Posted on 06/09/2020 10:29:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
VANITY. I'll post various sources. Here are the demands:
For ease of consideration, we’ve broken these demands into four categories: The Justice System, Health and Human Services, Economics, and Education. Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.
The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles. We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined. We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service. We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community. We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail. We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction. We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged. We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote. We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system. We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons. We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment. We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems. We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city. We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record. We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.
We also have economic demands that must be addressed.
We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control. We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle. We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions. We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.
Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”
We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients. We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability. We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.
Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.
We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum. We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media. We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.
Transcribed by @irie_kenya and @AustinCHowe. Special thanks to Magik for starting and facilitating the discussion to create this list, to Omari Salisbury for the idea to break the list into categories, and as well a thanks to Kshama Sawant for being the only Seattle official to discuss with the people on Free Capitol Hill the night that it was liberated.
Although we have liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle, we must not forget that we stand on land already once stolen from the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and whose brother, John T. Williams of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe up north was murdered by the Seattle Police Department 10 years ago.
Black Lives Matter — All day, Every day.
Sounds to me like Seattle leadership abandoned their positions. In effect, they temporarily turned over the area to Antifa. That’s a State of Seattle problem. A problem that should prevent the state from participating in federal elections, so everyone knows it’s as good as over already.
It’s all theater.
Mope. that is the complete opposite of what he should do. He needs to announce that this is a local and state issue, that should be dealt with by the mayor and governor.This needs to fester through the summer. It will turn in to an even bigger s*** show than it is.
Thanks to the new media and the old media will be unable to control the narrative. Big tech will attempt to do their part on behalf of the left. It will become obvious, even to those that normally don't pay attention that big tech needs to be reigned in. We could see the likes of Youtube, FB, et al become regulated as utilizes by the end of it all. That would completely destroy the lefts strangle hold on information. It will cause all the "Independents" and old school Dems to become so disgusted with the far left that they either sit out the election, or (GASP!!!) vote for Trump.
Played right, this could lead to something we've only dreamed. It could lead to the Dems actuality reducing themselves to a regional party that is nothing more than a pain in the backside, rather an existential threat to the US. Some libs might get hurt, lose their livelihoods, or even die in the process. I'm OK with that. After all, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
I say lay a siege and cut off their water and see how long they can last.
Then it's up to Trump to do unto for the next 4 years.
Meanwhile ... Baltimore confession...
I hope Seattle does not expect the police to help with this. They need to send social workers to defuse the situation. Consider it a test for when the police department is eliminated.
Yes, it is. If it were up to me, the lamp posts surrounding their “zone” would get a good workout. Nobody has the stomach for such a thing, however.
My sister lives in Sequim.
How is it in SEA? Are you ok?
Yes that worked so well for Israel and India/s
they are winning. Not losers.
~25 years ago (when I was there last) Israel had not yet learned the value of strong border walls and strict entry control. Buses were being blown up nearly every day.
They learned from their lapses in security. The USA seems to be learning a little from Israel’s example....finally
Seattle will find that allowing the area to be looted and remain under siege for long enough for people to learn where it occurred is a grave error. Cincinnati had extensive riots in 1968 and the area taken over, NEVER came back. Alternatively, the 2001 riots, which were worse by far, were heavily resisted to the point of DOJ intervention against Cincinnati, but no areas were taken and no economic disruption lasted more than a few months. In fact, I am relocated to the very street where some of it occurred.
Police dogs, bean bag and rubber rounds, 4 to a car squads, hundreds of arrests and it was put down.
Allowing a nest of vipers to exist within or next to the border is a recipe for eventual failure
When you have them all in one place.....napalm makes the most sense.
“...but they didn’t ask for cookies and milk before bedtime.”
Heh. That reminds me of the children’s book (my kids’ favorite) “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Very much like these protestors.
If you give the protestors the intersection of 11th and Pine, the next night they want the entire block between 11th and 12th....
They are basement dwelling misfit losers. The fact that anyone is giving them any credence is crazy. The only reason they are being given the status that they have is because the msm and certain politicians are allowing it. Just Look at them unmasked. They need to be squashed.
"Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle. 6 blocks retaken back for the people. “You are now leaving the USA” when you enter. Long live the fucking revolution."
This is what happens when we have a weak and feckless federal government; this state of affairs will only grow and get worse until someone in the federal government grows a pair. Seattle today, DC tomorrow.
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