Posted on 06/24/2020 12:47:53 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
After the shootings in the past few days near the Capitol Hill anti-police protest zone, the call went out, paradoxically, for the help of the one thing the protest is most arguing against.
“Our movement should demand and insist that the Seattle Police fully investigate this attack and be held accountable to bring the killer(s) to justice,” said Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant in a statement. One paragraph later she re-upped her demand, however, to “defund” these same police.
It wasn’t just Sawant with the suddenly mixed message. City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda noted in a Monday meeting that “we want to make sure that firefighters and EMT have access to do their jobs and help those that need it.”
That seems noncontroversial — except how do we think ambulances get access to often volatile crime scenes? Who typically does that work of securing shooting scenes, so that aid workers can move in?
Even the protesters, who in a statement said they took two shooting victims to the hospital because Seattle police and fire were too slow in getting there, seemed to tacitly acknowledge the limits of a “no-cop” zone.
“We as safety teams are peacekeepers, not police,” read the unsigned statement from the CHOP, or Capitol Hill Organized Protest. “We do not want to be homicide detectives, or CSI, or accessories to this murder.”
This is the irony of CHOP, a few-block occupation of Capitol Hill formed in protest of structural and overt racial bias in police enforcement. The protest has a beautiful spirit, by day anyway, of a mass teach-in and self-governing colony seeking to reimagine a city without militarized, domineering police. Its core demands are simple enough to be printed on the street blockades. “1. Defund SPD by 50% Now. 2. Fund Black communities. 3. Free all protesters.”
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Danny Westneat has no future at the Seattle Times.
“We do not want to be...accessories to this murder.”
By taking over and not allowing cops to do their jobs, one could argue they did become accessories to murder.
When the police went in, they meekly asked the occupiers for permission. I assume that’s what their mayor told them to do. Seattle is lost.
Let them wall themselves off and then kill each other
The link does not go to an article.
Without a ground in THAT, people are prey to every single BS organization out there with an ax to grind against Mr. and Mrs. US Taxpayer.
Sawant is a cold sore on Seattle's lip. They wanted her, and they got her... but good. Lotsa luck getting rid of her, geniuses.
“Danny Westneat has no future at the Seattle Times.”
Neither does the Seattle Times, so that’s OK.
Neither does Seattle.
Maybe they could be The Committee of Public Safety, or as they say in the original French: Comité de salut public.
Now, for second thought: IF a Republican mayor was running the city, the illegal parts of the protest would have been squashed BEFORE THEY GOT OUT OF HAND. Democrat mayors benefit when thugs in their own party bully everyday citizens... that can get out of control quickly - with noted results.
The lesson?
Stop electing democrats who tell police to stand down while giving passes to thugs (of all colors) to destroy the city. (and yes, good people and smart companies will leave Seattle... crime will skyrocket (if it hasn't already), property values will sink, and the city will suffer)
Do you have a working link?
Fremont Troll by Seattle Sketcher, Gabriel Campanario.
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Here are some things you can do now:
Sorry, but the chorus lines of the new NO COPS TV show theme song just popped into my head:
NO COPS!
NO COPS!
What ya gonna do?
What ya gonna do,
When the Bad Boys come for you?
Maybe they could be The Committee of Public Safety,
Raz Simone / Robespierre, chop-chop!
NO COPS! NO COPS! What ya gonna do? What ya gonna do? When the Bad Boys come for you?
Next time we’ll send in a Waambulance for your butt hurt.
Ha, if anyone in TV land had a backbone, he would make a show like this. Show the ugly truth about what happens when anarchy reigns and thugs aren’t afraid of the law.
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