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Seattle Councilman: Cleaning Poop Off Sidewalks Is Racist
The Daily Caller ^ | 7/12/2017 | Amber Randall

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.”


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To: 2banana

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!


21 posted on 07/14/2017 8:31:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2banana

To paraphrase one of 0’s favorite mentors:

Seattle’s liberal chick-unssss ... are comin’ home ... ta “roossst” all over the sidewalks.


22 posted on 07/14/2017 8:36:51 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: 2banana
Power washing the sidewalks is too reminiscent of civil rights activists being hosed down

NutsOnYew <=== Just shaking head...

23 posted on 07/14/2017 8:38:12 AM PDT by NutsOnYew
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To: 2banana

GOOD! Let the s%^t stay and wait for what will come next. Cholera.

What a bunch..


24 posted on 07/14/2017 8:38:44 AM PDT by crz
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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.


25 posted on 07/14/2017 8:40:35 AM PDT by TrueFact (The Republicans keep putting the stopper back in the swamp drain.)
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To: crz

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.


26 posted on 07/14/2017 8:41:35 AM PDT by crz
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To: 2banana
“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.”

So, Sheriff, do your freakin job and clean up the streets.

27 posted on 07/14/2017 8:41:56 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: 2banana

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!!


28 posted on 07/14/2017 8:45:29 AM PDT by albie
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To: 2banana

Can someone really have a negative IQ score?

I’m beginning to think so......


29 posted on 07/14/2017 8:47:34 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: 2banana

Tell me this is the Onion.

When we have to get delicate with poop!!


30 posted on 07/14/2017 8:48:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: robroys woman

“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.


31 posted on 07/14/2017 8:50:48 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: 2banana

Since water canons and high pressure hoses were used on the protestors then he must also think that firefighting is racist.


32 posted on 07/14/2017 8:52:01 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: ClearCase_guy

Gotta admire the honesty in a back handed way. India also has troubles like that even at touristy spots.


33 posted on 07/14/2017 8:52:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Berosus

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.


34 posted on 07/14/2017 8:54:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2banana

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.


35 posted on 07/14/2017 8:55:48 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TrueFact

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.


36 posted on 07/14/2017 8:56:47 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: 2banana

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?


37 posted on 07/14/2017 8:58:34 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: metmom

Seems so...wonder where this loon was “educated”


38 posted on 07/14/2017 9:00:31 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: 2banana

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?


39 posted on 07/14/2017 9:02:02 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: 2banana

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.


40 posted on 07/14/2017 9:02:30 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ( God Bless America (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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