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Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best resigns — 19 Comments

  1. It seems hers is at least one of those Black Lives that doesn’t really Matter to the Seattle City Council.

    It’d be a shame if half her officers called in sick this week & went on a job hunting spree elsewhere.

  2. What a shame for Seattle. I am distressed that she needed to resign, but support her wholeheartedly and congratulate her for her decision. Seattle did not deserve her. I’m sure job offers from responsible cities will be plentiful.
    I’m assuming she will interview the city council carefully when she chooses a new place to land. Nothing good comes when a city council will not support law and order.

  3. See ‘method to rioters madness’ post below.

    For some reason the hard left wants to destroy the downtown shopping districts of Major American cities. And the soft left ‘limousine liberals’ don’t seem to think it matters.

  4. The bien pensant progressive white majority of Seattle’ citizens voted these folks in. So did the minority population. And Seattle residents gave Antifa and other radicals a pass for quite some time.

    They deserve everything they get.

    Violence has just now begun to spill over into white suburban areas. The timing means that the experience and images will be fresh in citizens’ minds come November. G-d has a great sense of humor.

  5. Slightly OT (but not really)…below is a link to a blog post (on his personal blog) by Cliff Mass, a UW professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. A man of the left to-be-sure, but sane.

    He took a walk through the Seattle downtown CORE last week (not CHAZ…err, Capitol Hill) and posted pictures/descriptions of what he saw. Had his local NPR weekly weather show cancelled as a result (blog post about that supposedly coming).

    https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html

    FWIW, I live in the northern exurbs. Life here is returning to normal despite any pronouncements from Olympia. Stores mostly open (though masks required), traffic returning to normal, people going about their business. Was talking to the owner of the local franchise hardware store a couple days ago…lots of supply chain issues, but they’ve already surpassed their normal revenue for the year. So not all small businesses are suffering.

  6. Leftists claim to love “the people” but don’t seem to care much about actual individual people.

    Since Democrat voting strength is now in the large urban areas, taking steps to destroy or to condone the destruction of the big cities looks extraordinarily stupid.

  7. A perfect omelet has never been made, so let’s try again Seattle, Portland, and Chicago. ;(

  8. [NOTE: Not exactly on-topic but related.]

    I saw that too this morning…this isn’t going to stop until some of these violent criminals are dead in the streets or swinging from lamp posts.

    I can’t imagine that a resurgence of Wild West justice is going to be fair & impartial, but it will be swift & it might just be effective in the short term. If you’d have asked me if I ever thought in my lifetime…

  9. Chief Best has been in the police dept. for 28 years and will probably be receiving a pension of over $100,000 a year. She probably doesn’t want to participate in the coming disaster.

  10. Gerald – with Seattle’s city council no sane person would want the mayor’s office. Sad but true.

  11. So: Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigns after 28 years with the department. The mostly-white City Council has hounded its female black Chief of Police out of office as an act of ‘racial justice’ in a city torn up by supposed Black Lives Matter issues; by cutting her pay, defunding her force, evicting Federal Law Enforcement assistance, and refusing to denounce the numerous BLM/Antifa occupations, destructions of property, marches, public harassments, riots, and looting episodes over the past few months.

    Welcome to Seattle! Gateway to the Pacific. I wonder how voters will react in November. There was quite a showing of support for the Chief outside of City Hall this morning.

  12. No surprise here, but what does that tell you about the power of ideology? Not even a qualified black woman is safe.

  13. Chicago, not Seattle, but part of the Zeitgeist.
    Conservative Black speaker, Adventist Hermes Justin Wilson.
    Makes all of the points that sane people recognize.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnh3Ekg3ho8
    Chicago Riots Embarrass Democrats Because they have No One to Blame But Black People
    70,030 views•Aug 11, 2020

    h/t commenter at this LI post:
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/chicago-black-lives-matter-leader-declares-looting-gucci-and-macys-is-reparations/

    Sooo – if Antifa and BLM destroy enough businesses, does that mean we can consider the reparations bill paid in full and close that topic?

  14. “The article goes on to say that it wasn’t cut “much” compared to last year, but I saw another article last night that said it was cut by 40%.”

    Indeed, before Monday’s Council meeting the salary cut was announced by the Council as 40%. During the meeting, it got changed somehow, but (no thanks to the Seattle Times) there’s no record of how that was brought about. A subsequent Times article did casually mention the new, minor cut, in a way that obliterated all previous mention of the forty-percenter. In short, some misleading journalism of which any ‘people’s government’ under rigid authoritarian control would be proud.

    Politically and journalistically, Seattle is not at all in good hands these days.

  15. Politically and journalistically, Seattle is not at all in good hands these days.

    Insufficiently Sensitive: Likewise Portland, Minneapolis, etc.

    This is something I didn’t see coming either. That Democratic mayors and governors would let their major cities burn with nightly riots going on for months.

    In comparison the riots after MLK’s assassination in 1968 were mostly over in a week and were mostly by blacks, not by Antifa whites who had already threatened urban violence.

    No, not in even in 1968 were Democrats going to let their cities burn this way. Bad for the cities and bad for Democrats to be re-elected. I still think Democrats have miscalculated in terms of the 2020 elections. We shall see.

  16. huxley:

    That is what happens when you believe your own propaganda. As Andrew Klavan has pointed out form his experience if you really want to get an insane person frothing with rage try telling them about reality.

    “Riots are not good for your own locality and potential voters.

    We need more and bigger riots! Elections don’t matter! Burn it all down!

    But you will be outnumbered and killed.

    Can’t happen! Burn it all down!”

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