Posted on 07/14/2017 8:16:11 AM PDT by 2banana
A Seattle, Wash., councilman implied that a new effort to clean excrement off the side walk outside the local courthouse could be racist Tuesday.
The crime and smell of urine and excrement have gotten so bad outside a King County courthouse that two judges are scrambling to find ways to fix the situation, reports the Seattle Times.
King County councilmember Larry Gossett isn’t a fan of one solution to power wash the feces from the sidewalks to tamp down on the smell. Power washing the sidewalks is too reminiscent of civil rights activists being hosed down, he said.
The area around the courthouse is surrounded by a homeless shelter and other social service organizations. Multiple assaults, harassment and drugs have been reported to the police in the area near the courthouse. Jurors have taken to asking judges to release them from jury duty and two jurors have been assaulted over the past two months.
“When they come to this courthouse they’re afraid to come in,” said King County Sheriff John Urquhart. “They’re afraid to walk down Third Avenue because what they see.”
Urquhart is asking for an $8,000 increase in budget from the King County Council to have deputies patrol the street. “There is public urination, defecation. That’s a crime,” Urquhart said. “There is smoking marijuana in public.”
He’s got poop for brains.
His neighborhood should start walking their dogs around his home every morning. Don’t worry about scooping it up in one of those little plastic bags. Just let Rover have at it, download his full bowels at will!
To paraphrase one of 0’s favorite mentors:
Seattle’s liberal chick-unssss ... are comin’ home ... ta “roossst” all over the sidewalks.
NutsOnYew <=== Just shaking head...
GOOD! Let the s%^t stay and wait for what will come next. Cholera.
What a bunch..
We’ve lost our collective minds. Too bad there’s such a fear of being called a name that sanity is surrendered instead. Should be the other way around. Thanks, media—for nothing. “We have met the enemy and it is us.” What an embarrassment.
Second thought. I would say it is grounds for the Donald to have his EPA order the city shut down because of sanitation/pollution issues.
So, Sheriff, do your freakin job and clean up the streets.
This must an SNL skit right? If I drink out of the water fountain am I a racist? Time to outlaw all flowing water! That includes urination!!
Can someone really have a negative IQ score?
I’m beginning to think so......
Tell me this is the Onion.
When we have to get delicate with poop!!
“Just another situation highlighting why I left Seattle after 46 years and moved to rural Kentucky.”
It may be coming here soon. Since the Kentucky State Supreme Court legalized panhandling last February, bums have popped up all over Lexington and Louisville, and now I hear they are spreading to the surrounding communities.
Since water canons and high pressure hoses were used on the protestors then he must also think that firefighting is racist.
Gotta admire the honesty in a back handed way. India also has troubles like that even at touristy spots.
Well it might be progress. The beggars will be begging in full view. Rather than secretively through our bureaucratic system. It is a dual shame: for them and for us.
That is an asinine remark from the councilmember.
One could expand it to stop firefighters from using hoses to put out house/building/grass fires, because using the hoses could be construed as racist.
Personally I would like to see the words “racist” and “racism” removed from the English language. They have lost their original meaning from overuse; now they mean whatever liberals say they mean. Another benefit to deleting those words is that without them, Al Sharpton won’t be able to speak coherently.
how about we shovel all the crap into a dump truck and dump it on the front steps of these two imbecile’s places of residence?
Seems so...wonder where this loon was “educated”
I applaud these type of stories. I hope to see many, many more.
Anyway, we can get this guy some airtime on a prime time show?
OMG. This is truly difficult to believe. Is this person saying that “people of color” like to walk through excrement and pass along diseases?
I don’t think so. I think most people appreciate cleanliness and health.
This is like something out of the Middle Ages, when people would sit on a bridge, poop into a river, and then take their drinking/bathing water out of that same river.
I am about to puke just writing that. But please, don’t clean up after me. My dog will love to eat it.
OMG ... this thread can go south in so many ways.
Totally disgusting.
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