Posted on 01/01/2026 5:23:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.
“My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated. “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.”
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil rights, issued a warning of her own in reaction to the Washington state AG’s post.
“ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do,” she wrote on X, Wednesday morning. “[The DOJ Civil Rights Division] takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!” Dhillon added.
This statute, known as the Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, makes it a crime for any person acting under the pretense of law to willfully deprive another individual of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
The clash of the AGs came after Youtuber Nick Shirley exposed about a dozen Somali-owned, state-funded childcare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that appeared to be completely deserted.
Shirley produced a 42-minute video, which has been viewed over 131 million times on X since it was posted on December 26, alleging that Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) “knew about the fraud but never reported it.”
Inspired by Shirley’s bombshell report, citizen journalists in multiple states with large Somali populations have launched their own investigations in recent days.
In the Kent, Washington area Tuesday, YouTuber Chris Sims, a self-described “gonzo journalist,” visited seven suspicious Somali childcare sites and reported that they were “very unhappy” to see him.
Sims posted a video of him approaching a private home listed as a childcare facility that appeared to be not as advertised.
“There was no sign of kids or being a Daycare facility,” Sims wrote. “I was told by a few they weren’t Daycares despite receiving tax payer dollars. One yelled ‘Call the police’ behind the door.”
On Monday, independent journalists Jonathan Choe and Cam Higby visited an alleged Somali daycare facility in Seattle that receives hundreds of thousands in taxpayers funds and the person who answered the door said there was no daycare there in the past or present.
Higby said “Dhagash Childcare” has received over $210,000 just this year alone.
Another listed childcare facility, a house in a residential neighborhood in Kent, Washington, has received over $863,000 since 2023, according to Higby.
“Residents say there IS NO DAYCARE HERE,” the journalist said.
Another reporter reporting on potential fraud in the Rainier Vista neighborhood of Seattle on December 29th, faced hostile reactions from the Somali residents, who called the police on him.
In his statement, the Washington State AG encouraged members of the Somali community “experiencing threats or harassment” to call the police or his office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline or report it to the state’s hate crime website.
Addressing the independent journalists, Brown added: “If you think fraud is happening, there are appropriate measures to report and investigate. Go to DCYF’s website to learn more. And where fraud is substantiated and verified by law enforcement and regulatory agencies, people should be held accountable.”
The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo responded to Brown’s threat on X, saying: “It is the duty of journalists to visit taxpayer-funded nonprofits and businesses to investigate where you have failed. The journalists have documented their visits on camera and there is no harassing or threatening behavior. You are trying to threaten journalists by telling people to call police with false allegations of a hate crime.”
They are clearly over the target... but can enough munitions be dropped to matter?
Close. Most FReepers don’t want to think is probably more accurate.
The prudent response should be: more investigations.
The LGBT stuff will die soon enough.
Hard times will end it.
There is an easy solution to this situation.
Have investigative citizens go after ALL daycare centers.
Karen and Brandon’s little dumping ground for their trophy kids while they do coke at their white collar jobs is likely dirty, too.
There are TONS of stories of kids getting slapped, hit, etc. on film at these facilitators of mammon. Not to mention that the “elite” centers prolly get tons of govt money for NOT doing their job.
The Somali centers are low hanging fruit. Go after the Big Game.
We are going to have to begin our long march.
The first step is to recognize that we have a problem. For most people on our side, we are finally realizing this just now. There are a few people who are still in denial.
We were napping while the Left took over all the institutions. Unfortunately, that is what we did.
The next step is to have a plan. We'll have to do little things like serve on the local school boards.
The Left may not have a majority (yet) but they are much more organized. And they have been working on this for decades.
While we are just getting started.
This website states that 95.2% of Somali Females are UNEMPLOYED.
So why do any Somali Daycare Centers exist?
https://zipatlas.com/us/profile/immigrants-from-somalia.htm
“We were napping while the Left took over all the institutions.”
There is a good reason for that.
Conservatives had real jobs and families and responsibilities—they were busy living their lives.
They took the social contract for granted.
Those were “the good old days”.
Now folks are slowly realizing that freedom is not free.
Dhillon is looking into this as a first amendment violation which it obviously is.
Blue state bureaucrats are Dems and they’re in on it or will at least look the other way.
What happened to freedom of the press Democrats?!?!? Bunch of hypocrites!
Go look at his PAC-money, and who controls him (don’t be shocked if some cartel pops up).
“”Go, Harmeet, go!””
Absolutely...full steam ahead!!! Let’s see how fast the AG in the state of Washington goes silent!!!
They took the social contract for granted.
Those were “the good old days”.
Now folks are slowly realizing that freedom is not free.
It used to be possible to work hard, raise your family and for most part, the social contract was still in effect.
The new reality is that the government is stealing from us. The Democratic Party is using our tax dollars to fund their supporters.
They don't care that everyone knows now.
It's not a scandal. After all, it's a "right-wing conspiracy"
- William Shakespeare
The Democrats are in Al Capone mode.
“It is my city and good luck stopping me and my gang.”
“”Absolutely...full steam ahead!!! Let’s see how fast the AG in the state of Washington goes silent!!!””
After you - My post #52...
The people hiding behind the front men aren’t stupid.
The hacks haven’t actually tried arresting anyone on a hate crime charge yet.
And they likely won’t because they know that the DoJ likely won’t want to act until someone has actually been arrested.
So the hacks will continue to issue the threats, which serve their purposes in a number of ways that are less likely to get them locked up.
To my mind the threat by a public official ought to be enough, but I doubt the DoJ agrees.
In Kent, WA, a brave journo, visited seven suspicious tax-pocketing Somali childcare sites
<><>he reported that, for some reason, tax-rich Somalis were “very unhappy” to see him.
<><>a video of a private home officially listed as a “childcare facility” appeared to be not as advertised.
<><>“There was no sign of kids despite being an “officially listed Daycare receiving tax dollars.”
<><>One unassimilated Somali yelled ‘Call the police’ behind the tax-supported phony “daycare” door.
<><>an alleged “Somali daycare” in Seattle receives hundreds of thousands in tax dollars at that address
<><>but the cash-rich Somali at the door said there was “no daycare” past or present.
<><>“Dhagash Somali Childcare” received over $210,000 tax dollars just this year alone.
<><>a palatial residence in Kent, Washington pocketed over $863,000 tax dollars since 2023.
<><>Observant Residents say “there IS NO DAYCARE THERE,” the journalist said.
<><>wrt potential fraud in the Rainier Vista neighborhood of Seattle on December 29th,
<><>a journo faced hostile reactions from the Somali residents, who called the police on him.
That part. We are still in denial.
Deport the Washington state AG to Somalia immediately. To h*** with laws.
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