#Olympia Mayor #CherylSelby called housing activists who paid for over a dozen rooms at a @RedLionHotels+ staged a protest asking the city to continue paying the bill out of #COVID funds "domestic terrorists" who were engaging in "nihilism" not activism. https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article248970505.html
This is a clear example of the #Olympia city government doubling down on support for a militarized and violent police response against a grassroots attempt to ensure housing for the unsheltered community, which is threatened by both cold weather and #COVID19.
Labeling a rally where people held signs in support of unsheltered families as "domestic terrorism" while police used live munitions inside a building while evicting people from their rooms is a calculated attempt to scare the wider community from supporting community organizing.
Compare this reaction to the crickets from the Mayor when local police posed along side members of the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim far-Right militia the Three Percenters - one of the main groups which stormed the capitol - when both were suppressing #BlackLivesMatter
protests.

Unlike local housing activists seeking to shelter people during a pandemic, the Three Percenters have been linked to numerous deadly bombing plots, including one attempt to blow up an entire apartment complex + a mosque. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/3-members-kansas-militia-once-plotted-bomb-mosque-now-are-going-prison
After a concerned Olympia resident brought attention to the issue, Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby responded, “I’m discouraged that I have to make a post like this…I have confirmed a photo...I find this behavior to be abhorrent and unequivocally unacceptable.” https://www.irehr.org/2020/06/18/three-percenters-pose-with-olympia-police-officer-sparks-need-for-thorough-investigation/#_ftn1