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As police were abandoning East Precinct,
Seattle officials drafted plan to give
station to a Black Lives Matter group

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Posted By: Ron_lfp, 1/31/2022 11:37:41 AM

At the height of Seattle’s racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station’s operations, newly released documents show. That June, as cops lobbed tear gas from behind barricades, and protesters on the streets surrounding the precinct called for the Police Department to be defunded, Durkan’s office behind the scenes briefly contemplated handing over the multimillion property that had become the focus of the demonstrations.

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Give the lethal rioters a $5 million police station? We now have the documents.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 1/31/2022 11:42:28 AM (No. 1056745)
Seattle officials are really insane, clearly are in favor of anarchy and violence in their city.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: AmericaFirstAlways 1/31/2022 11:49:12 AM (No. 1056756)
This is nuts! If you live in Washington, particularly near Seattle, you're out of your mind. Get out while you still can.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: billa57 1/31/2022 11:58:31 AM (No. 1056761)
You get what you vote for. Looks like if you vote for democrats, you lose law enforcement and get bitter BLM enforcers to take their place.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LadyVet 1/31/2022 12:25:17 PM (No. 1056793)
This ought to scare anyone who thinks women make better public managers. The mayor is a ding bat, city council members are dingbats. What's more, they are cowards who surrender to bullies.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Penney 1/31/2022 12:35:39 PM (No. 1056806)
Sounds like the ultimate surrender to the crooks. Seattle is a basket case.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kumoan 1/31/2022 1:01:33 PM (No. 1056846)
Appeasement taken far beyond the ridiculous lengths it is historically found. Proud apparatchiks of the demented academic system in the west. Cookie Cutter Commies.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: smokincol 1/31/2022 1:36:20 PM (No. 1056883)
Seattle is in a race with Mogadishu, err Minneapolis, for having the dumbest city leadership in the country ... so far.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: anniebc 1/31/2022 2:20:20 PM (No. 1056938)
These people can't be reformed; they need to be committed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 1/31/2022 2:45:44 PM (No. 1056962)
The people of Seattle deserver everything that is happening. You get what you tolerate. They tolerate chaos by electing the same evil criminals over and over. Reap it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ron_lfp 2/1/2022 12:33:52 AM (No. 1057408)
#2 - I am not out of my mind. I was born here.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mifla 2/1/2022 3:56:14 AM (No. 1057445)
I guess rioting, looting, and burning does work.
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