'It is patriotism': Seattle's mayor rebukes Trump for saying 'autonomous zone' protesters are terrorists

• Seattle's mayor on Thursday said that "$4 were patriots and not, as President Donald Trump called them, "domestic terrorists."
• Since Monday, protesters have $4 after clashing with the police $4.
• "Demanding we do better as a society and provide true equity for communities of color is not terrorism — it is patriotism," Mayor Jenny Durkan tweeted.
• Trump on Thursday $4 that the protesters were "ugly Anarchists" who "must be stopped IMMEDIATELY."

Seattle's mayor on Thursday scolded President Donald Donald Trump for calling $4 "domestic terrorists" and instead labeled them patriots.

Since Monday, a band of protesters $4 after clashing with the police during protests over George Floyd's death.

The so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone consists of tents, free food, art-making, and film screenings, and has remained peaceful, $4.

In a Wednesday tweet, $4: "Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW & ORDER!"

And on Thursday, Trump $4 occupants of the autonomous zone as "ugly Anarchists" who "must be stopped IMMEDIATELY."

Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle has since taken issue with Trump's characterization.

"It's clear @realDonaldTrump doesn't understand what's happening on five square blocks of our City," Durkan said in a series of tweets published late Thursday.

—Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) $4

"Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society and provide true equity for communities of color is not terrorism — it is patriotism," she added.

She said the autonomous area was "not a lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection" but rather "a peaceful expression of our community's collective grief and their desire to build a better world."

In some instances she attacked Trump directly, saying in one tweet: "One of the things the President will never understand, is that listening to community is not a weakness, it is a strength."

In his Thursday tweet, Trump also addressed Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, saying: "Take back your city NOW. If you don't do it, I will. This is not a game."

Durkan addressed that threat, tweeting: "It is unconstitutional and illegal to send the military to Seattle. We will not allow this to happen."

Inslee also $4 to Trump's tweet, saying: "A man who is totally incapable of governing should stay out of Washington state's business."

On Thursday, the Seattle police $4 that protesters were extorting local businesses.

Other politicians have $4.

"Don't you have a bunker to be in?" Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state tweeted, referring to the president's $4 during peaceful protests in the US capital.

Some of the zone's occupants have $4.

"We do not request reform, we demand abolition," Free Capitol Hill, an anonymous collective, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

"We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus."