Seattle to end drug and prostitution loitering law targeting people of color

Fox News ^ | June 23, 2020 | Shawn M. Carter

[familyop]

The twin bills, passed unanimously by the Seattle City Council Monday, effectively block authorities from arresting someone for loitering in relation to a drug or a prostitution inquiry. Both laws, according to the Chicago-Kent Law Review, have historically targeted people of color...“Today we’re taking a step in the right direction, making sure our laws reflect our values and don’t create additional burdens on our Black and brown community members,” Councilmember Andrew J. Lewis,...

[lgjhn23]

Watch...as more and more businesses and big money leave that RAT communist crap hole.

[dfwgator]

“They’re animals, anyway, so let them lose their souls”, right?

[alexander_busek]

They should also cease enforcing laws against white-collar crime, which have historically targeted White people.

Regards,

[goodnesswins]

“The bills come as part of a long list of recommendations from a workgroup study commissioned by the city in 2018. It found that Black, Indigenous and other people of color have a gun pointed at them by police 30 percent more often than their white peers, and are frisked 15 percent more often.”

Hhhmmmmm. Wonder why that Stat is....hhhmmmm

[ExpatCanuck]

So, what they’re saying is that loitering and prostitution are normal cultural values for people of black and brown color? Gosh, that sounds almost racist, but what do I know.

[bluejean]

Wow, talk about stereotyping black people. If they knew better, they’d be insulted.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Since more black people commit crimes, let’s just make crimes legal, and then they can’t say we’re racist.

[fieldmarshaldj]

As Mayor Giuliani discovered, when you fail to enforce the smaller laws, it makes it easier and easier for the bigger ones to be broken, and the collapse of society (as NYC effectively was from the 1960s until the 1990s). Now the left is solidifying their grip on cities and states and systematically making crimes and criminal behavior by non-Whites morally and legally “acceptable.” Of course, the leftist goal is the complete collapse of society and a reordering of it where they obtain absolute and permanent uncontested control.

(Funny thing is, they’re only manipulating non-Whites and White cucks to get power. They don’t give a damn about Blacks or any minorities for that matter. It’s about personal power and any way to get there. They’ll rid themselves of the problem people and criminal class in time, the folks who helped get them in power).

[the_Watchman]

Both laws, according to the Chicago-Kent Law Review, have historically targeted people of color...

Do they really want to go down this road? Following this logic, then they would have to decriminalize shooting a black person. After all, 93% of all murders of blacks is done by blacks. Therefore, prosecuting such a case would "historically target people of color...".

[FenwickBabbitt]

Don’t these people realize how racist they sound when they act like blacks are the only ones who could be arrested under drugs and prostitution laws, so the laws now should be ignored? The only people “targeted” by these laws are those participating in criminal activity, but the left apparently wants everyone to know that the people doing these crimes are disproportionately black. And as we already know, the left gives all their sympathy to black criminals and extremely little to none to law-abiding, non-criminal blacks, who are terrorized by the same criminals the left loves.

[FreeReign]

Wow, talk about stereotyping black people. If they knew better, they’d be insulted.

This.

[Fedora]

So now all Seattle is a red light district.

[Secret Agent Man]

and next year when the std rates are soaring there, the enlightened libtards will scratch their crotches and wonder why that happened...

[tsowellfan]

Looks like they BLM won their demand #5

[joshua c]

I’m sorry...did the Seattle city council just say that blacks are more likely to use drugs and engage in prostitution?

Thats racist!

[Fedora]

Seattle's Strippergate is the name of a 2003 government scandal and criminal conspiracy masterminded by Frank Colacurcio Sr., a strip-club magnate, and Frank Colacurcio Jr., his son.[1] Former Washington state governor Al Rosellini assisted the Colacurcios by lobbying six members of the Seattle City Council and raising funds for three of the politicians. . .In June 2003, James Bush, a reporter for the North Seattle Sun, reported city council members Judy Nicastro, Jim Compton and Heidi Wills received large amounts of campaign donations from the Colacurcio family and their business associates.[4] Eventually, investigators determined the campaign contributions totaled $36,000.[1] The prosecutor found that no councilmember, Nicastro, Wills or Compton did anything wrong. . .The parking expansion was opposed by the neighbors who lived behind Rick's nightclub. People who lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 1960s knew of Colacurcio Sr.'s reputation. He was known as "Seattle's longest-running crime figure, [and] often was portrayed by law-enforcement officials and the news media as one of Seattle's most notorious racketeering figures."[5] On June 16, 2003, in a 5–4 vote, the council approved the parking zoning changes allowing them to use their existing land for parking requested by the Colacurcios.[4] Nicastro, Compton and Wills, who had received donations from the Colacurcios and their associates, voted in favor of the parking-lot expansion.[4] This vote was consistent with all their land use votes. . .After investigations by the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission and the King County Prosecutor's Office, the Colarcurios' associates' donations were revealed to be "political money laundering" according to King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng.[1] In order to circumvent campaign finance laws, the Colacurcios had given $36,000 to their associates with instructions to contribute the funds to Nicastro, Compton and Wills. . .Heidi Wills unsuccessfully attempted to return to the Seattle City Council in 2019. . .: Strippergate (Seattle)

[tsowellfan]

By the way, the above poster was tweeted by the ACLU Portland, Maine

[Beowulf9]

Say hello to disease and crime, Seattle.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I guess they are saying that drugs and prostitution are a part of black culture.