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Lol. Who made these? Where can we get one?
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That’s the $390,000 question
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Cops really believe they are the law. Literally.
Any *perceived* disrespect toward them is an affront, a sacrilege, to be punished violently.
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Dudes rock
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If they close 3rd Ave early, where will this $418,000 sergeant sleep?
Maybe the city should just close down all the clubs early too, or close down 3rd Avenue to curb dangerous behavior as well? What other city crime hotspots would you like to see closed down early?
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Memphis PD ticks nearly every box on the wish list of liberal police reformers.
Memphis has a civilian disciplinary board (CLERB), and MPD "looks like the community it polices" (56% Black vs. 65% of the Memphis pop.)
They still beat a man to death over nothing
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This is one reason we focus on harm instead of crime. The greatest harms are often not crimes.
A person can get locked up for stealing a sandwich, but no one's going to jail for this one.
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DivestSPD has identified the Seattle police officer responsible for the collision that killed 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula last week as Kevin Austin Dave.
(THREAD)
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When people talk about “rising crime” in places like San Francisco or Seattle, they always mean “visible homelessness”
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@RaiderAntonioJ
@cerisecastle
@rj175BURNER
@lasdgangs
Imagine giving police the benefit of the doubt in the year of our lord 2022
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This is a lie. When a retailer blames store closures on theft, they are always lying.
As we've pointed out previously, Target's own annual reports show that shrinkage is far lower than the national average.
BREAKING: Target is closing nine stores across four states, including two in Seattle, citing theft and crime threatening workers and shoppers.
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SCOOP: DivestSPD has now identified all six officers who attended the deadly Trump rally in DC on January 6th.
Cw: Violence
(THREAD)
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ICYMI: SPD's Joint Enforcement Team raided several queer bars over the weekend. According to employees of the Cuff Complex, people were cited "based solely on individuals' clothing choices, such as being shirtless or wearing a jockstrap,.
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Rite Aid was ordered to pay $400 million for its massive role in the opioid epidemic. Now it’s closing stores nationwide because it’s bankrupt.
It also purchased Bartell’s which was facing similar legal woes.
But sure “shoplifting” and “safety” or whatever
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Target stores that are most affected by shoplifting, according to SPD's July retail report:
- Northgate
- Downtown
- Westwood Village
Target stores that are closing:
- The Ave
- Market Street (Ballard)
It isn't shoplifting.
This is a lie. When a retailer blames store closures on theft, they are always lying.
As we've pointed out previously, Target's own annual reports show that shrinkage is far lower than the national average.
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If you don't want needles in the streets, advocate for safe injection sites.
If you don't want feces in the streets, advocate for public bathrooms.
If you don't want people camping on the sidewalk, advocate for shelter.
This ain't rocket science, people.
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Amazing. Last night, Seattle Police pointed a rifle at an unarmed man in crisis on Capitol Hill. Neighbors intervened and de-escalated. Cops left.
Look out for each other. Look at the cops.
h/t
@jseattle
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This sort of spectacle is less about honoring the dead and more about:
1) Sacralizing the profession of policing as a “service” and a “sacred duty” consecrated by blood
2) Dramatizing the supposed danger officers face (garbage collectors die on the job about 3-4x often)
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In Seattle, we love Farmer's Markets and we prefer artisan violent repression that is locally sourced.
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This setup would cost a free person in Seattle $950 a month
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Police funerals are often a massive public spectacle.
This is propaganda designed to:
1.) Create a false sense that policing is a uniquely dangerous job (it's not)
2.) Reinforce the idea that policing is a sacred public service sanctified by the sacrifice of officers
Police officers attend a funeral service for NYPD officer Jason Rivera, who was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic violence call.
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Seattle police comprise 0.14 percent of the population, but accounted for 11 percent of homicides since 2015.
A data scientist says she’s found evidence that Seattle police killings have worsened since the federal government began monitoring the department a decade ago. The findings come just before a key hearing on the future of that oversight.
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SPD's martial arts training unit is known as the "Black Shirts," a name with no ominous historical connotations whatsoever.
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@VeryHonest_Abe
@ntkallday
"Hey, married woman with a kid why don't you just find roommates?"
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We identified all six in 2021:
Jacob Briskey
Jason Marchione
Alexander Everett
Caitlin Rochelle-Everett
Michael Settle
Scotty Bach
WA Supreme Court to decide if Seattle officers from Jan. 6 rally can remain anonymous:
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ACAB includes Anderson Cooper
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Cop funerals are fascist pageants that ritualistically reinforce the idea that policing is a sacred profession, a holy warrior caste without which all of society would collapse.
