Does this include all the Trump hate spewed in this sorry blue state? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Hunchback can’t see its own hunch.
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1245089556938067969
Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear ‘Racist Name-Calling’
Don’t the authorities have better things to do with their time right now?
Robby Soave |Reason March 31, 2020:
Seattle’s top cop may want to get her priorities straightened out. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Police Chief Carmen Best used her most recent “chief’s brief” update on the coronavirus crisis to urge residents to dial 911 if they are the victims of racist name-calling.
It’s a time-wasting imperative—and one that’s at odds with the First Amendment.
In her briefing, Best called upon the expertise of a former local news anchor, Lori Matsukawa.
“Hate crimes have no place in our community,” said Matsukawa. “We are all trying to deal with the COVID-19 public health crisis together. If you are a victim of a hate crime or hate-based harassment, please call 911.”
“We will document and investigate every reported hate crime,” Best continued. “Even racist name-calling should be reported to police. If you aren’t sure if a hate crime occurred, call 911. We are here to help.
Washington State is no place for hate. In a show of solidarity, @LoriMatsukawa joined me to remind everyone that hate has no place in our community. Report hate, including racist name calling, to 911. We are here to help, and will respond to investigate. #WeGotThisSeattle pic.twitter.com/cFGkYopbVW
— Chief Carmen Best (Ret.) (@carmenbest) March 31, 2020
This is unhelpful guidance that conflates two completely different things. A hate crime takes place when a person, motivated by animus, engages in criminal activity against a protected class. Importantly, the underlying action has to be criminal in nature: vandalism, assault, etc. Mere speech is not generally criminal, except in a few special cases (true threats of violence, for instance). Racist speech could be an element of a hate crime conviction, but engaging in racist speech is not itself a criminal action. In fact, hateful speech is clearly protected under the First Amendment, according to Supreme Court precedent.
Telling people to report racist name-calling to the police is thus bad advice. At best, it’s wasting police officers’ time. But it can actually lead to far worse consequences: Inviting the police to intervene in speech-based disputes between people is a recipe for disaster. Teachers, counselors, and parents, for instance, could reasonably interpret Best’s remarks as an obligation for them to call the cops on kids who use derogatory language. Over-criminalization of teenage misbehavior in schools is one result of the mindset that people—even kids—causing each other offense ought to be a matter for the police to handle.
In any case, it does not inspire confidence when Seattle’s top law enforcement authority uses her crisis platform to blur the important distinction between hate crimes and hateful speech. (Seattle PD did not respond to request for comment.)
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Child to mother: “How long is this corona thing going to last?”
Mother to child: “Shut up and eat your toilet paper.”
HEY CHIEF A BLACK PERSON CALLED ME A CRACKA WHATA GONNA DO ABOUT IT ????
Repeat it, to you, of course.
My girlfriend called me “lazy” because I was laying on the couch watching tv. Can I call the cops and have her imprisoned?
Maybe just borrow their handcuffs for a couple of hours?
If she is a Republican, damned straight you can.
Glad to see your filled with hate and see everything thru politics. You have a lot of Nancy Pelosi pictures hanging on your walls??
Beat you with a rubber hose.
Sounds more like they would beat you with pantyhose….that’s where they let Antifa run amok …..would never go there to see the sites or the state. Very scary place.
A black scumbag once walked by me and called me a white motherf*cker. I was going to see a client in a black neighborhood. He didn’t know me. I was wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. He was with another guy and said it as he walked by me. I dropped my briefcase, turned around and told him to go phukk himself. He kept walking.
The chief is black so the answer is, nothing.
Agreed. The “nanny state” run amok, no?
Gave you an up-vote for NOT using the vile and loathsome “run a muck” bastardization! THANX!
A bank robber was running down the street, carrying a bag of cash. As he passed an onlooker, he yelled, “Call 911, the police are chasing me!”
That has me concerned too…. How far do we go on this under an emergency….
Yes! We should make a LIST of Constituional freedoms deferred and follow up afterwards toi ensure they’re ALL restored – A/O !
um, no. Constitutional freedoms arent things that can be given and taken. They are God given rights and the Constitution is simply to ensure the Govt continues to recognize that. We can argue whether that is still true all day, but God given rights cannot be “deferred” and “restored” and your comment means they’ve already conquered you. Lock downs and business closings and restricting assembly are all unlawful and illegal but we are all sheep now so we go where we are herded by our masters and don’t even stop to ask why.
NO ONE CAN SUSPEND YOUR GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS!!!! Not in this country and not under any circumstance!
Meet Deputy Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. She’s the black woman in the photo. Since when did name calling become a “crime”? If a liberal calls a conservative a name is that also a crime? I think we all know the answer to that. Seattle is a dump and is it any wonder why when you have people like this helping to run that city into the ground? REAL crime is through the roof and yet she values feelings over real crime…..She probably wants criminals released from prison too during this virus…..
