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Posted on 01/08/2026 2:42:01 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Seattle drug addicts have praised the city's new mayor for allegedly telling cops not to arrest people doing illegal substances on the crime-ridden city's streets.
One 36-year-old local, who gave his name as Brandon, told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that Mayor Katie Wilson is 'cool' after her office and Seattle's progressive city attorney Erika Evans reportedly plotted to avoid prosecuting most public drugs use cases.
Brandon, who lives on the streets because he prefers them to his taxpayer-funded apartment, said of Wilson's new plans: 'They tried to do that already during Covid. We went buck wild! I'm not gonna lie. We blew it up.'
Clearly excited by a return to the lawless summer of 2020 when a huge swathe of downtown Seattle was taken over by anarchists, fentanyl and meth user Brandon said the government 'should not be going around and telling everybody what to f**king do.'
Wilson, 43, was inaugurated as Democrat mayor this month and promptly accused of telling Seattle Police not to arrest people for taking illegal drugs in public.
She denied doing so, but works directly with Seattle City Attorney Erika Evans, who has made it much harder for police to charge illegal drug users.
A memo filed by Evans on January 1 says anyone arrested for doing drugs in public must be referred to the city's 'LEAD' diversion program, which tries to offer addicts treatment.
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Seattle used to be such a nice place.
At first I thought this was a Babylon Bee article.
If they are going to encourage folks to overdose , they should not be administering Narcan.
Mayor Katie may be “cool” but that’s not going to stop any one of these addicts from knocking her over the head and stealing her purse if they need money for a fix.
Good article. Thanks for posting. Lots of visual evidence of the effects of drugs.
Brandon, who lives on the streets because he prefers them to his taxpayer-funded apartment,
“Come for the hookers, stay for the drugs”. City billboard promoting tourism.
I think if people want to od and die we shouldn’t interfere..its their rights and the govt shouldn’t be telling people what the f#d%@k to do....did I get that right?
“fentanyl and meth user Brandon”
I thought taking fentanyl was a guaranteed death sentence.
The law didn’t stop them before. Once they legalized weed, I saw people smoking crack/meth on the sidewalk.
Quite a while back, I lived across the Puget Sound in Bremerton.
A great view of Seattle, always appearing sparking clean.
Pike street market wasn't an ordeal.
The space needle was always an exceptional experience.
Those days are long gone.
I heard a similar story about a city in Ohio that renovated housing, offered it to homeless, and no one stayed there. Seems it was too far away from prime panhandling spots...
natural result of letting criminals vote.
Navy? I was at Whitbey Island NAS in the early-mid 80s.
China went thru this 120 years ago. It took Chiang Kai-shek killing dealers to begin to turn it around. But voluntary cessation and market reforms (burning the poppy fields) were a slow solution. The Mao and the communists accelerated punishments and eradicated opium addiction by the 1960s.
IMO it takes severe reforms and authoritarianism to defeat powerful modern drugs.
When the mayor’s supporters are dope dealers, criminals, and illegals - the city is becoming a hellhole.
Post Navy. I was stationed in San Diego, 32nd st early 70's. Two west pacs back when Subic Bay was home port overseas.
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