Seattle closed a park ahead of a planned prayer rally.
Keep in mind, this the place where Antifa/BLM were allowed to take over parts of the city.
Mayor Jenny Durkin endorsed the move, calling it “the summer of love”.
The city’s Parks and Recreation Department put fences around Gas Works Park with park rangers deployed to prevent gatherings in the area.
Seattle parks officials told local news outlet Q13 Fox:
“Seattle Parks and Recreation does not allow unpermitted public events to take place in Seattle parks and asks the public continue to adhere to current public health guidelines so that we can keep our parks open.”
Talk radio show host Jason Rantz tells Fox:
"[Worshippers] just wanted to come down and pray [at Gas Works]. In part because they are protesting peacefully the fact that in Washington state, like so many other places, you can’t attend church as you normally would.
So they were there to pray to God for strength [and] inspiration -- but meanwhile, you have a park occupied by people whose only prayer to God is that they don't get caught throwing a Molotov cocktail at a building as they're trying to murder police officers."
Rantz points at MyNorthwest.com:
"Seattle Parks routinely allows unpermitted public events to take place in Seattle parks.
Much of CHAZ was occupied by thousands inside Cal Anderson Park. To this day, it remains occupied by anti-cop extremists who previously housed a weapons cache to use to target the nearby East Precinct. And the city can’t feign ignorance when activists promote the events openly on Twitter and Facebook under the hashtag #seattleprotests."