Judge: Seattle’s Aid To Protest Zone Might Have Been a Takinghttps://www.cato.org/blog/judge-seattles-aid-protest-zone-might-have-been-takingOrdinarily you can’t sue the government for failing to protect you from private criminal actors. But a federal judge has allowed a suit to go forward filed by business owners against the city of Seattle over injuries done by farâ€â€‹left activists who seized 16 blocks this June and proclaimed a weeksâ€â€‹long “autonomous zone†... .
Law professor Ilya Somin writes that he initially approached the case with skepticism, but was surprised to find it stronger than expected. ... plaintiffs argue that the city did not merely stand by passively, but assisted the occupiers by letting them use city property such as street barriers ...
Sorry for the choppy edits, but the article is pretty short.
