Seattle police improperly faked Proud
Boys radio talk during 2020 protests,
watchdog group finds
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/5/2022 10:01:07 PM
Seattle—An investigation by Seattle's Office of Police Accountability (OPA) shows officers exchanged fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of right-wing extremists at a crucial moment during 2020 racial justice protests. Fake radio chatter on June 8, 2020 about members of the Proud Boys marching around downtown Seattle, some possibly carrying guns, and then heading to confront protesters on Capitol Hill was an improper “ruse,” or dishonest ploy, that exacerbated a volatile situation, according to OPA's report.(Snip)June 8, 2020, was the day the Seattle Police Department abandoned the East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood following protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
davew 1/5/2022 10:11:14 PM (No. 1029517)
Rather than exacerbating a bad situation and potentially inciting further violence by spreading misinformation, the Seattle police should have organized to protect the lives and property of the businesspeople they have sworn to protect. This is similar to the actions of the Charlottesville police who intentionally directed the people marching against the removal of the Lee statue into to path of the Antifa thugs who then attacked them. There is a disturbing pattern to all this that needs to be fully investigated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/5/2022 10:21:13 PM (No. 1029524)
Actual white supremacists are essentially non-existent. So, the leftist criminal class, which apparently includes the police in extremist lefty Seattle, have to INVENT THEM.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 1/5/2022 10:25:31 PM (No. 1029528)
So is there a proper way to fake Proud Boys radio talk?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
velirotta 1/5/2022 10:35:08 PM (No. 1029536)
I imagine head will roll for this inexcusable stunt! No? But but but . ..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bobn.t 1/5/2022 11:45:47 PM (No. 1029560)
Ebonics at work
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 1/5/2022 11:58:49 PM (No. 1029568)
Nothing better to do than fake radio transmissions.
Oh wait, let's abandon the East Precinct.
Progressive cowards.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/6/2022 12:08:09 AM (No. 1029569)
So the liberals on the police department made a bad situation worse by making an already bad situation worse. By faking threats from the non existent Proud Boys the Seattle Police most likely caused additional violence. However, the left did advance their " the right is violent" narrative for political gain.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
coldoc 1/6/2022 12:40:27 AM (No. 1029577)
These are the same cops who some say will never bust down your door to confiscate your guns. Sure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 1/6/2022 4:11:26 AM (No. 1029635)
Anyone get arrested yet?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Butch 1/6/2022 4:31:56 AM (No. 1029645)
So, now Seattle Police have to fake radio traffic that was supposedly broadcast by Proud Boys. (Fake radio traffic of such a nature is always "improper.") No one has ever explained sufficiently why the Proud Boys are so bad, but apparently they push hot buttons among those who want to trash Seattle (!!).
Such groups do NOT include the Proud Boys, as far as any sane and honest person can tell.
Amid the pluperfect mess that was Seattle at that time, with BLM, Antifa, and other violent anarchists active and making credible and constant threats, Seattle cops of all people have to dream up a Proud Boys sub-plot. Pathetic. The City of Seattle and the Seattle Police owe the Proud Boys an apology, unless they can justify what they did, which they cannot. Slanderers in blue uniforms.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/6/2022 5:08:04 AM (No. 1029655)
Blue areas are becoming a third world country. I never thought I would see this in the United States. Someone is getting paid big bucks.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/6/2022 5:51:27 AM (No. 1029669)
Maybe the BLM movement has some credibility in defunding this group of miscreants! Seattle gives everything a bad name. time to raze the city in its entirety and cover it over with Horse manure!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 1/6/2022 6:36:06 AM (No. 1029705)
Our large cities are becoming Marxist bastions of corruption, and these weak-minded, indoctrinated police can advance their careers by kowtowing to Leftist mayors.
In then meantime, law and order takes a back seat and criminals thrive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/6/2022 6:56:14 AM (No. 1029725)
And the consequences of this will be what? That’s right, absolutely nothing. This refusal to hold anyone accountable for these crimes is a violation of our Constitution. Either we honor the rule of law, or we don’t. It looks like democrats want it jettisoned and acting accordingly. When you have this lawlessness in your face and democrats refuse to prosecute these individuals, what is our option? Evidently, we have none. Democrats are a law unto themselves.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/6/2022 7:13:37 AM (No. 1029738)
To add to #1, let’s not forget that Terry McAwful was directing the police in real time from an office several floors above the protest. It took a while but karma finally came back and bit him on the arse.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
privateer 1/6/2022 7:30:48 AM (No. 1029749)
The actual American People---and to a lesser extent commiecrats and foreign invaders---are being savaged by: 'a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object' Gee, where have I heard that before?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
walcb 1/6/2022 7:52:00 AM (No. 1029766)
In retrospect, probably a bad decision by the police but with good intentions. Don't lose sight of the people who were the real problem here and that was the rioters who were not apprehended.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 1/6/2022 8:23:13 AM (No. 1029798)
Poster 17, you stated the talking point the Seattle PD will probably use to justify a false flag gestapo tactic. Oh, the officers meant well, they just carried out a misguided policy in the heat of the moment. There was no criminal intent. No “threat to officer or public safety.” Nothing to see here.
Predictably, the assistant chief and the officer who supervised the smear of the Proud Boys have both retired. So, they carried out leftist dirty work on their way out. How many other leftist inspired propaganda actions have the Seattle and other police departments engaged in? And with democrats in charge there is no stopping the campaign of lies and corruption.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cobieone 1/6/2022 8:39:23 AM (No. 1029815)
I have been saying this for several years, but everything you see/hear/read from the political Left is fake. Everything!!! No idea how this will ever stop with the Left owning the media. This is unbelievable, except it isn't.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/6/2022 9:51:52 AM (No. 1029882)
Sorry to write this - - but - - nearly all policemen in communist jurisdictions - - would become KGB enforcers - - rather than have their jobs or pensions threatened.
There is almost zero honor or patriotism - - among most cops in leftist cities. Decency and introspection are completely missing in those places. We cannot rely on them for any type of human feelings.
Again - - I'm sorry - - but it's blatantly obvious.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 1/6/2022 10:05:55 AM (No. 1029904)
Please excuse the second reply. Poster 20, I am on board with your comment. Big city police departments are not your friends. In leftist controlled cities, police officers do what they are told by liberal democrat politicians.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/6/2022 10:10:19 AM (No. 1029911)
So we were correct in the first assumption that everybody in Seattle is nuts? Rather than "defund the police" they need to "replace the police" hopefully with competent cops from elsewhere. If a few of those rioters and arsonists had been dropped in their tracks the rest would have fled. Stupid mayor, stupid police.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/6/2022 11:15:36 AM (No. 1030001)
As to "fully investigated"...who are WE fooling...as long as the Dems hold the house and senate and White House...no investigations will be held....and the establishment is so corrupt that nothing will be known for 20 years...to late for me...but I'll be looking down and smiling...hope I make it!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/7/2022 8:21:24 AM (No. 1030906)
FTA: The Proud Boys is a far-right extremist group with a reputation for street violence.
I'd be jake with this, exaggeration though it is, if they similarly identified AntiF.A. and BLM, two groups who really are far fringe extremist and really do instigate and commit street violence.
Not holding my breath.
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