Remember that Police Chief Carmen Best, the first black woman to lead Seattle’s police force abruptly retired earlier this month rather than carry out layoffs……..
Councilmember Kshama Sawant credited “ferocious” pressure by the Black Lives Matter movement.
I thought we didn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Seattle City Council overrides mayor’s veto of police cuts
The council said the bill was a “downpayment” toward its effort to defund the police department by 50%
Seattle’s City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday evening to override Mayor Jenny Durkan‘s veto of a bill that would cut police funding by around $3 million.
“We cannot look away from this and we can no longer accept the status quo if we truly believe that Black lives matter,” Council President Lorena Gonzalez said, according to MyNorthwest.com.
The bill would also remove as many as 100 officers from various police units and limit staff pay to $150,000, The Seattle Times reported.
The council said the bill was a “downpayment” toward its effort to ultimately defund the department by 50%, which would likely happen next year.
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Council members Debora Juarez and Alex Pedersen cast the dissenting votes, Seattle’s KING-TV reported.
The council had approved the cuts by 7-1 in August. The move prompted police Chief Carmen Best to retire, effective Sept. 2, claiming the planned cuts had placed her in a “position destined to fail.”
Best, the city’s first Black police chief, had been with the department for nearly three decades.
The council overrode the mayor’s veto on a total of three bills, which included reallocating $14 million to community safety programs, according to KING.
And if the veto override wasn’t successful, Gonzalez planned an alternate budget proposal that would limit cuts to the department and cut proposed community funding, MyNorthwest.com reported.
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During an hour of public comments most speakers urged the council to override the veto in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, The Times reported.
“Everyone deserves to feel safe … Countless videos of Black and brown lives lost here in Seattle and across the country shows us that not everyone feels safe,” González added, according to the Times. “We need public safety that’s centered on harm reduction, not the status quo…When I look back in this moment of time, I want to be able to tell my daughter, who I’m currently holding in my arms, that I did the right thing and that I voted on the right side of history.”
The mayor, at the urging of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, business leaders and some residents, has called for the council to slow down on defunding the department.
The city also faces a budget struggle because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Durkan is set to reveal her budget plan next week The Times reported.
Both Durkan and Councilmember Kshama Sawant are facing recall attempts – Durkan over the police department’s use of force during protests and Sawant for allowing protesters inside City Hall during the pandemic.
Police Chief Carmen Best abruptly retired earlier this month rather than carry out layoffs……..
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Barr needs to indict the Seattle council and mayor for aiding and abetting crime. But he hesitates, while the USA teeters on the brink.
Fat Willy ain’t gonna do ANYTHING against Left Wingnut Regressives (Democrat Party members). Dey be hiz peeps.
Yeah, too true.
Rule # 77: Never get someone to investigate themselves.
Seattle is dead. They voted in the commies, and this is what they got.
Rule # 28: If you let people break the law, then they will.
You will reap what you sow.
The disgusting fecal Kshama Sawant is a sad case study of the socio-pathology of the twisted immigrant malcontent using her great good fortune of being welcomed into the United States to spontaneously spew her congenital hostility against her own country and kind directed at us as a target of opportunity because here she has that right and can get away with it, apparently, at least for the time being.
” … and limit staff pay to $150,000 …”
What? Will they have to go on food stamps and Medicaid?
F*Ck dem0rats!
What a bunch of miserable cowards those DemonRats !!
Demonrats even better. Although I also like someone else’s invention: Commiecrats.
Bow to the criminals and the moronic peepads wants to lead this country???? BS he can’t lead a dog on a leash!
If all actual Americans could view the poison bile vomited from the hideous mouth of the dirty immigrant roach Kshama Sawant they would by a large majority vote no on the question of her “American citizenship.”
We’re sorry we ever let you in, B.
Seattle is an American city, not a sub-Continent sh*t hole.
Go the F back where you came from, the bottom of the Irrawaddy River.
According to Wiki, the overall SPD budget is approximately $410M.
