Thread by @aidan_smx, Thinking about Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s statement last year during the BLM [...]

Thinking about Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s statement last year during the BLM protests, in which she tried to justify brutal suppression by the Seattle Police Department by... well, just see for yourself.

Seeing a career prosecutor decry “the height of privilege” is just...

Look y’all, I believe Black Lives Matter*. That’s why we need Seattle cops to violently suppress protests against cop murders, so we can uhhh [consultant texts me the language I need to use to sound woke] center the right people.

*Anyway, time to triple the Seattle PD’s funding!

Yes I’m a career prosecutor who was a US Attorney before becoming a pro-cop Mayor. Yes my desire to send cops to crush protests is rooted in, uh, wanting to “center” the right people. Why are your doubting my sincerity? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mayor-durkan-vetoes-councils-2020-budget-revision-that-would-have-cut-up-100-police-officers/%3Famp%3D1

Mayor Durkan vetoes council’s 2020 budget revision that would have cut up to 100 Seattle police...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will veto the revised 2020 budget approved last week by the city council. The budget would have cut up to 100 police officers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mayor-durkan-vetoes-councils-2020-budget-revision-that-would-have-cut-up-100-police-officers/%3Famp%3D1

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