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“I randomly stumbled across these officers performing community service theater exactly where they told me they would be when we talked on the phone earlier. Wow!”
COMMUNITY POLICING IN ACTION: As dusk falls on 12th/Jackson in Little Saigon, I randomly ran into these
@SeattlePD
officers checking on biz owners, simply saying hi and wanting to help in any way possible after the crime corner was cleared. This community wants more police.
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About 1 in 10 was killed during a mental health/welfare check.
In the overwhelming majority of deadly encounters (2 out of 3), police were not responding to a reported violent crime.
NEW: Killings by US police reached a record high in 2022. Data reveals:
•1 in 3 victims was fleeing
•majority were routine encounters turned deadly, incl traffic stops, mental health calls, no crime alleged
•major surge in killings by sheriff depts
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CRG officer Richard Bonesteel is a real charmer.
He went on two dates last year that ended with a woman calling the cops because he was belligerently drunk and abusive. (THREAD)
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SPD promoted 2 officers responsible for the most notorious moments of the 2020 protests:
* Michael Tietjen, who drove onto a sidewalk full of protesters, is now a lieutenant in N. Precinct
* Sean Moore, who pepper-sprayed a small child, is now lieutenant of CRG
(THREAD)
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Sara Nelson thinks this $390,000 cop with credible DV allegations is underpaid.
New Seattle Council President
@CMSaraNelson
proposes police pay raises, immediate business tax breaks in an interview with KOMO News.
@komonews
@SeattleCouncil
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Good question.
You know if the roles were reversed, and a random homeless man had pepper-sprayed 8 “taxpayers” in SF, it would be national news.
There would be a NYPost cover about the “Bear Mace Bandit”
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Libraries are more than just books. They’re the places poor people go to get essential tasks done.
These are a few of the critical services the City will cut to pay for cops’ massive raises.
BREAKING: Seattle Public Library announced 1,500 hours of closures in the next eight weeks due to staffing shortages. Library workers, upset with the decision, say is a policy choice, not an inevitability to cut service.
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@Heynongman14
Can you DM us the approximate time and location of this? Did you get any badge numbers or names?
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SPD officers are stealing from the city—and
@SPOG1952
is helping them get away with it
A closer look at time theft
(1/24)
(THREAD)
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St. Louis elected a pro-defund mayor who cut the police budget by $4 million and redistributed the money to social services.
Homicides are at a five-year low.
Where’s the national coverage?
Did you know St. Louis is on track to have the lowest number of homicides in five years?
I look forward to months of breathless reporting akin to what we see when rates spike. I’ll even settle for the intensity of headlines we saw about downtown cruising.
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If the media reported on police shootings like they do shoplifting, every newspaper would be calling this a killing spree.
The LAPD has shot 6 and killed at least 5 since last Saturday. Jesus Christ.
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Eventually, we're going to have to get past DEI and so-called accountability to really grapple with the fundamental nature of policing as an institution that violently defends the interests of haves against the have-nots.
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PSA: You’re not obligated to say nice things about awful people after they die.
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“How does shutting down the highway advance their cause?”
- guy commenting on one of a dozen articles that are talking about Gaza because some people shut down the highway
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Amid a “staffing crisis,” SPD has a whole unit where cops get paid to sit on horses and take pictures.
That’s not an exaggeration. That is literally all the mounted unit does. It has no police function.
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$390,000 cop on 3rd Ave
Investigators with the Seattle Police Department said a man who was beaten and stomped on earlier this year on 3rd Avenue in downtown Seattle has died from his injuries.
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"I had a relative who died in the Holocaust, too. He fell out of a guard tower"
- SPD Lt. Seth Dietrich
(1/6)
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All around the country Democratic mayors who self-identify as “progressive” are doing the same bullshit Republican mayors were doing 20 years ago.
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Alright, it’s time to hit SPD where it hurts: their treats
We’re calling out companies that give free food to cops, and telling them
#DontFeedTheBeast
First up is local favorite
@DicksDriveIns
(1/7)
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The UW prez smeared student protesters by claiming they were responsible for years-old anti semitic graffiti in another state.
The other two, which protesters agree qualify as antisemitism, did not originate from UW. Google image searches revealed they came from an antisemitic protest at the Florida Holocaust Museum in 2021 and a tweet by the ADL of LA in 2019
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@Michael48552121
@RaiderAntonioJ
@cerisecastle
@rj175BURNER
@lasdgangs
Not really. There’s no context that justifies the officers’ behavior in this instance.
