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Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department
JONATHAN TURLEY ^ | 7-17-2020 | JONATHAN TURLEY

Posted on 07/17/2020 8:43:08 AM PDT by blam

The Seattle City Council is facing something of a dilemma in its popular pledge to cut the police budget by 50 percent. To do so would require firing a significant number of police officers, which is also popular. The problem is that the firing would be done by seniority and many of the less senior officers are black. The solution according to City Council member Lisa Herbold is simple: fire officers based on their race. While that would be the definition of racial discrimination, Herbold clearly believes that it is discrimination for a good cause. The federal courts are likely to disagree. Most notably, Herbold’s call for racial discrimination against white officers would seek to undue the work of Justice Thurgood Marshall who insisted that racial discrimination unlawful and evil regardless of the race you want to disenfranchise or discriminate against.

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best released a video calling the plan of Herbold and others “completely reckless.” She also sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan warning that dramatic cuts would require the layoff of hundreds of officers. The Police Department also warned that the firings would include many minority officers.

It was only the last risk that concerned Herbold who promptly suggested discriminating on the basis of race:

Herbold insists that this would be perfectly legal despite the prohibitions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What concerns me most is not that such calls for racial discrimination are possibly constitutional but that they are so clearly popular.

The EEOC amplifies this point on its website: “It is unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race or color in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...


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KEYWORDS: lisaherbold; marxists; police; seattle; white
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To: blam
Do it! Fire all white officers. Fire all white govt employees. Fire all crackers!

Because I honestly don't think America's naive, stupid crackers are going to wake up to the threat to their existence.

War has been declared. But only blacks are fighting.

21 posted on 07/17/2020 9:31:56 AM PDT by LouAvul (Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Psalms 9:20)
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To: blam

Go ahead and do it. Then the officers who are fired can retire early off the massive lawsuit they’ll easily win and the city can get one step closer to bankruptcy. The sooner these idiots run out of money, the sooner their failed “progressive” policies can come crashing down with them.


22 posted on 07/17/2020 9:33:53 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: NohSpinZone

S/he has a nose booger...eeewwww


23 posted on 07/17/2020 9:37:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: blam
I'm shocked...

That Seattle elected a MORON as a city council member... 😋

But then, Seattle is Native American for 'Crazy Liberals Lives Here'! 😋

24 posted on 07/17/2020 9:39:34 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: LouAvul

It has my vote.


25 posted on 07/17/2020 9:40:18 AM PDT by sport
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To: blam
Photograph of Lisa Herbold
Lisa Herbold

Fire all the whites on the City Council as well.

26 posted on 07/17/2020 9:42:49 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Levy78

These democrat leaders of states and cities are so Hitlereque.


27 posted on 07/17/2020 9:56:38 AM PDT by Maudeen (www.thereishopeinJesus.com)
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To: Levy78

We are the new Goldsteins, per Orwell.

But really so is anoyne who disagrees with them openly.


28 posted on 07/17/2020 9:58:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: joshua c

They want to bring in their thugs who will go after white people.


29 posted on 07/17/2020 9:59:43 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: frank ballenger

Yeah, well, if “the killings” start in earnest, that will pretty much bring millions of patriots off the sidelines who are currently watching and not participating.

At that point, nobody will know their ass from peanut butter for several weeks as the corpses start piling up all across the country.


30 posted on 07/17/2020 10:16:37 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Mastador1

For the unfortunate captives in the seceded state, I grant succor.

On application, certain California counties certified as free of the progressive scourge can be readmitted.


31 posted on 07/17/2020 10:35:35 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: blam

Interesting. All 4 of her Legislative Assistants are also white. HMMMM?

https://www.seattle.gov/council/meet-the-council/lisa-herbold/staff

Paging Ms. Herbold. Your White Privilege is showing.


32 posted on 07/17/2020 10:56:56 AM PDT by common-sense-man-1776 ("Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ." St. John of the Cross)
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To: NohSpinZone
I thought for a minute, what's wrong with her nose, and then realized she is must be a privileged princess of the Nez Perce Tribe.   Or it's just politically incorrect cultural appropriation.
33 posted on 07/17/2020 11:18:28 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: NohSpinZone
It looks like a transgender male to female to mannequin... 😋

I mean if that her picture!

34 posted on 07/17/2020 11:24:01 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: blam

Please do it. I want their lawyers to bankrupt Seattle.


35 posted on 07/17/2020 12:21:46 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: LouAvul

Explain the origin of Cracker.


36 posted on 07/17/2020 3:25:16 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: bk1000

There will only be one tribe left in America, and it wont be BLACK!


37 posted on 07/17/2020 3:58:15 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: NohSpinZone

The ring is for hooking up the dog leash


38 posted on 07/18/2020 9:46:38 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (eeWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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