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Seattle Police can’t provide any information to Seattle residents about last night’s shooting at #CHOP but the head of the police union can go on national television to declare that it proves the protest is “besieged by violence” and part of a “summer of chaos.” https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1274394424944889856
It seems obvious that there is a large contingent in Seattle Police that are openly contemptuous of civilian oversight and accountability to the public or the communities they serve. They need to go, @MayorJenny @LewisforSeattle @TeresaCMosqueda
No one knows (or will say) who gave the order to abandon the East Precinct. If the police chief and mayor aren’t in control of Seattle Police, that’s a Big Fucking Problem. @KromanDavid https://crosscut.com/2020/06/confusion-anger-seattle-police-dept-after-east-precinct-exit
Sure does look like SPD is selectively enforcing the law in retribution recently, like the Mob. No better illustration of the fact that SPD’s problems are cultural & structural than dozens of cops gathering to get revenge for an internet video. @LizBrazile https://www.kuow.org/stories/he-captured-footage-of-child-pepper-sprayed-during-seattle-protest-then-was-arrested
I guess all of this is entirely predictable. Dolan was elected President of the Union by explicitly promising to “control the narrative.” Even made a whole campaign video about it.
“At a news conference, he declared a fatal police shooting to be justified even as an investigation was barely underway.” @DBeekman https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-union-elects-hard-line-candidate-as-president-in-landslide-vote/
