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Ross: Sunday incident was first real test for Seattle’s CHOP

Jun 16, 2020, 8:39 AM | Updated: 12:34 pm

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SPD's East Precinct in June of 2020. (Getty Images)

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At a fenced-off parking lot for a business that services European cars, someone broke in and tried to set a fire inside Seattle’s CHOP area Sunday night.

The owner of the business that he called the cops, but they didn’t come. So, he asked his son to come down with his rifle.

The owner caught the guy – and frisked him for the stuff he stole – just as a group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched past.

They saw what was going on, they gathered at the fence, and started demanding that the suspect be released.

The owner told the protesters he was already gone, but a few of them tore down the fence, while other protesters tried to stop them.

In the end, the business owner got his stuff back, the guy with the gun didn’t have to shoot, and the suspect, although he got away, probably learned a lesson.

To summarize – nobody was arrested, nobody was hurt, no cops were even involved… and yet somehow, I don’t see the rest of the city rushing to adopt this model.

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