Local TV reporter describes personal attack
by street vigilantes for crime coverage
Posted By: Ron_lfp, 3/4/2022 11:46:21 AM
After two years of death threats and other personal attacks from far-left militant activists angry over his news coverage of the Seattle-area crime scene, KOMO-TV reporter Jonathan Choe is opening up about what some local journalists are facing – on and off the job. Choe is well known to his viewers and Dori Monson Show listeners for bold stories connecting drug use, crime, and homelessness. (snip) despite ongoing personal attacks from Antifa and other anonymous vigilante groups. (snip) Many of these activists can be found blocking city crews trying to clean up illegal encampments and keep news reporters from covering the story.
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After two years of death threats and other personal attacks from far-left militant activists angry over his news coverage of the Seattle-area crime scene, KOMO-TV reporter Jonathan Choe is opening up about what some local journalists are facing – on and off the job.
Choe is well known to his viewers and Dori Monson Show listeners for bold stories connecting drug use, crime, and homelessness. (snip) despite ongoing personal attacks from Antifa and other anonymous vigilante groups. (snip) Many of these activists can be found blocking city crews trying to clean up illegal encampments and keep news reporters from covering the story.
With Mediterranean-style seafood menu and breath-taking views of downtown Seattle, Westward restaurant sits on prime waterfront real estate in the Lake Union neighborhood. (Snip) Even after a recent sweep by city crews, Northlake Way remains jam packed with dozens of RVs and vehicles that have homeless people living inside. (snip) That’s why a few weeks ago, Westward’s building owner Mark Grey and some other area businesses bought massive concrete slabs known as ecology or "eco" blocks at a cost of $20 a piece.
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.
Lynnwood, WA - In the past week, a pirate-themed bar in Lynnwood has lost staff, bands and customers — over a show with advertised discounted prices for people sick with COVID-19. The Vessel Taphouse posted on Facebook on Jan. 21 that people should “Come see the show, maybe catch the virus or just stay home and whine,” The (Everett) Herald reported. The post also said people could enter the bar for a discounted rate with proof of an “Omicron positive test.” Owner Steve Hartley said four employees quit CORRECTIONS*
Washington Democrats passed a series of anti-police laws pitched as “reimaging” public safety. A Police K-9 from the Seattle Police Department is dead because of it. Perhaps that’s why anti-police activists in Seattle are blaming the cops for the K-9’s death: they don’t want to take responsibility for pushing Democrats to pass such dangerous laws.
(snip) armed with a machete. After police arrived, the suspect fatally stabbed the K-9 officer, Jedi. He also cut the face of an officer.
Disturbing allegations emerge about nonprofit
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When the volunteer-run organization Anything Helps, (snip), approached Seattle Public Schools this summer and offered to end an encampment outside Broadview-Thompson K-12, the school district agreed. (snip) The district did not run a background check or confirm Mathias’ employment history, according to a spokesperson for Seattle Public Schools. (snip) Now, at Bitter Lake, two people who used to live in the encampment who spoke to The Seattle Times allege that at the same time Mathias was helping people move toward housing, he was pressuring them to help him buy methamphetamine, using nonprofit funds that came from the school district.
Patton Oswalt doubled back over the weekend after attempting to have a “nice comment thread” on a photo he posted with longtime friend and fellow comedian Dave Chappelle. Both comics were performing at Seattle Center venues Friday night — Oswalt at 3,000-seat McCaw Hall and Chappelle at 17,500-seat Climate Pledge Arena. (snip) But commenters weren’t letting Oswalt off the hook for touting his friendship — let alone performing — with a quasi-canceled person CORRECTIONS*
In the spring and summer of 2018, a crew of poachers had been chopping down trees by night in the Olympic National Forest in Washington state, federal prosecutors said.
On Aug. 3, they came upon the wasp’s nest.(snip) The timber poachers sprayed insecticide and most likely gasoline on the nest and burned it, authorities said. But they were unable to douse the fire with water bottles (snip) On Monday, the leader of the illegal operation, Justin Andrew Wilke, 39, was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison
Seattle most high-profile election this November might well be one that’s often overlooked. One candidate, abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, has come under fire in recent weeks for social media posts that go beyond mere abolition and trend toward overt threats of violence against police. (snip) Some of her past tweets defended violence against police. One describes those who committed arson against a city property as “heroes.” Another commends the use of explosives against the East Precinct.
And the category is: Failing leadership
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[cartoon] With a disturbingly big spike in gun violence this year, Seattle is beginning to feel like old Dodge City before Wyatt Earp showed up.
Tuesday afternoon, a woman was shot during a robbery in the Green Lake neighborhood. (snip) Oh, yeah, that staffing crisis. While more guns have been blazing, the city has seen 300 police officers quit their jobs in the last 18 months. A big share of those departures are certainly related to the drastic cuts in the police budget imposed by the city council majority — reductions that led to the resignation of Seattle’s first Black, female chief, Carmen Best.
The campaign seeking to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has officially turned its signatures in to King County Elections. (snip) The recall petition levies four primary allegations against Sawant:
-- That Sawant endangered City employees by admitting hundreds of protesters into City Hall after hours in June of 2020
-- That she violated City hiring rules by giving decision-making authority to Socialist Alternative
-- That she misused council resources to promote a ballot initiative in early February
-- That she led a protest to Mayor Jenny Durkan’s home, the location of which is protected under state confidentiality laws
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) withheld the religious and medical exemption forms for the COVID-19 vaccination mandate until after the first deadline to get the Moderna vaccine passed. This entire process seems rigged against using exemptions.
