[fallingknife]

> The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will.

So, you mean like hypothetically taking over 6 blocks of downtown Seattle and declaring it an autonomous zone?

[Spivak]

Look I wasn't there and the information about it is extremely two sided. People who liked/supported it said that it was basically a large-scale sit-in like OccupyWallSt which seems to match the photos of it and I think lives firmly on the side of protest. Otherwise more usual protests like street marches, blocking access to government buildings, or occupying streets with cars also become insurrection which doesn't make much sense.

Not even trying to play, if the Capitol shit was actually a sit-in a la #OccupyTheCapitol then I would be here defending their right to protest.

[Klonoar]

FWIW, I live down the street from where that zone was. It was indeed a large-scale sit-in-like protest, and cropped up in short term response due to SPD's insane tactics of tear-gassing the surrounding neighborhood before pulling out due to pissing everyone off.

I find that everyone who comments about this zone on here is not actually from Seattle, and just firing off the same talking points.