[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The owner of a Seattle restaurant has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for the loss of business and expenses incurred during the deadly 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).The suit is the latest litigation against the city as a result of the zone that according to the Seattle Times, has already cost Seattle over $9 million.
Peter Pak, the owner of Oma Bap, a Korean restaurant at 11th Avenue and Olive Way, claims in the litigation that Seattle officials that enabled the protests, riots, and more in the neighborhood during the unrest in the summer of 2020 cost his establishment tens of thousands of dollars in business and other damages.
According to the suit filed Thursday in US District Court in Seattle, the city set up portable toilets and dumpsters for protesters at the intersection and turned the corner "into the epicenter of its public-sanitation support" of the autonomous zone.
Due to the city’s actions, those involved in the zone "were continually dumping garbage and human waste outside Oma Bap, and making the area unsightly, unsanitary, unsafe and treacherous to navigate," according to the suit
Pak alleges that as a result of the zone, the restaurant sustained thousands of dollars in damage from vandalism which continued for months after the zone was dismantled because the city allowed and enabled a homeless "tent city" that was established during the armed occupation in Cal Anderson Park, across the street from the restaurant.
According to the suit, the restaurant was forced to board up its windows from September 2020 through February 2021 after they were repeatedly broken. The same lawyers that negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement earlier this year with Seattle on behalf of a dozen Capitol Hill businesses over similar claims are representing Pak.
Seattle settled the businesses claim after a federal judge sanctioned the city for destroying tens of thousands of deleted text messages between then-Mayor Jenny
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...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone..., former police Chief Carmen Best, fire chief Harold Scoggins, and other city officials during the occupation.
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