Shaun Scott is a radical with a track record of attacking our civic institutions.
The events of June 2020 went beyond protesting. The Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) was a takeover of Cal Anderson Park and surrounding blocks of the city. In an extreme example of de-funding the police, the CHOP communards took over the East Precinct building.
Radicals celebrated taking public spaces away from the rest of us. The CHOP promoted a block party vibe. This attracted innocent youth to check out the action. The festival of lawlessness soon descended into a magnet for dangerous criminals and violence which resulted in tragedy. Antonio Mays Jr. and Horace Lorenzo Anderson were two Black teenagers murdered in the lawless zone.
The leaders of CHOP were never held accountable for the deaths of these two young men. And we never hear the names of Anderson and Mays — as their memory is inconvenient to the ideologues still advocating radical policy with impunity.
Shaun Scott’s Abolitionist Revolution
Judging by his social media, Scott apparently celebrates Karl Marx’s birthday. It is not surprising that Scott was a CHOP supporter. The takeover of the park, surrounding streets and police station promised a bigger revolution to come.
On June 26 2020, in the thick of the CHOP takeover, Cascade-PBS enabled Scott to publish a manifesto on Police Abolitionism. My opponent was on a roll, however, on July 1, almost a month since the establishment of the commune, the city fought back and restored order.
This win for public safety was a setback to Scott. He took to his Cascade-PBS platform, seething over, “Durkan glowing with triumph” — his impression of the mayor’s press conference announcing the end of the CHOP. In what could be described as reverse red baiting, Scott then compares Durkan to Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s involvement in Korea in the early 1950s. The article states MacArthur, “hoped to use the specter of communism to escalate conflict.”
There is a specter haunting Seattle — and it’s Shaun Scott’s campaign for state house! His disdain for our democratic institutions was demonstrated in June of 2020.
CHOP was an assault on our public institutions.
The defaced East Precinct sign above is perverse. The truth is, there was never a public hearing regarding closing the East Precinct. No public process or vote on repurposing Cal Anderson Park either. CHOP leaders forced their Abolitionist views on We the People by seizing our police precinct, park and public streets.
This attack on our democratic system was not lost on those directly affected. Residents and businesses inside the CHOP sued; claiming they were denied due process. (The city settled the suit for $3.6 million dollars.)
At any rate, Shaun Scott was bitter over the commune’s demise, and as usual, blamed law enforcement. He actually wrote in his article cited above that, “police ransacked the CHOP.”
CHOP was an example of abolishing the police. The project failed spectacularly; as evidenced in sickening police body cam footage of Scott’s fellow communards preventing public safety officials from saving Horace Lorenzo Anderson’s life.
Considering the killing and mayhem, what does Shaun Scott know about the takeover of the East Precinct? Did he ever enter the occupied police building? If he did not, he should say so.
I will work to protect our democratic process, civic spaces and public safety systems.
Vote for me Andrea Suarez.