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Daniel Auderer has been the subject of eighteen OPA investigations since 2014 and involved in lawsuits costing the city over $1.7 million.
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2010: Auderer and several other officers illegally stopped, harassed and roughly arrested two Mexican immigrants. Auderer and a dozen other
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Seattle libs Fox News
🤝
Thinking Seattle is more
left-wing than it
actually is.
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Italy had blackshirts
Germany had brownshirts
The US has blueshirts
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This is what a failed state looks like. Neither party can provide a competent public health response to the ongoing pandemic.
So they plan to manage the effects with violence.
President Biden will urge states and cities to use unspent money from last year’s $1.9T Covid relief package to fund crime prevention programs and hire police officers.
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Against the wishes of organizers, SPD officers showed up to Pride armed and in uniform.
The one on the left is "Safe Place" coordinator Dorian Koreio who has been investigated twice and suspended once for misusing tasers.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuck
Mayor Bruce is planning to bankrupt the city to pay our useless cops. The city is already a quarter-billion in the hole and these retroactive raises are going to devastate the budget.
Tentative Police Contract Includes 23 Percent Retroactive Raise, Raising Cops' Base Salary to Six Figures
New at PublICola:
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Daniel Auderer’s record is particularly troubling—even by SPD standards. He was named in a range of civil cases & has been the subject of a litany of complaints for misconduct, excess force & bias. (THREAD)
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Remember that 7-r-old SPD pepper-sprayed last year?
At the time, members of community identified the wrong officer.
In case No. 2020OPA-0322, OPA found the officer, but didn't disclose his name.
DivestSPD has since discovered that the officer is CRG Sgt. Sean Moore.
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If only Seattle were actually the radical communist stronghold that every Fox News grandpa imagines it to be.
The mainstream of Seattle of politics is a milquetoast “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” centrism servile to real estate, tourism and business generally.
BREAKING: The
@SeattleCouncil
has voted down 6-2
@cmkshama
's ambitious rent control bill. If passed, it would have capped rent increases across almost all rental housing units as soon as the statewide moratorium on rent regulation was repealed.
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🚨ALERT🚨
Tyler Dinsmoor, 27, Oak Harbor/Whidbey Island.
We've received reports community reports that Dinsmoor, a Christian fundamentalist fascist, has been fantasizing online about killing gay ppl & insinuating that he plans to go to Pride at Anacortes on June 18
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NYPD butchered Amadou Diallo, sexually assaulted Abner Louima, and committed too many other atrocities to name.
They deserve to be treated like this. Worse even.
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A massive group of cops is scouring the forest with a fine-tooth comb for a gun that doesn't exist.
That way, the headline is "Cops continue search for suspect's gun" instead of "Cops shot unarmed man over sunglasses"
LATEST from
@FairfaxCountyPD
on shooting near Tysons Corner Mall:
-Suspect: Timothy Johnson, 37, of DC
-Allegedly stealing sunglasses from Nordstrom
-Shot once in the chest
-Officers on restricted duty status
*Unclear if Johnson was armed
MORE:
@wusa9
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One is K9 Acting Sergeant Jake Briskey.
Briskey has been named in five different successful civil rights lawsuits for excessive force and wrongful arrest. (2/)
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"I have a hard on for this shit and, if they cross the line, I will hit them."
- SPD Officer Brandon Eggers
(THREAD)
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This sort of thing happens more often than anyone in the "justice" system wants to admit.
An eyewitness picks somebody out of a photo array that kind of looks like the person who did it, and the police manage to build a successful prosecution around the false ID.
“Mr. Thomas said in court on Thursday that the family of Anderson Bercy, the victim, had been deceived for decades. ‘It’s not just my life that was ripped apart by the due-process breakdowns and the miscarriage of justice, it was them as well,’ he said.”
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A history of racial restrictions on Capitol Hill
THREAD
(1/19)
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George Floyd was murdered on this day three years ago.
Since then, police have killed more than 3,300 people.
Three a day on average.
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Wild how Democrats went from "They're putting kids in cages" to "They're trying to cut funding to our kid cages."
MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country.
We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.
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There hasn’t been a blow to the Seattle economy this devastating since the GameStop at Northgate Mall closed
Seattle is suffering another economic blow to its downtown core with the announcement that Lululemon will be leaving Pacific Place later this month.
