But the level of disconnect from people i know and have known for decades and worked alongside is shaking me up. Comments like crazy about how its the cops fault for not shutting the freeway even though the cops tried to, this was murder but it was murder because of cops actually, the cops should have kept both Diaz and Summer safe, all protests are fine and a quote "all public land belongs to the public" as if the flawed assertion that because you are part of the public you have the right to walk on the freeway and put yourself and anyone driving at risk makes sense.. Well i don't know where to even start. And then it goes another level saying that having I5 in the first place was an act of aggression and that people were displaced from Yesler Terrace, something that happened over half a century ago, as if that makes it okay in curent year to just put yourself in harms way and you're absolved of any responsibility for taking your own life in your hands.
Im not even trying to be a edgelord. Summer seemed like a nice person and the danger hair and tats don't bother me, if they did I wouldn't live in a place like Seattle. Ive lived here a long time, and I actually like Seattle's weird spirit, I like the weird stuff, the parades and the weird art and the selfimportant protests. I used to read The Stranger and SLOG and lived on Capitol Hill for a long time and I was part of the arts scene and my first apartment was on Broadway and my first restaurant job was in the Pike-Pine area and I used to go to The Breakroom before it was Chop Suey and Im bummed Bills Off Broadway is closing. And I think the SPD is a bad bunch, they do need reform and have a history of bigotry and racism and protecting their ranks and have a couple of interventions from the Justice Department because of their conduct. I wish previous chief O'Toole and current chief Best could make changes and that the SPD union wasn't so powerful. But they shouildnt be abolished and its so bad its funny when I see people I know turning themselves into knots to blame every possible bad thing thats happened on the cops. Theyve made it so the cops are damned if they do and damned if they dont, any action they take or any action they don't take is answered with criticsm and rage. Im on Central District groups and they are clawing at each other and they're all supposed to be on the sam side. I can laugh at it because they all take themselves so seriously. But this is takigng themselves seriously beyond the point of delusion.
I don't even know what Im trying to say, kiwis. But I've lived here a long time, when I movd here there was a western spirit, thing still felt like they were exciting and hadn't been ruined yet by the dotcom bubble and I have stuck with Seattle through a lot of change, I could powerlevel a lot about how deep i am with this city and where i've worked and where I have history. Diaz and Summer aren't bad people, they took a risk protesting in a dangerous place and something really bad happened to them. But all these people on my feed are insane to me now. They are going nuts over two white people who died in a acciadent, there GoFundMe pages have exploded, and everyone has covered up Antonio Mays Jrs execution by CHOP security and Lorenzo Andersons killing in CHOP and somehow its all cops and white people's faults. They are all agreeing with each other and liking each other and complimenting each other as they reee.
Is this what redpilling feels like?
Diaz Love over 60k
https://www.gofundme.com/f/diaz-love-support-fund
Summer Taylor over 60k
https://www.gofundme.com/f/summer-taylor-support-fund
Father of Lorenzo Andersin only 14k
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-real-horace-lorenzo-anderson
2nd Lorenzo Anderson at 14k
https://www.gofundme.com/f/horace-lorenzo-anderson-father-of-lorenzo
A white person was killed and another white person was injured in an accident during a protest that they put themselves in harms way for. Compare to a Black person was shot under unknown circumstances in CHOP and another Black minor was murdered by the CHOP security forces. Are both those white people worth more than twice each of a Black person shot in CHOP? And I guess nobody cares enough to raise money for Antonio Mays Jr family and funeral expenses, the 16 year old
actually murdered, or the medical bills for the 14 year old who is probably still in the hospital. But there's no news or updates about that, there hasn't been any updates on the condition of the 14 year old. Because...why? I would say because MSM and coverups but everything is backwards.