Seattle pays artists to paint anti-cop street mural

The City of Seattle has commissioned an anti-police activist to repaint the Black Lives Matter mural that was a centerpiece of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. The mural on 11th and pine was not painted correctly, or legally, originally so Seattle is paying the Vivid Matter Collective to recreate the mural, paying 16 artists over $50,272 to share equally amongst each other.

In emails received from multiple public disclosure requests, The Post Millennial learned that the city had prioritized preserving graffiti created by the activists who occupied 6 blocks of Capitol Hill, over the safety of residents and businesses who were begging for help.

The total costs of the cleanup of the CHOP continue to accrue and at the most recent counts have far exceeded 1 million dollars. Costs have not yet been released for the damage to the East Precinct which was abandoned then occupied and vandalized by rioters. Even though residents keep asking when the park will reopen to the public, the city now plans on "re-imagining the park," costs "TDB."

Now it seems as if the first part of the "re-imagining" plan have been put into action by the city. One of the artists, Chai Marsalis Adera who goes by the alias Future Crystals, inserted anti-police messages into the mural.

In a live stream the artist bragged about being paid by the to add the anti cop messages. "The funniest thing about this is the city of Seattle is paying me to do this! It's beautiful, you know what I’m saying? No good cops in a racist system, city of Seattle. Jenny Durkan? You're next. You can't hide."

After the video circulated the city allegedly forced the artist to clean up his messaging.

However, anti police messaging is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of this artist's anti-police behavior. According to The Stranger, Adera was involved in the CHOP as one of the leaders extorting the city along with CHOP "warlord" Raz Simone. "Those representing the protesters included CHOP garden operations director Marcus Henderson, live-streamer and artist Chai Adera, protest organizer Shannon, rapper Raz Simone, and barrier security guard Cove."

Adera's live streams of the CHOP were well known and followed during the month long armed occupation. Adera was not just an advocate or a streamer. He also actively participated in the riots.

Adera was present and streaming an Aug. 24th riot where rioters set the East Precinct on fire and sealed the doors in an attempt to burn officers alive

After rioters busted out windows on Seattle businesses Adera stayed behind to tell the owners they were "White Supremacists."

Adera has been heard on multiple streams berating cops and threatening business owners if they reported the rioters.

There are dozens of streams capturing Adera's hostility in Seattle as well as Washington DC, Portland and Kenosha.

Anti-cop hatred seems to run in the family. Sources say that Adera's mother is Tracy Rector known activist who runs Longhouse Media—who has ties to police abolitionist and former Seattle Mayoral candidate Nikkita Oliver.

Mayor Jenny Durkan has promised $100,000,000 to appease the organizations that occupied the CHOP and recently issued her revised budget for 2020 which included the money as an investment into Seattle's BIPOC communities. Though the city coffers were horribly diminished by the coronavirus shutdown, the Mayor plans to use the new business tax aka "The Amazon Tax," city reserves and cuts to the police department to make good on her pledge to activists.