Rioting spreads in Seattle - emergency weapons ban included
Current live report on local Kiro 7 cable news 6 pm PST, repeating details from there not posted online yet:
* Inslee has activated the national guard
* Looting at Nordstroms, other stores
* Protestors blocked Interstate 5 and the Seattle State Patrol has closed it
* Buildings and vehicles, including some SPD vehicles, are on fire
* Reports from mayor's office of injured police officers
* Two AR-15 rifles stolen from a SPD cruiser
Also: Seattle mayor Durkan just issued a "Civil Emergency" order that among other things, bans the carry or use of 'weapons' within Seattle. So as of this evening: it's illegal to even carry or possess a weapon in the Seattle City limits, let alone to defend yourself or protect your property from looters.
Updated: details on the "Civil Emergency" order, including text of the weapons ban. No indication I can see of a date limit on the order.
Text of the portion of order that is banning weapons (including firearms and knives--which she clarified on her live interview). Sounds like merely possessing or carrying a firearm, or a pocket knife, in the city of Seattle now subjects you to arrest, confiscation, fines, and up to 6 months in jail.
Quote:
Within this zone, all persons are prohibited from possessing, transporting, purchasing, furnishing or selling any weapon, including, but not limited to: rocks, bottles, pipes, bats, clubs,
chains, sharpened signs, shields, gas, road flares, torches, paint balls, light bulbs, any incendiary devices, pry-bars, skateboards, balloons filled with liquid, dimensional lumber with a dimension greater than V2 inch, or any other objects which can be used for infliction of bodily harm or damage to property.
Seattle Police are hereby directed confiscate any weapon identified above or any other implement reasonably perceived or believed to be capable of being used as a weapon found within these boundaries.
Any individual who violates this order shall be subject to arrest, as set forth below in Section 4, and confiscation of the prohibited item.
SECTION 4:
Any person found to have knowingly violated this Civil Emergency Order is guilty of Failure to Obey the Mayor's Emergency Order, and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more than One Hundred and Eighty (180) days or both such fine and imprisonment. SMC 10.02.110; 12A.26.040.