What happens when you have decades of far-left leadership… defund your police… and elect a wildly unqualified socialist mayor? You get the kind of lawlessness Seattle is experiencing right now — and it’s leaving city residents terrorized.
Seattle leaders were patting themselves on their backs when they slashed police funding five years ago. Fast-forward to today, and citizens have started erecting homemade barricades around their neighborhoods to keep the gangs and other criminals out.
Residents say that their pleas to city leaders to get crime under control have gone completely unanswered. Now, they’re being forced to take matters into their own hands.
See for yourself what’s happened to this once-great American city.
OUTRAGE: Seattle residents are FED UP with criminals turning their neighborhood into a war zone with nightly gun battles — and have now set up barricades after Democratic Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson and other far-left radicals refuse to enforce the law.
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— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 27, 2026