Sorry to disagree with you on this situation.
 

IMHO the situation in Seattle has nothing to with improving racial relations or trying to resolve racial bias in order to achieve mutual respect and understanding. Instead, I see radical terrorist ideology using an army to take over a city. This is an act of war, not a protest.
One has to wonder what ties to other terrorist groups, like ISIS, Boko haram or others, they may have. Which groups, organizations have organized and funded this horror.
In this instance I do not believe that there is true desire for a peaceful dialogue on the part of the terrorists. Once they see how far they can go they will sue for peace, only to move on to new territory and start over again, with ever increasing violence and terror.
Like a blackmailer, once they get you to bend to their will, the demands and threats only increase.
This can not and will not end well, I am afraid. It's like a deadly cancer and the treatment will be painful and recovery will take a long time. And, like cancer we will have to be more vigilant in monitoring the patient and react immediately and decisively to any re-occurrence.
Again, this is not, imho, an attempt to promote racial unity and harmony. It can only be viewed as a tactic used to create discord and devide us during this trying time.

Wonder if we can get Al Sharpton to go in there and help out.

Its the resident's city but if it were mine I would not tolerate this behavior. This is no longer a protest but an armed insurrection. What those local leaders are doing is ignoring the rights of those people with in the area. I would say to the people in the autonomous zone. You have 2 hours to vacate or you will be arrested for unlawful assembly. You have the following choices: Leave peacefully and walk out, Be forcibly removed and carried out. Any one that raises a rifle to a law enforcement officer will be shot. This behavior is not acceptable in a law abiding society. NO more rubber bullets and tear gas. You want to play, let's play.

that would be like throwing gasoline on the situation

Mr. Teflon should be in jail for tax evasion

If someone pays him.

He certainly should be in prison

Don't forget the bobbing heads at CNN and MSNBC fueling the fire early from the beginning...

The way I see it, it's all getting a bit Woodstock Hippy Utopia on steroids, but with guns and lousy music!

A rancher named Bundy got the feds after him for grazing cattle in BFE.
Bundy standoff - Wikipedia

These guys take over a major portion of Seattle and law enforcement runs.

Must be that White Privilege thing I keep hearing about.

I just do not understand why this is allowed to continue.

To make some people happy!!!!

Anyone who wants to see this continue should not be tossed out on their rear IMHO.

It's not Seattle as a whole. It's not even a "major portion" of Seattle. It's 6 blocks, total. The rapper is not the warlord, there is no warlord. Antifa isn't running it, antifa doesn't want to run anything, because antifa means anti-fascist and anti-fascists are, by definition, against dictatorships.

Here's what appears to be a hybrid op-ed/dramatic documentary-style article about what's going on in CHAZ (the autonomous zone where this is taking place):

What’s Going On in CHAZ, the Seattle Autonomous Zone?

A political slanted account.
Right up front stating conservatives and the POTUS "...have a problem...".

Does that translate into the liberals and their politicians have no problem with what is going on?

If one is OK with it being in Seattle then it is OK if something similar were to happen on one or all of the town squares here in TV.
It would be OK if a similar group took over your village and you would have to submit to an ID check to get to your home.

BS! Set the :censored: politics aside. It is wrong.

I saw a movie like this once called Idiocracy.