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The SPD is using its Gang Unit to do counterintelligence against protesters.
(THREAD)
(1/11)
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Is there some machine that produces guys like this? Can we unplug it?
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THIS IS SEATTLE: People sleep on the sidewalks during winter in one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Instead of a public interest press that advocates for real solutions, we have slimy little weasels like Jon Choe who treat them like human garbage.
THIS IS SEATTLE: Just another day in the Downtown core. Massive tent taking up the entire sidewalk, and nothing is being done. People just going about life. Just desensitized. Coming up at 6pm
@komonews
we asked
@MayorofSeattle
when his homeless strategy will be implemented.
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These massive spectacles are propaganda pieces designed to sacralize the profession of policing.
They're the "thin blue line" who "gave all" to "serve and protect." Garbage collectors are three times more likely to die on the job. Where's their parade?
A massive funeral procession involving hundreds of law enforcement is moving through Barron County, Wisconsin to honor Officer Emily Breidenbach and Officer Hunter Scheel, who died in the line of duty last Saturday.
The entire procession is over 12 miles long.
@WCCO
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Police union and local reactionaries: SPD is hemorrhaging officers, there’s a citywide staffing crisis.
SPD: “Largest class in 20 years”
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We’re constantly told that SPD barely has the manpower to keep up with all its calls, but cops seem to have time to spare. In fact, one wasted nearly a third of his shift trying to get an apology from someone who called him a “b*tch.”
(1/21)
(THREAD)
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Choe’s segments dehumanizing the homeless were always implicitly fascist. KOMO was fine with him treating the homeless as untermenschen, as “useless eaters,” as “life unworthy of life”
Then he said the quiet part loud.
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The homicide unit is fully staffed (close to peak staffing) and has never been understaffed. Ever.
SPD is just bad at solving homicides, especially if the victims are Black and/or homeless.
More homicides are going unsolved as Seattle hangs in a staffing crisis
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@SPOG1952
The Robbery unit has exactly the same number of detectives as it did at the end of 2020 before modest budget cuts went into effect.
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There have been only 12 days in 2021 when police haven’t killed anyone.
And all of those red squares represent days when cops killed more than 3 people. On some days, it was 8 or 9.
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Public records show SPD inflated the number of officers injured in the July 25 protests to gain sympathy, justify their mass violence and bolster their case for crowd-control weapons.
(THREAD)
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Hmm... The owner of Dick's Drive-in is on the Board of Directors of the far-right creationist think tank that employs Jonathan Choe.
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“They don’t want help”
“Homelessness is a choice”
“They refuse shelter”
The shelter:
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If you’ve been in the streets any time in the past year, you know his face and voice from the LRAD, but do you know his record?
It’s time for a deep dive into the career of John Brooks, commander of the CRG.
(THREAD) CW: death, violence
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Municipal governments everywhere are cutting services and letting infrastructure fall apart while they feed their police departments.
This is the pipe that was replaced at the break site in Midtown. I wonder how many pipes look like this one across the city?
#atlpol
#atlantawater
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Here are three officers who participated in the Proud Boys disinfo still currently employed by SPD:
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No April Fools joke: Microsoft has hired former SPD Chief Carmen Best.
Apparently, integrity isn’t part of the job description for “Director of Global Security Risk Operations.”
Her tenure at SPD was marred by dishonesty and mismanagement. (THREAD)
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The victim-blaming is sickening. K5 makes a point to note that Kandula “may have had her AirPods in” and that she was wearing dark clothing.
It omits the finding that if Dave had only been going 50 (still dangerously fast) instead of 74, the collision wouldn’t have occurred.
The officer was traveling at 74 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone just before his police cruiser hit Jaahnavi Kandula in January.
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Approximately 40 people in Bellevue WA stand with Israel.
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This is a PR/fundraising gimmick.
In 2020, the last year for which we have data, the Seattle Police Foundation spent $1300 on the whole Beds for Kids program.
For comparison, SPF spent $200,000 on the 2019 SPD Awards Banquet.
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"I heard [the commanding officer] is gonna give you guys some extra wiggle room."
A cop high-fived a Proud Boy while they were protesting a drag show in Columbus. Newly leaked Telegram chats show a Proud Boy identifying as a Columbus PD officer.
From the Nation:
Across the country, several police officers have been found to be affiliated with the Proud Boys and other extremist groups. “They and law enforcement have a shared enemy in progressive activists.”
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