Alek Skarlatos, Candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, issued a statement condemning the Seattle City Council’s decision to defund their police department as both reckless and dangerous. Seattle’s Police Chief, Carmen Best, announced plans to retire in the wake of the vote which saw only one city councilor vote against the budget package stating that it did not go far enough in its radical aims.

“I visited the ‘Police Free Zone’ in Seattle prior to the shootings there and the murder of a 19 year-old young man,” said Skarlatos. “This ‘Mob Squad’ of politicians who support defunding the police have blood on their hands and are responsible for the violence that has come to rural Oregon.”

The CHOP, or CHAZ, was formed in Seattle on June 8th of this year by violent protesters who forced police to abandon the East Precinct Building and declared it a police free autonomous zone. Its creation spurred increased anarchy in the city culminating in several shootings, including a murder, eventually forcing the mayor to order police to clear the neighborhood. The violence has spread to many other cities throughout the country and region with Portland, Oregon facing more than 70 straight days of unrest as Antifa-affiliated groups have targeted the Federal Courthouse in that city. Smaller cities such as Eugene and Springfield, Oregon have experienced rioting that targeted local businesses and residential areas.

You can find out more about Alek Skarlatos at his website


--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2020-08-12 12:13:03

Last Update: 2020-08-12 12:27:21