Seattle police announced that they found weapons such as spikes, makeshift shields, and a machete in an area that was occupied by protesters.
“The Seattle Parks Department began clearing Cal Anderson Park shortly after 10 AM Tuesday to repair damages done to a field house, as well as clean up trash that had been piling up since the park’s closure on June 30th,” the Seattle Police Department Blotter reported.
The protesters were reportedly occupying the public park, which sits in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, throughout August. Police officials received a warrant to search a tent in the area after they found what they believed to be weapons.
They then found a machete, a hatchet, homemade spike strips, makeshift wooden shields, and an undetonated mortar.
Seattle Antifa was occupying a park, they said, to help the homeless. It turns out they were hiding a weapons cache inside tents that they were using to attack police. https://t.co/JgfO6OlDMO
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) September 2, 2020
“Cal Anderson Park has become a staging ground for Antifa and other agitators for their near-nightly assaults on the East Precinct in Capitol Hill. And while there was some low-level outreach by activists for the homeless, criminal Antifa and other agitators were actually using the space to help store weapons they could have used to hurt or kill police officers,” radio show host Jason Rantz reported.
The park is in the same area where protesters established the Capitol Hill Occupy Protest, a six-block encampment that barred police officers from entry. The area was cleared out by law enforcement on July 1, after multiple shootings and deaths.
