Black Lives Matter protesters occupy Seattle City Hall

’If there were more toughness, you wouldn’t have the kind of devastation that you had in Minneapolis and in Seattle. I mean, let’s see what’s going on in Seattle,’ Trump told Fox News on Thursday. ’I will tell you, if they don’t straighten that situation out, we’re going to straighten it out.’ On Monday, police in Seattle abandoned the city’s East Precinct after receiving threats that it would be burned down. The precinct and the surrounding blocks have since been taken over by George Floyd protesters, who have erected barricades, posted armed guards, and declared that police are not allowed inside. Demonstrators have dubbed the freewheeling commune the ’Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’, or CHAZ.