Terrified residents in crime-plagued blue city throw up giant barricades to stop chaos

Frustrated Seattle residents living near the city’s troubled Aurora Avenue corridor are taking public safety into their own hands after a violent weekend shootout rattled neighborhoods already plagued by prostitution, trafficking and recurring gun violence. Neighbors told Fox 13 Seattle they have started erecting makeshift barricades on residential streets after repeated pleas to city leaders and police for stronger enforcement allegedly went unanswered. The growing outrage follows an early-morn