![]() “The City’s decision subjected businesses, employees, and residents of that neighborhood to extensive property damage, public safety dangers, and an inability to use and access their properties,” the legal team writes. “Rather, this lawsuit is about Plaintiff’s constitutional and other legal rights of which were overrun by the City of Seattle’s decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large, and then materially support and encourage a hostile occupation of that neighborhood.” “This lawsuit does not seek to undermine CHOP participants’ message or present a counter message,” the filing begins. ![]() CHS has asked the law firm and owner Molly Moon Neitzel for more details on the new filing.įiled on the three-year anniversary of the protest camp’s formation, the lawsuit seemingly puts Molly Moon’s in position of demanding the city should have shut down the CHOP protests.īut the complaint filed this week begins with a defense of the protests even as it blames the city for the disorder that followed. It is not clear why Molly Moon’s was not part of the previous lawsuit. It is being brought forward by the law firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, the same firm that won a $3.6 million settlement with the city earlier this year on behalf of a slate of Capitol Hill property owners and businesses that sued over “deliberate indifference” from former Mayor Jenny Durkan, the Seattle Police Department and then- Chief Carmen Best, Seattle Fire, and the rest of City Hall over the handling of the camp that took over the streets around Cal Anderson Park in June 2020. City of Seattle case was filed this week in federal court. ![]() ![]() The Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream LLC v. One of Seattle’s most progressive small businesses has sued the city over its actions around the CHOP occupied protest that grew from the 2020 Black Lives Matter and George Floyd murder unrest into a dangerous camp that shut down blocks of Capitol Hill’s Pike/Pine core and left two teens shot to death including 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson who was gunned down in the street in front of the ice cream shop behind the suit. The memorial to Lorenzo Anderson who was gunned down in front of Molly Moon’s during CHOP ![]()
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