Seattle Shuts Down ‘Black Lives Matter Garden’ Over Drugs, Homelessness, and Rodents
“So far this year, the City’s Unified Care Team has cleaned up encampments at Cal Anderson Park 76 times”
During the riots of 2020, activists in Seattle set up a ‘Black Lives Matter Garden’ in a public park. The city has now shut it down after finding that it attracted homeless people, drug criminals, and even rats.
It has basically turned into a public health hazard.
FOX News reports:
Seattle closes Black Lives Matter garden amid rampant homelessness, drug use and vandalism
Members of Seattle, Washington’s Parks and Recreation department, along with city police, removed a community garden planted in Cal Anderson Park as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 on Wednesday.
City officials said in a statement that the “makeshift,” temporary garden was being removed because of public health and safety concerns, as well as for maintenance reasons including reseeding and turf restoration.
The efforts on Wednesday also included the removal of tent encampments located near the garden and outside the park along E. Olive Street, which city officials said was to ensure the public spaces remain clean and open for everyone.
So far this year, the City’s Unified Care Team has cleaned up encampments at Cal Anderson Park 76 times, making the park one of the most frequently addressed areas in the city for repopulated encampments, the city said.
City officials also said the temporary garden has created unsafe conditions for people who enjoy the park. Examples of incidents include vandalism in the park’s public bathrooms, public drug use, unauthorized camping and an increasing rodent population.
Here’s a video report:
Ari Hoffman of the Post Millennial notes that this was the site of the CHOP/CHAZ zone, where two black teenagers were killed:
Seattle finally reclaims Cal Anderson Park, site of deadly CHAZ occupation, removing drug addicts, homeless
On Wednesday, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, working with police, finally cleared away the last remnants of the deadly 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a makeshift “garden” in Cal Anderson Park that activists claim was a memorial to black lives lost to “police violence.”
However, activists failed to memorialize the two black teens who were killed in the zone during the occupation.
TPM's Ari Hoffman @thehoffather reacts to Seattle removing the BLM garden:
"Their legacy is not racial justice. Their legacy is death and destruction and crime." pic.twitter.com/FwiN8KHxft
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 28, 2023
Featured image via YouTube.
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Can they tear down the statues of george floyd yet?
Much like the Reconciliation Monument in Arlington, the statue will first have to be ‘moved to a secure location’ due to (fill in excuse here, most likely construction work). Then it will be stored long-term while looking for a place to relocate it. Once nobody is looking, it gets melted down for scrap.
I thought that garden died before they even removed the barriers for CHAZ. This obviously isn’t the one they did on a tarp with about a 1/2 inch of dirt on top of it.
I also wonder why there hasn’t been shrieking from the usual Seattle city council commie harpies?
Why was that debris not cleaned up when they reclaimed the zone?
Many thriving metropolises boast a Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Vietnam, and the like. Why are they picking on Little Africa?
‘You took my radish,mf’
Leftists are destroyers not builders.
What a ho-decultural crime.
There goes (went) the neighborhood.