Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, a Seattle-based ice cream company, is suing the city over “extensive property damage” that the store incurred during the BLM zone “CHOP” protest in 2020, despite the fact that the owner supports BLM and ostensibly was and still is anti-cop.

KIRO News Radio reporter Sam Campbell shared the details of the lawsuit which has gone viral showing the irony of the case.

Black Lives Matter rioters created an anti-police zone during the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd. It was originally called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) but was later renamed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) in a nod to the Occupy movement.

KUOW reported that the rioters took over a “10-block area surrounding a Molly Moon’s location.” Three years later the ice cream shop that has nine locations in the Seattle area is filing a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.

(Video Credit: KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM)

You really cannot make this shit up!

Molly Moon’s Ice Cream is suing Seattle over losses and damages from BLM autonomous zone they contributed to and promoted.

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— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) June 10, 2023

In a statement, the company says the suit is seeking “indemnification for the significant revenue losses and team morale impacts experienced during and for many months after CHOP caused by the City of Seattle’s decision to abandon the police precinct.”

The company is claiming that the city ignored its constitutional rights because police chose to “abandon” the CHOP zone to BLM rioters who damaged their building, which is a specious argument considering Molly Moon’s didn’t want the police there in the first place. They are also not suing the protesters, completely ignoring BLM and Antifa, because they don’t want to “undermine CHOP participants’ message or present a counter-message.”

After CHOP, the uber-left Molly Moon’s Ice Cream owner made it clear and didn’t support cops. This sign was posted to tell cops to not enter their shop, while declaring online that it supported divesting funds from Seattle Police. Now they’re suing over Antifa and BLM activism? https://t.co/AiZeMs9xWQ pic.twitter.com/lVo5wgzF19

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) June 9, 2023

Molly Moon’s made repeated endorsements publicly of the BLM movement in Seattle and across the nation, according to Fox News. There are a number of posts on the company’s Instagram page celebrating leaders in the BLM movement, including Nikkita Oliver, who is a lawyer that identifies as non-binary.

The retail outlet is very progressive. Molly Moon’s has shared posts on “voting with a felony,” promoting access to “safe abortions,” and in vigorous support of Pride Month.

The company is one of many lining up to sue the city of Seattle for failing to protect and prevent businesses from being damaged by rioters, potential danger to individuals, and possible death due to the CHOP movement back in 2020, according to Fox News.

The company appears to be seeking an unspecified amount in damages pending a trial.

Despite laying blame at the city’s feet, the suit also makes clear the company “supports the free-speech rights of many of those who gathered on Capitol Hill” who then formed CHOP.

— Sam Campbell (@HeySamCampbell) June 8, 2023

The father of a teenage son who died in Seattle’s CHOP zone is also suing the city.

That suit was filed with Oshan & Associates in June. Antonio Mays, Sr. claimed the city was well aware of the violence in CHOP but had abandoned it “without a working plan to provide essential services.” His 16-year-old son, Antonio Mays, Jr., was shot and killed after he traveled there from California for what he thought was a “peaceful protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

“Sadly, Antonio soon realized that there was nothing peaceful about CHOP,” the suit charges.

Hugo Properties LLC, which owns an apartment building across from Cal Anderson Park, is also filing a lawsuit identical to Molly Moon’s, according to the Seattle Times.

I may not be a lawyer but I think Molly Moon’s screwed themselves

Hard to play the victim when they celebrated the very thing they claimed wronged them pic.twitter.com/e3CTBDEGHX

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) June 9, 2023

This is far from over for Seattle.

“A group of more than a dozen neighborhood businesses sued the city in June 2020, even before CHOP was cleared. That lawsuit was settled earlier this year, with the city agreeing to pay $3.6 million after a federal district judge issued severe legal sanctions against the city for deleting text messages between high-ranking officials, including then-Mayor Jenny Durkan and then-police Chief Carmen Best,” the Seattle Times reported.

Molly Moon’s has a history of political activism and even close the Capitol Hill location to participate in the 2020 George Floyd protests that rocked Seattle pic.twitter.com/sRpdHlVi0K

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) June 9, 2023

The lawsuits accuse the city of Seattle of ceding Cal Anderson Park and the surrounding area to protesters, providing them with barriers, dumpsters, hand-washing stations, and restrooms, and allowing the area to be blocked off from car traffic and basic public services such as police and fire.

“The City’s actions, assistance, endorsements, and encouragements of CHOP and CHOP participants greatly increased the likelihood of property damage, loss of business revenue, loss of use of property, and other damage,” the lawsuits assert.

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