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Amid shock of Chief Carmen Best’s departure, Black Seattleites weigh city’s moves on police defunding

Seattle Times

By Nina Shapiro
Seattle Times staff reporter
The day Carmen Best announced she would be stepping down as Seattle police chief, Victoria Beach talked to a real-estate agent.

Beach, chair of the Seattle Police Department’s African American Community Advisory Council, grew up in Seattle and has lived 40 years on the same block in the Central District. Now, she said, she’s ready to leave.

“I don’t want to be a part of this city.”

Like many Black Seattleites, Beach is livid about how the city treated its first Black police chief, who said she was not consulted as the City Council cut the police department budget, including Best’s salary. Beach also believes the chief was hamstrung in her handling of the former occupied zone known as CHOP or CHAZ by a mayor who was calling the shots.

“It’s a new way of racism,” Beach said of city officials. It entails making a job so hard “that we walk away.”

But Beach’s rift with Seattle is about more than that. Living blocks away from the occupied zone, she didn’t like what she saw: marchers with sledgehammers, spray paint everywhere, destructive white protesters who seemed to be hijacking the movement, violence that claimed the lives of two young Black men.

She favors police reform and reallocating money from law enforcement to social services, but not by nearly as much as some protesters want and the city may be inclined to do. Believing the number of officers will be slashed, she said: “I’m fearful. I feel like now I need to arm myself. So many of my friends are saying that.”

Beach by no means speaks for Black Seattleites, and she knows it. “We’re so divided,” she said, especially along generational lines.

That’s why, amid the shock of the chief’s departure, some are asking how widely the city has sought input among African Americans. Another big question: As the city answers protesters’ call to defund the police department, does it have a plan?

A coalition of activists and community groups wants police funding cut by at least 50%, immediately. Others, including African American clergy and small business owners, are still sorting through what a re-imagining of public safety might look like — and want city officials to take their time with the matter, too.

“They don’t bring enough people to the table who actually are going to be affected by the conversations they’re having,” said Nicole Bascomb, the 44-year-old owner of a real estate company that does business in Seattle and around the region. In 1988, a Seattle police officer fatally shot Bascomb’s uncle, Erdman Bascomb, who was on a couch with a remote control in his hand that the officer said he thought was a gun.

Racism, she points out, “took hundreds of years. You’re not going to fix it in a few weeks by mandating some changes because you want to say you did something. I would rather you be thoughtful about your approach.”

Ahhh, yes.

Not cuts necessarily needed to police in Seattle just need
‘re-imaging’ and more ‘dialogues.’

Sad for the good people that lives in Seattle but they did elect these folks.

Its never their fault and they can never admit being wrong. It reminds me of Old Koot who claps when she walks

CLAP..........CLAP

Did Seattle elect their village idiots?

The end of this path is vigilantes, anarchy and bright sizing--where everyone who is reasonably bright hauls out of Dodge. Real estate prices collapse, central cities become untenable, and nothing worth having is left. The left becomes Yurtle the turtle, king of the mud.

Stupid Beach........

Doesn't realize she's part of the problem.

They are already a pretty fair piece down that road...

varmint Guy......you want a job?

Someone posted a link to some 29 year old blonde freelance reporter who just got arrested Friday on a sealed Grand Jury Indictment.

Speculation is because she did a small documentary called Shadowgate that interviews and explores a couple of former psych-ops whistle blowers who worked for a decade in the intelligence community gathering information on all Americans and how the information was used to try and ruin Trump...It was actually, rather well done, and compelling information.

Millennial Millie is the reporters YouTube name. Her investigative videos on BLM and other organizers involved in directing all of the demonstrations and violent rioting is absolutely scary shît.

You want proof this is a political ploy to fast-track the ruination of America by young people who are being directed and funded by older, well educated, and finaced individuals? Watch her videos.

Here’s a primer for you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DgsnyHILdb8&list=UUglVbeKF9JGMCt-RTUAW_TQ&index=6&t=0s

Sorry for the thread hi-jack

😎

Are you getting residuals off the YouTube hits, jack azz?

No hijack Beaver, it’s all interconnected.

I was...Then your mom started paying me by the pump. I’m rich!

She said to tell you thanks for the rent money you pay her.

😎

Slumlord: I was born very near there and lived very near there for the first 49 years of my life. Plus I worked for that city for 29 years and I can say this with absolute certainty - I would not live or work in/for that city for any amount of money!
I personally watched that city turn from a wonderful, beautiful, honest, honorable place to a den of communists, militant homosexuals and anti-Americans (no offense to you!)!
Nope not me and I advised the four VarmintChildren to avoid ANYTHING to do with that city and especially their recently politically ruint P.D.!
They do enjoy whomosexuals up thatway - slumlord maybe you could vacation there and scope it out - I suggest a blue handerchief hanging from your right rear pocket (this is secret homosexual code for those not privy to that typeshit!)! You will be welcomed with open arms and gusto.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

What the heck is a militant homosexual, VarmintGuy?

Do they exist? 😂

She favors police reform and reallocating money from law enforcement to social services, but

Stupid Bitch is an understatement.

Imagine, if you will, an overweight flamer in assless chaps--and nothing but--writhing down the street in a pride parade . . . and he's the conservative of the bunch.

Those are the ones varmint guy let ride in the front seat. For a handy, he’d let em off with a warning. A win win.

Is that what “Cobras in a Snowstorm “is code for? 😂🤣

Yeah, "a new way of racism"...

[bleep] couldnt connect the dots if she had 3 black checkers playing Connect 4 or threw a bag of frijoles negros in 3 bags of navy beans.

Hey, schit for shinola, the common denominator is Democrats, or in modern times, cultural Marxists.
They prey upon demographic division, monetary division and racial division.
Im sure if you lie in bed with them the "eye on the prize" of the last fifty years is finally gonna sho up....
[bleep]...

LOL
The saga continues......

Slumlord vs Varmint Guy
Varmint Guy vs Slumlord.



Laffin!!!!!

One of the creators. Dumb fugk.