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, right, talks with Deputy Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, center, and Captain Deanna Nollette, acting chief of investigations, second from left, after briefing reporters near the scene of a shooting involving several police officers in downtown Seattle, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
If the line is busy, dial mommy.
Just how more pathetic can these ridiculous, brain dead people get?
…unfortunately there is no limit…..as long as it is tolerated.
I’ve got a name for the police chief.
So do I. He is a racist sob!
Call her and leave a message – call her all sorts of names – disgusting ones.
Borrow your libturd coworkers phone doing so.
What ever happened to “Sticks and Stones”???? Safe Place, Wussie, Snowflakes
This will hit the ‘teen’ community hard as all they know to call folks is ‘MoFo’.
So when Antifa or Black Lives Matter (more than you) insult white people for being white, and you call the police about this, doesn’t this put the police between a rock and a hard place?
No, they’re like Portland and either never respond or watch them assault you.
I live in the area. The problems with political correctness started with migration from California. Before that we were an independent state. We elected both democrat and republican governors. Now they control the legislature and governorship. This state has drastically changed over the last 40 years.
The Denver metro area is right behind you. With all the young woke people moving in from all over the country and the dumb ass liberal from California
When I lived in SW Washington, the town was being invaded by some very rude liberals from the Portland area. They referred to town folks as “Mill Willies”. I was glad to move to the Mid-Columbia region, where things were a bit more pleasant.
….and any other state they take over…..they are like a “virus” themselves.
Leftist hate has a way of doing that, especially to the mindless and complacent.
geez. When I read stuff like this I just think we’re doomed.
I think please lord send the meteors.
This is how we lose liberty and it comes at the hand of your fellow American citizen like this Sheriff who was elected to protect the safety and security of his county residents but instead practices tyranny to remove your 1st amm right to speech at the end of the government gun.
Yet….she swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land…..I don’t believe there was anything in what she swore to that involves name calling. Sickos.
Antifa is just one of the reasons that I CARRY !!!
Can we give Seattle to Canada?
That would be the Chief Snowflake, not the Chief of PO-lice. What a Lefty Liberal Loon knucklehead.
In Washington state and other liberal enclaves, political correctness and diversity are the overwhelming concerns, not competence or common sense.
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I can just imagine…
911: “911…what is your emergency?”
Me: “Help, help…someone called me a deplorable, redneck, hillbilly, help!”
911: Click.
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I fit that description! I was raised in hilly East Tennessee, where I took care of the garden, cut firewood which heated the house exclusively except on the coldest days. I’m currently on 5 acres with a garden, two horses, and a green tractor. And I like Trump.
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Roan Mountain rocks!
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Been there!
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Our son went to Appalachian State for a post-graduate degree and we visited him often…we loved visiting our Grandfather Mountain and doing the gorge thing on the Linville.
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I run the Blue Ridge parkway every year. Fun trip with a Mustang.
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Especially hugging the curves of the Linn Cove viaduct!
Agreed…an absolutely stunning and beautiful drive.
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Hello 911 my husband was just shot, 911 sorry we’re busy with a sticks and stones call
hatespeech originated in communist russia first of all.. second we really need to stop this ‘protected class’ BS.. because the only people that don’t register as a protected class are white men. So it’s really a bass ackwards way of giving more rights/protections to people that aren’t white men.
Here in Taiwan, whose citizens are Chinese, everyone calls it the China Virus or Wuhan Virus. Someone should tell the police chief to have an officer at the airport when someone from Taiwan arrives so they can be arrested for being racists.
Forget Russia Russia Russia who is going to investigate the collusion between China, the news media and democrat party?
….WHO and the UN….they have been lying about and for China for decades. We need to get out of both of these.
A state full of dead people……and they want the law enforcement phones to be busy because of name calling?! What the hell are they? A school yard? Do their officers even carry guns or do they hand out teddy bears to bad people.
So happy I was not born and reared there.
Stupid chief don’t she know “sticks and stones can break my bones but, words can never hurt me?”
Or
“ I am rubber you are glue what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”
Come and GET me, semi-evolved simian.
Hey Chief, you should not be in LAW ENFORCEMENT, this is a Professional Position. This attitude of yours is a disgrace to all law enforcement. It’s best you find a job that fits your belief and style.
“BLUE LIVES MATTER” criminals not at all.
Typical LibTard logic and reasoning.
Didn’t they just export one like this to Chicago or Detroit, or both?
Sorry ladies, but if you want respect from men, you will stop this type of behaviour. Most men know that if name calling gets beyond a point, we are going to settle it outside. How does one respect this affirmative action hire, spewing nonsense? How would you feel if you worked your a z z off for twenty years to lose your job to this…..