As Antifa & BlackLiveMatter created their “summer of love” Autonomous Zone in Seattle at the height of the George Floyd riots, Mayor Jenny Durkin actually drafted plans to turn over the police precinct in that neighborhood permanently to BLM.
The Seattle Times broke the story this week reporting that:
“at the height of Seattle’s racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station’s operations, newly released documents show.
That June, as cops lobbed tear gas from behind barricades, and protesters on the streets surrounding the precinct called for the Police Department to be defunded, Durkan’s office behind the scenes briefly contemplated handing over the multimillion dollar property that had become the focus of the demonstrations.
Calvin Goings, the director of the city’s Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS), emailed three memos and a draft resolution to Durkan on the afternoon of June 8, 2020 — at about the same time police were abandoning the East Precinct on Capitol Hill. The draft resolution for transferring the property to Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County (BLMSKC) included a July 1 effective date…”
According to the Seattle Times investigation, the police didn't know about the plan to cede control of the precinct to BLM.
Ultimately BLM didn’t want the building and the idea was dropped.
A spokesman for the current mayor confirmed that Mayor Durkan’s administration “directed” the city’s Finance and Administrative Services “in its capacity as the city's real estate and facility management agency – to outline the process to transfer the East Precinct” to BLM.