days ago, protests at the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct escalated to the point that police boarded up the building and left […]

4y ago

Seattle Mayor Tells Donald Trump ‘Go Back To Your Bunker’ After Threats Of Federal Action Against Protesters

Seattle Mayor Tells Donald Trump ‘Go Back To Your Bunker’ After Threats Of Federal Action Against Protesters

President Donald Trump slammed Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee late Wednesday, warning the leaders that if they didn’t “take back” their city, he would step in with federal action, The Washington Post reported. Durkan shot back at Trump, telling him to “Make us all safe” and “Go back to your bunker.” […]

4y ago

Viral Video From Seattle Protests Appears To Show Young Girl Crying After Being Maced

Viral Video From Seattle Protests Appears To Show Young Girl Crying After Being Maced

Video taken during protests in Seattle appears to show a young girl crying in pain after being maced, which witnesses say came from a police officer. The video gained viral interest on Saturday amid the growing national protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. The Twin Cities have seen several […]

4y ago

Seattle Police Officer Accused Of Contributing To A Man’s Suicide Via A Ruse To Catch Him For A Misdemeanor

Seattle Police Officer Accused Of Contributing To A Man’s Suicide Via A Ruse To Catch Him For A Misdemeanor

A Seattle police officer is accused of contributing to a man’s suicide via a scheme to get him to turn himself in. The man was wanted for misdemeanor hit-and-run. As part of the ruse, the officer allegedly lied about the severity of the man’s crime, The Seattle Times reports. At some point before June 2018, […]

4y ago

Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Had To Move Rally To Bigger Venue Because Of Expected Mass Turnout

Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Had To Move Rally To Bigger Venue Because Of Expected Mass Turnout

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her presidential campaign staff experienced a problem this week that any political candidate would be more than happy to face. According to The Hill, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 Democratic hopeful had to move her “Seattle Town Hall” campaign rally in Seattle, Washington on Sunday from the 7,000 capacity WaMu Theater […]

5y ago

Seattle Crane Collapse Leaves Four Dead Just Outside Google Building

Seattle Crane Collapse Leaves Four Dead Just Outside Google Building

Four people were killed while three others were injured after a freak accident that saw a construction crane collapse over a busy street in Seattle. The crane fell from above Seattle’s under-construction Google building on Saturday at around 3:30 p.m. local time, crushing cars and causing mass devastation along the way, according to the BBC. […]

5y ago

Idaho Teenager Made $35,000 Plowing Snow While Visiting Seattle

Idaho Teenager Made $35,000 Plowing Snow While Visiting Seattle

If you’ve ever lived up north, chances are, you’ve had to contend with shoveling snow at some point or another. In the winter months, removing snow from driveways and sidewalks can become a daily chore, and for some, it has to be done multiple times a day. Over the years, the arduous task has been […]

5y ago

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