$3M/$410 = 0.007. Less than 1%. A very small cut, by any fair measure.
Given the debt and continuing deficit, you should get used to a lot worse than this. Those chickens are inbound and will be home to roost soon enough, but for now?
Sure, let’s get upset over 0.7%
The fact is, it’s symbolic… and therein lies the pinch. The cops are hated, and now they are “de-funded.” Great for morale.
Another fact is: screw morale for most government agencies. They have gotten so obscenely large (see that “debt thing,” again) that they’re going to have to suck it up – like it or not.
MOST government agencies… but, seriously, anyone with 0.7% of a brain knows that there are a few that you bypass. Maybe don’t grow them, but cut them?
Defense comes to mind, although the waste there is unbelievable.
Fire Departments… yeah, I’m not sure that I want them demoralized.
And, of course, Police.
Now, you can predict that the population of Seattle is about to go down… perhaps by quite a bit. No city is ever 100% communist, even during the “lying stage” where the “utopian ideal” is declared. A lot of people recognize that the warm yellow water being streamed onto their foot isn’t quite rain, and many of those people will likely leave.
Thus, you won’t need such a large PD, ultimately… but then again, we have an active insurgency happening, so maybe this ain’t the best time to test that theory?
As has been pointed out here, the best thing any of us can do is laugh and point and chant Let It Burn, baby. They voted for this. They voted for it OVERWHELMINGLY, and their votes have translated. Did you catch that count, again?
SEVEN to TWO, baby. This ain’t even close. The people demand blood. The people demand self-immolation.
Who are we to do anything but laugh and cheer?
Go for it.
Did you miss the “The council said the bill was a “downpayment” toward its effort to ultimately defund the department by 50%, which would likely happen next year.”?
The leftists are all in for civil war. Incarceration will make their leadership into living martyrs. They must be eliminated with extreme prejudice. There is no other choice.
The only person I have any sympathy for in Seatt-hell is Charlie Seattle, the rest of them can rot…
Seattle, another shithole, thanks to the Democrats and its allies.
You got that right!!
soros front row center
Sounds like it’s time to cut funding to the moronic council!!!!!!
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
Athenian pluralistic democracy was far preferable to the reign of the Thirty Tyrants:
‘Their oppressive regime fostered a bloody purge, in which perhaps 1,500
residents were killed. Many moderates fled the city; gathering a force,
they returned to defeat the tyrants’ forces in a battle at Piraeus in 403. The 30 fled and were killed off over the next few years.’
from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thirty-Tyrants
Long live democracy, screw tyranny.
Amazing who would have thought? BLM Bullying, threats to kill councilman’s families and/or children and voila… BLM gets what it wants. – Folks this is democracy in action. You vote the mayor and the leftist “squish” councilors and BLM gets them to do whatever.
The old system of Honor, integrity, and honesty, did not get the desired leftist minority results; but bullying in accordance with Obama’s change mandate gets the job done..Mob dictaroshipo works.
It worked in Venezuela so why not in Bill Gates Seattle?
If a Democrat dies do they really die or do they just go an possess someone else?
All police should walk off the job and together with armed citizen prepare for civil war.
Seattle has it all figured out, they just hired a pimp as a “street czar” to calm things down. Peace and tranquility is just around the corner.
‘ everyone ‘ DESERVES to feel safe – good luck with that – Seattle will be the next ‘ new york ‘
Black Lunatic Monstrosities ffs
I’m in the minority among my friends. I was raised to respect the police, to regard them as friends. Friends with a ton of authority, but friends nonetheless. I realize that’s not so for many, for a myriad of reasons, and while I agree there needs to be serious reform in policing as there has been many times in the past, defunding and demolishing the police is a huge, HUGE mistake.
Definitely a huge mistake , Murielle… It’s like pouring petrol on flames to put a fire out …
HEY B.L.M., let me explain in simple terms, “BLACK AMERICANS” MURDER “BLACK AMERICANS”, by the Thousands each and every year. What part of this don’t you understand ?