Seattle, WA – Chaos erupted at the University of Washington on May 5, 2025, as Antifa militants, clad in black and wielding Palestinian flags, took over the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, setting fires and barricading entrances, according to independent journalist @nicksortor on X []. The scene, dubbed “Summer of Love 2.0” by conservatives, has sparked outrage over the Seattle Police Department’s initial retreat, with @amuse on X writing, “Antifa’s running wild—where are the cops? This is an embarrassment!”
The militants, who demanded the university sever ties with Israel, piled furniture outside the building to block entry and ignited a dumpster fire. The University of Washington Jewish Alumni reported the takeover, noting the activists’ black masks and a banner renaming the building after a man killed in a 2024 airstrike, per mynorthwest.com []. Seattle Police ordered dispersal but initially retreated, a move that echoes the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest where SPD also stood down, per en.wikipedia.org []. Later reports indicate some engagement, but conservatives are furious at the delay.
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@MAGAForce2024 wrote, “Police retreating from Antifa again? This is why Trump needs to federalize the National Guard!” @PatriotPulse added, “Summer of Love 2.0 is here because Biden let Antifa fester—Trump would’ve shut this down day one!” The protest, set against the backdrop of the lit-up engineering building, comes as Trump’s administration has deported 88,763 illegal immigrants since January, per DHS [], and slashed crossings by 99%, per CBP [], a stark contrast to the lawlessness conservatives blame on prior Democratic policies.
Antifa’s history of violence—documented in 2021 Portland and Seattle vandalism, per Reuters []—fuels conservative calls for harsher crackdowns, with 72% of Americans supporting stronger protest policing in a 2024 Gallup poll, per Gallup []. @America1stMAGA wrote, “Antifa’s burning campuses while police watch—Trump’s the only one who’ll restore order!” The viral footage, showing masked activists linking arms near bike racks, has conservatives demanding action, seeing this as a dangerous revival of 2020’s chaos under a weak local response.
