Seattle Neighborhood Secedes As Crime Spins Out of Control

The Katie Wilson era is off to a good start in Seattle where crime has gotten so bad that instead of the BLMers and Marxist radicals who elected her setting up their own no-go zones, neighborhoods afraid of crime are going their own way.

One week ago, bullets blasted through the wall of a Greenwood neighborhood home and passed within inches of a window where a six-week-old baby boy was sleeping in his bassinet.

Saturday morning, roughly 40 shell casings were on the pavement near Aurora Avenue N. and N. 98th Street in Seattle after another shootout near the Burgermaster.

By daylight, the neighbors had had enough.

Residents along Seattle’s North Aurora corridor stopped waiting on City Hall. They hauled in large industrial steel planters and blocked off three residential side streets at N. 97th, 98th, and 102nd Streets near where they meet Aurora Avenue N. Neighbors said a representative from the mayor’s office and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) came out to push back. They were waved off.

“We’re honestly not thinking long term right now,” one neighbor said, asking not to be identified out of fear of retribution from pimps and dealers operating along the Aurora Avenue corridor.

“We’re sick of this,” he added, citing a lack of action from city leaders. “We’re going to close the streets.”

Government exists for one primary reason and that is to…

1. Fund healthcare for illegal aliens

2. Lecture everyone about identity politics

3. Protect the safety of the public

… and while the average blue area pol thinks it’s 1 and 2, the actual answer is 3. Unfortunately Seattle is run by the 1 and 2 crowd which means that every neighborhood has to start going it alone.