Seattle has decided to be stupid by banning crowd control devices,
starting this weekend. The mayor gave a stupid speech.
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The police chief showed up and said basically the cops won't be able to arrest people, and she warned the city council that there will be "consequences" for their ability to fight crime due to it. Then she gave the usual "we are part of a community and we don't hate peaceful protests".
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"This weekend, I'll be taking the pepper spray off my belt, and putting a riot stick on there, because that's what we're left with." Don't tease me, woman, you better be
swinging that riot baton with great enthusiasm this weekend.
Fire chief is now there basically asking people to stop setting fires. He points out there's a lot of fatal fires in the last few weeks, because the businesses the """protesters""" light on fire sometimes have residential units above them. 3 fatalities in the last week.
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"If you are a business and you have a large dumpster, and you have a place you can lock it up, do it!" He then explains how to lock the wheels on the bottom of dumpsters.
And after all that, the first press question is "how many federal agents are in the area and where are they". Fucking 5th columnists.
Mayor is now whining: "it's unprecedented for federal agents to swarm to a city without consultation with local law enforcement, and it's never done that it happens over the objection of the city government". Well gee Karen, maybe if you
did your fucking job, you wouldn't be overruled like the bitch you are.
Good Guy Omari (streamer whose studio was in the middle of CHAZ) now saying he marched in the protests, but he sees a bunch of people there specifically for "direct action" and asks what the mayor is doing to address them. Mayor says there's a distinction between the "very lawful and very righteous protest against ICE and their conduct" and the people who "are coming up from Portland" to cause trouble. Everyone is being very careful to avoid saying the word "Antifa".
Stream still going
here.
Edit: "why is there a wall built around the precinct, who built it and how much did it cost?" SEATTLE BUILT A BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL, OH MY SIDES
Police chief saying they wanted fencing, not a wall, but there was no fencing immediately available. I wonder why?
Edit 2: Mayor bitching that the Federal Protective Service (the ones who guard federal property) people didn't tell her they had so many agents on standby in Seattle. Says she wasn't lied to, but "there were some semantics" about what was going on. Apparently FPS is called in when local resources aren't enough, and Seattle resources were stretched thin... because their agents had previously been sent to Portland to deal with problems there.
So the mayor who says Seattle won't have feds like Portland is pissed that feds had to surge to Seattle because of Portland. I give up, there is zero self-awareness here.