Why isn’t Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan under indictment for manslaughter and being sued for wrongful death? She withdrew any police presence from the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle. Result: businesses were looted, citizens were terrorized, four were shot, and two were killed. (See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html?searchResultPosition=2)
Her action constituted reckless endangerment,
since the results that occurred were precisely the kind that any reasonable
person would expect.
Perhaps she hasn’t been charged because it’s
assumed she’d easily “beat the rap” with an insanity plea. Early in the
anarchy, speaking from somewhere in La La Land, she dismissed such concerns with
the remark, “We could have the Summer of Love.”
