The Seattle Times reported the shocking news that Seattle, under former liberal mayor Jenny Durkan, drafted legislation essentially giving a police department precinct to a Black Lives Matter organization shortly after George Floyd’s death. In conjunction with the defund the police movement in June of 2020, the Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS) put together legislation that would transfer the city’s East Precinct police department to the Black Lives Matter group. During the intense Black Lives Matter protests and riots in Seattle, on June 8, the FAS director Calvin Goings emailed the three memos and a draft resolution about the proposed transfer to the mayor’s office. “That same day, Seattle police officers boarded up the windows of the East Precinct building and evacuated the premises” reports National Review. The police chief at the time, Carmen Best, disagreed with the decision to evacuate, saying it prevented the department from responding to 911 calls in the area. After the precinct was evacuated, it helped allow activists to set up the infamous “autonomous zone” in Capitol Hill in downtown Seattle. Best said at the time “Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community.” Former deputy mayor Casey Sixkiller claims it’s only a coincidence that the building was evacuated on the same day as the legislation was received by the mayor’s office. Sixkiller said in a deposition for a lawsuit brought on by business owners and residents of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, that while mayor Durkan had conceived of the transfer, “I can’t imagine that anybody actually asked for a resolution to be drafted.” However, FAS spokesperson Melissa Mixon said the mayor’s office did, in fact, request the draft. “The Durkan administration directed FAS – in its capacity as the city’s real estate and facility management agency- to outline the process to transfer the East Precinct to BLMSKC,” said Mixon.