From King 5 Seattle:

Father of man killed inside Seattle’s CHOP zone files $3 billion in claims against city, county, state

The father of a man shot and killed inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone in June has filed three claims against local government amounting to $3 billion.

Horace Anderson, the father of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, filed claims Thursday against the city of Seattle, King County, and Washington state over the death of his son inside the CHOP zone.

The claim alleged that the actions and “inactions” by the local government are responsible for creating a “hazardous, and lawless situation” that resulted in the man’s death, according to a statement released by the Oshan & Associates, P.C., the law firm representing Anderson.

IANAL, but it is my understanding that qualified immunity protects city councils and state legislators.

However, I believe there are ways around qualified immunity when the protected person violates “clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which reasonable person would have known.”

So does allowing rioters to take over an area of the city, essentially seceding it from the union to be taken over by a warlord, violate the “clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which reasonable person would have known.”

I don’t know.  Lawyers and judges will have to hash this out.

I just hope it goes on long enough for discovery to take place.

I really want to know what the Seattle city government and Washington state government had to say about the CHAZ/CHOP while it was happening.

That needs to become public information.

I LOLed so hard…

All the claims about it not being self defense are vanishing like this communist's arm.

— nortouQ (@nortouQ) August 27, 2020

GRAPHIC: A friend of the man who rushed at the #Kenosha teen with a pistol and was shot in the arm has posted an update about his status. Doctors were able to save Gaige Grosskreutz’s right arm. The friend says Gaige regrets not being able to kill the teen. pic.twitter.com/2gJmnnroTF

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 27, 2020

Somebody sounds like a sore loser if you ask me.

I think he deserves this as a pick-me-up:

Someone from the BLM crowd spray-painted “Free Palestine” in the driveway of the Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/sJACaqZlai

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 27, 2020

Because that has something to do with a police officer shooting a man with a knife who refused to follow directions after a domestic violence incident.

No, but antisemitism and Woke Islamophilia is on brand for them l, so why not desecrate a Synagogue?

Fucking savages.

He eventually leaves the dealership and is barred by the police from returning. Six minutes later footage shows Mr. Rittenhouse being chased by an unknown group of people into the parking lot of another dealership several blocks away.

Reader Il Duca Mateo sent me the NYT’s link. I am gonna use the Archive.org version so you can see it pass the paywall. No judgements from the writers, just some info complimented with a couple of other things

 If we apply that same thinking to our current situation, we see the fallacy in “relax.” If we relax and the current crisis just fades away, everything is cool If we relax and are, in fact, wrong, we lose the country, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the vote, our guns and maybe even our lives. The teeter-totter is wildly weighted on only one end.

Staying Alive in the Brave New World

Your obligatory reading for today.