School staff in Washington must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18, or they will be terminated. Medical and religious exemptions are supposed to be offered for employees who wish to seek them.
But a spokesperson for SPS confirmed that the district hadn’t sent out the forms yet. They are expected to go out this week. By the time staff receive the exemptions, it may be too late to use them.
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Washington—Former Vice President Mike Pence urged Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and declared that "there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin" as he further cemented his break from former President Donald Trump. Pence, in a speech Friday evening to the party's top donors in New Orleans, took on those in his party who have failed to forcefully condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. "Where would Russian tanks be today if NATO had not expanded the borders of freedom? There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin," Pence said, according to excerpts from the speech
Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Joe Biden was born to be president in this moment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Melber said, “The State of the Union is the night where people trying to watch other programs are forced to watch a president, and you see an eight-point bump.”Carville said, “I think people were just involved because obviously, the situation in Ukraine. I think a lot of people want this president to succeed. He’s gotten nothing but praise for the way he handled this. I’ve seen remarkable low criticism.”
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Cross Connection,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) argued that we have to move off of fossil fuels so we’re “free of the ability of dictators to blackmail us over oil and gas,” and that increasing domestic oil production wouldn’t keep gas prices from increasing because “no matter what we do, prices of gas are going to go up.”Jayapal said, “[I]f we ever want to be truly free of the ability of dictators to blackmail us over oil and gas, we should be investing right here at home in renewable energy technologies. We should be weaning ourselves off fossil fuels
Washington—At the Internal Revenue Service's sprawling Kansas City, Missouri, processing center, teams of clerks earning $15 per hour work through the night, trying to help the agency clear a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns that are a year overdue. The conditions are subpar: Scanners sputter, forcing workers to enter data by hand, staplers are scarce, and piles of tax documents overflow from carts. "The general theme for the time I've been there has been chaos," said Shawn Gunn, a clerk in the receipt and operations group at the IRS who started working at the facility in Kansas City in June and is transitioning to become
The U.S. will soon begin to run out of money to bolster COVID-19 testing supplies and to guarantee that uninsured Americans keep getting free treatment for the virus unless Congress swiftly approves more funding, the White House warned. (snip) “This is an urgent request and this is what is at stake in our fight against COVID,” press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.
For nearly two years, the White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has appeared at least weekly, if not daily, on news and opinions shows touting the latest Science related to covid. (Snip) Ohio congressman Jim Jordan (R) indicates an investigation into Fauci is a priority if they regain a majority in November’s midterms. The first investigation suggested by Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, was into “all the lies [and] the misinformation, the disinformation” from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ukraine war is at the front of the news, and all of a sudden, to take the headline words of James Freeman's Wall Street Journal column, it's springtime for the Clintons.
Something is going on. Something stinks here. Something's raining.
According to The Hill:
The Clinton Foundation is reconvening its Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to address “steep” challenges it after previously ended in 2016, former President Clinton said in a statement on Friday.
The need for “cooperation and coordination has never been more urgent than it is now. The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community.
A mail carrier in Sacramento has been accused of fowl play after going postal on a wild turkey.
The bird apparently accosted the letter carrier Monday, prompting him to grab a pole or stick from his vehicle and fatally beat the animal with it, the Sacramento Bee reports, citing eyewitness accounts on social media app Nextdoor.
The incident has prompted a probe by California wildlife officials and the US Postal Service.
“We are currently launching a thorough investigation,” Meiko Patton, a local USPS spokesperson told the outlet. “Our employees have had several altercations with aggressive turkeys in the area, including a recent attack on a letter carrier.”
Perhaps Patricia Arquette should stick to acting.
The far-left actress on Friday night demanded members of NATO do something about their fellow NATO member, Russia. “Kick Russia out of NATO” Arquette demanded. (snip) The only problem is, Russia is not a NATO member. Neither of the two countries involved in this conflict, Russia and Ukraine, are members of NATO.
After getting roasted for her stupidity, the glorified court jester blamed her “dyslexia.”
NBC’s Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander repeated White House talking points to his Republican guest during a MSNBC interview on Thursday. Alexander denied that the Keystone XL Pipeline would’ve had any impact on the United States’ dependence on foreign oil.
Alexander was speaking with former chief of staff for former Vice President Mike Pence, Marc Short, when he started arguing with him over solutions to the U.S.' dependence on foreign energy, amid the Ukraine-Russia war.
As a retired oilfield training engineer, I have traveled to 38 different countries. I have worked in Russia and China. I have never been in Ukraine but I have been in Romania, which is just across the border. Not once in my travels to these countries has any of their citizens come to me and said, “We love Americans and want them to like us. To promote greater friendship with America, we make American visitors feel welcome. To do so, we give them large sums of money. We would like to give you three million dollars. Yours is in this package.
Oil prices hit $115 a barrel on Friday, raising gas prices across the country yet again as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to affect Americans filling up at the pump.The latest increase saw San Francisco, California, become the first U.S. state to record gas prices higher than $5 a gallon, according to Fox Business. While San Francisco is seeing more than $5 a gallon, the state average for a gallon of regular gasoline in California is $4.94, a marked increase over the national average of $3.728.“It’s been quite ugly as gas prices rise nationally, but nowhere has the pain been more significant than California,
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City leaders refuse to accept that the problem is drug addiction and crimes committed to support it. (Mental illness also.) These are not working people hit by high rent. And "supporters" who enable them to continue illegal activities.