Chief Carmen Best and will discuss who made the call for police to abandon East Precinct when this finally starts. Best has said not me.
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Mayor Durkan is affirming the rights of peaceful protesters, which is a nice change. #seattleprotest #PoliceViolence
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Mayor pivoted to criticizing President Trump: "We don't need anyone sowing division and lies." Will we hold to this standard? #seattleprotest #BLMprotest
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Mayor Durkan gave assurances that the President wouldn't be able to use federal troops against Seattleites. "There is no imminent threat of an invasion in Seattle."
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Mayor Durkan: "We need to reimagine our response to community and what they need in times of crisis." "We will invest $100 milion in" BIPOC organizations. #DefundThePolice #FundCommunity
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"The department has down incredible work to meet the needs of the community," Chief Best said, saying they've been doing de-escalation. Now blaming protesters. #seattleprotest #CHAZ
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Response times have tripled, Chief Best claimed. Suggest more rapes will go unsolved, although SPD doesn't have a good track record there to begin with. #Copaganda #seattleprotest
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"For the tear gas, it was my decision," Chief Best said, claiming a "life safety exemption' to 30-day ban. "It got unruly. There was a man with a gun." #copaganda #seattleprotest
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The police barricades were the flashpoint, Mayor Durkan, which suggests they won't be reinstalled. Don't want to repeat that unfortunate cycle, she said. #seattleprotest #PoliceViolence
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Chief Best tried to blame media for the business shakedown story her deputy leaked to them and some reported without verifying independently. #gaslighting
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Chief Best attempts to walk back her claims (reiterated in her video this morning) that armed guards are posted up extorting people and forcing them to show IDs to enter the CHAZ, saying they had heard about this "anecdotally" and "through the media."
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"Chief Best and I thought about a Thelma and Louise moment," Mayor Durkan said, adding neither is resigning. #seattleprotest
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And to be clear we didn't get a clear answer who ordered police to leave East Precinct. said she ordered the barricades to come down but not for the police to leave. Police decided to evacuate without the barricade. #SeattleProtest #CHAZ
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I caught Durkan’s chief of staff after. She said mayor made the order to remove barricades and create a plan in case the east precinct “went up.” But she said the mayor did not tell police to leave. Wild that apparently neither the chief nor mayor seem to know who gave that order
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