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The Seattle mayor said Thursday that it would be unconstitutional and illegal for United States President Donald Trump to send military forces to the city to clear protesters occupying a neighborhood, as the US president has suggested.
During a press conference, Mayor Jenny Durkan did not specify how or when authorities would clear the approximately 500 protesters who have established a makeshift camp behind the barricades in the Capitol Hill district.
"It is unconstitutional and illegal to send the military to Seattle," said the Democratic leader, in her first term. "There is no imminent threat of an invasion of Seattle."
Activists have occupied the area since police on Monday removed the barricades from the streets and left the East Police Station , in a move that city officials said was aimed at reducing tension. Protesters used police barricades to isolate the area, calling it the ' Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ' (CHAZ).
In a video, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said it was not her decision to leave the police station. "You [policemen] fought for days to protect her, I asked them to hold that line day after day to have shells thrown at them, yelled at, threatened and, in some cases, hurt them," Best told his department in the video. posted on his YouTube page.
"We are not going to let this happen in Seattle. If we have to go in, we are going to go in ," Trump told Fox News on Thursday. "Let's let the governor do it. He has large National Guard troops ... but one way or another, it's going to be done. These people aren't going to occupy a large part of a big city."
On Sunday, a man ran over a group of protesters in the area with his car, which became the "autonomous zone" the next day. The driver of the vehicle shot a protester who approached him when he started to brake, according to videos by police and witnesses. The protester who was shot is in stable condition in a hospital and the driver of the vehicle was arrested.
"What we have here is a unique opportunity to see how a police-free zone can be facilitated," protester David Lewis told Reuters, in front of the abandoned East Police Station. "Making this a community or educational center would be a momentous and very powerful movement that the city can commit to with a lack of police brutality and also a recognition of past debts."
The police returned to the building of the police station this Thursday to inspect if it is damaged, but still has no staff . Police Chief Best said the neighborhood could not remain busy, but neither she nor Durkan said how the city planned to dismantle the camp. "We have to make sure we don't recreate the whole cycle that we were able to interrupt," Durkan said.
Major cities across the United States have been rife with marches, rallies, and sometimes violence for more than two weeks because of the death of 46-year-old African-American George Floyd, while in police custody in Minneapolis.
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