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Seattle Police Chief Memo To Businesses: We Have ‘No Ability To Safely Intercede’ To Protect You From ‘Violent’ Crowds
By: Daily Wire, Jul 27, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementSeattle’s police chief issued a memo over the weekend, warning the city’s residents and business owners that police officers would not be able to “safely intercede” in the event that homes and businesses were targeted during expected protests after the city’s council passed a measure barring cops from using non-lethal crowd control methods.
The new measure, passed as a way of preventing members of the police force from using excessive force, “bans Seattle Police officers the use of less-lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent,” according to Chief Carmen Best’s letter.
“Please know that the Seattle Police Department is committed to addressing life safety incidents and calls for service, and responding to ongoing demonstrations and unrest in the city,” the chief’s memo reads. “Please also know that the City Council Ordinance 119805 Crowd Control Tool goes into effect this weekend on Sunday, July 26, 2020. This ordinance bans Seattle Police officers the use of less-lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent. Simply put, the legislation gives officers no ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd.”
“For these reasons,” Best continued, “Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend – as I will never ask our officers to risk their personal safety to protect property without the tools to do so in a safe way.”
In other words, Seattle residents and business owners were largely on their own as demonstrations, taking place across the city Sunday, descended into riots.
Best also said, in the letter, that she’s taken her concerns with the new law to city officials who refuse to acknowledge them.
Best, the Washington Examiner notes, says that she has “done my due diligence of informing them numerous times of the foreseeable impact of this ordinance on upcoming events.”
Last week, Best appeared before the council to plead her case, knowing that demonstrations were planned for last weekend.
“It is a fact that there are groups and individuals who are intent on destruction in our City,” she told Seattle lawmakers. “This weekend we know that several events are planned across the city that will foreseeably involve many of the same violent actors from recent days. There is no reason not to assume we will continue to experience property destruction, arson, looting, and attempts to injure additional officers throughout the weekend and beyond.”
Seattle’s mayor, Jenny Durkan, actually backed Best, concerned that “the new law would conflict with an eight-year-old settlement on a policing-overhaul agreement struck between the Seattle Police Department and the U.S. Justice Department” according to Fox News.
Best’s predictions came to pass.
“At least 47 people were arrested on charges of assaulting officers, obstruction, and failure to disperse,” CNN reported Sunday. “Police said 59 officers were injured from having projectiles thrown at them, according to police. The injuries included abrasions, bruising, burns, and a torn meniscus, according to a Sunday press release. Most officers were able to return to duty, the department’s Twitter said. One officer was hospitalized with a leg injury caused by an explosive.”
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3 years ago
Swarm of Police Officers with K-9 Units Burst
Through New Jersey Gym Door, Arrest Owners For Violating Gov. Murphy’s
Shutdown Order (VIDEO)
3 years ago
Reply to
toedeladoki says hello
The Gestapo is alive and well in New Jersey. Social liberals, breathe a sigh of relief, he makes sure LGTQ+ have superior rights to straight Christians and conservative Jews.
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3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You have seen nothing yet. Kamala Harris, chosen by Joe Biden, could be our next president.
3 years ago
Reply to
toedeladoki says hello
An order from the ignorant libturd governor isn’t a LAW! No authority to arrest over ait sure isn’t being enforced for sure!n order. But then again the DOJ claimed that the Constitution wasn’t on pause during this BS but
3 years ago
Businesses are on their own. The police circulated a letter to each business. It’s not just businesses they can’t defend. Every man for himself! You know what that means…
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“…Or to the people” — 10th Amendment
If government can’t do it, or won’t do it, then the people must do it.
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Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The problem is that same police will come and take peoples firearms if they dare to defend themselves. I would rather have no police at all. If you can’t defend us, go home!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And when armed citizen groups patrol urban areas, like Minneapolis, they are simply responding to the requirements of the 10th amendment. They are not ‘vigilantes’, they are just doing their duty.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
AG, let Seattle burn itself to the ground. The residents of that city elected the idiotic city council they did and now suffer the consequences of their stupidity. Businesses will depart and the dopey people of Seattle will have the remains of what they brought upon themselves.
3 years ago
So, as a private citizen I have the right of the Constitution to protect my life and property when attacked and kill these criminal thugs and not worry about me being arrested for doing so. Is that what you are saying Karen??
3 years ago
Reply to
Robb
You still have to worry about being “arrested” by those who breach their SWORN OATH TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND the Constitution – However, you do have the legal & LAWFUL right to “resist unlawful arrest” ….. look it up.
3 years ago
The libturds ensuring that they make their cities a shyhole near you!!!!!
3 years ago
you get what you vote for.
3 years ago
What angers, but does not surprise me is that there are not a sizeable number in the police organization that are moral enough to refuse to obey this “law”? It’s OK for business owners to lose their life’s work and livelihood – and perhaps their lives – but it’s not OK for these cops to risk their jobs by defending the innocent victims of these terrorists? Nope, “I was just following orders”.
Are these businesses now allowed to defend themselves? Nope, they’ll go to jail if they do. And who do suppose will be arresting them for defending their lives and property? Yep.
3 years ago
Reply to
Last Puff
I have asked a great many LEOs …… it all boils down to one simple fact – they need the job to support their families.
;In other words, THEY PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES FOR THE GOD-ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
3 years ago
Reply to
Last Puff
The unfortunate reality is that many police officers are simply like robots who mindlessly respond to orders without consideration to laws or a constitution. Morals don’t enter the equation, so they “just follow orders”. Police too often prove the enemy of law abiding citizens and supporters of the lawless and anarchists. Toronto has a wondrous black police chief who ‘takes the knee’ in support of Black Lives Matter scum – and sees nothing wrong with this. Having been in the military, my idea of ‘taking the knee’ is another way of aiming my rifle to shoot human trash.
3 years ago
the only way you are going stop this is by shooting a few of them, and the others will learn fast. lets face it it is beyond talking.
3 years ago
Reply to
usn
Long beyond talking it is insane what they have been getting away with they need a hard wake up call that will get their attention they have asked for it and they deserve it !
3 years ago
Thank God and the genius crowd who drafted the Constitution and included the Second Amendment.
It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it. We have the right of self-defense.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
The people are being denied their right to carry in to many places the people need to straighten those people out that do not fully understand what the 2nd amendment is all about .
3 years ago
The Seattle Summer of Love continues…..
3 years ago
This is the time that the officers should disregard all orders and do the job they believed they were hired to do.
Either that are take into consideration your spouse who will be left without you and the children you leave behind with only one parent to raise them; for as it is your lives don’t count anymore than the lives of We the People.
May God have mercy on you and be with you in your hours of need…
3 years ago
Seattle Police Chief Memo To Businesses: We Have ‘No Ability To Safely Intercede’ To Protect You From ‘Violent’
So the business owner and the home owner go out and get a gun. When they get attacked they shoot…injury or death….guess who gets arrested?
3 years ago
3 years ago
Citizens of Washington State – Read the Second Amendment.
Understand that our Founders stated clearly that the “militia” is, in fact, “the whole of the people, well-trained (regulated or made regular) to the use of arms”.
The definition of “arms” in 1775, “any MILITARY STYLE WEAPON that may be fielded by a crew of three men, or fewer”
Read the Second Amendment AGAIN.
“The whole of the people, well-trained to the use of arms”, being NECESSARY to the security of a free State, the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear “any MILITARY STYLE WEAPON that may be fielded by a crew of three men, or fewer” SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Clear it up any?
It is “we, the people” that are the “militia” and it is “we, the people” who are RESPONSIBLE of the security of a free State.
It is “we, the people” that are the front like of defense and it is “we, the people” who are the last like of defense.
It is our Constitutional Duty, under the Second Amendment, to go armed, at all times, in defense of our selves, our families, our society, and our REPUBLIC — no, it is NOT a “democracy”, just ask Mr. Franklin.
No where, in the Constitution will you find the term “democracy”.
3 years ago
In all of these violent cities, they should simply line up firetrucks and open the hoses full blast on the rioters. THAT will squelch them faster than teargas!!
3 years ago
Time to give all the innocents a warning to get out – then use chlorine gas on all of them –
